V8 Vantage N430/GT12 half way house coming?

[AOK]

Waking to the news of the Porsche 911 R, an incredibly exciting lightweight manual normally-aspirated £130k offering, I'm left disappointed that due to the way Porsche now do business, even if I wanted to, I can't buy one!

All this leads me back to the N430, which is something I've been toying with for months. Does anyone know if 2016 will see a new iteration of V8 Vantage special edition? There can't be more than 12-18 months of production left surely?

We've had the N400, N420 etc... can we expect a manual-tran N450? Or GT8 of some sort? V8 Vantage GT? V8 Vantage R?

Any thoughts / information (vague rumours or otherwise!) would be very interesting to hear

I'm desperate to join the clan... absolutely LOVE my TVR, but I just find its not refined enough for long trips / daily use.

[AOK]

V8 Vantage GT said:

There is supposed to be 100 only Vantage GT-S cars slotted for the US, basically the last hurrah. Just a GT that can be ordered with unlimited options. I haven't seen any on dealer websites. I think the GT was perfect the way it is.

Maybe there will be something similar in Europe, an N430-S, or something.

Here is the US press release. I've been told US orders for Vantages have been closed for sometime now. What's out there, that's it, once it's gone, it's gone.

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/attachment.php?...

Thanks, that's very informative. That bulletin suggests that production ends June 2016 - no suggestion of it being that soon here in the UK?

[AOK]

Big Ry said:

Saying that, the new 7 speed V12S Manual would have taken a bit of investment I'd assume, so anything's possible.

They've brought back a manual transmission to the V12? This changes everything... the primary attraction of the N430 was the manual box. I'll have to look into it further. Thanks!

[AOK]

I've read the 'V12VS Manual' thread and, whilst it sounds very interesting, somehow it doesn't grip me as much as the idea of a road/track focused and lightweight (I use that term most vaguely!) car which can be used as a euro-blast GT on occasion. More a GT3 alternative than a Turbo S, if you catch my drift. Somehow I just don't think a V12 captures what I'm after. A 1,500kg manual N450 on the other hand... yum

The last post is the best steer yet - I think the previous hints went over my head! I'll follow that up right now, thank you!

Other than a few loose phone calls to Sevenoaks, I've never had any dealing with an AM centre before. I'm based in London/Cambridge but happy to use anyone... any recommendations which dealers are better than others? Feel free to PM me.

Edited by AOK on Wednesday 2nd March 15:03

[AOK]

FFM said:

Ciao AOK!
A special analog car to celebrate the Vantage journey would be epic, let's hope AM will hear you! I feel already special in a 4.7, I would imagine in something like what you just described!

Keeping my fingers crossed that it might happen. With a manual transmission ideally!