Aston Martin Valour - 1:24

A manual gearbox and a V12, built in open defiance of the era.

The Valour landed in 2023 for Aston Martin's 110th birthday, just 110 of them, a deliberate throwback wrapped around a twin-turbo V12 and a six-speed manual when almost no one builds either any more. Its muscular, retro-brutal bodywork nods hard to the V8 road cars of the seventies, heritage worn with intent rather than nostalgia. A purist's car, made for the people who still want to do the work themselves.

Behind it sits a field of black stone, cut and unpolished, the texture of something hewn rather than styled. The right ground for a car built like a monument to the analogue.

Three pedals, twelve cylinders, no apologies.