Aston Martin Updates 2013 Vanquish Photo Gallery and Releases First Driving Film [w/Video]

We got our first taste of the 2013 Vanquish a couple of months ago, both online and in the flesh at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, but Aston Martin has since made available a renewed photo gallery and the first official dynamic footage in a new promotional film.

The DBS-replacing Vanquish adopts the next generation of Aston Martin's VH bonded aluminium monocoque architecture as well as an upgraded 5.9-litre V12 engine generating 565hp (573PS) and 620Nm (457 lb-ft) of torque.

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Top Gear Live Returns to the UK and the Birmingham NEC in October [w/Video]

We won't be able to watch fresh episodes of the Top Gear UK television show until 2013, but British fans will have the opportunity to see presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May along with The Stig in the flesh at the next Top Gear Live taking place at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC) from 25-28 October, 2012.

The UK event is a follow up to this past June's Top Gear Live show in Durban, South Africa, where a stunt team successfully completed the world's first ever "double loop-the-loop".

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Edmunds gets Chauffeured in the New Aston Martin Vanquish

After giving EVO magazine a ride in the new Vanquish in the frozen north of Sweden, Aston Martin engineers invited Edmunds Insideline to take a seat on the passenger side of a pre-production model at Spain's Sierra Nevada, which is Europe's version of the Death Valley in California. Read more »

EVO Goes for a Ride in an Aston Martin Vanquish on a Frozen Lake in Sweden

Back in March, several months ahead of the official unveiling of the new Vanquish Coupe, Aston Martin invited British car magazine EVO to take a seat in one of the pre-production prototypes of the V12-powered sports car in northern Sweden.

The trip including a ride at a continental testing facility, which as we learn, is carved on the surface of a frozen lake every winter. The video that follows below the break, gives us an insight on how Aston Martin engineers performed the development work on the new Vanquish.

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New Aston Martin Vanquish and V12 Vantage Roadster Thrashed Around the Nürburgring

Evidently, Aston Martin has not quite yet finished tweaking the new Vanquish Coupe, even though the company has officially presented the car.

A camouflage-free, pre-production model together with a lightly disguised prototype of the Vanquish were filmed racing around the Nürburgring Nordschleife this week.

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