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Aston Martin revealed the Valen at Monterey on 14 August 2026: a 5.2-litre twin-turbocharged V12 rated at 850 PS and 1,000 Nm, a carbon-fibre body, an edition of 150, and deliveries beginning in the second quarter of 2027. It has not published a price. On the evidence of what its own cars ask today, we estimate €1.6 million, and the rest of this article shows the working.
The Aston Martin Valen in detail
What Aston Martin published
The engine is the familiar 5.2-litre twin-turbocharged V12, all-alloy, quad overhead cam, 48 valves, here rated at 850 PS with 1,000 Nm available from 2,500 rpm. Drive goes through a ZF eight-speed automatic with a calibration specific to this car. Top speed is limited to 345 km/h.
The body is carbon fibre throughout, and Aston Martin credits it and the other motorsport-derived materials with up to 110 kg saved against its core V12 platform. The wheels are 21-inch forged magnesium, the brakes carbon ceramic with six-piston front and four-piston rear calipers.
The dimensions are given: 4,830 mm long, 4,870 mm in federal specification, 1,290 mm tall, a 2,885 mm wheelbase, and a 170-litre boot. The cars will be hand-built by Q, Aston Martin's personalisation division, in an edition of 150 worldwide, with deliveries starting in the second quarter of 2027.
The claim in the headline, and how to read it
Aston Martin presented the Valen as the most powerful front-engined car it has built, and its own announcement goes further, describing it as the most powerful front-engined V12 supercar in the company's 113-year history. That second formulation is the one that holds: it is bounded by the marque and by the engine layout, and it is verifiable against Aston Martin's own catalogue.
The broader claim, that no front-engined car anywhere makes more, is a claim about the whole industry, and it is the kind that ages badly. We report it as Aston Martin's wording rather than as a fact of our own, and we would say the same of any manufacturer using a superlative in a launch.
A carbon body on a platform that was not carbon
The 110 kg figure deserves a second look, because of what it is measured against. Aston Martin does not say the Valen weighs 110 kg less than a rival; it says up to 110 kg is saved against its own core V12 platform, the one that underpins the Vanquish.
That is an honest way to state it and a limited one. A saving against your own starting point tells a buyer what the carbon and the magnesium bought, and nothing about where the car ends up on a weighbridge. Which is the number Aston Martin has marked as still to be confirmed.
The two figures that are confirmed are the ones a buyer of a car like this actually lives with: 1,000 Nm from 2,500 rpm, and a 170-litre boot. A front-engined V12 with a boot is a different proposition from a mid-engined car with a bag shelf, and it is the reason this class of Aston Martin exists at all.
What Aston Martin's V12 specials cost today
Aston Martin has not announced a price for the Valen. The cars it will sit between are all on the market on 28 August 2026, and LUSSO lists 105 Aston Martin in total, 89 of them with a published price.
At the top sits the Valkyrie: two in stock, one of them a 2023 car with 390 kilometres in Italy at 3,580,000 euros, the other on application in the United Kingdom. Below it the Valour, the manual V12 limited to 110 cars: four in stock, one priced at 1,754,975 euros in the United Kingdom with 402 kilometres, the other three on application. Then three Valhalla, all 2026 cars, between 1,297,076 and 1,356,034 euros.
The series V12s are an order of magnitude below. Five Vanquish, three of them priced, at 339,238 euros in the United Kingdom and twice at 420,000 euros in Italy. Two DBS 770 Ultimate of 2023 in Germany, at 302,437 euros for the Volante and 329,900 for the coupé. Two V12 Vantage of 2023, also in Germany, at 252,000 and 259,500 euros.
What 150 cars means next to 110 and 499
Aston Martin has run this kind of edition several times recently, and the numbers are not interchangeable. The Valour was 110 cars. The DBS 770 Ultimate was 499. The Valen is 150.
The market has already priced that difference. On LUSSO today the two priced DBS 770 Ultimate of 2023 ask 302,437 and 329,900 euros in Germany, which is Vanquish territory. The single priced Valour asks 1,754,975 euros. Both are recent, both are limited, both are V12, and the gap between them is a factor of five.
Volume is only part of that, and the rest is what the car is. The Valour has a manual gearbox and a body of its own; the 770 Ultimate is a send-off for an existing model. The Valen has a body of its own and an automatic, which places it between the two on the only axis that has ever really mattered here.
Where €1.6 million puts the Valen
Read that list in order and the shape of Aston Martin's range appears. A series V12 trades between roughly 250,000 and 420,000 euros. The limited V12s start at 1.30 million with the Valhalla and run to 1.75 million for the Valour. Between 420,000 and 1.30 million there is nothing at all.
An estimate of 1.6 million euros places the Valen inside the limited group rather than above the series cars: clear of the three Valhalla at 1.30 to 1.36 million, and just below the Valour at 1.75 million. That ordering is the argument, and it is the one the specification supports.
Why below the Valour and not above it: the Valour was 110 cars against 150, and it has a manual gearbox, which on this marque is the rarer commodity. Why above the Valhalla: the Valen has a body of its own and a full carbon structure, where the Valhalla is a series car of a different kind. Move either of those judgements and the estimate moves with it.
How much does the Aston Martin Valen cost?
Aston Martin has not published a price. Neither the model page nor the announcement carries one, and nothing has been released since.
Our estimate is 1.6 million euros before taxes and options. To be explicit about what that is: an estimate by LUSSO, not a figure from Gaydon. It is built on the two reference points above, the Valhalla at 1.30 to 1.36 million and the Valour at 1.75 million, both asking prices on our own listings on 28 August 2026.
Two things could move it. All 150 cars are hand-built by Q, and Q work is why two Vanquish in Italy ask 420,000 euros while one in the United Kingdom asks 339,238: on this marque, specification moves the number more than mileage does, so a heavily specified Valen will not stop at any list price. And the weight and the 0 to 100 time are still marked to be confirmed. When those two figures are published, they will do more to settle where the Valen belongs than any superlative in the announcement, and we will update this estimate rather than defend it.