680 horsepower. 800 Nm. A handcrafted cabin that smells of leather and ambition. The most focused Vantage ever built has arrived in Singapore, and it costs $880,000 before COE. The queue starts here.
Co-written by Malcolm Yeo and Nick T.
There Is A Silver Aston Martin In Singapore And It Is Currently Making People Stop And Stare.
There is a car sitting at Aston Martin Singapore right now. It is finished in Magnetic Silver. It has an Onyx Black interior. It weighs approximately 1,595 kilograms and produces 680 horsepower from a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine positioned ahead of the front axle. It will reach 100 km/h from rest in 3.4 seconds and will not stop accelerating until it hits 325 km/h.
It is available for viewing and test drives. You may go and look at it. You may even sit in it.
Do not, under any circumstances, go and sit in it unless you are prepared to immediately order one. Because you will. And then you will have to explain to someone why you have just committed S$880,000 — before COE, before options, to a British sports car that you technically did not need. Good luck with that conversation.
Gaydon Has Been Making ‘S’ Models Since 1953. They Know Exactly What They Are Doing.
The Vantage S is not a new idea. Aston Martin has been suffixing the letter S to its finest performance models since 1953, when the DB3S terrorised the competition at Le Mans and various other circuits where sensible people worried about their own mortality. The DB4 S. The DB5 Vantage S. The V8 Vantage S. A lineage stretching back over seven decades of making already-exceptional cars pointedly, specifically, unapologetically better.
The formula has always been the same: take something brilliant, recalibrate everything, sharpen every edge, and charge a little more for the privilege. It has worked every single time. The 2026 Vantage S sees no reason to stop now.
Ian Grant, General Manager of Aston Martin Singapore, put it with the measured understatement that only the British can properly manage: “Vantage has always represented the purest expression of Aston Martin’s sporting DNA. The arrival of Vantage S further elevates that formula.” Translation: it was already very good, and now it is considerably better, and if you know, you know.
680 Horsepower, 800 Nm, And A V8 That Sounds Like The Devil Gargling Gravel.
The engine. Let us start with the engine, because the engine is why you are reading this.
A 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8, shared in broad architectural terms with a certain German manufacturer from Stuttgart, though Aston Martin’s engineers will correctly point out that what they have done to it bears precious little resemblance to what it started as. In the Vantage S, it produces 680 PS and 800 Nm of torque. To put those numbers in perspective: that is more power than a Lamborghini Huracán, produced by an engine half the size, in a car that can also, in theory, be used to collect dry cleaning.
Zero to 100 km/h in 3.4 seconds. Top speed of 325 km/h. These are not numbers that require qualification or context. These are simply numbers that make you want to cancel the rest of your afternoon and go and do something irresponsible on an empty road somewhere north of Woodlands.
Reviewers who have driven it in anger describe it as possessing a “grinning swagger”, a car that invites you to carry more speed into corners, get on the power earlier, and handle the consequences with the rear axle squirming in a manner that is alarming and deeply enjoyable simultaneously. It is, in the words of one particularly eloquent American journalist, a scoundrel in an Armani suit. Which is, if we are being honest, precisely what you want from an Aston Martin.
They Recalibrated The Throttle Pedal. The Throttle Pedal. These People Are Not Sane.
Here is what separates Aston Martin’s engineers from the merely competent: they have recalibrated the weight and response of the throttle pedal individually for each drive mode.
Not the engine mapping. Not the gearbox ratios. The pedal itself. The thing your right foot presses. In Sport mode it feels different from GT mode. In Sport+ it feels different again. Every time your foot makes contact with that pedal, it is communicating something specific about the car’s intent and your relationship with the road beneath you. This is the level of obsessive, slightly unhinged attention to detail that justifies the price of admission at Gaydon. Other manufacturers tune the engine. Aston Martin tunes the conversation between your foot and the machine.
The steering has been recalibrated. The suspension has been comprehensively revised, delivering what those who have driven it describe as significantly sharper body control with far more neutral handling balance, easier to guide the rear into smaller, more precise slides rather than the more dramatic oversteer of the standard car. It feels, reviewers note, physically smaller on the road than before, which in a 4.46 metre sports car is a remarkable thing to achieve. The chassis enhancements are not marginal. They are, in the most important sense, transformative.
The Bonnet Blades Are New. They Serve A Purpose. They Also Look Absolutely Menacing.
Visually, Aston Martin has been characteristically restrained with the Vantage S identity. Dramatic new bonnet blades. A rear lip spoiler. Discreet S badging, because people who know will see it, and people who do not know are not the intended audience. Refined aerodynamic enhancements throughout serve functional purposes while simultaneously looking as though the car has been quietly sharpening its knives when nobody was watching.
The one currently sitting at Aston Martin Singapore in Magnetic Silver on Onyx Black, is precisely the right colour combination. Silver on a car with this much presence and aggression does something interesting. It makes it look expensive rather than merely fast. Anyone can make a sports car look fast. Aston Martin makes them look inevitable.
Inside: Alcantara, Leather, Knurled Dials, And The Finest Cabin In The Class. Probably.
Step inside and you are immediately in no doubt that this car was put together by human hands, not robots. The S-specific interior introduces a combination of Alcantara and leather with a stitched S logo on the seatbacks that manages to feel celebratory rather than crass, a distinction that requires considerable skill to pull off. The drive mode rotary control is available in red or silver anodised finish, colour-matchable to your seatbelts, contrast stitching, and headrest embroidery.
The cabin has been comprehensively overhauled from the previous generation with a different dashboard layout, steering wheel, centre console, switchgear, and seat design. The result is a space that reviewers have described as feeling substantial and beautifully crafted, every surface you touch meeting your hand with weight and texture and the unmistakable sense that considerable thought went into its existence. The 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster and matching touchscreen sit alongside knurled roller dials and physical controls with genuinely satisfying metallic heft.
It is not the most technologically baroque interior in the segment. It is, however, the most characterful. And in a sports car, character is worth considerably more than features.
S$880,000 Before COE. And Every Single One Will Find A Home.
The Aston Martin Vantage S is available for order in Singapore from S$880,000, before COE and options. Factory orders are open now, with estimated deliveries from Q4 2026.
In most countries, S$880,000 buys you a very large house, or several smaller ones, or a reasonably impressive yacht. In Singapore, it buys you a sports car, before you have added the Certificate of Entitlement, which will bring the total to a number requiring either generational wealth or a particularly productive career in finance. Or both.
And yet. Every single one will sell. Because the Vantage S is not competing with houses or yachts or sensible investments. It is competing with the Ferrari 296, the Lamborghini Huracán, the Porsche 911 Turbo S, cars that are objectively excellent and somehow, inexplicably, considerably less interesting to look at on a Singapore street at 9pm on a Friday night. The Aston Martin wins that particular competition without even trying.
One car is currently available for viewing and test drives at Aston Martin Singapore. One. There is something almost deliberately provocative about that. One silver car, sitting there, waiting for someone to come and fall completely and irreversibly in love with it.
Britain Still Makes The Most Desirable Sports Cars On Earth. The Vantage S Is Exhibit A.
There is a school of thought, popular among the numerically inclined, that the Vantage S represents poor value. That for S$880,000 you could have a faster car, or a more technologically advanced one, or one with a longer range, or one with more boot space, or one that makes more rational sense in approximately every measurable dimension.
This school of thought is correct. And it is entirely, gloriously, magnificently missing the point.
The Aston Martin Vantage S exists not to be the fastest car in a straight line, or the most efficient, or the most practical. It exists to be the car that makes you feel something specific every time you press the start button and hear that V8 clear its throat with the kind of theatrical menace that no electric motor will ever replicate. It exists to be the car that turns every drive into an event and every car park into a gallery. It exists because some things in life are not about the numbers, and the British, when they are at their absolute best, understand this better than anyone.
The Vantage S is Aston Martin at its absolute best. It has been since 1953. It remains so now. Long may it continue.
ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE S — PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS
| SPECIFICATION | ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE S |
| Engine | 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 |
| Power Output | 680 PS (671 HP) |
| Torque | 800 Nm |
| 0–100 km/h | 3.4 seconds |
| Top Speed | 325 km/h |
| Transmission | 8-speed automatic |
| Drivetrain | Rear-wheel drive |
| Differential | Electronic rear differential |
| Chassis Enhancements | Recalibrated steering, suspension & throttle mapping; model-specific chassis upgrades |
| Suspension | Comprehensively revised, sharper body control, more neutral balance |
| Exterior Distinctions | Bonnet blades, rear lip spoiler, discreet ‘S’ badging, aero refinements |
| Interior | Alcantara & leather, stitched S logo seats, knurled rotary drive mode selector |
| Drive Mode Selector | Red or silver anodised finish (colour-matchable) |
| Infotainment | 10.25″ digital cluster + 10.25″ touchscreen, Apple CarPlay Ultra |
| S Lineage | DB3S (1953), DB4 S, DB5 Vantage S, V8 Vantage S |
| Singapore Price | From S$880,000 (excl. COE and options) |
| Available Now | 1 unit Magnetic Silver / Onyx Black (viewing & test drives) |
| Factory Order Deliveries | From Q4 2026 |
Source: Aston Martin Singapore press release, 30 July 2026. Price excludes COE and options. Subject to change.
