The Aston Martin stand was among the busiest during the press days at the Geneva auto show, with a level of buzz and bustle out of proportion to the company?s still modest global sales. As well as launching its new AMR high-performance sub-brand, the British luxury maker formally named the Valkyrie hypercar and showed off the very blue DB11 Q concept, built to demonstrate the anything-goes capabilities of its bespoke ordering division.
In short, there was plentiful evidence of the product-led renaissance on which the brand is embarking, as well as how far it has come since a previous  Geneva show when the firm?as one company executive put it??didn?t have anything new, so we just had four Vantage N400s in different colors.? Yet things are set to get even busier over the next few years. With that in mind, we?ve compiled a list of what we are expecting to happen over the next few years, based on our collected knowledge and conversations with senior Aston managers, including CEO Andy Palmer. It isn’t exhaustive?the company loves to pull surprises?but it gives a good impression of the deluge of Aston product we can expect.
2017: Beyond the Vantage AMR Pro and Rapide AMR models that were shown at Geneva, there will be a final-hurrah AMR version of the outgoing Vantage, which we?ve been told will come in both V-8 and V-12 flavors. The company also will be launching the gorgeous ?continuation? DB4 GT, and we?ve heard rumors that we?ll be seeing a V-8?powered version of ...