---
title: "Aston Martin Teases The New Vantage With Taillight Peep Show"
description: "The next-gen AM Vantage will be fully revealed on Nov. 21."
date: "2017-10-28"
modified: "2017-10-28"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Tsui"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-tsui"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/15563/aston-martin-teases-the-new-vantage-with-taillight-peep-show"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Aston Martin"
  - "British cars"
  - "Coupe"
  - "luxury"
  - "sports car"
  - "sports cars"
  - "Vantage"
---

# Aston Martin Teases The New Vantage With Taillight Peep Show

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Ahead of its official London unveil scheduled for Nov. 21, Aston Martin has released a teaser of the new Vantage. While poorly lit shots of cars under silk sheets usually don't reveal very much, luckily for us, somebody left this Aston's lights on—giving us a look at the next-generation Vantage's taillight signature.

As seen in the [Bugatti Chiron](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/13651/2018-bugatti-chiron-review-the-next-stage-in-automotive-rocketry>), various recent [Porsche](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/13905/2019-porsche-cayenne-revealed-packing-plenty-of-change-beneath-the-skin>) products, the [new Audi A7](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/15296/audi-unveils-the-muscular-new-2019-a7>), and even [Lexus concepts,](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/15482/lexus-ls-concept-previews-the-brands-autonomous-future-achieves-peak-predator-grille>) the new Vantage will apparently sport a single, horizontal bar taillight treatment. The design perfectly corroborates with and confirms [the patents discovered back in June](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/12038/do-these-patent-drawings-show-the-new-aston-martin-vantage>), right down to the gaps in the light where the trunk meets with the rest of the body.

The new Vantage is expected to get the same Mercedes-AMG V8 recently made available in the firm's [DB11 grand tourer](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/14276/2018-aston-martin-db11-v-8-review-german-power-british-speed>). With two turbos and four liters of displacement, it produces 503 horsepower and 513 lb-ft of torque in the DB11 application.

While primarily seen as a Porsche 911-fighter (what sports car isn't these days?), we're more intrigued by how the Vantage compares to the [Mercedes-AMG GT](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/12896/2018-mercedes-amg-gt-r-review-drivers-prepare-to-laugh-hysterically>). With a similar, if not nearly identical, engine and the same front-engine-rear-drive layout, it'll be interesting to see how Aston's chassis and suspension tuning dynamically sets the new Vantage apart from its distant, Affalterbach step-cousin.

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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