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Both Aston Martin and Lucid Motors are pretty niched, so perhaps it's best if we all jog our memory with the most recent dealing across the automotive world that, surprisingly, involves a new partnership between them for a bright and luxurious EV future.
Aston Martin, an exotic British automaker rocking some cool, traditional designs and Mercedes-AMG powerplants, recently introduced at the Cannes Film Festival the DB12 high-performance grand tourer set to replace the DB11 solely with 4.0-liter M177 bi-turbo V8 AMG power under the hood. It's a genuinely nice GT that could act as a last hurrah for the outstanding DB series. The reason we fear it might be the last of its ICE-powered kind is simple.
Just last month, Aston Martin entered into yet another agreement – this time with America's Lucid Motors to help it achieve the dream of turning fully electric around 2030. So, the British and American companies have agreed to build Aston's future battery-electric architecture, and Lucid has been made a shareholder, just like Mercedes. In return for the cutting-edge technology for its electric cars, Aston Martin will seemingly provide Lucid with the exotic know-how needed to achieve the adequate luxury it always said it would offer to trump Tesla's premium ethos.
With the new DB12 still rocking ICE power – albeit in downsized but feisty 671-hp form – and the Lucid-Aston partnership ready to put the pedal to the metal on British high-end EVs, it's clear that there might not be enough space for a high-performance Aston Martin GT that could easily brawl with the likes of Ferrari's SF90 XX Stradale or the all-new Lamborghini Revuelto plug-in hybrid supercars. Well, that's pretty obvious in the real world, right? But cue the imaginative realm of digital car content creators; as always, anything is possible.
For example, the good folks over at the Car Design World channel (aka cardesignworld on social media) recently tipped us off to this Aston Martin GT collaboration between two independent artists - Odilon Loiez (aka 'odi') and Esa Mustonen ('esamust' on social media). With previous experience as the digital sculptor team leader and as a designer at Sweden's Koenigsegg, it's adamantly clear why fans of car design in general and Aston Martin GTs, in particular, found this virtual project a "brilliant" idea – and some even ventured to say it's "better than most things (the company) has put out in years, and immediately recognizable" as an Aston Martin.
With this concept being merely wishful thinking, very few questions could get answers – from what powers this beautiful GT to warrant that humongous rear air extractor and stacked dual exhaust to what's inside the cabin below the entire see-through 'canopy-style' bubble cockpit. Alas, we can only imagine it roaring with a massive V12 to show the SF90 XX and Revuelto that there is still no replacement for displacement – and maybe a couple of turbos, too!
Just last month, Aston Martin entered into yet another agreement – this time with America's Lucid Motors to help it achieve the dream of turning fully electric around 2030. So, the British and American companies have agreed to build Aston's future battery-electric architecture, and Lucid has been made a shareholder, just like Mercedes. In return for the cutting-edge technology for its electric cars, Aston Martin will seemingly provide Lucid with the exotic know-how needed to achieve the adequate luxury it always said it would offer to trump Tesla's premium ethos.
With the new DB12 still rocking ICE power – albeit in downsized but feisty 671-hp form – and the Lucid-Aston partnership ready to put the pedal to the metal on British high-end EVs, it's clear that there might not be enough space for a high-performance Aston Martin GT that could easily brawl with the likes of Ferrari's SF90 XX Stradale or the all-new Lamborghini Revuelto plug-in hybrid supercars. Well, that's pretty obvious in the real world, right? But cue the imaginative realm of digital car content creators; as always, anything is possible.
For example, the good folks over at the Car Design World channel (aka cardesignworld on social media) recently tipped us off to this Aston Martin GT collaboration between two independent artists - Odilon Loiez (aka 'odi') and Esa Mustonen ('esamust' on social media). With previous experience as the digital sculptor team leader and as a designer at Sweden's Koenigsegg, it's adamantly clear why fans of car design in general and Aston Martin GTs, in particular, found this virtual project a "brilliant" idea – and some even ventured to say it's "better than most things (the company) has put out in years, and immediately recognizable" as an Aston Martin.
With this concept being merely wishful thinking, very few questions could get answers – from what powers this beautiful GT to warrant that humongous rear air extractor and stacked dual exhaust to what's inside the cabin below the entire see-through 'canopy-style' bubble cockpit. Alas, we can only imagine it roaring with a massive V12 to show the SF90 XX and Revuelto that there is still no replacement for displacement – and maybe a couple of turbos, too!
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