Aston Martin Reveals New V12 Vantage S Roadster as Its Fastest Droptop to Date

Where the original packed a 4.3-liter V8 derived from a Jaguar design and producing 380 horsepower, this latest version packs 565 hp to become the company's quickest and fastest roadster to date, not to mention its most powerful.

Following the debut of the V12 Vantage S coupe, the new V12 Vantage S Roadster packs the most powerful iteration of Aston's ubiquitous 6.0-liter V12 engine to date. Equipped with CNC-machined combustion chambers and hollow camshafts, unburdened of 44 pounds of excess weight and mated to Gaydon's latest Graziano-developed Sportshift III seven-speed sequential gearbox, that engine is capable of propelling the open-top rocket to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds en route to a top speed of 323 km per hour. That's considerably quicker than the flagship Vanquish Volante, which runs to 100 in 4.1 seconds and tops out at 285 km/h, painting the V12 Vantage S Roadster as Aston's most performance-focused droptop to date.

It's also got a flatter and fatter torque curve than the previous V12 Vantage Roadster, three-stage adaptive damping, three-stage stability control and two-stage ABS, carbon-ceramic disc brakes and a lightweight exhaust derived from the pipes on the One-77.