The Aston Martin Vantage range comes of age with the new Aston Martin V8 Vantage S characterised by a host of new driver-focussed features all designed to push the honed dynamics of the standard Vantage to a new benchmark level. Aston Martin’s own 4.7 litre V8 engine has been engineered to deliver peak power of 430 bhp (436 PS / 321 kW) at 7300 rpm and torque of 490 Nm (361 lb.ft) at 5000 rpm...
Ulrich Bez has led Aston Martin for ten years now and is already two years ago brought his ideas to expand car sales with a new, different model. Lagonda brand would be revived and it was made official at the 100th anniversary declared in autumn 2008. At the next Geneva Salon, Spring 2009, we got to see what Ulrich Bez Aston Martin and imagined, and it was not a new sedan that most believed –...
It looked like a joke when the classic Aston Martin presented a concept car at the recent Geneva motor, around three feet short and fitted with the Aston Martin grille and red leather interior. Everyone saw that the car was Toyota’s smallest model IQ – what was the sentence? The concept car was extremely serious, it turned out. Aston Martin had to lower the brand’s average fuel consumption...
Those who follow sports car racing has probably noted that temperature ratcheted up in recent years, a number of reasons. First, as previously dominant Audi had a lot of sense, tough opposition from Peugeot in the fastest LMP1 class. But it is also about a general growing interest in sports car racing, particularly in the USA and Canada where you run your own “American Le Mans Series (ALMS). The...
The British provided the next special modification of the model with the V8 Vantage index N420. Issue of such modifications (in 2007 Aston Martin showed N400) was the personification of successful performances in the 24 Hours Nürburgring. Find Aston Martin V8 Vantage N420 in the face of possible carbon-fiber splitter front bumper and rear diffuser, proprietary 10-spoke disks, painted in black gloss,...
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