The British sports car maker unveiled a redesigned version of its V-12 on Wednesday. We won’t have to wait long to see the hand-built 12-cylinder in action, either. It’s expected to be under the hood of the brand’s next flagship, which will launch later this year.Forget the Batmobile. Pininfarina Just Unveiled 4 Bruce Wayne-Inspired Electric Hypercars.
The new engine makes its debut during a time when most premium automakers, like Bentley, are moving away from 12-cylinders altogether. It also arrives just weeks after Aston chairman Lawrence Stroll said that the company wouldwell into the next decade due to lower-than-expected EV demand. We don’t know how the mill’s displacement will compare to the marque’s outgoing 5.3-liter V-12, but it says that it has been “completely redesigned.
Aston is just making modifications for the sake of change. The brand claims the new V-12 will pump out 824 horses and 738 ft lbs of twist. That makes it comfortably more potent than the most powerful iteration of the current V-12 which produces 759 hp and 664 ft lbs of torque. That engine can be found under the hood of. Up until now, the ultra-sleek grand tourer had been the most powerful sports car in the automaker’s history, a title it will lose when the brand’s new flagship debuts.
Either way, the new model sounds like it’s going to be a brute that delivers the “sounds and smell” that customers have come to expect from the marque.Bryan Hood is a digital staff writer at Robb Report.