RE: Vanquish Zagato Shooting Brake

[Fetchez la vache]

Johnspex said:

I have to agree the wheels are pretty awful, but Christ, what a car.
Heart-achingly beautiful

This.

Prawnboy said:

i was always under the assumption that a shooting brake was an estate with 2 doors?

And this.

TBH since Merc did their "4 door coupe" bks manufacturers can get away with calling anything... anything. Someone may be able to point to an earlier 4-door coupe (which strictly should also be shorter than the saloon version as well) but it certainly seems to have kicked off the current "trend", so therefore gets my ire.

[Doofus]

Rawwr said:

Does anyone remember the days when elegance and subtlety was a thing?

The memories grow dimmer with each new 'design study'

[Rawwr]

Doofus said:

Rawwr said:

Does anyone remember the days when elegance and subtlety was a thing?

The memories grow dimmer with each new 'design study'

I really think I must be getting old now as I really, genuinely, can't see what other people are seeing in those photos. It looks like an over-fussy, unnecessary mess of interrupted lines and unresolved design to my eyes

The DB9 and Vantage V8 were - and still are - such beautiful, flowing, almost perfect designs but now it appears like current design methodology spawns from painting a potato red and then cutting chunks out of it and calling it 'striking'.

[danlowe42]

Rawwr said:

an over-fussy, unnecessary mess of interrupted lines and unresolved design

I think there is a word for this... " Zagato"

[Todd Bonzalez]

danlowe42 said:

I think there is a word for this... " Zagato"

To be fair, it's all in house at AM now.

[Doofus]

danlowe42 said:

Rawwr said:

an over-fussy, unnecessary mess of interrupted lines and unresolved design

I think there is a word for this... " Zagato"

In fairness, I'm not sure Zagato's designs have ever been "over-fussy".

[donteatpeople]

smaybury said:

Can't get my head around this trend for impractical estates.

That's a very negative way of looking at coupes with increased luggage space.

[mikeg15]

Nice enough looking car. However the roof design makes me think "Brylcreem advert"

[406dogvan]

RDMcG said:

Seems pointless with only two doors. Prefer the Panamera Sport Turismo which at least has a minimal level of utility. This is not a shooting brake.
No room for the ghilly.

I think anyone likely to be able to afford one of these will have a few other cars to transport the staff - you could probably buy 10 Panameras for what this will cost...

I think it's stunning in terms of being a Hot Wheels car made real - not sure it's an AM but who cares, I'll take 2 ;0

p.s. looking at the values of other Zagato AMs it might even be a sensible expenditure

[ChawenHalo]

Shooting break as opposed to an estate has 2 doors not 4...

[E34-3.2]

Another Aston made with spare parts from other manufacturers...

[rob.e]

Stunning

[oilit]

I think that is a thing of beauty - trying to decide what colour it would look best in if I were to win the lottery !