Aston Martin DBR22 Concept with V12 engine and no roof
Are you incredibly rich? and a student of Aston Martin racing history? Aston has you covered, DBR22. It’s a concept car for now, but it shows an extremely limited-edition production machine that will soon be rolling out from Aston’s aptly named Q custom division. And it takes the form of some of the most legendary and beautiful racing machines in Aston’s past.
The DBR22 is a modern version of the DB3s, a 1953 race car penned by Frank Feeley, with hints from DBR1, the sports car raced by Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori won the 1959 Le Mans and won the World Sportscar Championship that same year. DBR1 is a classic machine you see in the images provided by Aston Martin.
The new Aston is powered by the familiar 5.2-liter twin-turbo V12 – you guessed it – V12 Vantagehere to feed 705 hp and 555 lb-ft of torque with an eight-speed automatic transmission. Aston says the DBR22 is capable of 0-60 acceleration in 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 198 mph.
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Aston says the DBR22 concept’s bodywork was crafted from as few panels as possible, minimizing cut lines. The result is an evocative design that does an impressive job of modernizing the classic lines of the early race cars.
Like so many rich-guy limited-run supercars, the DBR22 has no windshield or roof. This is meant to convey the wind-in-your-face minimalism of mid-century sports racers, but frankly, it probably just means this thing won’t get driven very often.
And yes, there will be a production model. Aston says this concept car forms “the basis of a production-reality example for an ultra–exclusive number of Q by Aston Martin customers.” Those well-heeled customers will get to see the DBR22 concept for themselves at Monterey Car Week this weekend. The rest of us will simply have to look at these photos.