Yahoo Autos Aston Martin Valiant is Fernando Alonso's take on the Valour
Aston Martin seems to have found a niche for itself with super-exclusive supercars. It revealed the Valour last year, a retro-styled, manual-equipped coupe that would only have 110 examples. But some customers wanted an even more special car, more specifically, Aston Martin F1 racer and two-time world champion Fernando Alonso. He wanted his Valour to be lighter and more powerful, and that's what led to the even more exclusive Valiant you see above.
The basics are pretty similar, particularly the chassis and the powertrain, the latter being a twin-turbo 5.2-liter V12 with a six-speed manual transmission and rear-wheel drive. But it makes an extra 30 horsepower for a total of 735, while torque stays put at 555 pound-feet.
The other major performance upgrade for the Valiant is the suspension. It's still adaptive, but now it uses adaptive versions of Multimatic's famed spool-valve shocks.
