GTP Cool Wall: Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Voting Closed

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V8 Vantage

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Joey D
.: 2008+* Aston Martin V8 Vantage suggested by V8_Vantage :.

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Specs:
Base price: $126,400
Engine: 4.3-liter V-8, 380 hp/302 lb-ft
Transmission: Six-speed manual
Length x width x height: 172.5 x 73.5 x 50.0 in
Wheelbase: 102.5 in
Curb weight: 3770 lb
Fuel economy (EPA city/hwy): 13/27 mpg
Warranty: Four years/50,000 miles

*The car was updated in May of 2008, it's still a V8 Vantage but there were enough minor tweaks.​
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I love this: " Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Requested by V8_Vantage"
 
Sub Zero. First: just look at it.
Second: listen to the first 40 seconds of this video.
Third: Be amazed like never before.:drool:
 
I clicked on sub-zero by mistake, I meant to click on cool. It's a very cool car, I see one every day a couple of houses down from me and it never ceases to impress. But by simple virtue of it not being the coolest Aston Martin I wouldn't give it top honours.
 
Cool. A very, very cool car, but I don't think of it as Sub-Zero. Though I do think it qualifies for Sub-Zero, I see it more as Cool. It doesn't matter, however, it sure is a great car.
 
Cool.

It's enormously sexy, but the V12 Vantage spoils everything. The V12 looks worse, and the V8 looks plainer. In the past, sub-zero, no doubt. Now, though? Merely cool.
 
MatskiMonk
Its sooo much cooler thant some of the tat that's been voted cool I'm tempted to got for Sub-zero, but I can't because to me, an Aston Martin Vantage (like in the 90's) is about the coolest car there is..

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.. and that's what a vantage should look like.
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Wrong:
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The 90s version is the worst looking in my opinion by a long way. Only saved from being the ugliest Aston by the Lagonda and Zagato(s).
 
I think the new 2008 Vantage is a cool car but if 007 was driving it then it would be Sub-Zero Cool car. Oh and compared to the '90's Aston Martin Vantage that body style reminds me of the 1985 Opel Manta.

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Totally uncool car! I wonder if it was done by the same car designer?
 
The Manta was pretty cool... if it were put to the vote I think it would do okay!

and.. okay the old Vantage is a great looking car, but the 90's model was breathtaking... it's like watching a 747 pull a negative 4g inverted dive!

The only evidence I can find is this,.. which features (unfortunatley) Jeremy Clarkson - but also (fortunately) some Pink Floyd


Edit: just watching that video again, the car that rolls out is a vantage.. the car on the road looks more like a Virage?
 
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When I think "British Everyday Driver" I think the original Mini Cooper...

When I think "British Sports Car" I think Aston Martin...

Those grounds would be enough to call the car Sub-Zero...

BUT, this car doesn't have that elegance to be in the Sub-Zero category, not next to the DB9 and DBS which still look better.

If this was the 90's V8 Vantage, this would be Sub-Zero without question. You can tell it means business just by looking at it and it also looks intimidating. (In fact, in Gran Turismo, I nicknamed my Vantage "Brutus" because the name fit the stature of the car)

But, this car doesn't fit that bill.

COOL
 
Ardius
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That Aston would get its own freaking meat locker devoted to itself. Everything James May said in his review of it is absolutely correct. That Vantage is just the ******* bomb bar none. When I find myself trying to imagine a European musclecar this is what comes to mind first and foremost.
 

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