{"id":2137017,"date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2137017"},"modified":"2026-09-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:00:00","slug":"the-amb-002-is-a-two-wheeled-aston-martin-that-weighs-just-190kg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2137017","title":{"rendered":"The AMB 002 is a two-wheeled Aston Martin that weighs just 190kg*"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a two-wheeled Aston Martin. Not a DB12 that\u2019s been driven through a hedge, but a motorcycle. Obviously, a motorcycle! You can see it is a motorcycle! It\u2019s officially called the AMB 002, which implies the existence of an AMB 001.<\/p>\n

Which there is. 001 was the \u201csensational\u201d (their words) track-only version, while this new 002 is the road-legal sibling. It\u2019s been built in collaboration with Brough Superior, and to TopGear.com\u2019s eyes, looks quietly fantastic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indeed, we\u2019re assured the AMB 002 deploys \u201cfluid lines, compact proportion and precisely sculpted carbon fibre body elements\u201d in its design. This being a two-wheeled product from a company most famous for making four-wheeled ones, there are of course links to road cars: the famous Aston side strakes, twin exhausts, rear light blades, and of course, leather.<\/p>\n

Sadly, there is no link to a howling naturally aspirated 6.0-litre V12 (TopGear.com rather suspects it\u2019d be quite tricky to bolt in a 12-pot) so instead there\u2019s a 1.0-litre four-stroke V-Twin developing 130bhp and 81lb ft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Those 130 two-wheeled horsepowers have apparently been tuned \u201cfor strong low and mid-range torque\u201d, while the Brough engine delivering them gets a CNC-machined billet engine case and other \u201caerospace grade processes and materials\u201d.<\/p>\n

All of it sits within a lightweight titanium frame milled from a solid billet that itself weighs just 5kg \u2013 you\u2019ll find heavier buttons<\/em> in a DBX! \u2013 in a bike with an overall weight figure of 190kg. About right in the realm of superbikes, we\u2019re reliably informed. There\u2019s double wishbone suspension too. Just like a car!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And just like limited edition Astons, this one\u2019s\u2026 limited. Aston and Brough are only building 300 of these things. Price? TBC.<\/p>\n

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This is a two-wheeled Aston Martin. Not a DB12 that\u2019s been driven through a hedge, but a motorcycle. Obviously, a motorcycle! You can see it is a motorcycle! It\u2019s officially called the AMB 002, which implies the existence of an AMB 001. Which there is. 001 was the \u201csensational\u201d (their words) track-only version, while this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2137017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}