AMV8 options list, prices and my impression.

[rich1231]

Any more specs?

[safetystop]

Whats the opinion on the hi-fi?
Are 700 watts required or not?

[sexinxs]

My dealer here in Italy is waiting for me tomorrow... I'll let You kno ;-)

Ambrogio Calcaterra
Milano- Italy

[rich1231]

safetystop,

Ive said yes to it, I dont want to find out its great and I cant have it later :-)

[sexinxs]

And here, finally, is mine:

Colours
- Meteorite silver
- Full leather Chancellor red (both upper and lower interior)for the whole interior and seats (outer and inner)
- Chancellor red fine stitching for the whole interior (dash seats door etc..)
- Alcantara headling Chancellor red
- Carpet Black Cherry with Balck Cherry stitching
- Seat Belt Warm Charcoal

Exterior Options
- 19" wheels
- Reversing sensor (not wanted but factory standard)
- Powerfold mirrors
- Heated front screen
- Tyre pressure monitoring (standard)
- HID Headlights (Xenon)
- Bright finish grille
- Graphite grey brake calipers (standard)

Interior Function
- Battery conditioner
- Alarm upgrade
- Smokers' pack

Facia Trim
- Alloy (standard)

Interior fittings colour
- Platinum silver
- Personalized sill plaques

Comfort and convenience
- Cruise control
- Heated seats
- First aid kit
- Integrated GSM phone
- Satellite Navigation system with TMC
- Fire extinguisher

In car entertainment
- 700w audio system

...... Price.... like a poor specs DB9 ;-)

Ambrogio Calcaterra
Milano - Italy


>> Edited by sexinxs on Tuesday 31st May 17:24

[beej]

Ok, for what its worth, here's my spec.

Titanium outdoors, Obsidian indoors with silver thread, alloy dash, tailors alcantara. (the original 007)

19" wheels, satnav, xenons etc etc but that's not really important - what is important is how utterly drop dead gorgeous the car is in the flesh. Much curvier and more sculpted than the pictures show.

And how cool are those front sidelights? I'm gonna have mine on permanently.

[twin turbo]

Is that what they are? I thought they were the indicators (I take you mean the strip of lights running up the inside of the headlights?).

In that case, coo-el!

[safetystop]

They act as both sidelights and indicators and exreeeeemely cool

[Muncher]

Blimey, it appears I'm the only person on PH not to have ordered one! How many are they producing?

[twin turbo]

About 3000 per year. And I'm currently about £85k short

[Beej]

yep - just to clear up that point of confusion, the very very cool little curve of reflectors down the inside edge of the headlamp pods are sidelights and indicators AND machine guns

[sexinxs]

Guns?? Wow in italian traffic more useful tha champagne holder!!!

A

[mjk1]

I'm in the process of speccing my V8 at the moment. The only available brochure from AM is not too helpful in this regard. Not even the colours are shown. For this reason could someone please post a colour key to the colour chart photo in the first post of this thread. My personal favourite for the V8 is the 6th from the left in the second row. The interior either dark grey or black.

Thanks in advance.

[anonymous-user]

mjk1 said:

I'm in the process of speccing my V8 at the moment. The only available brochure from AM is not too helpful in this regard. Not even the colours are shown. For this reason could someone please post a colour key to the colour chart photo in the first post of this thread. My personal favourite for the V8 is the 6th from the left in the second row. The interior either dark grey or black. Thanks in advance.

Looks like meteorite!

[benzedrine]

Anyone actually had a delivery date yet ? The latest email I had from Aston said simply

aston said:

I understand the first delivery will take place during the last quarter of this year.

[richb]

mjk1 said:

I'm in the process of speccing my V8 at the moment. The only available brochure from AM is not too helpful in this regard. Not even the colours are shown. For this reason could someone please post a colour key to the colour chart photo in the first post of this thread. My personal favourite for the V8 is the 6th from the left in the second row. The interior either dark grey or black. Thanks in advance.

I think spec'ing one's Aston is meant to be experienced in the show-room, they have all the colours and a cabinet full of leather samples, carpet samples etc. It's not something to be done on the basis of a glossy brochure or worse still based on a picture on the 'net! Rich...

[cirks]

quite agree, although when I was up there it was difficult visualising what some of the options and colour schemes would look like on the car itself. The lime stitching was relatively easy to reject though!
The tour around the production line helped with colours up to a point.

The colours in the first post in this thread of course don't look anything like the 'real' ones do in daylight etc.

Perhaps one of the 'design your own car' type bits of software would help (don't Vauxhall (sorry) and others do this now?)

[richb]

On the subject of lime green, does anyone know what colour stitching is available? How about yellow? p.s. don't ask... Rich...

[rich1231]

cirks said:

quite agree, although when I was up there it was difficult visualising what some of the options and colour schemes would look like on the car itself. The lime stitching was relatively easy to reject though! The tour around the production line helped with colours up to a point. The colours in the first post in this thread of course don't look anything like the 'real' ones do in daylight etc. Perhaps one of the 'design your own car' type bits of software would help (don't Vauxhall (sorry) and others do this now?)

Wait til you see my internal colour leather/stiching combo....... was told today order placed at factory now, so too late to change mind....gulp

[seasider]

rich1231 said:

Wait til you see my pink leather/stiching combo....... was told today order placed at factory now, so too late to change mind....gulp