New Vantage?

[AstonV]

Little Lofty said:

That color just sucks so bad.

[dbs2000]

I thought the same but saw it over here in the Netherlands in the metal on a pre-Prod and it looked pretty good to be fair (and that was on a car with a terrible paint finish that had been knocked about)

[silverspeed]

Saw new Vantage at Gaydon yesterday . Looked so much better in Silver than red i had seen previously. It’s got real presence

[Graze01]

Graham

that looks pretty flash

did it in any way tempt you to pass on the V12VS you've got coming?

or is it a maybe in the furture some time?

or a never?

Graeme

[silverspeed]

Graze01 said:

Graham

that looks pretty flash

did it in any way tempt you to pass on the V12VS you've got coming?

or is it a maybe in the furture some time?

or a never?

Graeme

The car I have coming is going nowhere - it’s a keeper ! That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s my last Aston though

[anonymous-user]

Can anyone pop in to Gaydon for look?

[northernmedia]

I'd seriously consider moving on my V12VS for that China grey car.

[Beefmeister]

The question is, do you feel the same about the China grey show car without the fancy tyres? Because how likely are you to spank £3000 on a set of tyres every time?



I think a little rim colour addition by Q would achieve the same effect, arguably better and would probably only cost the £3k one time




Or just buy a set of these...

https://rimsavers.com/products/rimsavers-kit-yello...

Edited by Beefmeister on Thursday 15th March 10:24

[Venturist]

Wheel pinstripes make the wheels look teeny, a bit tragic. Definitely loses something without any yellow in the wheel area though.

You can now get lettering/striping for tyres which are cut from rubber and come with adhesive, supposed to be pretty tough and don’t discolour or wear like tyre pens do. Do all four for less than £100 probably. Bit tragic but, bks if I’m paying £3k a set for Pirelli to do it for me.
https://tredwear.com/tire-kits/

[HBradley]

Beefmeister said:

Or just buy a set of these...

https://rimsavers.com/products/rimsavers-kit-yello...

I bet they play havoc with the TPMS?

[Beefmeister]

Venturist said:

Wheel pinstripes make the wheels look teeny, a bit tragic. Definitely loses something without any yellow in the wheel area though.

They only make the wheel look the exact same size as they would be if they were silver!

[Venturist]

Beefmeister said:

They only make the wheel look the exact same size as they would be if they were silver!

The visual weight of the silver lends more mass to the wheel area, a pinstripe around the edge of a black wheel doesn’t

[Beefmeister]

Venturist said:

The visual weight of the silver lends more mass to the wheel area, a pinstripe around the edge of a black wheel doesn’t

I agree that the block of single colour tricks the eye into thinking the wheel is larger. But adding a pinstripe to a black wheel certainly doesn’t make it look smaller, black wheels are lost in the wheel well completely.

As I said a couple of pages back, the stripe on the tyre does trick the eye into thinking there’s a bigger wheel there.

(Also an automotive design engineer)

[RichB]

neilf said:

Grey and yellow becoming my favourite combination...

And traditional too, obviously playing on Aston Martin's heritage - DB2/4 grey, black wheels and a hint of yellow (the British Racing & Sports Car Club badge and the trafficators )

[northernmedia]

I'd have to go for those tyres.

Beefmeister said:

The question is, do you feel the same about the China grey show car without the fancy tyres? Because how likely are you to spank £3000 on a set of tyres every time?



I think a little rim colour addition by Q would achieve the same effect, arguably better and would probably only cost the £3k one time




Or just buy a set of these...

https://rimsavers.com/products/rimsavers-kit-yello...

Edited by Beefmeister on Thursday 15th March 10:24

[Jon39]

RichB said:

neilf said:

Grey and yellow becoming my favourite combination...

And traditional too, obviously playing on Aston Martin's heritage - DB2/4 grey, black wheels and a hint of yellow (the British Racing & Sports Car Club badge and the trafficators )

Also popular on some Mini Coopers in the 1960s, Tweed Grey. Quite similar.

[Gettoff]

Just goes to show, the new car is quite colour/spec sensitive. I really like it in some combos but some are awful. Primer grey or spectraflare snot green don't help either way, even with three grand stripey tyres.

Roll on road test reporting, too long between reveal, tease road tests and eventual embargo over press release.

[Wayne95]

RichB said:

And traditional too, obviously playing on Aston Martin's heritage - DB2/4 grey, black wheels and a hint of yellow (the British Racing & Sports Car Club badge and the trafficators )

What a terrible front grill on that db2, its huge and looks droopy. Surely they did a quick face lift after launch . Can't believe they did that to such a beautiful shape

[RichB]

Wayne, remember this was early 1950s so over 60 years ago and was kind of an evolution of the Aston pre-war grill. The DB MkIII (pictured below) was an evolution of that and set the standard for what has become the Aston grill shape ever since.

[RichB]

A few more so you can see the evolution from pre-war 15/98, through the Spa "Replica" to the first of the DB2s to compare with my DB MkIII in the post below.