Aston V8 Vantage - deffo NSR
29 September 2005, 08:30 PM
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Aston V8 Vantage - deffo NSR
Seen one in the flesh today....
Can't help butthink I've seen it before somewhere....
let me think......
mmmmmm
Sorry, but the piccies make it look soooooo much nicer
Was very disappointed TBH.......
Still there's always the DB9
Get a used one for the same price 
Dan
Can't help butthink I've seen it before somewhere....
let me think......
mmmmmm
Sorry, but the piccies make it look soooooo much nicer
Was very disappointed TBH.......
Still there's always the DB9
Get a used one for the same price Dan
29 September 2005, 08:41 PM
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Only saying what I saw - the back looked like it had been chopped off!!!
Just didn't flow like a DB9..........
All IMHO - I'll be waiting for that lottery win and going for a DB9
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30 September 2005, 10:00 AM
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Can't see any 3 Series at all, possibly a slight hint of 350Z, however, not enough to put me off wanting one 
Big question is though, is this car going to make the AM brand more 'common', as the Boxster has done with Porsche. Dont get me wrong, a Porsche coming down the street still makes me stop and look, but the Aston is currently in a different league.
Lets hope it stays that way.
Matt
Big question is though, is this car going to make the AM brand more 'common', as the Boxster has done with Porsche. Dont get me wrong, a Porsche coming down the street still makes me stop and look, but the Aston is currently in a different league.
Lets hope it stays that way.
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30 September 2005, 10:09 AM
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looks more like a Mazda 323 than a square boxy beemer 
http://www.spoilersmax.co.uk/Spoiler...23_spoiler.jpg
it still looks damn sexy though but the DB9 is much nicer
http://www.spoilersmax.co.uk/Spoiler...23_spoiler.jpg
it still looks damn sexy though but the DB9 is much nicer
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30 September 2005, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by ScoobyDoo555
Seen one in the flesh today....
Can't help butthink I've seen it before somewhere....
let me think......
mmmmmm
Sorry, but the piccies make it look soooooo much nicer
Was very disappointed TBH.......
Still there's always the DB9 Get a used one for the same price
Dan
Can't help butthink I've seen it before somewhere....
let me think......
mmmmmm
Sorry, but the piccies make it look soooooo much nicer
Was very disappointed TBH.......
Still there's always the DB9
Get a used one for the same price Dan
Think there lovley looking cars
30 September 2005, 04:16 PM
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LMAO!!!! you b1tches can be SOOOOO cruel
Sorry guys, I'm gonna stick to my guns on this one
Don't expect people to agree, but this is what I saw - a lovely looking Aston front, but the rear quarter looks too abrupt.Don't get me wrong, when I saw the footage, press pics etc, I LOVED it. But seeing a dirty one yesterday in the flesh, I was totally underwhelmed. I certainly wouldn't say "no thanks", but I was really disappointed TBH.
I do agree with the "common" comment - can't help but think that peeps buying the V8 will be thinking "I really want a DB9, but can't afford it"........ bit like the Boxster issue.
But this is MUCH nicer -
Dan
30 September 2005, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by ScoobyDoo555
I do agree with the "common" comment - can't help but think that peeps buying the V8 will be thinking "I really want a DB9, but can't afford it"........ bit like the Boxster issue.
I hate the ridiculous Boxster / 911 theory. Whilst it may well be right in a lot of cases, the Boxster is such a great car in it's own right. To claim that they only sell to people desperate to own a Porsche but can't stretch to the 911 is horsesh1t. It's constantly labelled the best car in it's class and if someone has a set budget, and has test driven everything available to them, being labelled a piker is just leaping on a bandwagon. Where do you really draw the line with this sort of thing?
He bought a Porsche because he couldn't afford a Lambo/Ferrari/Airwolf
The DB9 and Vantage are very different cars in a lot more than just price.
Aston Martin are only expecting to produce in the region of 3000 Vantages per year. When you compare this with the 30,000 or so 911s Porsche manufacture, it aint gonna be that common.
30 September 2005, 09:35 PM
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yeh you're dead right, the Boxster is a great car. But it is (unfairly, I might add) never going to be a 911/996/997. These are the breaks.
As so, the Aston will always be compared to it's bigger brother, the DB9.
Still don't like it
Dan
As so, the Aston will always be compared to it's bigger brother, the DB9.
Still don't like it
Dan
30 September 2005, 09:45 PM
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To anyone that thinks the Boxster "cheapens" Porsche's, I have 3 words: Nine Two Four. As for thinking an AM V8 looks even remotely like a 3 Compact, I don't think it's glasses you need, more like the corneas from a cadaver.
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I love the DB9 most sexiest car in the world IMHO, But the Bentley Continental comes a close second as for thr Porsche 911 don't knock until you have driven it, I was lucky enough to take one around Millbrook test track at 190 MPH and as for BMW's I would'nt give one house room.
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01 October 2005, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by NotoriousREV
To anyone that thinks the Boxster "cheapens" Porsche's, I have 3 words: Nine Two Four. As for thinking an AM V8 looks even remotely like a 3 Compact, I don't think it's glasses you need, more like the corneas from a cadaver.
Nine ONE FourI'm with davegtt on this issue, there is definitely Mazda 323 in there
Not a new thing though, the early nineties 323 borrowed the taillights from the DB7If a Boxter is a poor man's 911, why is an F430 not a poor mans Maranello? Or a Gallardo a poor man's Murcielago?
01 October 2005, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by CrisPDuk
I can think of three even better words Nine ONE Four
I'm with davegtt on this issue, there is definitely Mazda 323 in there Not a new thing though, the early nineties 323 borrowed the taillights from the DB7
If a Boxter is a poor man's 911, why is an F430 not a poor mans Maranello? Or a Gallardo a poor man's Murcielago?
Nine ONE FourI'm with davegtt on this issue, there is definitely Mazda 323 in there
Not a new thing though, the early nineties 323 borrowed the taillights from the DB7If a Boxter is a poor man's 911, why is an F430 not a poor mans Maranello? Or a Gallardo a poor man's Murcielago?
01 October 2005, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Terzo 333
Because if you own a supercar you are not a poor man
Obviously the fact that a lot of image concious tw@ts drive them doesn't count, because where I live you see a lot of them in traditional' supercars too
01 October 2005, 11:44 AM
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the early nineties 323 borrowed the taillights from the DB7
No arguments on the DB9 being one seriously sexy car!
No sure about the compact v AM argument though
01 October 2005, 02:02 PM
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i'm referring to general shape and the abrupt drop off at the boot - I'm certainly not comparing it to a BMW (I can't stand most of them, but I'm warming to the new 6 series)
This thread is starting to get funny now
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This thread is starting to get funny now
Dan