You know what’s wrong with the Aston Martin V8 Vantage? It’s damn slow. Yeah, the smallest and lightest Aston Martin can barely get out of its own way, what with that 4.7-liter V8 putting out 420 horsepower, and that sub-five-second zero-to-sitxy time, you might as well just give up and drive a minivan.
Make sense? No. None at all, actually. But at least a few of the blokes at Aston think that way, and that’s why we love them.
Because they solved a problem no one had, by making an ultra-fast sports car faster.
Introducting the V8 Vantage S. Ten more horses. A newly-developed seven-speed SportShift II transmission with extra extra short ratios. A quicker steering rack. Bigger rotors. A carbon fiber front splitter, and big new intakes to cool those big new brakes.
Aston says the design is taken from the Vantage GT4 car, which, they helpfully point out “won its class at the Dubai 24 Hours following this up with further endurance race wins at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Silverstone 24 Hours and Spa 24 Hours. It also won its first major international championship victory in the European GT4 Cup.”
Price? Well, they haven’t announced yet just how much they’ve boosted that.
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