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The RA is a completely new 6.5-litre, naturally-aspirated V12 engine, commissioned by Adrian Newey, and co-designed, developed and produced by Cosworth, in partnership and collaboration with Aston Martin, for the Aston Martin Valkyrie hyper car. It is not directly related to the original AM V12 design.
The 1969–1972 Aston Martin DBS V8 coupe/convertible was Aston Martin's first V8 model. This engine was an all-aluminium construction with double overhead camshafts and was used in several models up until 2000 when the Virage model was discontinued.
The Aston Martin RB6 is a 2.5-litre, naturally-aspirated, inline-6 racing engine, developed and designed by Aston Martin for Formula One racing; used between 1959 and 1960. [2] The RB6 also shared the basic double-overhead camshaft straight-6 Aston Martin engine design with its brethren, but sleeved to reduce its capacity to 2.5-litres.
The V-12 should appear in the replacements for the DB11 and DBS but won’t be offered in the DBX or the forthcoming Vanquish and Valhalla mid-engined supercars.
At the Geneva Motor Show, Aston Martin introduced two mid-engine performance cars powered by the same V-6 engine. Here's what makes the AM-RB 003 different from the new Vanquish.
A first drive review of the all-new 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish. The latest V-12 flagship combines huge performance with genuine luxury.
For comparison, Cosworth’s last 3.0-litre V10 Formula One engine, the TJ2005, weighed 97 kg (214 lb) in 2005. If that V10 F1 race engine was scaled up to 6.5 litres, it would have weighed 210 kg (463 lb). Over 1,300 individual parts were manufactured for the Valkyrie's engine, with a total of 5,000 components making up the total product.
In October 2004, Aston Martin set up the dedicated 12,500 m 2 (135,000 sq ft) Aston Martin Engine Plant (AMEP) within the Ford Germany plant in Niehl, Cologne. With the capacity to produce up to 5,000 engines a year by 100 specially trained personnel, like traditional Aston Martin engine production from Newport Pagnell, assembly of each unit ...