The famous British carmaker has already created quite the package by fitting its biggest 6.0-liter V12 engine into the smallest chassis, but HBH wants the hairs on your back to stand even further on end, so it’s adding a mid-mounted engine configuration and a supercharger to the mix. No exact performance specifications were released but, the addition of the "twin-screw" Lysholm forced induction system to the already potent 520 horsepower V12 will make for a very interesting mix.
The project is still in the early development stages, which could very well end with no client ever putting his name on the purchasing dotted like, but the teaser image looks really cool HBH has the right credentials to turn skeptics into believers.
“Aston Martin has a history and tradition of building fantastic front-engined GT cars. This heritage obliges them to keep the front-engine layout – which is, of course, why the One-77 also has a front-centre layout. However, the idea of a mid-engined Aston was brought to life once before in the 1979 Bulldog. At the time the styling of this car was state of the art – today you see that is has little consistency with Aston’s design heritage. We wanted to create a car that has the Le Mans racing pedigree but at the same time, from a styling viewpoint, is in complete harmony with Aston Martin’s design heritage,” HBH tells Classic Driver, justifying their decision to make something that is not the Aston norm.
Just one example of the car will be built, and the client will retain 50% of the design and production rights, so he will have a say in the matter if the company decides to make a limited production run.
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