Start with what the Aston Martin CC100 is: a 2-door Speedster with 6.0 L V12, built from 2013, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Miles Nurnberger & Sam Holgate.
How it came about
The Aston Martin CC100 Speedster is a sports car produced by the British car company Aston Martin to celebrate its 100th anniversary, announced in May 2013 at the ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring race. Only two were produced and both were sold to loyal customers.
One of the owners plans to keep it in his private collection, while the owner of the second car plans to get regulatory approval so it can be driven on public roads. The CC100 is powered by a naturally aspirated V12 engine mated to an automated sequential manual 6-speed gearbox, enabling a claimed limited top speed of 180 mph (290 km/h), and acceleration from 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) in under 4 seconds.
The hardware
The engine is 6.0 L V12. On the scales it comes to 1370 kg. Drive goes through a 6-speed automated sequential manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Aston Martin line-up the Aston Martin CC100 has a clear place: it handed the line to the Aston Martin V12 Speedster. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Infiniti Q50, the Peugeot 208, the Tesla Model X. Its Aston Martin stablemates include the Aston Martin Mark II and the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.