Aston Martin's Vanquish Zagato Volante might be the coolest car at Pebble Beach

Three hundred and twenty-five Vanquish-based Zagatos are to be made over the next 18 months or so – almost as many as the total number of Aston Zagatos made since the bloodline began with the DB4GT Zagato in 1960.

The Vanquish Zagato coupe, which went into production last year, was first to reprise the historic tie-up with the Italian design house, last used for the V12 Zagato of 2011. Ninety-nine coupes are due to be made.

Aston has now confirmed there will also be 99 Volante versions and, in surprise news this week to coincide with the Pebble Beach Concours during Monterey Collectors’ Car Week in California, both speedster and shooting-brake versions will also be available.

Just 28 of the Aston Vanquish Zagato Speedsters, what Aston calls “one of the most collectable and covetable Aston Martins ever”, will be built, with deliveries scheduled through 2018. In Pebble Beach, only a Vanquish Zagato Volante was actually on show.

There will also be 99 Aston Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brakes. So far only seen as a concept sketch, this is a fastback estate-bodied car with two doors and two seats, but with a long rear deck accessed by an electric tailgate for what Aston says is a lot more practicality, complete with tailored luggage set. Ensuring the interior is light are glass panels in the double-bubble roof. Other neat interior touches include a herringbone pattern carbon-fibre facia, anodised bronze rotary controls and extensive ‘Z’ motif quilting, mirroring the Zs used in the grilles of all the Zagato cars.

There have been bespoke Aston estates in the past but never such a large run. Also due to be delivered to first owners during 2018, there is no price for the shooting-brake or any of the other Zagatos; the coupe is thought to cost around half a million pounds or roughly £300,000 more than standard Vanquish. 

Whether in coupe, Volante, speedster or shooting-brake form, the new family of Aston Vanquishes all get bespoke carbon-fibre body panels and shared details like the Aston Martin Vulcan-inspired ‘blade’ tail-lights. Underneath all use the same Vanquish S architecture and running gear, with the V12 in normally-aspirated form delivering 592bhp to the rear wheels via the Touchtronic III transmission.

Aston Martin says the 99 Volantes and the 28 speedsters are sold out. Perhaps with half a mind on long-term values – Zagato Astons generally perform well in the marketplace, with the star being the DB4 GT Zagato which has sold for up to £9.4 million – some customers are said to have ordered one of each… 

Aston chief creative officer, Marek Reichman, said: “There’s always an over-demand (for Zagato Astons). We could easily fulfil demand for more cars than this, but we want Zagato to remain something very special. We’re creating collectables, future Concours cars.”

Andrea Zagato said: “I’m proud to continue the story my grandfather started and thrilled that our partnership with Aston Martin continues to realise such exciting cars. For many enthusiasts and collectors around the world cars that combine the Z of Zagato with the wings of Aston Martin are the most special of all Zagato designs.”