The 2021 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster has
just been presented prior to its public premiere at the Geneva Motor Show next
month. The drop-top Vantage has been a long time coming and features a fabric
top that can be lowered in just 6.7 seconds when the car is stationary or in
6.8 seconds at speeds of up to 50 km/h. This makes it the fastest
folding automatic soft-top in the industry.
It’s common for convertible versions of
cars to weigh more than their coupe counterparts and it’s no different with the
Vantage Roadster although it does only gain 60 kg over the hardtop.
This is thanks to the Z-fold mechanism design and the lightweight bracing
featured throughout the car.
Powering the 2021 Vantage Roadster is the
same twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 engine as the coupe with no less than 503
hp and 685 Nm of torque on tap. This engine is coupled to an
eight-speed ZF automatic transmission sending power to the rear wheels,
accelerating the car through to 96 km/h in 3.7 seconds, just 0.2
seconds slower than the Vantage with a fixed roof. The Roadster will continue
accelerating through to 306 km/h.
Elsewhere, the Roadster features the same
adaptive damping, dynamic stability control, dynamic torque vectoring, and
electronic rear differential as the coupe, with Sport, Sport+, and Track
options available for the chassis set-up.
