For my final birthday, I obtained a voucher for a surf lesson off Lengthy Island. I’m but to money it in, however I’m certain it’ll be nice enjoyable once I do. However should you’re a carmaker, and never a automobile journalist, your birthday presents come a bit larger than a surf voucher. In reality, should you’re a 110-year-old automobile maker known as Aston Martin, your birthday presents are fairly particular certainly.

To mark its one hundred and tenth journey across the solar, British marque Aston Martin has thrown the covers off an all-new, restricted version monster it calls the Valour. The corporate will construct simply 110 examples of the brand new automobile, and it seems like fairly a beast.

At its beating coronary heart, the Valour is powered by a 5.2 liter, twin-turbo V12 engine that kicks out an eye-watering 715 hp. As a substitute of pairing this with a classy computerized transmission, Aston Martin has harked again to the great outdated days and given this a bespoke six-speed handbook transmission with one of the crucial satisfying-looking shifters on the market.

To assist get all that energy onto the street, the Valour is provided with a mechanical limited-slip differential, in addition to digital traction and stability management programs. And, when it’s worthwhile to come to a cease, the brand new automobile is fitted with carbon ceramic brakes within the type of 16-inch discs up entrance and 14-inch rotors on the rear.

However there’s extra to this automobile than outright efficiency. As such, Aston has given the Valour a glance that it says evokes the styling of the V8 Vantage from the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties — by the way, my favourite Aston Martin.

As such, the Valour has a extra angular look than the brand new DB12, particularly across the entrance finish, which is dominated by an elongated grille, retro spherical headlights and an eyebrow-like grille that Aston says offers the automobile a “menacing” look. Up entrance, there’s additionally a swooping hood that covers that V12 and comes with a horseshoe-shaped vent and twin intakes to maintain the motor cool.

On the rear of the automobile, there’s a lighting array that appears proper off the Aston Martin Valkyrie and a sophisticated aluminum accent that runs the width of the automobile. Again right here, you’ll additionally spy a large diffuser to assist with downforce, and a triple tailpipe exhaust system pumps that V12 engine observe out to the lots.

The rear finish additionally includes a lip-style spoiler, which is harking back to the Victor from the mid 2010s and the flick discovered behind vehicles just like the DB6. On the entire, this automobile appears slick.

Aston Martin says that manufacturing of the Valour manufacturing is because of start later this yr, with deliveries anticipated to start earlier than the top of 2023. There’s no phrase but on value, but when you need to ask that query you already can’t afford one.