Aston Martin, Red Bull Racing Plan Hypercar

Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. and Red Bull’s Formula One racing team plan to develop an exotic hypercar in a deal that will link the British luxury carmaker with F1.

The partners say the car, code named AM-RB 001, will merge the talents of Red Bull Racing Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey and Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s chief creative officer.

Reichman has penned such cars as the Aston Martin DB11, One-77 and Vulcan. A teaser sketch suggests an F1-like car shrouded in a flowing body. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner claims the vehicle will be “the ultimate of all road cars.”

Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer insists the car won’t be just a street-legal F1 car carrying his company’s moniker. He vows to instill the car with "Aston Martin authenticity."

“When you get in an Aston,” Palmer explains to Motorsport.com, “what looks like leather is leather, what looks like wood is wood. What looks like carbon is carbon. What sounds like a V-12 engine is a V-12 engine and it doesn’t have any hype on it.”