Aston Martin Vanquish Volante
The world’s fastest, most powerful front-engine convertible
London, March 26, 2025 (Oilandgaspress) –-Aston Martin announced the highly anticipated arrival of the new Vanquish Volante. Quite simply the fastest, most powerful open top series production Aston Martin to date and, alongside its coupe stablemate, the fastest, most powerful front engine production car on sale today. No other car combines such extraordinary performance with such a svelte yet purposeful form. Its position in the market at the very pinnacle of ultra-luxury high performance is unique, and there are few better ways to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the iconic Volante name with the announcement of its latest example.
Powered by Aston Martin’s new 5.2-litre V12 engine delivering 835PS and 1000Nm of torque with a top speed of 214mph, Vanquish Volante offers all the raw thrill of the coupe with an unmatched visceral open air driving experience.
New Vanquish Volante has been designed to offer all the style and sensorial stimulation for which convertibles are known and loved, without the limitations or compromises traditionally associated to their design. As beautiful as its Coupe companion, with minimal weight increase and stunning design, Vanquish Volante is more than worthy of the name reserved only for the flagship.
The new Vanquish Volante is the crown jewel in a model lineage extending back 60 years. The first Aston Martin to receive the name was the little-known Short Chassis Volante of 1965, comprising design elements of both the convertible DB5 that preceded it and DB6 Volante that succeeded it. Utterly beautiful, it set the tone for all ‘Volante’ Aston Martin models to come. It is also one of the rarest of all production examples, with only37 being built over a one-year period.Providing Vanquish Volante with its knockout punch is Aston Martin’s new twin-turbocharged, 5.2-litre V12 engine. The first V12 to wear the famous Aston Martin wings was fitted to the DB7 Vantage, launched in both Coupe and Volante for 2000 model year. In the 25 years since, the power of the marque’s iconic V12 has almost doubled, from 426PS to 835PS, with maximum torque seeing similar gains, from 543Nm to 1000Nm.
The latest V12 engine fitted to Vanquish develops maximum torque at just 2500rpm – precisely half the engine speed required by its forebear – and maintains that 1000Nm peak all the way from 2500-5000rpm, reaching a maximum speed of 214mph. Despite this significant increase in performance, total weight of Vanquish Volante has risen by just 95kg, raising the power to weight ratio from 313hp per tonne to 416hp per tonne, elevating performance onto an entirely new strata.
Vanquish Volante retains its contemporary elegance from Coupe; a toned, muscular presence, broad stance and fluid curves. Signature details from the F1® inspired thermos louvres remain in its dramatically sloping bonnet to aid cooling. The 80mm wheelbase extension accentuates the car’s iconic front-engine, cab-rearward aesthetic. The kicked up Kamm tail at the rear sits above the instantly recognisable ‘Shield’, designed to appear as though it is floating at the rear of the car.
The lightweight K-fold roof can be opened in 14-seconds and closed in 16-seconds, and is operatable on the move up to 31mph (50km/h) via an elegant metal switch on the centre console. Furthermore, the roof can be opened or closed remotely from the key fob, within a two-metre radius of the car. Even more remarkable is a level of thermal insulation directly comparable to Vanquish Coupe. With a class-leading stack height of just 260mm when retracted, the acoustically enhanced fabric roof can be stowed under the tonneau behind the seats without interruption to the seamless flowing lines of the body. Read More
