Any news on this one?
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...-team-confirms-adrian-newey-designed-hypercar
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/...-team-confirms-adrian-newey-designed-hypercar

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Well if anybody can do it, surely Newey? If they incorporate radical active aero and perhaps active ride height, I could see how a somewhat curvy shape could be retained.A "spectacularly beautiful" road car that is as quick around a circuit as an LMP1 racing car?
I don't think so.
Yes, in the Alice-in-Wonderland world of Formula One anything is possible, but I cannot imagine how it could make any sense for AM to become an F1 engine supplier.At the race this weekend there was a lot of speculation that there might be more to this venture. We know Red Bull using the Renault block and making their own labeled engines. Talk is Aston Martin be in some way the supplier of F1 engines to their team next year. Just a rumor but stranger things have happened.
The V12 in the DB11 was designed in house by AM. The V8 though will be from AMG.- Not long ago AM signed a long-term contract with Mercedes to use Merc engines in all AM production road cars for the foreseeable future.
I appreciate that there is a building on an industrial estate in Niehl, Cologne, DE, which is called the "Aston Martin Engine Plant", but I think the fact that the overall industrial estate is titled the "Ford Niehl Engine Plant" summarises the situation.The V12 in the DB11 was designed in house by AM. The V8 though will be from AMG.
Absolutely!I appreciate that there is a building on an industrial estate in Niehl, Cologne, DE, which is called the "Aston Martin Engine Plant", but I think the fact that the overall industrial estate is titled the "Ford Niehl Engine Plant" summarises the situation.
I'm not trying to criticise them, but AM, like McLaren, do not have the massive funding, staff and institutional knowledge necessary to design bespoke high-performance engines in-house, and that's just road car engines.
As hugely experienced racing engine designers and builders such as Renault and Honda have discovered, to design a currently competitive Formula One engine is nothing less than an enormous intellectual and financial challenge.
In AM's case, even if they had the staff and the institutional knowledge, the business case would not stack up. In a good year, AM might sell 2,000 cars. Their average car sells for meaningfully less than the average car sold by Ferrari, which sells roughly 4x as many cars per annum. Ergo Ferrari's revenue base is probably 6x as big as AM's. For AM to spend as much on F1 engines as Ferrari (for example) do, AM would have to amortise the same huge expense against only 15% as much revenue. It can't work.
It wasn'tThe V12 in the DB11 was designed in house by AM. The V8 though will be from AMG.
Can it really be called an iteration of the old V12? Listening to this guy talk it's basically completely new. A different video that I can't find right now an AM employee says the only identical part between the old and new engines is a fuse. I can see them starting with the old engine, but it seems so much has changed that they have very little in common.It wasn't
It was developed by the Gaydon protoype development team in conjunction with the Cologne engineers. It is an iteration of the V12 in the Vanquish and V12VS.
It will be replaced by an AMG unit in due course
That's a drawing for their VGT car that became the DP100.This is a drawing of the rumored Adrian Newey Aston Martin hyper car. If they build this it would be great. I wonder if Mercedes Benz would build the power plant for it since they have a 10% interest.
An early twin Turbo V12 was actually run round the ring in the Rapide that also debuted the H2 hybrid (driven by Dr Bez).Can it really be called an iteration of the old V12? Listening to this guy talk it's basically completely new. A different video that I can't find right now an AM employee says the only identical part between the old and new engines is a fuse. I can see them starting with the old engine, but it seems so much has changed that they have very little in common.
https://youtu.be/0IREtCujKJk?t=2m17s
If the AMG unit comes in the next few years then I don't see why they spent time and money developing a new engine.
Ahh I see now.An early twin Turbo V12 was actually run round the ring in the Rapide that also debuted the H2 hybrid (driven by Dr Bez).
The ALL new comments is marketing spin, they claimed something similar when they went to the Bosche ECU with knock control on the V12 in the Vanquish2 and V12VS.
I have some contacts in prototyping at Gaydon from my Aston ownership days.