Aston Martin Vantage GT2

The Aston Martin Vantage GT2 was the most powerful racing version of the V8 Vantage family, debuting in 2008 to meet FIA and ACO GT2 class rules as a customer car for the FIA GT Championship, the American Le Mans Series, the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It kept the road car's bonded aluminium chassis but used carbon fibre panels, a front splitter, rear diffuser, rear wing and flat floor, and its dry-sump V8 was a modified version of the road car engine that could run on E85 bio-ethanol as well as normal racing fuel. Nine chassis were built, and in 2012 the car was relaunched under the name Vantage GTE after the regulations changed.