We’ve driven Aston Martin’s new V12 Vantage and we’re… how can we put this? We’ll let Steve Sutcliffe explain Video here
, to name but three? And who exactly has this car been engineered to appeal to, given that it appears to be neither one thing nor the other – by which I mean it’s not a proper GT car on the one hand because it’s way too firm and noisy, nor a full-blown track weapon because it’s not focused enough to be one of those either?Baffled? So was I. So I did a load of miles in it, but the painful truth is, the further I drove it, the less convinced by the V12 Vantage I became.
It allows a fair bit of slip before it gently shuts the throttle down, but it never cuts it completely. Which means you can drive the V12 a lot harder than you’d think, without it feeling like you are anywhere near the edge. Even on damp roads, which is saying something.It’s significantly sharper than any other Vantage in this respect, and it warrants a degree of admiration purely because of this.