Aston Martin's Vanquish 25 Marks 25 Years With Just 50 V12 Cars

Aston Martin is marking the 25th anniversary of its Vanquish nameplate with the Vanquish 25, a 50-car special edition built by the company's bespoke Q division. The car keeps the current model's 5.2-liter twin-turbo V12 untouched, wraps it in anniversary-specific trim, and arrives with a pricing picture that two outlets currently describe very differently.

Twenty-Five Years From a Geneva Show Stand to Monterey Car Week

The original Vanquish debuted at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show, an Ian Callum design that succeeded the Virage and went on to become the first Aston Martin driven by James Bond after his brief run in BMWs during the 1990s films. The current, third-generation Vanquish entered production in 2024 and is described by Aston Martin as the most powerful series-production car in the company's 113-year history. The Vanquish 25 builds on that generation rather than replacing it, and will make its public debut at Monterey Car Week in California before reaching the first customers.

An 835-HP V12 That Aston Martin Isn't Retiring Yet

Mechanically, the Vanquish 25 is unchanged from the standard third-generation car. Aston Martin's own release lists the 5.2-liter twin-turbo V12 at 835 hp and 738 lb-ft of torque, with a 0-60 mph time of 3.2 seconds, a 0-62 mph time of 3.3 seconds, and a 214 mph top speed — identical for both the Coupe and the Volante. A handful of outlets covering the same reveal, including Autoblog and Gear Patrol, cite 823 hp instead, likely a rounding or PS-to-hp conversion difference rather than a substantive spec dispute. The V12 itself is notable mainly for what it represents: as the rest of Aston Martin's lineup moves toward hybrid and electrified powertrains, the Vanquish remains one of the brand's few series-production cars still built around a naturally sequenced, twin-turbo twelve-cylinder engine.

Fifty Cars, Split Evenly Between Coupe and Volante

Production is capped at exactly 50 examples worldwide — 25 Coupes and 25 Volante convertibles — with buyers able to specify either a 2+0 two-seat layout or 2+2 seating. Per an Aston Martin spokesperson quoted by CarBuzz, the 50 units will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis according to regional sales allocation, which for a run this small effectively means most territories will see only a handful of cars, if any.

Reported U.S. Pricing Diverges by Over $150,000

Aston Martin has not published official pricing for the Vanquish 25. Two figures are currently circulating, and they don't describe the same car. Gear Patrol reports $433,000 for the coupe and $468,000 for the Volante — numbers that closely track previously reported pricing for the standard, non-anniversary Vanquish coupe and Volante, which suggests the outlet may be citing base-model pricing rather than a confirmed Vanquish 25 figure. CarBuzz, by contrast, attributes specific U.S. pricing directly to an Aston Martin spokesperson: $596,300 for the coupe and $634,700 for the Volante, figures also cited by HiConsumption. Until Aston Martin confirms official U.S. pricing, the CarBuzz/HiConsumption figures — sourced to a named company spokesperson rather than inferred from base-model pricing — are the better-supported estimate of what a Vanquish 25 will actually cost.

Whichever figure holds up, the math points the same direction: a Vanquish 25 will cost meaningfully more than the standard-production car it's built from, for a run small enough that most interested buyers won't get the chance to place an order at all.