wow!!!

i am speachless, I have just seen one of the new V12's near Truro. Is this the best looking car in the world ever or what???
now I know what £187,000 can buy you, I am putting the house up for sale!!!

Adam

 

Yep,i have seen one going around millbrook last year on test and it sound like a rocket going by.must of been doing 180 mph because we was doing 140 and it was gone.......

 

i dont know if this is god or bad, but i thought it was a bently at first. the badges are the same shape!!!

what does 140 feel like??
i would crap my pants!!!!
ive had 120 out f my calibra, and i got scared and slowed down. 140 must be pretty scary.

Adam

 

I saw one last Sunday, absolutely be-yoo-tiful. £187,000? Ouch!

 

Beautiful is not a word I would use. I think they look more clumsy than the DB7 V12 Vantage.

 

never seen one : ( but my mates spotted one and said it made a 360 we had just seen look like a POS!

 

140 is fine when not on a road as stuff comes too quickly at , i had 145 out of a ferrari 355 last year

 

I've had 150 out of my car (Corrado VR6) and my mate commented on how stable and quiet it was at high speeds. Mind you, I had 140 out of my mk2 16v which was scary. Was stable though, just a lot noisier. I'm sure there a plenty of scoob drivers about here who've done 140+. I think they'd probably feel OK at those speeds. But if something goes wrong at these speeds then you're in trouble, so it's best to test on an airstrip/track or a very very very empty open stretch of motorway.

 

Nothing prepares you adequately for seeing a Vanquish up clase on the public road. If ever the phrase "jaw-dropping" was appropriate for a car, this is it. Absolutely unbelievable...

Terry

 

terry, i think you have got it spot on there mate.

Adam

 

140 was in a skoda octavia rs / not bad hey

 

The Vanquish is one of the most beautiful cars ever built.

 

One has just been written off while doing stunts for the new James Bond movie

 

Its OK Graham, the cars used in the bond films weren't real, just replicas with the Vanquish body work.

 

Live only a few minutes from Millbrook test track and have seen them, one come past me WOW do I want one or what, beautiful car.
Cheers
Colin

 

done 175 in a friends scooby (in europe), was VERY quick, only had 2 pots at the time so a little scary...

 

Dominic,

So??

Isn't this a thread about the Aston Martin Vanquish?

 

A client of mine manufactures the ECU'S for Aston Martin and they have had a Vanquish in thier workshop for at least 12 months now and you would cry when you see what they do to it on the rollers and then strip out all the electrics and create faults on it to see what happens.Its amazing what you can do with 2 V6 mondeo engines and a welder.

Zippy

 

Peformance wise, it's hard to justify the extra £50,000 over a DB7 V12 Vantage.

I thought they were gorgeous til I saw one in the flesh and was resoundly un-gobsmacked by it.

If they're all honeycomb aluminium sandwich construction blah blah, why do they weigh so much ?

And why are they moving from Newport Pagnell to Gaydon *sniff*

Going from 300 -> 3000 units a year is going to undermine their cache.

 

Have seen two now. I would agree they are not the prettiest car in thew world, but F**K Me are they stunning in the metal.
My ultimate car always used to be a black V8 Vantage 600, it is now a blue Vanquish.

P.S. I can't speak for Imprezas, but anything 130+ and my Legacy Turbo gets very light and 'weavy' on the front end, the 4 pots stop it on its nose though.