RE: Aston Vantage V12
Discussion
militantmandy said:
kambites said:
cronk-flakes said:
kambites said:
cronk-flakes said:
Soo... It's a DBS?
The DBS is based on the DB9 not the Vantage. There's a big difference in size. Don't get me wrong, I like it - but it almost seems pointless. It's not like they don't have a V12 version of a car that looks almost the same.
TheYeti said:
Fittster said:
TheYeti said:
If anyone says that its derivative, not good looking, not bothered etc etc.....
YOU'RE WRONG! END OF!!!
Get your eyes tested! Now!
Oh come on, there is more than a passing resemblance between the XK8, DB7, DB9, DBS and this one. Design innocation is fairly stale at Porsche, Ferrari, Aston and Lambo. The only attempt at something new is the Ferrari California, which unfortunately doesn't work. YOU'RE WRONG! END OF!!!
Get your eyes tested! Now!
Only the smaller supercar makers seem to take risks these days.
Yet I could go out and point out 100 Page Three clones easily in one stroll.......
911 > 928 (Ok, the 928 didn't end up replacing the 911 but it was intended to and it was a major sytling change. The 928 still looks fresh today)
Ferrari Daytona > 512BB
Lamborghini 400GT > Miura > Countach
Aston aren't the most radical but still there were farily significant leaps.
DB6 > V8 > Virage.
Now days it's only the smaller firms taking risks (Spyker, Zonda, etc).
kambites said:
militantmandy said:
kambites said:
cronk-flakes said:
kambites said:
cronk-flakes said:
Soo... It's a DBS?
The DBS is based on the DB9 not the Vantage. There's a big difference in size. Don't get me wrong, I like it - but it almost seems pointless. It's not like they don't have a V12 version of a car that looks almost the same.
Might be worth a visit for you, yeah.
I'm never sure whether to be impressed with Porsche or not. They build a rather oddly porportioned car called the 911. It's oddly proportioned because the engine is, rather unusually, mounted longitudinally behind the axle line.
Then they build a more conventional mid-engined car and... make it look exactly the same as their rear engined one.
OK that may be a slight exaggeration, but the Cayman looks extremely awkward for a mid-engined car to my eye.
I'd say both the Astons and the Porsches are rather too similar for my tastes, but I can understand why manufacturers do it. Since the Aston is a far better looking car, I guess I can forgive it. The back of the 911 is characterfully ungainly, the Cayman is just ungainly.
All IMO, obviously.
I'm never sure whether to be impressed with Porsche or not. They build a rather oddly porportioned car called the 911. It's oddly proportioned because the engine is, rather unusually, mounted longitudinally behind the axle line.
Then they build a more conventional mid-engined car and... make it look exactly the same as their rear engined one.
OK that may be a slight exaggeration, but the Cayman looks extremely awkward for a mid-engined car to my eye.
I'd say both the Astons and the Porsches are rather too similar for my tastes, but I can understand why manufacturers do it. Since the Aston is a far better looking car, I guess I can forgive it. The back of the 911 is characterfully ungainly, the Cayman is just ungainly.
All IMO, obviously.
Edited by kambites on Thursday 5th February 16:48
kambites said:
Might be worth a visit for you, yeah.
Then they build a more conventional mid-engined car and... make it look exactly the same as their rear engined one.
I'd say both the Astons and the Porsches are rather too similar for my tastes, but I can understand why manufacturers do it. Since the Aston is a far better looking car, I guess I can forgive it.
All IMO, obviously.
Wouldn't disagree with any of the above really...more or less. My only real point here is that the DB9 got put on a photocopier -85% and we're done! It doesn't look quite\very\strikingly etc etc similar to the DB9. It is THE SAME bar a few minor details. The slash down the side\running lights. Easy to mistake one for another at distance, from almost any angle. Same can be said for the Porker, but only front on!Then they build a more conventional mid-engined car and... make it look exactly the same as their rear engined one.
I'd say both the Astons and the Porsches are rather too similar for my tastes, but I can understand why manufacturers do it. Since the Aston is a far better looking car, I guess I can forgive it.
All IMO, obviously.
Edited by kambites on Thursday 5th February 16:48
militantmandy said:
Wouldn't disagree with any of the above really...more or less. My only real point here is that the DB9 got put on a photocopier -85% and we're done! It doesn't look quite\very\strikingly etc etc similar to the DB9. It is THE SAME bar a few minor details. The slash down the side\running lights. Easy to mistake one for another at distance, from almost any angle. Same can be said for the Porker, but only front on!
I could confuse a Vanquish with the DB9, but to my eye the V8V looks quite different. I can't quite put my finger on what's so different about them, but I could certainly never mistake a Vantage for a DB9.They actually look much less similar in the metal than they do in pictures, perhaps because the scale is so different?
Edited by kambites on Friday 6th February 08:38
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