Aston Martin · 1969–1989
Aston Martin V8
The Aston Martin V8 is a grand tourer manufactured by Aston Martin in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1989. As with all traditional Aston Martins, it was entirely handbuilt, each car requiring 1,200 man-hours to finish. Aston Martin were looking to replace the DB6 model and had designed a larger, more modern looking car. The engine was not ready, however, so in 1967 the company released the DBS with the straight-six Vantage engine from the DB6. Two years later, Tadek Marek's V8 was ready, and Aston released the DBS V8. With the demise of the straight-six Vantage in 1973, the DBS V8, now restyled and called simply the Aston Martin V8, became the company's mainstream car for nearly two decades. It was eventually retired in favour of the Virage in 1989.
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UK vehicles on the road
384 licensed and 188 SORN (572 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 486 |
| 2015 | 503 |
| 2016 | 513 |
| 2017 | 514 |
| 2018 | 526 |
| 2019 | 536 |
| 2020 | 544 |
| 2021 | 546 |
| 2022 | 554 |
| 2023 | 553 |
| 2024 | 556 |
| 2025 | 572 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q510849CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_V8CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1377108732 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.