Aston Martin builds its first road-legal motorcycle with Brough Superior, limited to 300 units

Aston Martin has revealed the AMB 002, the first road-legal motorcycle to carry its name after two track-only prototypes. Built with Brough Superior, the bike will be produced in an edition of 300 units globally, with first deliveries planned for late 2027. Orders are open now.

The AMB 002 is powered by a 1083cc water-cooled V-twin, a four-stroke engine Aston Martin puts at 128 horsepower, tuned for usable delivery on winding roads rather than outright track pace. Curb weight comes in at roughly 419 pounds, or about 190kg by the metric figure the companies have given.

That lightness starts with the frame. Milled from a solid billet of titanium, it weighs just 11 pounds, or 5kg, and gives the bike an even 50:50 weight distribution front to rear. Aston Martin, whose road cars we track in detail on our own brand page, applies the same obsession with mass to two wheels.

The design leans on carbon fibre for the fairings and hand-stitched leather for the saddle, a pairing of exposed structural material and craft finishing that Aston Martin's design studio has carried across from its cars. Twin exhausts wear ribbed heat sinks, a nod the brand says references its sports car lineup, and the taillights echo the rear lighting of its hypercars.

Aston Martin's executive vice president and chief creative officer, Marek Reichman, called it a long-term dream. He said the AMB 002 combines the brand's design aesthetic with Brough Superior's engineering, describing it as a vivid expression of a shared passion for sculptural, visceral, covetable machines shared between the two companies.

Brough Superior's Thierry Henriette described the finished bike as one of a kind, both in its design and in the riding experience it delivers. He said the AMB 002 is as striking dynamically as it is visually, calling it a razor sharp roadster propelled by an all-new, more powerful engine than the marque has previously fitted to a road bike.

How this differs from the track-only originals

The AMB 001 launched in 2019 as a track-only machine, followed in 2022 by the AMB 001 Pro, a 225-horsepower version built for circuit use only. Neither was road-legal. The AMB 002 is described by both companies as an all-new machine rather than an adaptation, developed jointly with the Aston Martin Design Studio rather than simply detuned for public roads.

The visual language has shifted with it. Where the earlier bikes favored organic, biophilic curves, the AMB 002 is described as more insectoid, with gill-like air vents along each flank and a seat that tapers upward, likened to a scorpion's tail. Its wing mirrors are mounted on stalks that add to that animalistic profile.

Where the bike is built and by whom

Every AMB 002 will be assembled by hand at Brough Superior's headquarters in Toulouse, France, where CNC machinery turns aluminium and titanium into the high-grade components the frame and running gear demand. Brough Superior traces its own history back to 1919 and built the motorcycle favored by T.E. Lawrence, before its 2010s revival under French enthusiast Thierry Henriette.

The two companies' partnership now spans six years and three motorcycles, plus a separate collaboration that brought watchmaker Richard Mille into the fold for a related project. That earlier work with a track-only pair of bikes is the foundation Aston Martin and Brough Superior have built the road-legal AMB 002 on top of.

What Aston Martin is known for beyond four wheels

Aston Martin's own brand page, where we detail the cost and specifications of its road car range, frames the marque as a maker of British grand tourers with a history stretching back over a century. Our ranking of the best British car brands places Aston Martin alongside Rolls-Royce, Bentley and McLaren, a peer group built on craft as much as horsepower.

We have also tracked Aston Martin's standing among buyers online. Our list of the most popular luxury car brands found Aston Martin entering the top tier of searched marques alongside McLaren and Bugatti, displacing Cadillac and a Jaguar mid-relaunch. A road-legal motorcycle, distinct from anything in that garage of rivals, gives the brand a new category to be searched for.

None of that context has previously involved two wheels. Our coverage of the garage has so far tracked Aston Martin purely as a car maker, alongside classic-car values we have logged elsewhere, including a Ferrari 250 GTO clearing $50 million and a Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic surviving in only three examples worldwide.

The AMB 002 does not compete in that classic market, but it borrows the same logic of scarcity. A run of 300 units globally is a fraction of even a limited car program, and the bike's hand assembly in Toulouse mirrors the small-batch manufacturing that keeps values firm on the classics we have profiled.

Orders for the AMB 002 are being taken now directly through Aston Martin and Brough Superior, ahead of first deliveries expected in the third quarter of next year. Neither company has published a price for the run or said how allocations will be split between markets once the 300 units are built.