2009 Aston AMV8

[Ferrer]

Injecting controversy into the thread: the problem with Astons is that they all look a bit similar.

Having said that a manual DB9 is probably my perfect car currently on sale.

[Cyco]

As long as you liked them.

Without them the car wouldn't exist.

I've never driven one, but I did get a ride in a Vanquish S. I was impressed, but its still not the type of car that absolutely shook me as unbelievable. I suppose person preference sways me towards the sportier sports car as opposed to the incredible elegance and class that AM always brings to the table. Still, I hold that the exhaust notes of the AM's is fantastic.

The best bit about a modern AM (and a Vanq is a borderline one) is that you can have sports and class

So it uses the same engine architecture is what you are saying.

What about the headers/cams/pistons? Are these done by Cosworth then?

Is the V8 in the current Vantage an evolution of previous AM V8s or was it designed form the ground up?

The 5.3 litre V8 has nothing to do with the current 4.3/4.7 litre version.

As for the V12 parts, they are AML sourced, but I suspect Cossie may have had some input to the DBR/RS9 and AMV12 Vantage engines. I have no proof of this, just comments made by someone that should know hinted toward that.

Injecting controversy into the thread: the problem with Astons is that they all look a bit similar.

Been through this before. What's wrong with looking like the sexiest car on sale today (DB9)?

[clutch-monkey]

Been through this before. What's wrong with looking like the sexiest car on sale today (DB9)?

yeah, they can only go down from here
look at the DBS for example

[Ferrer]

Been through this before. What's wrong with looking like the sexiest car on sale today (DB9)?

Nothing.

But imagine if instead of a beautiful car in different sizes we had cars that were differently beautiful.

[RacingManiac]

The V8 and V12s are now all made at the Cologne engine plant. The Vanquish engines used to come direct from Cosworth, who did some of the design work.

The fact that the V12 has no joins in it anywhere would tend to rule against the mated description... That is has the same bore, stroke and bank angle as a Mondeo V6 is because its a good choice for a V12, and gave the guys at Ford design a good place to pitch it from, as it wasn't a totally impractical design from a cost perspective. It also has twin ECUs (apart from the DBS) as nothing Ford used had the capability.

Its obviously not actually "joined together" with 2 Mondeo V6s, but it does share the basic design of the Mondeo block with the casting design and internal passages....saves a bunch of money and development time this way, probably helped them pitched it to the execs when it was first used in the DB7 Vantage....