The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage Gets Amped Up and Dressed to Kill
Way more powerful, DB-12 looks, and a bigger price tag.
The new Vantage gets a more prominent maw (image: Aston Martin).
When it comes to styling refreshes in the automotive industry, they are the norm every few years. Even exotic brands like Aston Martin will perform a refresh now and then. The 2023 Vantage grand tourer ($146,986 base MSRP) is a vehicle that needed one, and that’s exactly what the British automaker has done for the 2025 model. While it certainly bears some similarities to the 2023 Vantage in terms of the car’s overall shape, the new Vantage looks more like its much pricier DB12 sibling ($248,086 base MSRP).
The 2023 Aston Martin Vantage needed a better look. It’s pretty meh (image: Aston Martin).
The price for the new Vantage is expected to climb about $50 grand, which is about a 25% jump over the current car. Should you think that’s exorbitant, just take a look at the 2023 Vantage (above). Sorta looks like a Dollar Store version, eh? The refresh is transformational. The current Vantage was redesigned back in 2018, and although it looked more refined than the 2017 model, we weren’t especially wowed by the grille that looked like an afterthought. The whole front fascia lacked presence, and the grille’s fine mesh and separate frame looked cheap. All of that changes with the refresh.
A New Vantage Point
The 2025 Vantage looks almost completely different than the outgoing car. Not only is it 30mm wider than the current car, but it also has a beautifully redesigned front end. The new (but still very Aston) grille is 38 percent larger, providing 29 percent more airflow for improved cooling. That grille is flanked by a pair of vertical air intakes for supplemental cooling. There’s also a new integrated front splitter that provides the car with a lower and wider stance, and it makes the lower fascia look more cohesive. It should be just as prone to driveway scrapes as the old one. Cool, nevertheless. The new Matrix headlight clusters have been reshaped and made larger with three integrated DRL lenses on top and LED low and high beams directly underneath. The contouring around the headlights and the hood creases get altered for more visual drama.
Revisions to the side and the back end are less significant with only minor modifications such as a slight reshaping of the front fender vents, the addition of frameless exterior mirrors, wider wheel arches, ginormous 21-inch forged alloy wheels, a wider rear bumper, larger aperture quad exhaust pipes, and new rear vents flanking the rear diffuser. These seemingly small changes add up to aesthetic improvement that should provide a strong presence for the new Vantage.
The Power and the Fury
If you thought Aston Martin only made surface changes, you’d be very wrong. The new Vantage’s powertrain and chassis get upgraded for improved performance. The hand-built AMG-sourced 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 now makes 656 horsepower and 590 lb-ft. of torque, jumping a whopping 153 horses and 85 lb-ft. The result is a claimed 3.4-second 0-60 mph sprint and a top speed of 202 mph (versus 3.6 seconds and 195 mph for the 2023 Vantage).
Aston also made changes to the cam profiles, optimized the compression ratio, and gave the Vantage bigger turbochargers. There are also three heat exchangers, a larger oil cooler, an additional radiator, and two auxiliary coolers for the main radiator. It seems Aston expects all of the additional power to generate more heat than ever before.
All of that power is routed through a ZF 8-speed automatic transmission to the rear wheels. Aston gave the new Vantage a shorter final drive ratio for improved response, and the transmission’s calibration now allows for quicker shifts. There’s also a new launch control system that the driver can adjust via the new traction control system. How’s that for even more off-the-line fun? Do you know what would make it even more fun? A manual transmission. It makes us miss the 2021 Vantage, the last Aston Martin with three pedals and a stick. Ah, dammit.
The chassis in the new Vantage might be a carryover, but it gets modified with a re-positioned and re-engineered front cross member that improves suspension stiffness. The car also receives new adaptive dampers that adjust via drive modes. The fat, high-performance rubber takes the form of specially “AML”-coded 275/35 front and 325/20 rear Michelin Pilot Sport S 5 tires on those big 21-inch wheels. Turning those wheels and tires is a new electric power steering system that includes a new steering column that improves feedback. Scrubbing speed is enhanced by improved brake feel thanks to revisions to the brake booster. Buyers can save weight and further improve braking by replacing the cast-iron brakes with carbon ceramic versions that drop 52.5 pounds. No word on how much that option costs, but it’s probably a little bit north of the 2023 Vantage carbon ceramic brake price of $11,100. Oof.
The New Interior
The current Vantage cabin is kind of a mish mash of styles, and it’s far too thick and blocky for a sinewy, high-priced steed. All of that changes with the Vantage’s re-worked interior. Like the front fascia, the new digs look a lot more like the DB12’s. HVAC vents are thinner, the dash is linear, and the new waterfall center console is a work of art. That console houses a new in-house infotainment system on a 10.25-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. That screen is paired with a new digital instrument cluster that peeks out from behind the new DB12-esque steering wheel.
Our favorite aspect of the new interior is the ample switchgear controls on the carbon fiber center console. We laud Aston Martin for not relegating everything to the touchscreen. The Vantage comes with a standard 11-speaker audio system, but you can upgrade to an even more powerful 15-speaker system from Bowers & Wilkins. As good as that probably sounds, we’d rather listen to the growl of that twin-turbo V8.
As you probably guessed, there is no 2024 Aston Martin Vantage, but buyers who can’t wait for the refreshed Vantage can still buy a new 2023 model. The new 2025 will begin production in the first quarter of this year with deliveries starting in Q2. Pricing has not yet been disclosed, but as we mentioned before, it could be $50k more than the last one. In the meantime, you can read more about the new Vantage on the Aston Martin site and also check out the tasty video below.