What’s happened today??

[IanV12VSRs]

I travel up to my Dads every four weeks or so. He’s 96 and is still fit enough to live at home so it is the least We can do. A trip from Devon to Lancashire and back over the weekend. Normally, if I am really lucky, I may see 2/3 Astons but today saw 7 on the way home. They were not together but were spaced out between Cheshire and north of Bristol. BUT no Gaydon cars (bear with me) no heritage cars but all second century cars! - and I do know they are built in Gaydon but you know what I am saying.

5 DB11’s and 2 new Vantages. The 11’s were all greys/blacks and the Vantages were Zaffre Blue and one black. The darker 11’s looked pretty menacing and the black Vantage looked even more so. I am biased but the Zaffre car looked stunning

They all had real road presence and whilst I am not a great admirer of the new designs perhaps I was wrong. They seem to be growing on me. Can’t wait to see a DBS in the wild

[anonymous-user]

IanV12VSRs said:

I travel up to my Dads every four weeks or so. He’s 96 and is still fit enough to live at home so it is the least We can do. A trip from Devon to Lancashire and back over the weekend. Normally, if I am really lucky, I may see 2/3 Astons but today saw 7 on the way home. They were not together but were spaced out between Cheshire and north of Bristol. BUT no Gaydon cars (bear with me) no heritage cars but all second century cars! - and I do know they are built in Gaydon but you know what I am saying.

5 DB11’s and 2 new Vantages. The 11’s were all greys/blacks and the Vantages were Zaffre Blue and one black. The darker 11’s looked pretty menacing and the black Vantage looked even more so. I am biased but the Zaffre car looked stunning

They all had real road presence and whilst I am not a great admirer of the new designs perhaps I was wrong. They seem to be growing on me. Can’t wait to see a DBS in the wild

Likewise, I saw 2 new Vantages yesterday on the way back from the workshop - there was a lot of exotic stuff heading to Blenheim yesterday and today I guess. One looked to be Onyx Black, and one in (perhaps) Stratus or Clubsport White. Both looked superb, but I wasn't too keen on the diffuser coloured to match the body colour on the white one.

I've liked the styling of the new car since it was unveiled, but it's really when you see the new Vantage out in the wild, it really starts to make sense and it looks fantastic.

[Rappa]

Ian,

Likewise we came back from visiting my mum in Devon to Somerset today and I saw 4 Astons in 2 hours. All Gaydon ones.

Alas I was in my wife's Merc not the DB9.

Sean

[Upperworks]

New reg’s making the most of a warm weekend perhaps!

[anonymous-user]

On Friday of last week I was driving my V12VS Flugplatz coupe home from work four days into ownership. I see V12VSs rarely and apart from mine had never seen a Flugplatz one in the flesh. And then I spotted an exact copy of my car driving the other way. Weird.

[Upperworks]

Greg66 said:

On Friday of last week I was driving my V12VS Flugplatz coupe home from work four days into ownership. I see V12VSs rarely and apart from mine had never seen a Flugplatz one in the flesh. And then I spotted an exact copy of my car driving the other way. Weird.

You weren’t driving by a reflective surface were you?

[anonymous-user]

Upperworks said:

You weren’t driving by a reflective surface were you?

Ah. So that’s what the sound of breaking glass was...

[AMVSVNick]

NFC 85 Vette said:

I've liked the styling of the new car since it was unveiled, but it's really when you see the new Vantage out in the wild, it really starts to make sense and it looks fantastic.

^^^^this^^^^

[LordBretSinclair]

Zaffre Blue Vantage ??????

Common as muck

[Dewi 1]

IanV12VSRs said:

Normally, if I am really lucky, I may see 2/3 Astons but today saw 7 on the way home.

Oh dear, what is happening?

I regularly do a motorway journey totalling 160 miles, which includes the M25, but rarely ever see an Aston Martin on those journeys.

AML have been talking a lot recently, about the 'Aston Martin Luxury Lifestyle'.
The whole point of luxury, as with academic excellence, is scarcity.

[baconsarney]

Possibly the cars that were at Snetterton on Saturday at the AMOC racing day...... Good selection of the exact cars you describe being used for customer test drives.... My daughters boyfriend had nearly an hour in one of the DB11 Coupes Our invite for the day came from AM Cambridge, great day, and a surprise Vulcan making its debut on track... awesome is the only word that fits


Edited to add pic

Edited by baconsarney on Tuesday 4th September 08:27

[IanV12VSRs]

That makes some sense but why were they bringing cars in from the other side of the country? Was just weird seeing second century cars on none from other periods.