VANQUISH THE FUTURE

Aston Martin's 12-Cylinder Middle Finger to Electrification

- SANEET OSILVA

Anniversaries are always special, and a bit like old rock bands, they remind you of the good times, make you wonder where the years went, and if done properly, they deliver an issue loud enough to shake the proverbial walls. Five years of chronicling the machines that quicken pulses and weaken knees. So, what better way to mark this milestone than with a car that defies modern trends? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, while the world is busy turning cars into soulless, electrified appliances, we're here to bask in the glory of a twelve-cylinder, fire-breathing dinosaur. Something truly special.

Typically, an editor’s voice sets the tone for any magazine's cover stories, especially in an issue as significant as this. But, in what can only be described as a spectacular lapse in judgment, our editor has decided to hand the reins to me, a guy in his twenties who prefers speed to sanity and finds the extraordinary far more appealing than the ordinary. And what’s the task? To experience a car that laughs in the face of hybridisation, flips the bird at efficiency, and delivers power and torque in quantities that should come with a government warning. The absolute pinnacle of automotive indulgence. A car that was launched just days ago. The 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish.

Imagine something that produces more than 800 horsepower, gut-wrenching 1,000 Nm of torque. Nota single AA battery in sight. No hybrid gubbins. No “regenerative braking” nonsense. Just a good old-fashioned 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12 mounted upfront, sending all the power to the rear, doing what it was born to do, scare wildlife, rattle windows, and hurl you towards the horizon at speeds that would make a SpaceX engineer sweat.