New Vantage - finally some bonnet vents

[Bobajobbob]

Looks like Andy Palmer agrees with some on this forum that the new Vantage needs some extra detail in the bonnet area.

[hashluck]

Yes! Much better

[ashway]

Thats a massive improvement in my opinion, it breaks the massive expanse of metal up nicely

[silverspeed]

That's a massive move in the right direction .

[Minglar]

It’s funny how something so simple can make such a big difference. Are the vents positioned where the cut outs are when looking at the underside of the bonnet? Dr APs twitter feed has a few more pictures and the carbon surrounds look very nice indeed. Surely these need to be an optional extra from now on? They transform the looks in a very good way and that should appease many oldies on here like me!

Best Regards

Minglar

[MarkM3Evoplus]

Must be good for heat management of a turbo engine too you would think

[Big Ry]

Could that be the standard bonnet for a new Vantage S ?

[TR-Spider]

MarkM3Evoplus said:

Must be good for heat management of a turbo engine too you would think

well, sort off - the AMG engine is a "hot V" configuration, where the exhaust and turbo sits inside the V
-a center vent would help releasing the heat better...

[f1ten]

Looks considerably better yes. Not sure the Amg gts has vents so instead a necessity

[GingerMunky]

Bobajobbob said:

Looks like Andy Palmer agrees with some on this forum that the new Vantage needs some extra detail in the bonnet area.

That looks amaze.

[RichB]

Just need to get rid of the bloody bonnet shut line across the nose above the Aston Martin wings! Whoever designed that should be shot...

[Beefmeister]

They do look fantastic. I’m sure they wouldn’t just create one set of delicious carbon vents just for AP, so one can only assume these will become a Q option or as has been said maybe the new Vantage S bonnet.

[oilit]

in the 1st and 3rd picture they look like a welcome addition - in the 2nd (full frontal) however not sure they look quite so aesthetically pleasing.

I wonder if an additional grill vent at the front edge of the hump a little like the 1970/80s era V8 might help ?

out of interest what flavour of red is that ?

Edited by oilit on Thursday 24th January 19:17

[RichB]

oilit said:

... in the 2nd (full frontal) however not sure they look quite so aesthetically pleasing....

Let's be blunt. In full frontal, the Series 2 Vantage is not much of a looker.

[oilit]

RichB said:

Let's be blunt. In full frontal, the Series 2 Vantage is not much of a looker.

RichB - I can't disagree - but in fairness I think it looks better in the flesh and the above pictures demonstrate it is a very colour sensitive and angle of camera sensitive car - which was not the case with the previous generation V8 & V12 Vantage

[B4rnst4ble]

It looks great from the side but again the full frontal is no looker

[IanV12VSRs]

An improvement undoubtedly - did anyone look inside to see if it was a manual

[Beefmeister]

IanV12VSRs said:

An improvement undoubtedly - did anyone look inside to see if it was a manual

That’s a very good point actually - I seem to remember AP mentioning there was something special about that build. Maybe it was just the vents though.

[wotnoburgers]

The vents look good but the rest of the front is just ste. Spoils an otherwise nice looking car

[dbs2000]

RichB said:

Just need to get rid of the bloody bonnet shut line across the nose above the Aston Martin wings! Whoever designed that should be shot...

That's my only gripe with the Vantage. I love how the outgoing cars ran all the way to the grill. The new Vantage looks brilliant from the side and rear, much like the new DBS, the front on both leaves me cold.