Aston Martin has unveiled its new hypercar - codenamed AM-RB 001 - designed in conjunction with Adrian Newey and Red Bull.
A partnership between Red Bull and the iconic car brand was announced in March of this year ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, with Newey working alongside Aston Martin chief creative officer Marek Reichman. The car's design was unveiled at the Aston Martin headquarters in Gaydon, UK, with Newey and Red Bull team principal Christian Horner in attendance.
"It's a road car," Aston Martin's Andy Palmer said. "It's going to be homologated as a small series road car but of course it's also at home on the track. But fundamentally it's a very, very quick road car."
Newey says the development of the car - which started as an evening and weekend "hobby" over a year ago - has seen him include principles gained from F1 and past Red Bull projects.
"It's been an evolution of ideas I've had over the years which I've sort of thrown in a box over the years and I got some of them out," Newey said. "Some of them are mutually exclusive and some of them feel like rubbish! Then I go from there. In some ways it's a bit of an evolution. If you look at the F1 car morphing into the PlayStation X1 car and then into this there is a similarity.
"This in some ways is actually a covered X1 - the PlayStation car - and it's stringing some of those principles together."
Set to be powered by a naturally aspirated V12 engine delivering around 1000bhp, the car is set to carry a price tag of between £2million and £3million, with road testing expected to start at the end of next year and first delivery planned for 2019.
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