Aston Martin V8 Vantage Car

[Simon Symonds]

Since its prologue in 2006, Aston's V8 Vantage has until the end of time ranked exceedingly with our staff. Without a doubt, in 2007 we named it an Automobile Magazine All-Star. An immense car, but there's until the end of time room for enhancement, right?

And our chief gripe was a be deficient in of power. For 2009, the V8 Vantage will to end with get the guts it deserves as well as attempt to put down the lid us up once as well as for all - well, once would be a start.

The transmissions have been misrepresented for with the intention of increased output, from beginning to end both the standard manual and Sportshift robotic blue-collar in receipt of a made to order clutch and flywheel, respectively.



That translates to improved responsiveness from a drop in rotating mass with, for models from end to end a third bar, should mean compact clutch effort. Sportshift models also get new programming that allows you to choose from Comfort or Sports mode, depending on your intentions for the car on any particular journey.

And that expedition will begin in a absolutely added high-tech means Aston has selected to fit the ECU (that's poignant control unit') original seen on the DBS, in lay of a more conventional, this-century key. Our current test of a DBS (Running terrified, July 2008) revealed that the ECU is more gimmick than expediency. The Vantage's arena gets a bit of a change as well, borrowing the look of its die-cast zinc alloy center console from big brother DBS, which we found to be a bit busy looking. (These changes will soon migrate to the DB9 as well). We will, however, welcome the new hard disk-based navigation system and standard iPod integration.