
Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Green AUTOart 1:18

Specifications
- Brand
- Aston Martin
- Manufacturer
- AUTOart
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 81306
- Year
- 2013
- Era
- 2010s
- Body Type
- Coupe
- Vehicle Class
- Track Specials
- Openable Parts
- Yes
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Street Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 674110813067
About the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Green AUTOart 1:18
TL;DR: AUTOart's 1:18 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 reproduces the factory-built GT3 racer in green competition livery, a die-cast build with opening panels over the roll-cage-equipped cabin and stripped racing interior. A track-focused subject for collectors following Aston Martin Racing's GT3 program through the early 2010s.
GT3 racing occupies a specific tier in motorsport, cars built from a production shell but stripped, caged, and re-engineered until almost nothing but the silhouette survives from the road car. Aston Martin's V12 Vantage GT3 took that transformation further than most manufacturers, keeping the naturally aspirated V12 that defined the road car while everything else became purpose-built competition hardware.
AUTOart's Die-Cast Build of a GT3 Racer
Roll Cage, Stripped Cabin, and Opening Panels
Reproducing a race car means reproducing what a manufacturer removed as much as what it added: the V12 Vantage GT3's cabin lost its road-going trim entirely, replaced by a roll cage, racing seat, and a stripped dashboard dominated by a single digital display, and AUTOart's opening panels reveal that transformation rather than a simplified generic interior. Lift a panel and the cage structure sits correctly positioned relative to the seat and pedal box, detail that would go unnoticed on a road car casting but matters immediately to anyone who knows what a genuine GT3 interior looks like. The naturally aspirated V12 fills the engine bay correctly, without the turbo plumbing a GT3-class rival running a smaller boosted engine would carry.
Livery Registration on a Competition Shell
Green competition liveries on GT3 cars typically carry sponsor decals and numbering specific to a single season or team entry, and AUTOart's tampo work holds sharp edges across the car's aggressive aero surfaces, the front splitter, side skirts, and rear wing all cut from bodywork the road car never wore. Registration across those non-flat surfaces is harder than it looks, since a curved splitter edge or a vented hood section can distort a decal that would sit perfectly flat on a standard road-car casting. The wing and splitter themselves are separately molded and fitted rather than cast as one piece with the body, a construction choice that keeps their edges sharp.
Aston Martin Racing's GT3 Program
From Road-Car V12 to Competition Hardware
Aston Martin Racing developed the V12 Vantage GT3 to campaign in international GT3 series through the early 2010s, a period when the class had become motorsport's most competitive middle ground, serious enough to attract factory efforts but accessible enough for well-funded privateer teams to run competitively. Keeping the naturally aspirated V12 rather than switching to a smaller turbocharged unit set Aston Martin apart from rivals chasing efficiency through downsizing, a decision that gave the car a distinct sound and power delivery on track even as it likely cost some outright pace against turbocharged competition. That character is exactly what a scale reproduction needs to communicate, and the engine bay detail here delivers it.
A Racing-Themed Anchor for a Track Collection
A GT3 racer works differently on a shelf than a road car: it is built to be displayed as a team entry, one livery, one season, one specific competitive context, rather than as a general-purpose example of the marque. This green livery anchors well against other GT3-class rivals from the same competitive window, Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren entries running in the same series, letting a collector build a genuine grid rather than a single-marque display. AUTOart's diecast tier delivers the aero components and interior detail a GT3 subject demands without the price premium a full resin limited-run competition model would carry.
Collection Context
A V12 Vantage GT3 rewards a collector who wants motorsport specificity rather than a general Aston Martin display: it is a single season's competition hardware, not a road car with a badge, and displaying it correctly means treating it as a grid entry rather than a road-car variant. Pairing it with rival GT3 manufacturers from the same era makes the strongest visual case, since GT3 racing has always been defined by close competition between very different engineering philosophies arriving at similar lap times. AUTOart's diecast build handles the aggressive aero, stripped cabin, and naturally aspirated V12 with genuine mechanical confidence, opening panels that clear the aero components cleanly and a livery that holds registration across every curved surface.















