Valour celebrates Aston Martin’s one hundred and tenth anniversary by honouring its distinctive custom of superlative particular version entrance-engined sportscars. Bespoke 6-velocity handbook transmission uniquely mated to a 5.2 litre Twin Turbo V12 for optimum driver engagement and timeless traditional enchantment. The final of an period, Valour fuses unmistakable seems, relentless efficiency and intense dynamic character to please purists with the final word visceral driving expertise. Production is restricted to 110 models globally.
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In celebration of its one hundred and tenth anniversary, Aston Martin is proud to disclose Valour – a spectacular, extremely-unique V12-engined, handbook transmission particular version constructed to honour the marque’s lengthy custom of fantastic entrance-engined sports activities vehicles and delight purists who crave undiluted and visceral driving experiences.
Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll mentioned:
Valour is a celebration of Aston Martin’s ardour for driving and extraordinary heritage, however additionally it is emblematic of at present’s vibrant and revitalised model. A contemporary icon that fuses traditional character with modern execution, Valour captures the essence of pleasure and exclusivity that defines this storied automotive marque. A showcase for our world-class design, engineering and manufacturing capabilities, Valour additional proves Aston Martin’s place as the driving force’s champion and maker of the world’s most fun, unique and fascinating extremely-luxurious excessive-efficiency vehicles.
Aimed squarely at those that relish a really involving driving expertise, Valour’s dedication to period-defining efficiency and stimulation is second to none. The solely entrance-engined V12 sports activities automobile accessible with a handbook transmission, its purist method is exclusive in 2023 and an exhilarating tribute to a golden period of driving.
Motivated by this wealthy heritage, Valour has been realised utilizing the most recent know-how, strategies and supplies. As such, it’s a fusion of the important qualities which have come to outline Aston Martin’s biggest entrance-engined fashions. Glorious throwback and modern masterpiece, Valour is the perfect of Aston Martin’s previous and current and the antidote to vehicles that search to isolate drivers from the method of driving.
Valour’s bloodline is second-to-none. Inspired by the unique V8 Vantage and luxurious Vantage-based RHAM/1 ‘Muncher’ Le Mans racer from 1980, it boasts the unbridled brawn typical of Aston Martin’s final sports activities vehicles. Machines just like the Nineteen Nineties twin supercharged V600 Vantage had been the world’s strongest manufacturing automobile for a time. Immaculate design and flawless execution echo that of the beautiful One-77 supercar, whereas its intense driver-centric character connects Valour to the one-off Victor.
With manufacturing restricted to 110 vehicles globally, Valour’s rarity ensures it will likely be amongst essentially the most collectable of all Aston Martins. A mouth-watering finish-of-an-period specification – which mates the epic 715PS/753Nm twin-turbocharged 5.2-litre V12 to a bespoke six-velocity handbook transmission for the very first time – ensures a really absorbing expertise and secures Valour’s place within the pantheon of all-time nice driver’s vehicles.
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Benefitting from a novel powertrain calibration, Valour’s immense energy and torque outputs are unrestrained, providing the driving force full efficiency and utmost management in each gear. A mechanical restricted-slip differential enhances the direct analogue connection between automobile and driver, with the added assist and reassurance of digital traction and stability management methods. Valour’s Driving Modes – Sport, Sport+ and Track – have additionally been tuned to supply meticulously judged throttle response, torque administration and sound character.
Underlining its dynamic credentials, Valour has acquired a bespoke suspension, with adaptive dampers, springs and anti-roll bars all honed particularly to the automobile. Wheel alignment geometry has devoted camber, castor and toe settings. These traits guarantee Valour possesses distinct and clearly outlined journey and dealing with qualities. First, a highway automobile means hanging a sporting steadiness of taut, exact vertical physique management and cussed resistance to roll whereas providing the compliance to shine on nice driving roads.
Further honing its distinctive dynamic character, Valour’s customized physique construction options entrance and rear shear panels, a rear suspension tower strut brace and gasoline tank bracing. These components maximise each torsional and lateral stiffness, offering the suspension with an optimised platform for extra exact physique management and elevated refinement. In addition, a brand new steering system removes undesirable sources of compliance to present the driving force a fair better sense of detailed really feel, connection and immediacy.
With commonplace-match Carbon Ceramic Brakes, Valour has ample stopping energy courtesy of entrance discs measuring 410mm x 38mm and gripped by 6-piston callipers. At the rear, 360mm x 32mm discs are paired with 4-piston callipers. Offering elevated braking efficiency and a major 23kg discount in un-sprung mass versus metal brakes, these CCB discs are engineered to withstand brake fade at temperatures as much as 800 levels, enabling the driving force to discover Valour’s full efficiency potential with most confidence and exact management.
Completing Valour’s spectacular {hardware} bundle is a set of lovely 21″ light-weight cast alloy ‘Honeycomb’ wheels, that are fitted with the most recent AML-particular Michelin Pilot Sport S 5 tyres – 275/35 R21 entrance tyres and 325/30 R21 on the rear – for impressed dealing with and highway-holding in moist or dry situations.
Simon Newton, Aston Martin’s Director of Vehicle Performance, mentioned:
Inspired by the long-lasting muscle vehicles from our previous, we now have endowed Valour with plentiful energy and torque whereas utilizing fashionable know-how and engineering to make that efficiency extra exploitable and gratifying. An enormous a part of honouring that driver-pleasing character was mating our fabulous V12 engine to a handbook transmission. It was a novel a part of the temporary, and the top result’s really unforgettable; a state-of-the-artwork driver’s automobile thrives on being pushed to its limits and has the true coronary heart and soul of a timeless analogue traditional’.
Valour’s broad stance and extremely developed physique vividly specific these immense efficiency capabilities and intense driving traits. Made solely from carbon fibre, the bodywork marries Aston Martin’s modern design language with immediately recognisable cues from the long-lasting Seventies V8 Vantage. The result’s daring and unmistakable from any angle.
The clamshell bonnet options a big ‘horse shoe’ vent and twin NACA ducts to offer ample air flow for the dual-turbocharged V12 that sits beneath. Aston Martin’s iconic grille form has developed to boost kind and performance. Aluminium strakes outline its central part, whereas massive carbon fibre intakes on both aspect feed the engine and brakes with cool air. They additionally body the classically impressed spherical LED headlights, distinctive to Valour, which sit beneath a rakish eyebrow-like grille with a menacing impact.
Modern aerodynamic pondering has been effortlessly integrated into the design, with professional administration of the airflow optimising stability whereas attaining a uniquely assertive design. The outstanding entrance splitter and fender vents integrated into Valour’s flanks work harmoniously with the rear display panels that includes vortex-producing exoblades and elegantly upswept the Kamm tail and central diffuser to attain aerodynamic steadiness.
The rear finish additionally incorporates a dramatic tail-gentle graphic, with clusters of LED gentle blades (six on either side) echoing the bottom-breaking Valkyrie hypercar. A full-width aluminium accent – milled from a stable billet and polished to a flawless end – delineates the rear finish, dramatically separating the higher and decrease sections. Positioned between the deep components of the rear diffuser is the centrepiece of Valour’s extraordinary again design; a triple tailpipe exhaust system fabricated from light-weight stainless-steel. With a wall thickness of lower than 1mm, this particular tubing makes a 7kg weight saving versus a standard system, but emits a gloriously heavyweight soundtrack.
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Valour’s celebration of Aston Martin’s heritage continues inside, with a timeless two-seater cockpit of unusual simplicity and seductive tactility. Central to that is the handbook transmission gear lever with machined aluminium, titanium, carbon fibre or walnut for the gear knob and an uncovered shift mechanism to emphasize the mechanical connection—Valour majors on delivering the bodily and emotional engagement misplaced to progress.
The masterful use of supplies has lengthy been an Aston Martin hallmark, so it’s no shock that Valour’s inside shines with authentic and extremely efficient mixtures from which clients can create distinctive specs. For instance, conventional woollen tweed impressed by the seat coverings of Aston Martin’s 1959 Le Mans-winning DBR1 gives an exquisite distinction towards the excessive-tech weave of carbon fibre used to kind the shells of Valour’s light-weight efficiency seats, bespoke door playing cards, fascia air vents, higher centre console and transmission tunnel.
Further personalisation comes within the type of a versatile technique of livery customisation. By separating Valour’s physique into 4 areas – entrance, bonnet, sides and rear – shoppers might select from an in depth array of hand-painted stripes and graphics designs, which could be utilized in any of 21 paint colors.
Should a buyer want to transcend the usual palette of Valour choices, then they could have interaction the providers of Q by Aston Martin to create a really bespoke specification. Examples of this embrace the design of a one-off livery, totally uncovered 2×2 twill carbon fibre bodywork with a alternative of a purple, blue or inexperienced tint, painted wheels, Mokume carbon fibre inside detailing or a choice of Johnsons of Elgin tweed and cashmere materials for the seats and headlining.
Miles Nurnberger, Aston Martin’s Director of Design, mentioned:
At Aston Martin, our design is all the time progressive, however when celebrating a major milestone – on this occasion, our one hundred and tenth birthday – we enable ourselves a bit of latitude. Consequently, Valour is gloriously unapologetic; an previous-faculty brute refined and reimagined by means of the lens of 2023. Returning to a chiselled form, transferring away from the extra sculptural varieties that outline present sequence manufacturing Aston Martin’s, with daring particulars and fashionable supplies rooted within the current. We had been eager to make sure its seems mirrored the driving expertise. The uncooked physicality of the form ought to let you know all it’s worthwhile to know in regards to the ferocious efficiency and analogue thrills of taming a 715PS handbook transmission sports activities automobile, but the clear use of the most recent know-how factors to a automobile with fashionable manners and distinctive dynamic capabilities.
Valour manufacturing is because of start at Aston Martin’s Gaydon Headquarters in Q3 of 2023, with first deliveries scheduled to start throughout This autumn 2023. Poised to grow to be one of the coveted vehicles in Aston Martin’s unrivalled canon of iconic entrance-engined particular sequence sports activities vehicles, Valour is a valuable collector’s piece that calls for to be pushed.
