When the Turks Design a Car: Aston Martin Gauntlet

Turkey, one of Europe's most productive automotive industries, is not particularly known as being the country of origin for many cars-to-remember. This, however, doesn't mean Turkey doesn't have people capable of designing interesting concepts. Take Ugur Sahin, for instance, and his Aston Martin Gauntlet concept.

Not all that different from your everyday Astn Martin, the Gauntlet is meant to be a modern interpretation of the existing styling found in current Aston Martins.

"The main goal of the Aston Martin Gauntlet Concept was to design a car which is technically almost identical to the existing production Aston Martins while defining a design character that outmost respects the impressive history of the brand," Sahin says about his design.

The Gauntlet features round and clean surfaces, with elements inspired from the Aston Martin DB3S. The double exhausts, together with the honey comb structure above the diffuser give the car the feel of a modern Aston Martin.

"The name "Gauntlet" refers to the way lines and surfaces overlap or complement each other, not literally but rather emotionally. This visually suggests the feel of wearing a protective armor which its full power and potential is in control of the driver," Sahin adds.

There's no word on what Sahin envisions to be used under the hood of the Gauntlet. Perhaps he leaves this task to the official Aston Martin engineer because, to be honest, we could see the Gauntlet as turning production version.

Unlike the Lamborghini Minotauro we presented earlier and which, truth be told, is quite a departure from the Lamborghini design language.