Not so long ago, as electrification started to take hold, enthusiasts may have been more than a little worried about Aston Martin’s V8s and V12s. But while the writing seemed to be on the wall, times changed and internal combustion turned out to have a future after all. And as it transpires, Aston has some significant plans for those heavyweight engines and intends to keep them compliant through 2035. It’ll still embrace electrification, but the company doesn’t believe that its core cars need the weight penalty of those large plug-in hybrid systems.
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