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Valuation · Aston Martin · VH · 2009-13

Aston Martin Vantage V12

5.9L NA V12 · 380 kW / 570 Nm · 6sp manual · RWD
CONSIDERRated within the over $100k band · 72 of 104 at this money
Research estimate
$290,000
Must gain each year to break even
+6.7%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
58/100
Scored against the over $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Researched
No Australian transaction of any kind
$290,000
$175,523 lowhigh $493,021
Researched, no recorded transaction
No Australian sale and no Australian listing - not a single V12 Vantage was for sale on either major local site in August 2026. The value is anchored to contemporary V8 Vantage asking prices and the multiple between the two cars.
Measured across this library, a value with no Australian result behind it runs high about seven times in ten, by a median of ten per cent. Read this one as a ceiling rather than a midpoint.

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Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.

Should make, typical example
$290,000
At about 45,000 km. Enter an asking price to compare.

No Australian sale stands behind this value, so treat the figure as indicative.

We will not sell a report on this car. The check above stays free.

Price history

Today $290,000 · modelled median at five years $306,491
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $237,602 to $404,606
The green band is the even-money range and the one to plan on: half of outcomes land inside it. The pale band behind it bounds eight in ten ($175,523 to $493,021). The path is this model's own: it starts along the momentum of its recorded history and bends toward its projected median as the horizon lengthens, so no two cars share a future curve.

The verdict

A defensible case with reservations. Scores 58/100, ranking 72 of 104 in the over $100k band. Demand durability is the strongest input, risk resilience the weakest.
Running it costs about $17,660 a year (6.1% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $18,190 a year.
The model's five year median is $306,491, a +5.7% move, with the tenth percentile at $175,523.
Value is research, not a measurement. Treat the level as indicative and the structure as the analysis.
Evidence
Researched0 recorded sales
Off its peak
-35%
Value band
wide
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
Scored against every recent Australian sale this library holds, half its values land within 11.2 per cent of the price paid and the rest miss by more, in either direction. Projections are therefore damped toward flat in proportion to how little is known, and the plausible band is never narrower than the error the model is known to make.
Short term (1-5 years)$18,190 a year all in, +5.7% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$290,000

Recorded sales

No individual sales are logged for this vehicle.
The value is supported by the aggregate evidence noted at the top of this report, but the underlying transactions are not itemised here.

Score breakdown

Against the over $100k band median
104 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
69/100even
Scarcity25% of total
65/100even
Demand durability20% of total
90/100+12
Liquidity15% of total
17/100-15
Risk resilience10% of total
2/100-32
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 58/100. Medians are computed live from the 104 cars currently in the over $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
69/100
Baseline84 pts
− 6.1% of value a year to run-15 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)69 pts
Scarcity25% weight
65/100
Baseline20 pts
+ 37 survivors estimated in Australia+45 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)65 pts
Demand durability20% weight
90/100
Baseline58 pts
+ A naturally aspirated V12 with a six-speed manual in the smallest Aston body+18 pts
+ Trading at about two and a half times a contemporary V8 Vantage, and widening+10 pts
+ Announced as a thousand-car run, with the final total never published+4 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)90 pts
Liquidity15% weight
17/100
Baseline12 pts
+ 150 days on market0 pts
+ 3 sales a year+5 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)17 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
2/100
Baseline50 pts
− A poor previous repair to the bonded aluminium structure cannot be fixed cheaply-12 pts
− Catalytic converters and a heavy clutch are a $19,000 pair of jobs-10 pts
− British supply under the free trade agreement caps any Australian premium-8 pts
− No Australian transaction behind the value-18 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)2 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 3,000 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$17,660a year
Share of value per year
6.1%
Scheduled servicing$3,98023%
Tyres, annualised$2,70015%
Registration and CTP$2,12012%
Insurance$5,04029%
Sinking fund (failure table)$3,82022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$301,600
Running costs × 5 years$88,300
Median exit, net of selling cost$298,951
All-in annualised over 5 years$18,190/yr
Share of value per year6.3%
Cost of access is what the car costs to run. All-in annualised adds depreciation, duty and selling costs across a five year hold. They answer different questions and are labelled separately for that reason.
Break-even appreciation, 5 year hold
6.7%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+1.1%a year
The projection falls 5.5 points a year short of the hurdle. On these assumptions this car is a cost, not an asset, which can be an entirely rational thing to buy but should be bought knowing it.
Purchase$290,000
Stamp duty$11,600
Running costs x 5 years$88,300
Selling cost at exit, 2.6% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$400,308
Storage
Bought at
No forecast is used to compute the hurdle. It is the purchase, the duty, any premium and 5 years of running cost, grossed up for the cost of selling and spread back over the hold. The projection it is measured against is the weakest number in this product and is drawn that way in the chart above. Transport, finance and any restoration spend sit outside it.

Specification

Engine5.9L NA V12
Power / torque380 kW / 570 Nm
0-100 km/h4.2 s
Transmission6sp manual
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,680 kg
Built worldwide1,000
Delivered to AustraliaNot established
Effective AU survivors37
Australian sales / year3
Typical days on market150 days
Launch priceNot established

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Original paint, unresprayed+6%
A documented factory colour with the original interior trim+4%
Resprayed after front-end damage-9%
Options
Carbon Black or another documented special edition+14%
Documented clutch condition with a continuous specialist service file+7%
Undamaged nose, splitter and undertray on a car driven with care+4%
Odometer sensitivity±1.9% per 10,000 km vs 45,000 km
Applied on top of these

Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.

Projected value in five years

Projected value at five years
$306,491
+5.7% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $290,000.
Even odds it lands between $237,602 and $404,606.
$175,523 lowhigh $493,021
The shaded range is even money and 70% wide; the outer figures bound eight outcomes in ten. Band width follows the evidence - a model with a tight measured record carries a tight band.
A weaker five year outlook than 51% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$16,491 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $88,300.
Duty and expected selling costs: $19,140.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $90,950, or $18,190 a year.
The projected value rise offsets part of the running cost. It does not make the car free to own.

The case for and against

The case for

A naturally aspirated 5.9-litre V12 with a six-speed manual in the smallest body Aston Martin built, which nobody is going to do again. It bottomed around 2019 to 2021 and has risen since, while the V8 Vantage of the same years has sat flat near a hundred thousand dollars.

The case against

There is no Australian sale, no Australian listing and no local auction record - the value is a multiple applied to V8 Vantage asking prices. The free trade agreement has made a British car cheaper to land, and Britain is the deepest right-hand-drive market for this exact model, which caps whatever local premium exists.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1Bonded aluminium structure means a bad prior repair is a serious value event
Risk 2Catalytic converter failure and a clutch that is short-lived in traffic
Risk 3The 2013-18 V12 Vantage S is a separate and more powerful car
Catalytic converter failure, a pair$10,000
Clutch - heavy and short-lived in traffic$9,000
Brake discs and pads, steel, a set$7,000
Front splitter, undertray and nose damage from the low ride height$5,000
Coil packs and plugs, twelve of each$3,500
Battery drain and electrical modules$3,500

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueResearched · 0 recorded sales
Carried value
$290,000
Historical price
2016 · $449,5002026 · $290,000
Researched
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
The only Australian numbers behind this figure belong to a different car

No V12 Vantage was listed anywhere in Australia in August 2026 and none appears in any published Australian auction archive. What was in the market was the V8 Vantage of the same era, advertised between $99,980 and $144,990 across five cars. The V12 trades at roughly two and a half times a contemporary V8, and that multiple - not a local transaction - is what places this value. It has been widening rather than narrowing.

Read the rest of the evidence notes (5 more)
This is the clearest modern car in the tranche that has already turned

It bottomed around 2019 to 2021 while the market still priced it as a used Aston, and has appreciated since as buyers worked out what it actually is: a naturally aspirated V12 with a manual gearbox in the smallest body the company had, which cannot be built again under any emissions regime. Meanwhile the V8 of the same years has stayed flat near a hundred thousand dollars, and the gap between them is the whole thesis.

The United Kingdom caps the local premium, and this is a genuinely Australian fact

Post-1989 cars get no concessional import, but the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement removed the five per cent duty on cars of British origin from mid-2023. The deepest right-hand-drive V12 Vantage market in the world is therefore a legal and increasingly economic supply channel for exactly this car, in a way it is not for the Italian cars in this tranche. Any Australian premium above British money plus shipping and compliance is arbitrage waiting to be taken.

The tax is sunk, which is why the floor was so low

Roughly $95,000 to $110,000 of a $360,000 to $400,000 delivered price was luxury car tax, charged once at first sale and never recovered. None of it survives into resale, which is what made the fall steep and the bottom worth buying.

Do not price a V12 Vantage S against this record

The 2013 to 2018 S is a separate and more powerful car and is out of scope here. Carbon Black and other special editions are worth $25,000 to $50,000 over a standard coupe.

And check the structure

The platform is bonded aluminium, so a poor previous accident repair is a value event rather than a cosmetic note, and it needs a qualified shop rather than a good panel beater.

What we will not sell you
We will not price a Aston Martin Vantage against an advertisement.

No Australian transaction stands behind this value. A spec-adjusted figure built on it would look precise and would not be, so the report is refused instead of sold with a caveat. That goes for this car and 87 others. Everything above is free and stays free.

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