RE: Check out the wild new Aston Martin Valiant

[redroadster]

Used to like old Aston styling more brutal this apes it ,good ,thumbs up from me .

[S600BSB]

Lost their way with that.

[Om]

Unfortunately I associate the word 'Valiant' with failure or defeat, as in 'X made a valiant effort but ultimately failed'. The most positive phrase your teacher could come up with in light of your shameful performance in the egg and spoon race.

Probably not the best name for your track car. Or possibly quite apposite...

[CLK-GTR]

Reminds me of the Mustang GT3. The car and the body don't match. Fast, lightweight track car but it looks like a bloated tourer.

[BigChiefmuffinAgain]

Seems another chapter in the usual Aston Martin book of "what is the minimum we can spend to adapt something we currently have and call it new and then we can try to flog off for £2m". I'm sure Alonso spent many minutes involved in the development....

[smilo996]

It ticks all the tech and exotic materials boxes. Funny looking thing. They have finally given in and made the whole front, one massive air intake, it looks like Zagato designed it. The side view is very good, aggressive, lots to look at.
Colour, awful. Very 70's. I wonder how many will actually see the rumble strips of a track.
Aston have tried really hard with this, especially the interior. Imagine an exposed gear linkage in the Vantage....

[Tycho]

Love it even in that colour scheme. Get rid of the wheels though.

[J4CKO]

Om said:

Unfortunately I associate the word 'Valiant' with failure or defeat, as in 'X made a valiant effort but ultimately failed'. The most positive phrase your teacher could come up with in light of your shameful performance in the egg and spoon race.

Probably not the best name for your track car. Or possibly quite apposite...

I was thinking more central heating boiler.

Looks amazing to be fair, even like the colour.

[Water Fairy]

Doesn't look like an Aston but I quite like it.

[M1C]

It's a yes from me.

[NGK210]

Manual, V12, and yet another cool cabin that isn’t touchpad-only. Rejoice.

But the alleged Alonso quote is gormless, amateurish and brand-demeaning PR at its worst. Off with their heads.

[GeniusOfLove]

stuthe said:

I was going to post exactly the same. A totally tragic “quote” - the PR team need to stop smoking whatever they are smoking and realise this bullcrap actually devalues the brand to people like me. Ex AM owner

Like the car though. S’pose that’s the main thing.

They have serious form for mega cringe though don't they?

Power... Beauty... Soul...

Imagine being the only non bellend sitting in the meeting where they decided to put that in the cluster of the car every time you turned it on.

[JerryF]

I really like the styling. I would if I could!

[ducnick]

J4CKO said:

Om said:

Unfortunately I associate the word 'Valiant' with failure or defeat, as in 'X made a valiant effort but ultimately failed'. The most positive phrase your teacher could come up with in light of your shameful performance in the egg and spoon race.

Probably not the best name for your track car. Or possibly quite apposite...

I was thinking more central heating boiler.

Looks amazing to be fair, even like the colour.

I was associating the name ‘Valiant’ with the wing falling off it if goes round a high G corner… that might put the fear of god into me if I were on a track with it.

[George29]

Gordon Hill said:

Like it apart from the wheels which are f#cking awful.

The weird thing is, the wheels are actually a really nice design if you take those stty carbon plates off (that do nothing but increase drag and brake temperatures)

[Howard1650]

I like it, not sure it is an Aston, but ok to my eyes.
But,... yet more over size wheels for the body shape.

[C5_Steve]

I love that. I was never massively keen on the Valour but having seen a few customer specs it's grown on me. This looks even better. I'm not 100% sold on the white stripes around the carbon but I'm sure it'll look better in person and fits in with the AM racing liveries.

[The Donster]

Got a whiff of Brett Sinclair about it. Perhaps Fernando watched re-runs of The Persuaders for inspiration??

[Cold]

Tycho said:

Love it even in that colour scheme. Get rid of the wheels though.

But then it will scrape on the ground.

[pycraft]

Om said:

Unfortunately I associate the word 'Valiant' with failure or defeat, as in 'X made a valiant effort but ultimately failed'.

For those of us growing up in the 70s (and I believe 60s) it's associated with Valiant Comics, a sort of WW2-themed precursor to the likes of 2000AD. So, world where the plucky Brits are shown taking the fight to the Germans and winning; can't imagine there'd be any analogies here....

As to the car, it's not my cup of tea but to my eyes, does hark back to the 80s AMs - not a direct copy or pastiche, but a similar squared-off-and-chunky design language. Where they might have ended up if they'd stuck with things.