The Dreadnought has been revealed as Aston Martin’s tackle a high-performance, military-style off-roader.
Designed for the brand new Name of Obligation videogame however revealed as a full-sized bodily mannequin in New York, the Dreadnought is known as for a revolutionary British warship from the early twentieth century – which tallies with its hulking, useful design and battle-ready conception.
The V12 brawler makes nods to historic icons like the unique V8 Vantage, corresponding to its grille-mounted foglights and swept rear finish, however the Dreadnought in any other case departs radically from Aston conference with chunky physique cladding, towing eyes and knobbly tyres amongst its extra utilitarian options.
As it’s designed for the (digital) battlefield, it’s markedly much less luxurious inside than any real-world Aston Martin, inserting higher emphasis on performance. A big display screen shows the driving force’s pace, path, pitch and roll and – as a result of the Dreadnought has been developed for the most recent Name of Obligation online game – what number of opponents the driving force has eradicated. This perform is unlikely to make it to any future manufacturing automotive.
In step with the broader business’s return to bodily buttons, the Dreadnought has a collection of toggles and switches for simple entry to essentially the most generally used features: elevating its bulletproof protect, priming the exterior weapons, or calling in airstrikes.
Technical particulars stay but to be decided.
There’s no phrase on any real-world implications for the idea, however many automotive makers have used videogames as a platform to preview shifts in design – together with Aston itself, which previewed the Valkyrie with the DP100 racer for Gran Turismo in 2014.
It does mirror a wider want to broaden the remit of the British model. Autocar reported in 2024 that it was mulling a super-4×4 to rival the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, in the identical vein because the Dreadnought. That automotive was internally known as Challenge Rambo.
Nevertheless, it stays to be seen whether or not Aston Martin can afford to take a threat on a brand new, segment-straddling mannequin corresponding to a toned-down model of the Dreadnought. The corporate made an working lack of £259 million final 12 months, and its money owed rose from £1.16 billion on the finish of 2024 to £1.38bn by the identical level in 2025.
