Aston Martin Vanquish
Aston Martin
MarqueAston Martin
Production2001–2007 (First generation) / 2012–2018 (Second generation) / 2024–present (Third generation)
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The Aston Martin Vanquish is a grand tourer introduced by British luxury automobile manufacturer Aston Martin in 2001 as a successor to the Aston Martin Virage (1993). The Aston Martin V12 Vanquish was designed by Ian Callum and unveiled at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show. It was produced from 2001 to 2007 as the flagship of the marque. A concept car, known as "Project Vantage", and the first Aston Martin design wholly designed by Callum, was built to display the company's vision for a future sports car that could represent Aston Martin's aspirations after the discontinuation of the Virage-based Vantage. The concept car evolved directly into the V12 Vanquish, and featured a carbon fibre and alloy structure, Aston Martin's most powerful V12 engine, and a host of new technologies. A specially modified V12 Vanquish was driven by James Bond in the 2002 film Die Another Day.
In 2004, a mildly updated version of the first-generation model, named "V12 Vanquish S", was introduced, featuring a more highly tuned engine and more track-oriented ride and handling. The V12 Vanquish was indirectly replaced by the DBS after 2007. The second-generation "Vanquish" was introduced in 2012, this time based on Aston Martin's existing VH platform – similar to the one that underpinned the DB9. Designed by Marek Reichman and made in the Gaydon facility, the VH platform Vanquish was designed to fill the shoes of the discontinued DBS. In 2017, a "Vanquish S" with a more powerful engine and improved aerodynamics was launched. The second-generation Gaydon Vanquish was succeeded by the DBS Superleggera in 20
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The Aston Martin Vanquish is one of 106 Aston Martin models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2001. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Aston Martin Vanquish properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Honda Honda Fit, the Volvo Cars Volvo XC90, the Citroën Citroën C3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Aston Martin Vanquish reads like this: the record lists its engine as transmission =; kerb weight is recorded at platform =; drive goes through speed =; the layout is Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Aston Martin's own catalogue the Aston Martin Vanquish sits alongside the Aston Martin Mark II (1934), the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, the Aston Martin Vanquish II (2012), the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3. The record names the Aston Martin Virage as its predecessor and the Aston Martin DBS (2007) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to weight =. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire.
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