Mansory Carbon Fiber Body kit set for Aston Martin V8 Vantage

MANSORY for the original Aston Martin V8 Vantage — the VH-platform NA chassis

This product page is for the original V8 Vantage — the 2005–2017 production run on Aston Martin's VH-platform shared with the DB9, with a naturally-aspirated 4.3-litre V8 at launch (380 hp) updated to a 4.7-litre V8 in 2008 (420 hp), and the V8 Vantage S in 2011 (430 hp). It is the long-running, hand-built, naturally-aspirated Aston Martin GT — not the post-2018 AMG-engine car. The Mansory carbon programme is dimensioned for the VH-platform chassis specifically, and the rest of this page works through the parts list, the wheel and exhaust options, and the small but distinctive geographic order book the kit ships into.

Why this kit is for the OLD Vantage, not the 2018+ AMG-engine car

The V8 Vantage badge has been carried by two completely different chassis at Aston Martin: (1) the 2005–2017 VH-platform car with the naturally-aspirated V8 (this page), and (2) the 2018+ AMG-platform car with the Mercedes-AMG-supplied 4.0 biturbo V8 (the AM6 chassis, 503 hp, twin-turbo). The two are different cars — different platform, different engine, different bumper geometry, different bonnet line. The Mansory carbon set on this page is for the VH-platform car only. Owners of the 2018+ AMG-engine Vantage are routed to a separate per-VIN custom commission rather than this catalogue page; talk to us with the VIN before placing the order. The donor was in production for twelve model years (2005–2017) and the Mansory programme covers the full production span — 4.3 V8 (2005–2008), 4.7 V8 (2008–2017), V8 Vantage S (2011–2017) and the V8 Vantage Roadster across the same years.

The published catalogue

The Mansory build sheet for the VH Vantage uses a mix of materials: dry carbon on the visible aerodynamic surfaces, PU-RIM (polyurethane reaction injection moulding) on the larger structural panels with a carbon trim layer, and 2x2 twill weave with UV-protected topcoat as the standard surface finish. Install runs to two to three shop days for the bolt-on parts; the front bumper and rear apron benefit from a longer install window because the OEM Vantage bumper is body-coloured to the donor's paint code and the Mansory replacement is finished separately.

Front:

• Front bumper — PU-RIM with carbon trim, or full dry carbon (separate SKUs)
• Front lip / splitter
• Redrawn radiator main grille (the Aston Martin grille frame is preserved; the mesh insert is replaced)
• Bonnet air-outtake panels

Sides:

• Side skirts — composite or dry carbon
• Side blades / strakes (replacing the OEM Vantage side strakes with the carbon Mansory equivalent)
• Mirror caps / frames / covers

Rear:

• Rear apron / diffuser — PU-RIM with carbon trim, or full dry carbon
• Ducktail rear spoiler OR boot-lid wing (commission decides)
• Rear light-bar cover trim

Engine — 4.3 / 4.7 NA V8, exhaust only

The Mansory programme on the VH Vantage is body-and-stance-only. The naturally-aspirated V8 is delivered close to its mechanical limits in factory tune across all three engine variants (4.3 / 4.7 / V8 Vantage S), and the workshop's standing position is that lifting power on the NA V8 is a per-VIN custom engine commission rather than a catalogue option. The Mansory sport exhaust is the only powertrain-adjacent SKU in the standard catalogue: a stainless quad-tip system that changes the V8's character meaningfully without claiming a horsepower figure. Most owners specify the exhaust together with the body kit; the exhaust install adds a half-day to the body work.

Wheels — 20" or 21" forged

Mansory's standard wheel offering for the VH Vantage is a 20" forged multi-spoke; a 21" upgrade is available for owners who specify the matching Mansory lowering spring. The OEM 19" Aston Martin wheel can be retained — the carbon panels do not depend on the wheel upsize, and the kitted Vantage on the OEM wheel is a recurring lighter build the workshop ships into UK and US Aston-collector markets. The full forged-wheel range sits in the Hodoor forged wheels collection.

An aging-donor order book — and what that does to the map

Unlike most product pages on our site, the VH Vantage geography is dominated less by where Mansory ships per-region volumes and more by where the surviving donor pool sits in 2026. The donor went out of production in late 2017. The original twelve-year production run delivered the V8 Vantage into the order books of Aston Martin's home markets first, and what is left in the secondary market today is concentrated by long-term Aston ownership patterns rather than by Mansory's usual Gulf-and-Asia distribution. The kit's order book in 2026 is, in practical terms, a function of which countries kept the most VH Vantages on the road for the longest.

The single defining geography is the British Isles. Aston Martin assembled the VH Vantage at Gaydon and at Newport Pagnell during the early production years, and the UK absorbed the largest single national share of the donor's twelve-year output. Most of those cars are still UK-registered, most of them are still on right-hand-drive specification, and most of them are owned by Aston-collector households that have kept the car since launch. The Mansory commission on a UK-resident VH Vantage is typically a refresh — the carbon body kit and a Mansory exhaust on a car that has covered 40,000 to 80,000 miles in collector hands. The UK is not a country-blog on our site; UK Vantage commissions ship through the same Aston dealer service map the donor was originally bought through. Ireland sits as the small right-hand-drive tail to the same map.

Outside the British Isles the order book reflects a small but stable Aston-collector circuit rather than a regional volume profile. The European luxury cluster — Switzerland in particular — typically commissions paired Mansory builds on a DB9 and a Vantage in the same household, because the two donors share the VH platform and the carbon weave specification matches across both cars. The right-hand-drive Asia-Pacific Aston cluster (Hong Kong and Singapore) carries a small, recurring share. The United States is concentrated around traditional Aston-collector geographies — California, Florida, the New York tri-state — and ships on standard freight without a country-blog page. Two regions are notably absent from the Vantage Mansory map: the Gulf (the Aston buyer profile in the UAE and Saudi Arabia gravitates to the V12 Vanquish and the mid-engine Aston builds rather than to the smaller Vantage) and CIS (a recurring but small lane through the Tsar programme, with the Russian winter being the limiting factor on the donor's daily-use viability rather than commercial demand).

Sister Aston Martin Mansory builds

The closest sister build in our catalogue is the Aston Martin DB9 Curus — the workshop's anniversary-tier carbon programme on the VH-platform DB9 chassis, which shares the platform underneath with this Vantage. Owners who collect both donors typically commission both Mansory programmes against the same paint code and the same carbon weave so the cars match in the garage.

Ordering & lead time

Full Mansory carbon set: four to six weeks from the workshop. The Mansory sport exhaust ships in three to four weeks. The 20"/21" forged wheel set adds four to six weeks. Email [email protected] with your VIN, the engine variant (4.3 V8 / 4.7 V8 / V8 Vantage S), the body style (Coupé / Roadster), and your preferred delivery facility. Note that the OEM Aston Martin paint code is required up-front for the body kit colour-match if you are specifying the PU-RIM trim panels in body colour rather than in raw carbon weave.

FAQ

Does this kit fit the new (2018+) Vantage with the AMG biturbo V8?
No. The 2018+ Vantage uses the AM6 chassis and a Mercedes-AMG biturbo V8 — different platform, different bumper geometry. The carbon panels on this page do not transfer. New-Vantage owners are accepted as per-VIN custom commissions rather than as a catalogue order.

Does the kit fit the V12 Vantage variants?
The V12 Vantage and V12 Vantage S share the same VH-platform body geometry as the V8 Vantage — the Mansory carbon set physically fits, but the V12 Vantage S's larger front intake on the OEM bumper requires a per-VIN check at the front-bumper SKU. Talk to us with the VIN before placing a V12 Vantage commission.

Roadster — does the kit work on the convertible body?
Yes. The front, side and front-fender pieces are common between Coupé and Roadster. The rear apron is shared. The boot-lid wing SKU is Coupé-specific because the Roadster's boot-lid hinges and the soft-top mechanism cassette change the rear-deck geometry; Roadster owners typically specify the ducktail spoiler instead, which fits both bodies.

Will the PU-RIM bumper panels age differently from the carbon trim panels?
Both finishes carry the workshop's UV-stabilised topcoat, but PU-RIM is more sensitive to direct sun than dry carbon. UK and Northern European owners typically specify PU-RIM without a service-life concern; Gulf owners are usually routed to the full-dry-carbon SKUs (a separate price point) for the front bumper and rear apron.

Can the Mansory exhaust be installed without the body kit?
Yes. The exhaust ships as a standalone SKU and is a common single-piece order on otherwise-stock VH Vantages. The exhaust does not change the V8's published horsepower figure but it materially changes the exhaust note.