V12 vantage: first drive

Thomas. PLease. · 20 May 2009 at 19:37

Video on DR, seems dickie rather likes it. Would love one of these, much more appealing than any of the DB9 cars, such a nicer looking car imo. wheels look a bit gash though, much prefer the original v8 vantage items.

http://www.drivers-republic.com/dr_tv/index.cfm?videoid=b56bb59d76ab46e7a58257134a1bd0d1&area=videos

Dup · 20 May 2009 at 19:49

That is so quiet in the cabin. The V12s in the Vanquish sound awesome outside the car, especially with the valves in the exhaust removed which are designed to make it quieter when not being thrashed so I assume the Vantage has a similar unit in there.

As I've mentioned too many times, my boss has a Vanquish S which sounds awesome on the outside but you can hardly hear much inside the car. Too well built (by a man with a brush and some glue looking at the build pictures they sent him)? The Vanquish is also huge compared to this Vantage. I wonder if the V12 up front affects the handling in a negative manner when you're on it,.

s0ck · 20 May 2009 at 20:01

Dup said:
I wonder if the V12 up front affects the handling in a negative manner when you're on it,.

This is prolly the sort of thing that goes out of the window when you realise you're actually driving an Aston

GingerNinja1989 · 20 May 2009 at 20:06

Hmm... that engine in a car so small.

Do want. Lots

[DOD]Asprilla · 20 May 2009 at 20:09

s0ck said:
This is prolly the sort of thing that goes out of the window when you realise you're actually driving an Aston

Possibly, but you rarely put yourself in the position to afford one without being fairly demanding.

12 months ago my better halfs works car park was half full of Astons of one sort or another, but there are very few now, mainly due to general dissatisfaction with build quality and reliability.

Mind, the current car de jour is the Gran Tourismo, so they possibly haven't learned their lessons about reliability.