Highlights
- Extremely anticipated new Vantage Roadster, most potent front-engine, rear-wheel drive sports activities automotive now obtainable with open-air driving
- Technical reinvention of the Vantage Coupe in 2024, is carried over into Vantage Roadster, together with industry-leading Energetic Automobile Dynamics, Digital Rear Differential (E-diff), Bilstein DTX adaptive dampers with bespoke tuning
- Class-leading efficiency stays attributable to light-weight design, with outputs of 665PS/800Nm from the Aston Martin 4.0-Litre V8 Twin-Turbo engine
- Whole weight delta of solely 60kg together with roof and all structural enhancements
- Quickest electrical folding convertible roof on sale at this time, opening or closing absolutely in simply 6.8 seconds, and at speeds of as much as 31mph (50km/h)
- Construction and suspension modified to account for rearward shift in weight distribution
- High pace stays the identical as Vantage Coupe at 202mph, 0-60mph in 3.5 seconds
- Deliveries scheduled to start Q2 2025
Aston Martin is proud to introduce the brand new Vantage Roadster, a convertible stablemate of the world-beating Vantage Coupe. Launched in 2024, the brand new Vantage continued the marque’s shift in sector-defining luxurious and dynamic credentials, far exceeding the capabilities and engagement of any Vantage earlier than. Now, Vantage Roadster arrives to reinforce the true driving expertise even additional.
Powered by the Aston Martin 4.0-litre V8 twin-turbo engine delivering 665PS/800Nm, Vantage Roadster brings all of the class-leading efficiency, dynamic sensations, and visible pleasure of the coupe with an extra dimension of top-down freedom and thrills for these hooked on open-air motoring. Vantage Roadster brings a brand new degree of emotion to the already unforgettable driving expertise, broadening nonetheless the exceptional attraction of this quintessential, but state-of-the-art British sports activities automotive.
New Vantage Roadster has been designed to supply all of the type, sense of freedom and journey for which convertibles are recognized, however with out the constraints historically inherent of their design. As lovely as its laborious prime companion, with minimal weight improve and the quickest working absolutely automated roof in the marketplace, Vantage Roadster is a convertible with out compromise and a worthy new member of the Vantage household.
It continues a practice of open prime Aston Martin Vantage fashions that date again 75 years to the launch of the Vantage engine improve pack for the DB2 (obtainable each as a coupe – referred to as a saloon – and convertible – referred to as drophead coupe) in 1950, which featured bigger carburetors and a better compression ratio to lift energy for the two.6-litre twin cam engine from 105bhp to a heady 125bhp.
This yr, Aston Martin is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the 2005 introduction of the V8 Vantage. The primary Gaydon-built ‘fashionable’ Aston Martin to make use of the title and the primary Vantage to be a definite mannequin in its personal proper, relatively than a spinoff, with its personal Roadster model arriving only one yr later.
Aston Martin Chief Government Officer, Adrian Hallmark, stated: “The technical and dynamic functionality of New Vantage delivered excellent efficiency, far past another previous Vantage, and it’s now seen as a real class-leading sports activities automotive. Vantage Roadster was no totally different feat in that it’s a absolutely reinvented expertise, with all the advantages of the Coupe and no compromise to refinement or efficiency via meticulous work by our engineering and dynamics groups. Vantage Roadster delivers a world-class roof-down driving expertise like no different.”
Engineering
The important thing to Vantage Roadster’s capability to retain the essential dynamic attributes of Vantage Coupe is that each automobiles had been designed and engineered in parallel relatively than in sequence. The Roadster is, subsequently, a totally developed mannequin in its personal proper, permitting the workforce to implement options and attributes that lead to zero compromises to efficiency, experience and dealing with, and extreme further weight.
In comparison with the earlier Vantage Roadster, Aston Martin’s bespoke 4.0-liter V8 twin-turbo engine has seen energy and torque rise by an unprecedented 155PS and 115Nm because of bigger turbochargers, revised camshaft profiles, and an optimized compression ratio. With a complete of 665PS and an unbelievable 800Nm of torque operating via an eight-speed paddle-shift transmission to an electronically managed limited-slip differential driving the rear wheels alone, Vantage Roadster combines explosive efficiency (0-60mph in 3.5seconds, prime pace 202mph) and state-of-the-art know-how throughout the basic, entrance engine, rear-wheel drive configuration adored by those that merely like to drive. Because of a retractable roof, much more of the inimitable V8 thunder might be heard by occupants, emanating from underneath Vantage’s dramatically sloping bonnet and exhaust tailpipes.
Because of its ultra-stiff but light-weight aluminum construction, composite physique panels, and 49:51 front-to-rear weight distribution, the Vantage Roadster gives the perfect platform for the suspension to behave upon. That includes race-inspired unequal-length double wishbones on the entrance, a multi-link rear axle, coil springs and Bilstein DTX adaptive dampers (with a bespoke tune), together with a non-isolated steering column, Vantage Roadster gives precision, stability, poise and, above all, the arrogance which might be the unmistakable hallmarks of the really nice high-performance driver’s automotive.
Brake discs measuring 410mm on the entrance (with carbon ceramic brakes) clamped by six piston monoblock calipers guarantee Vantage Roadster can shed pace much more quickly than it’s gained – and accomplish that repeatedly. The mandatory grip is offered by bespoke Michelin Pilot Sport S 5 tyres, specifically developed by Michelin and tuned by Aston Martin with a compound tailor-made to the particular necessities of the Vantage. These present not simply superlative grip in each dry and moist situations but in addition excellent steering really feel and progressive breakaway traits.
All of this {hardware} is supported by an digital structure utilizing six-axis sensors, able to creating an astonishingly detailed overview of exactly how the automotive is behaving, permitting the ESP system to undertake optimum settings each for the street situations and the type by which the automotive is being pushed. As well as, Vantage Roadster carries over the revolutionary Superior Traction Management system from the Vantage Coupe, permitting the driving force to decide on considered one of eight settings for the traction management; the default setting of 5 is optimized for reaching the quickest, cleanest laps. The decrease the quantity the better the extent of intervention, offering an extra degree of reassurance and security in, for instance, adversarial climate situations, whereas drivers wishing to hone their expertise probably on monitor have the choice to show traction management off and expertise the automotive freed from any digital affect.
From the outset a number of measures had been designed into the construction of Vantage Roadster to make sure the Vantage spirit, astonishing capability and love of the open street had been handed throughout from Coupe to Roadster in undiluted kind. To do that, two major targets, historically seen as diametrically opposed goals, got prime precedence from the beginning. These had been to maintain the Roadster as mild as doable relative to the Coupe and to take care of structural rigidity at an outstandingly excessive degree for a convertible automotive.
These embrace figuring out the load paths via the construction and physique and modifying the way in which the physique is connected in the back of the automotive so as to add further stiffness relative to the Coupe. As well as, weight-optimized shear panels have been added in strategic positions to laterally stiffen the construction additional even than the Coupe as a way to offset the discount in rigidity inherent in any convertible automotive.
The roof itself is available in ‘Z-fold’ configuration, which is each quicker and lighter than a standard ‘Okay-fold’ roof and removes the requirement for a tonneau cowl, additional saving weight and decreasing the centre of gravity. The roof on Vantage Roadster might be opened or closed at any pace as much as 31mph (50km/h) with all the roof fold operation (open or closed) taking simply 6.8sec – the quickest absolutely automated deployable roof mechanism in the marketplace at this time. Moreover, this slick operation might be carried out when seated within the automotive or remotely through the important thing, as long as the operator is inside a two-meter radius of the automotive.
Regardless of the extraordinary pace of the roof operation and its light-weight design, no sacrifice to refinement has been made. The roof includes no fewer than eight ranges of insulation guaranteeing that cabin sound ranges with the roof up are corresponding to these of Vantage coupe.
The Z-fold motion ends in an easier and, subsequently, lighter roof, which results in Vantage Roadster’s general weight improve of simply 60kg, an excellent achievement—and class-leading—for a automotive on this class.
Even the rollover construction has been rigorously optimized to be each as sturdy and light-weight as doable. The aluminum Roll-Over and Safety System (ROPS) is fashioned utilizing a course of referred to as ‘Castrusion’ for the way in which it combines optimum components from each casting and extrusion to create a system that’s sturdy, mild, and easy to package deal.
Lastly, consideration has additionally been paid to the suspension system to account each for the change in mass and weight distribution. Minimal although these modifications are, the truth that Vantage Roadster has recalibrated software program for its rear dampers and retuned mountings for its rear-mounted gearbox simply exhibits the lengths Aston Martin engineers go to as a way to guarantee a full measure of the legendary Vantage dealing with prowess is carried over from Coupe to Roadster.
Simon Newton, Director of Automobile Efficiency, stated “Vantage made headlines final yr for the large will increase in energy and torque over the outgoing mannequin, and the vivid means by which it deployed such immense efficiency utterly seduced fanatics and purists alike. Creating each Vantage Coupe and Roadster concurrently meant we had been capable of retain the outrageous dynamic capabilities and agile sporting character of Vantage with no compromise upon elimination of the roof, permitting drivers to revel on the restrict with the added publicity to the weather. This has been achieved from meticulous optimizations within the physique construction mixed with Roadster-specific chassis tuning carried out by our expert dynamics workforce and is the right stablemate to its Coupe cohort.”
Design
It was important that all the visceral affect and fantastic thing about Vantage Coupe was retained for Vantage Roadster, and that it ought to retain its gorgeous traces whether or not the roof is in its raised or lowered place. So efficiently has this been achieved that when the roof is stowed Vantage Roadster appears to be like prefer it was by no means designed to be the rest. The dramatically angled windscreen joins with the automotive’s excessive waistline to create a proportionally good thoroughbred sports activities automotive profile.
The roof stows seamlessly behind the seats without having for a cumbersome and heavy tonneau cowl whereas the bootlid deck slopes gently downwards till it meets the dramatic upkick of the distinctive rear spoiler. The widened stance launched on the coupe is retained on Roadster, as is the elevated aperture of the signature Aston Martin grille; an object lesson in the right way to mix magnificence with perform, with the massive grille growing air circulation the highly effective engine by virtually 30 per cent.
With a spectacular canvas to create a sporting masterpiece, three new paint colors – Iridescent Sapphire, Satin Iridescent Sapphire and Bronze Flare have been added to the paint palette, whereas the Vantage Roadster’s roof might be laid out in Black, Purple, Blue or Black and Silver. To reinforce the automobiles sporting character additional nonetheless, a choice of painted liveries can be utilized in a selection of 21 complementary colors. There are 4 21” wheel kinds obtainable in a variety of finishes, behind which might be seen considered one of seven totally different shade selections of brake calipers.
Marek Reichman, Aston Martin Chief Inventive Officer, stated: “This new Vantage Roadster is a sculptural masterpiece. The resonant roar of its engine brings its easy but refined floor design to life, making a connection that’s inconceivable to disregard. Its kind exudes magnificence, its athletic stance conveys predatory intent, and its sound delivers a visceral, sensory expertise. Created as each artwork and efficiency, the engine’s sound amplifies this stability, turning the auditory expertise into an important a part of the journey. With the roof down, the soundscape turns into as dynamic because the design, mixing simplicity, energy, and a visceral connection that transcends driving into an unmatched sensory expertise.”
Like all Aston Martin fashions, Vantage prospects can discover infinite bespoke and customization prospects through the Q by Aston Martin personalization service. Enlisting the abilities of Q’s designers and crafts folks, prospects take an unforgettable private commissioning journey that may embody all the pieces from a single small distinguishing element to full-scale engineering and manufacturing of completely bespoke elements to create a real one-off.
Vantage Roadster, like its Coupe counterpart, is the newest mannequin to characteristic Aston Martin’s next-generation infotainment. Created in-house and first launched on DB12, it’s completely bespoke and developed in-house from scratch. The system combines a totally built-in multi-screen system with full on-line connectivity, that includes 10.25” Pure Black touchscreen know-how with full capacitive single and multi-finger gesture management. Touchscreen instructions stay balanced with the tactility of bodily switches, with buttons retained for the important thing mechanical operations of drugs choice, drive choice, heating and air flow. There are additionally management switches for Chassis, ESP and Exhaust, Energetic Security System settings and Park Distance Management, guaranteeing essentially the most used controls might be operated intuitively and with out the necessity to take your eyes off the street. Supplemented by a brand new Aston Martin buyer connectivity app which helps iOS and Android gadgets, it permits interplay, management and suggestions to and from the client’s Vantage through their private system.
Vantage Roaster is fitted as commonplace with the Aston Martin 390w 11 speaker audio system. Developed using superior {hardware}, this technique includes a Encompass sound mode with QuantumLogic® encompass sound processing for an immersive soundscape. Nonetheless, if a musical soundtrack to the drive is deemed really vital, some prospects will delight within the optionally available system developed with Aston Martin’s audio companion, Bowers & Wilkins. Acoustically engineered to the Vantage Roadster’s inside quantity and form, this distinctive system makes use of applied sciences and improvements present in Bowers & Wilkins’ acclaimed world-class loudspeakers.
Vantage Roadster deliveries will begin in Q2 2025. It joins its Coupe sibling, the DB12 and DB12 Volante, the gorgeous new Vanquish and, in fact the Supercar of SUVs, DBX707 in addition to the forthcoming Valhalla supercar to kind unquestionably essentially the most succesful, complete and fascinating product line up within the 112-year historical past of the Aston Martin marque.
Above content material © 2025 Aston-Martin, reviewed and edited by Rex McAfee
