355 mm discs with four-piston calipers per Aston Martin's factory spec; sources don't separately break out a rear figure.
The V12 Vanquish was Aston Martin's flagship grand tourer for 2001-2007, hand-built at the historic Newport Pagnell works and replacing the Virage in the lineup. It grew directly out of the "Project Vantage" concept car shown at the January 1998 Detroit auto show, and Ian Callum's production styling drew on the DB4 GT Zagato for a more aggressive look than his earlier DB7. Its chassis, a bonded aluminum composite structure with a carbon-fiber backbone, was developed with Lotus and set the engineering template Aston Martin carried into the DB9, V8 Vantage, and the wider VH platform that followed.
Power comes from a naturally aspirated 5.9-liter V12 paired exclusively with Aston Martin's Auto Shift Manual (ASM), a single-clutch, electro-hydraulic automated manual with paddle shifters and no clutch pedal, working through a Tremec-based six-speed transaxle. A conventional manual with a clutch pedal was never a factory option, though Aston Martin Works later offered a rare stick-shift conversion. This entry covers the base Vanquish; the higher-output Vanquish S, introduced in 2004, is a separate model.
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No. It's a single-clutch, electro-hydraulic automated manual -- Aston Martin's own name for it is Auto Shift Manual (ASM) -- operating on the same principle as period Ferrari and Maserati F1-style gearboxes, not a modern dual-clutch (DCT). There's no second clutch to fall back on if the actuator unit fails.
Only via a rare aftermarket conversion. Aston Martin Works offered a factory-backed retrofit to a Tremec six-speed manual with a clutch pedal starting in August 2006, fitted to roughly 100 cars at around £20,000 each -- it was never a factory-ordered option on a new car.
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