Aston Martin V8 Vantage

[System]

[Mattk]

Subzero. I would love to rock up to night clubs in this car.

[Mattk]

Who cares about performance in this context? You can't see performance in a photograph, not usually.

[No.1]

Subzero.

After my ride in one, i was full of adrenaline. The sound is just awesome, and the looks are just stunning.

Not as common a sight as i thought it would be, and i hope aston son't sell-out and open the production floodgates

A fantastic experience. 8)

[LotusGT1]

Cool. Definately not subzero.

[davide]

the sound is the cool thing, but it also makes the Vantage some kind of an attention whore... but still, it's a cool car! The noise make the coolnes, and of course the design... wonder if I goes as quite when you're just poking along in 70kmph?

[No.1]

Originally Posted by davide the sound is the cool thing, but it also makes the Vantage some kind of an attention whore... but still, it's a cool car! The noise make the coolnes, and of course the design... wonder if I goes as quite when you're just poking along in 70kmph?

The butterfly valve in the exhaust keeps things quiet up to a certain point, but when it opens (under full throttle and/or a certain no. of revs iirc) all hell breaks loose. It such a nice sound though...

[blinkmeat]

Sub - it's brilliant 8)

[Mattk]

So what if they're similar? That does not detract from their subzero-ness.

[jorge]

cool, but not subzero, some publications say it needs more power (even if 380 is a lot)

[No.1]

Originally Posted by jorge cool, but not subzero, some publications say it needs more power (even if 380 is a lot)

It's not about power. :roll:

Although the startup sequence on the dash says Power, Beauty, Soul. 8)

[Fleischmann]

This car will end up in the hands of uncool people but that doesn't take anything away from it's 'wow' factor. The looks will turn the heads of everybody and the trail of sound will catch everybody's ears. And you'd have to go a long way to find an equally classy interior, afterall it shares it with the DB9. SubZero.

[Mattk]

Wow, 16 votes so far, and it's 6 subzero, 10 cool. You can't hate this car. 8)

[acmarttin]

I say Subzero. I know you know who else drives a car like this. James Bond. Yes - he is a fictional character and is sometimes played by chumps. BUT, I care way more about what he drives than I do about what David Beckham drives. Case in point: Subzero.

[Mattk]

I remember an old-ish Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson and Steve Coogan were testing this (or another Aston Martin) out against a Ferrari 575M (I think; this is really stretching my memory) they were talking about how all these footballers had Ferraris, but none of them had Astons.