Rare colour combo but the same old beguiling Vantage shape underneath...
There’s a lot of baby blue around at the moment. It’s the colour that Hyundai launches all its N cars with, and I was in America recently, driving various new BMWs, and they do a nice shade of baby blue, too. And if, like me, it’s a colour that appeals, then you might be interested in this Gulf-coloured Aston Martin V8 Vantage S, complete with Speed Orange nose and tail.
Whatever you think of the paintwork, are there many people out there who would say the basis Vantage shape is anything less than handsome? I think not. In fact, I’d wager most people would happily preface 'handsome' with a ‘devastatingly,’ and still be underselling its lines. It may have been introduced as the baby of the range – the common or garden Aston, if there is such a thing – but there’s nothing ordinary about those curves.
That’s not to say the V8 Vantage was perfect in every area. There were always niggles about how it drove, from the loud but hollow performance of the original 4.3-litre cars to handling that, while good, wasn’t up to 911 beater snuff. But the thing was, the engineers didn’t give up. They may not have had a zany Zuffenhausen budget to play with, but they kept on playing nonetheless. Tinkering, fettling, making better, and it worked..
The thing is, this Vantage S doesn’t have the V12, which was something else I fell for that day. Those twelve cylinders yowling away like a choir of tuneful wolves were without a doubt felt like an inseparable part of the package. But this V8 Vantage S compensates for that: specifically, it has a six-speed manual ‘box instead of the automated manual of the V12. Not that I had a problem with the Sportshift III transmission, mind, but I know many people do.
Besides its paint, rarity, gearbox and looks, there’s also the condition of this car, which is lip-smackingly good. The 10,000 miles it’s covered is almost criminally low, but it means some lucky sod gets to buy a six-year-old Aston that, to my eyes, looks brand new. The specification list is also a long one that includes a 700w stereo and lashings of carbon fibre inside and out.
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