A new Vantage Roadster is coming our way, and it
seems that it won’t be long before Aston Martin introduces it to the world. Speaking to Car Advice in
Australia, Aston Martin chief creative officer Marek Reichman said that work on
the drop-top Vantage is complete.
It comes as no surprise that a Vantage Roadster is
coming as the British car manufacturer consistently follows up its new coupe
models with convertible variations. The previous-generation Aston Martin
Vantage Roadster had a soft-stop and its successor is expected to retain this
solution despite the popularity of folding hard-tops.
When the new Vantage Roadster does launch, it will
be powered by the same (Mercedes-AMG-sourced) twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 as the coupe,
which puts out 503 hp and 685 Nm of torque and is coupled to an
eight-speed ZF automatic transmission. That’s enough to send the Vantage coupe
to 96 km/h in 3.5 seconds, but given the added weight of the Vantage
Roadster it will probably be a couple tenths slower off the line.
If there’s one Vantage model which we’re looking
forward to more than the Roadster, it would have to be a new V12-powered
version. Car Advice quizzed Reichman about the possibility of a new V12
Vantage, but the executive simply laughed and said “it would be a good idea.”
