Vantage AMR

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nickv8

1,342 posts

82 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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NeinFondue said:
...Marek also popped in and provided some more good input, so yeah really really happy with where we are...
That really made me smile! biggrin

In summary, you went along to tweak the trim to make it the perfect car for you (which is a wonderful sounding process in its own right - enjoy!). Then the head of design for the company, with overall responsibility for all new cars coming out of this low volume bee hive, just popped by with some tips???

You have just gotta love AM. And understatement.

NeinFondue

860 posts

155 months

Monday 24th July 2017
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nickv8 said:
That really made me smile! biggrin

In summary, you went along to tweak the trim to make it the perfect car for you (which is a wonderful sounding process in its own right - enjoy!). Then the head of design for the company, with overall responsibility for all new cars coming out of this low volume bee hive, just popped by with some tips???

You have just gotta love AM. And understatement.
Pretty much.. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to meet him and he asked about my plans / vision for the Q customisations, so based on that he gave a few recommendations that I hadn't thought about. Very pleased smile

silverspeed

1,505 posts

229 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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NeinFondue said:
nickv8 said:
That really made me smile! biggrin

In summary, you went along to tweak the trim to make it the perfect car for you (which is a wonderful sounding process in its own right - enjoy!). Then the head of design for the company, with overall responsibility for all new cars coming out of this low volume bee hive, just popped by with some tips???

You have just gotta love AM. And understatement.
Pretty much.. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to meet him and he asked about my plans / vision for the Q customisations, so based on that he gave a few recommendations that I hadn't thought about. Very pleased smile
Halo seems to be the scheme to have ? I may have missed it but are you going this route ? I heard that some people are ticking the stripe delete box too which kind of takes away the AMR angle .

NeinFondue

860 posts

155 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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silverspeed said:
Halo seems to be the scheme to have ? I may have missed it but are you going this route ? I heard that some people are ticking the stripe delete box too which kind of takes away the AMR angle .
I’m not going for the Halo, rather the likely more common Scintilla with Ceramic. I personally like Silver a lot, but Halo would have been my second choice.

silverspeed

1,505 posts

229 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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Scintilla is a great colour - V12Z colour?
Have you been told when your car will go in to build . I'm assuming they will be all built for Christmas and then line change over the holidays and into 18 for new Vantage .

NeinFondue

860 posts

155 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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silverspeed said:
Scintilla is a great colour - V12Z colour?
Have you been told when your car will go in to build . I'm assuming they will be all built for Christmas and then line change over the holidays and into 18 for new Vantage .
Quite a way off a build date yet. TBH, we only just completed the second round of updates for the customisation, and I expect at least one more round. Once that’s done, then it still needs final approval by the Q team. I suspect it would more likely be around January 2018 for mine.

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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NeinFondue said:
silverspeed said:
Scintilla is a great colour - V12Z colour?
Have you been told when your car will go in to build . I'm assuming they will be all built for Christmas and then line change over the holidays and into 18 for new Vantage .
Quite a way off a build date yet. TBH, we only just completed the second round of updates for the customisation, and I expect at least one more round. Once that’s done, then it still needs final approval by the Q team. I suspect it would more likely be around January 2018 for mine.
Scintilla is indeed a great colour and needless to say, ceramic is a fave of mine as it was the colour of my last car. It'll be a long wait !

AdamV8V

1,379 posts

155 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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silverspeed said:
I heard that some people are ticking the stripe delete box too which kind of takes away the AMR angle .
As I understand it, you can't delete the stripe on the Halo scheme, even if you go down the 'Q' route.

If you could, I would have chosen Halo as I *love* Stirling Green, but I don't (personally!) think the lime stripe works as well on a Roadster as it does on a coupe (where it obviously continues over the roof and the motorsport connection is clearer).

Other than Marcel and myself, I'm not aware of any cars being spec'd in any other of the four schemes. Last thing I knew, the other V12 slot that my dealer got is going to be white, but not sure if that was confirmed.

I hope somebody has gone for Ultramarine Black or Zaffre Blue as they're lovely colours...

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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AdamV8V said:
silverspeed said:
I heard that some people are ticking the stripe delete box too which kind of takes away the AMR angle .
As I understand it, you can't delete the stripe on the Halo scheme, even if you go down the 'Q' route.

If you could, I would have chosen Halo as I *love* Stirling Green, but I don't (personally!) think the lime stripe works as well on a Roadster as it does on a coupe (where it obviously continues over the roof and the motorsport connection is clearer).

Other than Marcel and myself, I'm not aware of any cars being spec'd in any other of the four schemes. Last thing I knew, the other V12 slot that my dealer got is going to be white, but not sure if that was confirmed.

I hope somebody has gone for Ultramarine Black or Zaffre Blue as they're lovely colours...
I assume Graham meant deleting the stripe on non halo cars, on which IIRC it's a no cost delete option ? But as he says, especially from the outside, that means losing the one thing that tells you it's an AMR car

Zaffre is lovely - I saw it in the flesh at Geneva on the Q DB11.

RobDown

3,803 posts

127 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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I did think long and hard about Ultramarine, but I think a Roadster needs to be a slightly brighter colour (just a personal taste).

I originally wanted Zaffre Blue but was completely over-ruled by the other half, some muttering about it looking like an Audi/BMW colour. Personally I found that comment amazing (how does my wife know what colours Audis come in?). But now that she mentions it I haven't seen a similar blue on a number of German cars.....

So halo it issmile

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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RobDown said:
I did think long and hard about Ultramarine, but I think a Roadster needs to be a slightly brighter colour (just a personal taste).

I originally wanted Zaffre Blue but was completely over-ruled by the other half, some muttering about it looking like an Audi/BMW colour. Personally I found that comment amazing (how does my wife know what colours Audis come in?). But now that she mentions it I haven't seen a similar blue on a number of German cars.....

So halo it issmile
With a global production figure of just 100 V12 cars, across 2 body styles and 2 transmissions, it's not like any of the schemes will be common ! Although I don't recall anyone thus far saying they are going for sportshift ?

I don't recall however any limited run, with the possible exception of GT8, where such a large percentage of the buyers are active forum contributors - combining those who have posted on here that they are getting one with the odd forum member I happen to know to be getting one but who hasn't posted about it, then assuming there are a couple more lurkers who are getting one but have stayed silent, we will potentially have more than one third of UK AMR cars belonging to forum members (assuming UK production accounts for say 30-35 cars)

NeinFondue

860 posts

155 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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jonby said:
With a global production figure of just 100 V12 cars, across 2 body styles and 2 transmissions, it's not like any of the schemes will be common ! Although I don't recall anyone thus far saying they are going for sportshift ?

I don't recall however any limited run, with the possible exception of GT8, where such a large percentage of the buyers are active forum contributors - combining those who have posted on here that they are getting one with the odd forum member I happen to know to be getting one but who hasn't posted about it, then assuming there are a couple more lurkers who are getting one but have stayed silent, we will potentially have more than one third of UK AMR cars belonging to forum members (assuming UK production accounts for say 30-35 cars)
Is that not a similar split for original V12VR?

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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NeinFondue said:
jonby said:
we will potentially have more than one third of UK AMR cars belonging to forum members (assuming UK production accounts for say 30-35 cars)
Is that not a similar split for original V12VR?
I don't recall there being more than 5ish original owners of V12VR on here, but that may well be my old age catching up with me ! Seems like there could easily be more than 10 AMR buyers who are active PH contributors

NeinFondue

860 posts

155 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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jonby said:
I don't recall there being more than 5ish original owners of V12VR on here, but that may well be my old age catching up with me ! Seems like there could easily be more than 10 AMR buyers who are active PH contributors
Sorry, I meant the number of V12VR’s produced / delivered to the UK market being a similar number to your prediction of UK V12 AMR’s..

My guess is that PH may have an unhealthy number of nostalgic and old / old fashioned drivers. Last NA V12 Manual (of any brand??). rolleyes

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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NeinFondue said:
jonby said:
I don't recall there being more than 5ish original owners of V12VR on here, but that may well be my old age catching up with me ! Seems like there could easily be more than 10 AMR buyers who are active PH contributors
Sorry, I meant the number of V12VR’s produced / delivered to the UK market being a similar number to your prediction of UK V12 AMR’s..

My guess is that PH may have an unhealthy number of nostalgic and old / old fashioned drivers. Last NA V12 Manual (of any brand??). rolleyes
Ah sorry, of course. Complete guess although IIRC that figure was suggested elsewhere on here. But it would appear there is more than one per UK dealer going off some comments on here and I'd be amazed if the figure for the UK was over 40% for any model available in most non-US countries, hence my (perhaps incorrect ?) assumption of 30 something

NeinFondue

860 posts

155 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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jonby said:
Ah sorry, of course. Complete guess although IIRC that figure was suggested elsewhere on here. But it would appear there is more than one per UK dealer going off some comments on here and I'd be amazed if the figure for the UK was over 40% for any model available in most non-US countries, hence my (perhaps incorrect ?) assumption of 30 something
Yeah not sure what the final dealer allocations are going to be, but mine has sold two. I guess it will ultimately come down to ROW take up of the car. If ROW interest isn’t as significant as it seems to have been here in the UK, then I guess AML may offer up additional allocations to the UK dealers.

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Tuesday 25th July 2017
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NeinFondue said:
jonby said:
Ah sorry, of course. Complete guess although IIRC that figure was suggested elsewhere on here. But it would appear there is more than one per UK dealer going off some comments on here and I'd be amazed if the figure for the UK was over 40% for any model available in most non-US countries, hence my (perhaps incorrect ?) assumption of 30 something
Yeah not sure what the final dealer allocations are going to be, but mine has sold two. I guess it will ultimately come down to ROW take up of the car. If ROW interest isn’t as significant as it seems to have been here in the UK, then I guess AML may offer up additional allocations to the UK dealers.
Makes sense. Still would be surprised if it starts with a 4 but I have no feel at all for what demand outside UK might be. Obviously the markets without the full power upgrade may be slightly less keen.

mafisher

87 posts

117 months

Thursday 27th July 2017
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AdamV8V said:
As I understand it, you can't delete the stripe on the Halo scheme, even if you go down the 'Q' route.

If you could, I would have chosen Halo as I *love* Stirling Green, but I don't (personally!) think the lime stripe works as well on a Roadster as it does on a coupe (where it obviously continues over the roof and the motorsport connection is clearer).

Other than Marcel and myself, I'm not aware of any cars being spec'd in any other of the four schemes. Last thing I knew, the other V12 slot that my dealer got is going to be white, but not sure if that was confirmed.

I hope somebody has gone for Ultramarine Black or Zaffre Blue as they're lovely colours...
I have gone for Ultramarine, no stripe, black calipers, Satin wheels, corsa tyres, black on black interior with red stitching and interior carbon pack, Lightweight seats, aluminium fuel filler, and the assortment pack. Will also probably add the exhaust. Have a build date for the end of September.

AdamV8V

1,379 posts

155 months

Thursday 27th July 2017
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mafisher said:
I have gone for Ultramarine, no stripe, black calipers, Satin wheels, corsa tyres, black on black interior with red stitching and interior carbon pack, Lightweight seats, aluminium fuel filler, and the assortment pack. Will also probably add the exhaust. Have a build date for the end of September.
Congrats! Sounds lovely. Coupe or Roadster?

Surely, NZ will only be getting one or two? I hear Australia have 4 (or that may even be ANZ). You're car really will be a Unicorn!

jonby

5,357 posts

156 months

Thursday 27th July 2017
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mafisher said:
AdamV8V said:
As I understand it, you can't delete the stripe on the Halo scheme, even if you go down the 'Q' route.

If you could, I would have chosen Halo as I *love* Stirling Green, but I don't (personally!) think the lime stripe works as well on a Roadster as it does on a coupe (where it obviously continues over the roof and the motorsport connection is clearer).

Other than Marcel and myself, I'm not aware of any cars being spec'd in any other of the four schemes. Last thing I knew, the other V12 slot that my dealer got is going to be white, but not sure if that was confirmed.

I hope somebody has gone for Ultramarine Black or Zaffre Blue as they're lovely colours...
I have gone for Ultramarine, no stripe, black calipers, Satin wheels, corsa tyres, black on black interior with red stitching and interior carbon pack, Lightweight seats, aluminium fuel filler, and the assortment pack. Will also probably add the exhaust. Have a build date for the end of September.
Ultramarine is a lovely colour and I like how the colour seems to change according to the light

By 'black on black with red stitching', do you mean the pure & metallic black leather with red welt 'standard' AMR theme ? Makes for a superb combination. Out of interest, did you think about red callipers ? Mind you if it's a coupe, less relevant, especially as black callipers are in keeping with what is something of a stealth scheme on the outside