2015 Aston Martin V-12 Vantage S

Tact and patience, yet blessed by many people shunned by others; Aston Martin V-12 Vantage S has the second group for whom. Nürburgring Nordschleife knows his way around Aston CEO Ulrich Bez, "extreme nature" and S calls "brutal." He pointed out is not a car to drive to San Diego New York. That is, unless, Watkins Glen along the way, VR, Mid-Ohio, Road America, and it has to stop the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Aston Vantage S is definitely wide stance and ready to jump significantly basic bones of the rear wheel arches, despite age, looks the part. Vantage S in the case of the new test car has built-in black carbon fiber grill. Optional red carbon fiber accented large holes for the V-12, are lined up on the hood. Inside there is a driver-oriented cockpit and a center stack tall with two main buttons: adjust steering response and Normal, Sport, or to set a track mode adaptive damping; and fast throttle response and shift and change back to a sport mode Throat grunt second.


He grunt generated by the V-12, Ford now shucked root of all FoMoCo Aston, register on the day of the carry-over with rods and pistons. Aston his AM28 V-12 565 horsepower and 457 lb-ft of torque at 1000 rpm, the latter available in 376 deals. Sixty miles with a 205-mile spiritual terminal velocity, is coming to an estimated 3.8 seconds.

That our test route into the mountains in Palm Springs rough patchwork repair studded two-lane highway rose too. Aston did not really care. The track was a little stiff suspension settings, but move easily while not degrading Normal and Sport levels soaking up the foibles of the road surface. We kept Sport gear set gas and response, and how quickly and effortlessly became our only concern was obtained license-shredding speed.

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Tools proves suitable for everyday use welded main reason Graziano III Sportshift automated manual transmission that. This offer is only available transmission (a few years ago the Aston Vantage conventional manual transmission option was dropped). automated manual "extreme nature" but not one for off-piste focused Del Taco for a car, we suppose, makes sense. We did triple-digit remaining runs back country road, and almost came up with shocking shift their hardness-a wham. like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone roughness watch lame with a new action flick, it feels the ground in 2013.


The endless escape through the whole volume was up a mountain, I did not need a hard shift gear change very often, because it was not a bother. V-12 the largest, with a strong torque curve, we needed to do except go to the third stay and engine running. Aston clawed its way through the pass with a strong grip.

Back into Palm Springs, transmission was still an aggravation. Even in the driver settings, similar to one of its elements using a falling horse in the Kentucky Derby automatic shift plow a car from Aston transformation came with a pause and lurch. It looked good, but wasted his talents. Indeed, the 205-mile V-12 Vantage S, the special will be recorded for the full monty days.