Aston Martin’s roofless V12 Speedster confuses me greatly

Earlier in March, Aston Martin unveiled its new V12 Speedster via a series of sketches and renderings.

The most puzzling characteristic was the lack of roof. But, as with many of these prototype reveals most of it was taken with a pinch of salt.

However, the British automaker has just released the first images of the V12 Speedster, which is a bit of a mash-up of a Vantage and the DBS Superleggera. And what’s missing in those images? You guessed it, the roof.

Where’s the roof, Aston Martin? That thing that protects the driver and the passenger from sun, wind, rain, large beetles who just might happen to fly in front you’re your speeding vehicle?

Elsewhere, as its name suggests, you get a V12 engine under the hood which is capable of pushing out 700 horsepower. It has a zero to 100 kph time of just 3.5-seconds.

Oh, and all of that speed will feel much, much faster because – as we have previously confirmed – it has no roof.

Aston Martin is building only 88 of the V12 Speedsters, with each going for US$950,000. Not a single one of them comes with a roof.

In other car news, not many cars have received the same level of fanfare that Tesla’s all-electric Cybertruck has received since its debut in November.

The car is still in production and unavailable, and yet there has never been a longer line of people waiting for the electric truck to arrive.

The good news is that production appears to be going well, and the Cybertruck is on track to be delivered on schedule. The bad news; that schedule won’t see Tesla Cybertrucks on UAE roads until late next year (and perhaps even early 2022).

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