Aston Martin Will Revolutionize Sports Cars

Aston Martin Will Revolutionize Sports Cars

Aston Martin will revolutionize its sports cars ahead, as early as 2023. The changes will be extensive and, guarantees the manufacturer, will transfigure the Warwickshire models.

After a few years on the market, Aston Martin's leading motorsports cars – the Vantage, DB11, and DBS – will undergo several profound updates.

According to the company's executive president, Lawrence Stroll, the models will even look like cars designed from scratch, as the changes cover the suspension, engines, gearboxes, interior, and exterior.

On the outside, “there will be almost no similarities with the current models”, although the official concedes that some aesthetic solutions will be maintained at the rear.

Inside, the models will now sport a touchscreen, of Mercedes origin, which will replace the previous trackpad, a technology that was already three years old, when it started to be used by Aston Martin, under an agreement between the two brands.

For the current CEO of Aston Martin, it is unthinkable to have models that cost around 150,000 pounds (approximately 178,500 euros), with technology from three years ago.

Under the bonnet, the 4.0-liter V8 engine, from Mercedes-AMG, will also undergo an update, in line with the latest proposals from AMG.

Equally important for enthusiasts of the brand, at a time when environmental restrictions are weighing more and more, is the maintenance of the twin-turbo 5.2-liter V12 engine in the Aston Martin DBS.

All this will contribute, according to Lawrence Stroll, for the cars to become “what they should have been from the beginning”.

According to Autocar, Aston Martin aims to sell 4,000 front-engined sports cars a year, “since that's the real [market] demand,” explains Stroll.

At an early stage, the brand's executive president focused on reducing production, and since April 2021, the British manufacturer only produces cars to order.

Still, Aston Martin managed to sell 400 more units, than it had done in 2020 when it was still producing in quantity.

As for the presentation of the new models, it should happen at the end of the year, but it is not yet known if they will all be launched at the same time, in early 2023.

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