RE: New Aston Martin AM 310 Vanquish revealed

RE: New Aston Martin AM 310 Vanquish revealed

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Wills2

22,669 posts

174 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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R300will said:
I'm sure it's the best in its class although on a wet day the TT would come steaming through i think but that's just because of the superior wet grip rather than handling per say.

I've never driven a porsche but my dad's been for a day driving them at silverstone when he was considering getting one and was very dissappointed in the 911 C2S, C4S. They were slow for the price, and had hellish oversteer on the skid pan because of the rear engine issue. The cayman is the best model it's just a shame that porsche won't give it a decent powerplant to use. I don't give a st what topgear say i prefer evo or Car mag as they go into much more engineering detail about the cars.
Will, Evo and Car rave about the 911/Cayman/Boxster so if you've not driven them and get your info from reading magazines I'm surprised you hold the views you do.

C2S/C4S are anything but slow, any car that can hit 0-100 in 10 secs and go to a whisker under 190mph isn't slow my friend.

The skidpan at Silverstone has a kicker plate designed to throw the back end out the idea is that it creates the over steer and they show you how to correct it. (wouldn't be much of a skidpan it the car didn't oversteer would it?)

A modern 911 takes a lot more provocation to get the back end moving than most RWD cars they are very stable in this regard.

The Cayman's engine is a great unit, what have you read that states otherwise?

You seem to have a lot of opinions that aren't based on any practical hands on experience.

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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whoami said:
Blown2CV said:
DB9VolanteDriver said:
Well, I'm glad they called it Vanquish rather than DBS. This keeps eveything balanced. Had they called it DBS, then you'd have to specify early, mid or late model DBS when discussing your car. By calling it Vanquish, all V car owners and DBS owners only have to refer to early or late.
I can't imagine that was their main driver for choosing the name. Question is, are they going to slot in a hot version i.e. "new DBS" under this one?
You mean above the Vanquish?
no.... the previous vanquish was positioned very much at the head of the range. Presuming it still is, surely a DBS would therefore sit beneath.

Civpilot

6,235 posts

239 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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Blown2CV said:
whoami said:
Blown2CV said:
DB9VolanteDriver said:
Well, I'm glad they called it Vanquish rather than DBS. This keeps eveything balanced. Had they called it DBS, then you'd have to specify early, mid or late model DBS when discussing your car. By calling it Vanquish, all V car owners and DBS owners only have to refer to early or late.
I can't imagine that was their main driver for choosing the name. Question is, are they going to slot in a hot version i.e. "new DBS" under this one?
You mean above the Vanquish?
no.... the previous vanquish was positioned very much at the head of the range. Presuming it still is, surely a DBS would therefore sit beneath.
Hasn't this car been marked as the DBS replacement anyway?

If that is the case then surely the hot version will be cleverly called something like "Vanquish S" ?

007 VXR

64,187 posts

186 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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Civpilot said:
Hasn't this car been marked as the DBS replacement anyway?

If that is the case then surely the hot version will be cleverly called something like "Vanquish S" ?
hehe

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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OK so, the flip-side of that is AM must be saying there will be no model higher up than this in the range?

007 VXR

64,187 posts

186 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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Blown2CV said:
OK so, the flip-side of that is AM must be saying there will be no model higher up than this in the range?
yes Other than an "S" model.

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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007 VXR said:
Blown2CV said:
OK so, the flip-side of that is AM must be saying there will be no model higher up than this in the range?
yes Other than an "S" model.
OK so splitting hairs now!! Is that a separate model or just a diff variant?

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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Blown2CV said:
007 VXR said:
Blown2CV said:
OK so, the flip-side of that is AM must be saying there will be no model higher up than this in the range?
yes Other than an "S" model.
OK so splitting hairs now!! Is that a separate model or just a diff variant?
It'll be the model that's higher up biggrin

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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R300will said:
I'm sure it's the best in its class although on a wet day the TT would come steaming through i think but that's just because of the superior wet grip rather than handling per say.

I've never driven a porsche but my dad's been for a day driving them at silverstone when he was considering getting one and was very dissappointed in the 911 C2S, C4S. They were slow for the price, and had hellish oversteer on the skid pan because of the rear engine issue. The cayman is the best model it's just a shame that porsche won't give it a decent powerplant to use. I don't give a st what topgear say i prefer evo or Car mag as they go into much more engineering detail about the cars.
Until you have driven a Porsche on a wonderful piece of UK twisty road, with no traffic to deter you fron threading the car through corner after corner at a suitable speed to keep your senses heightened, you'll never understand just how magnificent they are to drive. It's not about power, its's about feel, balance and that sensation of being at one with a wonderfully engineered piece of automative heaven.

I've just purchased a Z4 35i M Sport for the summer. It's a fun car for the summer but it's just nothing like a Boxster. Drive one properly and you'll know what it's all about.

toppstuff

13,698 posts

246 months

Monday 25th June 2012
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I am liking the new Aston more and more...

It does look like a worthwhile evolution of the DBS.

Yum.


Wills2

22,669 posts

174 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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looks superb and sounds otherworldly, one for the fantasy garage.

R300will

3,799 posts

150 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Wills2 said:
R300will said:
I'm sure it's the best in its class although on a wet day the TT would come steaming through i think but that's just because of the superior wet grip rather than handling per say.

I've never driven a porsche but my dad's been for a day driving them at silverstone when he was considering getting one and was very dissappointed in the 911 C2S, C4S. They were slow for the price, and had hellish oversteer on the skid pan because of the rear engine issue. The cayman is the best model it's just a shame that porsche won't give it a decent powerplant to use. I don't give a st what topgear say i prefer evo or Car mag as they go into much more engineering detail about the cars.
Will, Evo and Car rave about the 911/Cayman/Boxster so if you've not driven them and get your info from reading magazines I'm surprised you hold the views you do.

C2S/C4S are anything but slow, any car that can hit 0-100 in 10 secs and go to a whisker under 190mph isn't slow my friend.

The skidpan at Silverstone has a kicker plate designed to throw the back end out the idea is that it creates the over steer and they show you how to correct it. (wouldn't be much of a skidpan it the car didn't oversteer would it?)

A modern 911 takes a lot more provocation to get the back end moving than most RWD cars they are very stable in this regard.

The Cayman's engine is a great unit, what have you read that states otherwise?

You seem to have a lot of opinions that aren't based on any practical hands on experience.
If you'd read the post you would have seen that i was going off my dad's experiences of the porsches at silverstone and for the money they are slow when you think of what other cars there are out there for the money.

I know silverstone's got a kick plate but i wasn't talking about that i was just talking about normally experimenting with getting the back out.

The cayman's engine is fine but my point was that if they had put a full fat 911 engine in it i bet it would be the faster car.

toppstuff

13,698 posts

246 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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Yum



anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 26th June 2012
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This might be some very clever design work as it's looking better with every view I have of it.

Rather lovely!

killingjoker

950 posts

192 months

Sunday 22nd July 2012
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Blown2CV said:
whoami said:
Blown2CV said:
DB9VolanteDriver said:
Well, I'm glad they called it Vanquish rather than DBS. This keeps eveything balanced. Had they called it DBS, then you'd have to specify early, mid or late model DBS when discussing your car. By calling it Vanquish, all V car owners and DBS owners only have to refer to early or late.
I can't imagine that was their main driver for choosing the name. Question is, are they going to slot in a hot version i.e. "new DBS" under this one?
You mean above the Vanquish?
no.... the previous vanquish was positioned very much at the head of the range. Presuming it still is, surely a DBS would therefore sit beneath.
DBS is being discontinued. Vanquish sits at the top of the range. One-77 and V12 Vantage Zagato not standard model range cars.

Jaykaybi

3,494 posts

220 months

Thursday 26th July 2012
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Got to be worth me mentioning that the new Vanquish, AND the V12 Zagato will both be at Wilton House Classic and Supercars this year. I for one can't smegging wait!

zetec_s6

131 posts

245 months

Sunday 29th July 2012
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I've just seen a maroon one as i turned into my road, looked and sounded great. Didn't realise what it was until i saw the back of it. I'm assuming it was a development car?

williamp

19,213 posts

272 months

Sunday 5th August 2012
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just saw a black/dark grey vanquish (numberplater VX12???) coming from the M69 and heading into the Leicester outer ring road. maybe going from MIRA to an overnight hotel stay?

The driver wasnt hanging around. It was driven quickly, made a great noise that you could hear before you saw it, flashed past us and off. Fantastic!!

and coincidentlally we saw a NP vanquish on the M1 southbound today as well. Tough call to decide between them

Mavican

135 posts

163 months

Wednesday 19th September 2012
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Just on the score of seeing 1 of these, I saw an unmarked left hand drive red one in Braintree today. Wondered if it was a Virage until I came on here and recognised the rear spoiler being integrated.

Looks nice though and fresh.