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jeremyp

Original Poster:

5 posts

146 months

Yesterday (09:25)
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Morning!

I am looking for a haptic dash V8 Vantage in Tungsten Silver with Sportshift. Ideally with rear camera (although I know Aston Installations can fit one).
I may consider a MY17 S registered after April 1st 2017 to get AMI3 with CarPlay and cheaper tax!

I ve been to McGurk who don t have a car with that spec available at the moment (they sold a S just before I was looking).

I assumed that all dealers would be advertising on AutoTrader or PistonHeads but that does not seem to be the case.
Are there any dealers that I am missing from the list below?

Aston Workshop (http://www.aston.co.uk/)
Chiltern Aston Centre (https://www.chilternaston.co.uk)
Aston Sales Kensington (https://www.astonsaleskensington.com)
Nicolas Mee (https://www.nicholasmee.co.uk)
McGurk (https://mcgurk.com)

(In addition to main dealers - HWM is 5 minutes down the road from me)

Thanks in advance

Edited by jeremyp on Thursday 1st January 11:43


Edited by jeremyp on Thursday 1st January 18:51

N430

356 posts

204 months

Yesterday (22:41)
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Why not ask Stuart Parker or one of the team at HWM to try and find what you’re looking for?

nickv12

1,414 posts

104 months

N430 said:
Why not ask Stuart Parker or one of the team at HWM to try and find what you re looking for?
I second this. The team at HWM are excellent.

But I wouldn’t get hung up on limiting it to an S spec. The non-S only really differs by interior trim. The 10bhp hike is easily offset by having the secondary cats bypassed (legal in the UK).

As always, the important things are the specific options you may want, which were available to S and non-S cars.

You already identified SportShift and the MY that comes with CarPlay as standard (good choices), but other options to consider are:
  • Comfort or Sports suspension
  • Hi-Fi grade (if you can find a B&O equipped car, jump for it)
  • Lightweight carbon seats (strangely more comfortable, but you lose side airbags)
…as well as the usual interior and exterior colour ways.

Finally, ensure the tyres aren’t the originals at that age regardless of tread depth.

Good luck. You won’t regret it.

jeremyp

Original Poster:

5 posts

146 months

Thanks N430, I’ll reach out to the team at HWM

Noted nickv - ideally I wouldn’t have an S but from MY17, you couldn’t get a non-S so if I want CarPlay and cheaper tax then it has to be an S.


delta0

2,464 posts

127 months

That may have been me that bought that V8S from McGurk recently. They have a good turn over of cars there so something will come up but it is a very small amount of them that are in the post April 2017 car tax bracket.

jeremyp

Original Poster:

5 posts

146 months

Was it this one delta0 ?
https://mcgurk.com/aston-martin-for-sale/aston-mar...

Matt@McGurk is trying to help to find something. I know my search criteria is very narrow!

delta0

2,464 posts

127 months

jeremyp said:
Was it this one delta0 ?
https://mcgurk.com/aston-martin-for-sale/aston-mar...

Matt@McGurk is trying to help to find something. I know my search criteria is very narrow!
Yes it was!

jeremyp

Original Poster:

5 posts

146 months

delta0 said:
jeremyp said:
Was it this one delta0 ?
https://mcgurk.com/aston-martin-for-sale/aston-mar...

Matt@McGurk is trying to help to find something. I know my search criteria is very narrow!
Yes it was!
Lovely car!

Familymad

1,674 posts

238 months

HWM team are very proactive. They know the market well and have many fingers in many pies. I third it you try them!

jeremyp

Original Poster:

5 posts

146 months

Familymad said:
HWM team are very proactive. They know the market well and have many fingers in many pies. I third it you try them!
Thank you

delta0

2,464 posts

127 months

jeremyp said:
Lovely car!
It’s incredible. You are making a great choice!