Vantage S delivered
Discussion
callevascm said:
Welcome, I do hope you enjoy the S, it is such a great car. Keep the sport button pressed. Have you thought about joining the PetrolHead Nirvana Alpine South Tour in September, you would then make it five "S"'s on the Tour - the S is really quite common....!
Not common just popular! Yes, we did Alpine North 2012 and will be on Alpine South 2013 and the reason we signed up again was 'cos we had a great time and the S turned out to be the perfect tool for the job! You really get to feel the benefits of the tweaks it has over the V8 Vantage (which we had previously) and we never once wished we were in any of the Porsches, Ferraris etc that were with us 
callevascm said:
Welcome, I do hope you enjoy the S, it is such a great car. Keep the sport button pressed. Have you thought about joining the PetrolHead Nirvana Alpine South Tour in September, you would then make it five "S"'s on the Tour - the S is really quite common....!
Bit of a trek from California to the Alps though....
Omega3effect said:
Any advice/recommends for a first timer?
As said, pull your fuse to disable the baffles. No issues casued by this.And do regular (every drive?) clutch learns to get the best from the gearbox and longest clutch life. This was required with ASM1, maybe less with ASM2. Although I assume you have an MY13 car, have you got a manual box with cltch pedal?
As to additions... Vantage collection do nice overmats and lots more carbon bits if that floats your boat.
Shame you're too far away for Bamford Rose exhaust work, but RSC can sort you out some sports cats to give you a few more beans and a more interesting noise.
Omega3effect said:
Yeah, I almost went with a car that had the V spoke and darker parts -- I like those too. But went with understated (grey calipers) too.
Meteorite is strong enough on its own. I think the silver/grey calipers are the right choice in this case. The sills are perfect too.Do you follow the Aston forum on 6speedonline? There are a number of regular contributors from California there. The time zones are closer to yours (and mine) too
Very nice! Is your front fender (I've Americanised, I mean Americanized my question) a different shape?
I see you have the typical US extra lights for safety purposes but the shape looks different to my V8, but perhaps just the V12 bumper (that's the Brit name for it so other UK based owners can chip in) is a different shape to the V8 on all cars, and I never noticed because I'm distracted how amazingly stunning the whole car is!
I see you have the typical US extra lights for safety purposes but the shape looks different to my V8, but perhaps just the V12 bumper (that's the Brit name for it so other UK based owners can chip in) is a different shape to the V8 on all cars, and I never noticed because I'm distracted how amazingly stunning the whole car is!
djmac56 said:
Very nice! Is your front fender (I've Americanised, I mean Americanized my question) a different shape?
I see you have the typical US extra lights for safety purposes but the shape looks different to my V8, but perhaps just the V12 bumper (that's the Brit name for it so other UK based owners can chip in) is a different shape to the V8 on all cars, and I never noticed because I'm distracted how amazingly stunning the whole car is!
It a great looking car with the optional sport pack wheelsI see you have the typical US extra lights for safety purposes but the shape looks different to my V8, but perhaps just the V12 bumper (that's the Brit name for it so other UK based owners can chip in) is a different shape to the V8 on all cars, and I never noticed because I'm distracted how amazingly stunning the whole car is!
The bumper is standard its just the lip comes out a fair way and the CF extends quite away across it.
MY13 cars are now the same but black plastic.
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