2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Road Test Review

WE HAD IT for four days. They, like the scenery, passed in a blur.

You see, you can’t sit in an Aston Martin and think ordinary thoughts. At the wheel of the V8 Vantage, everything becomes a little surreal. It heightens your senses, makes your heart beat faster, and [...]

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Veilside, Japanese purveyor of performance parts and spaceship-like body kits for sports cars—usually of the Japanese variety, you’ll have seen their work in the Fast & Furious series—also has an offshoot brand called Premier4509, which focuses on the more exotic, high-end offerings.

This week, Premier4509 announced a kit for the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, and where [...]

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Aston Martin only released the news of their upgraded for 2009 V8 Vantage last week, and already the first video review has hit the internet. In this video, Autocar test the new 4.7-litre V8 Vantage in manual gearbox form. A little more power along with the other tweaks and refinements see the V8 Vantage’s game [...]

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Official information on Ford’s new for 2008 Falcon is here. Designated the FG, it ushers in a range of vastly improved engines and sharp clean styling that maybe not quite the wholesale change some were hoping for, but is attractive non-the-less.

Ford enthusiasts may lament the dropping of the Futura and Fairmont nameplates which are no-longer [...]

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You would think that manufacturing cosmetic enhancement kits for what are already considered some of the world’s most aesthetically pleasing cars would be a tenuous business at best, but this is apparently not the case. Following on from their Aston Martin V8 Vantage ‘tidy up’, German tuner Mansory has released their version of Aston Martin’s [...]

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Aston Martin’s star is certainly on the rise with record sales being driven by quality product and in the case of the DBS an extraordinary five year waiting list. It should come as no surprise then that they have their sights firmly set on the emerging Asian markets, in-particular China and for the first time [...]

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Aston’s V8 Vantage Roadster features the same 4.3-litre V8 that is found under the bonnet of the Coupe. That means 283kW / 380bhp and 410Nm of torque. 0-100km/h is “seen too” in 5 seconds dead.

Click through for the video and watch Hammond take on a jet powered roller-skater…

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It’s a bit of a slow news morning which gives me a chance to write about something I’d usually leave to Darcy – the lover of all things tuned. Personally, I think many (not all) tuners take fine automobiles and bugger them. They start with a vehicle that has seen hundreds of millions spent on [...]

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Its now officially silly season for European auto manufactures as we close in on the opening day for the world’s largest motor show, the IAA in Frankfurt. What better way to create some pre-show hype then to release renderings of two limited edition Aston Martin’s that will be debuted alongside the much anticipated DBS.

To commemorate [...]

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The Vanquish. Soon to hand it’s crown to the new DBS. It might be old but its not ugly.

The successor to the Aston Martin Vanquish has recently been spotted resting after a bit of bahn-storming in Germany. The new Aston Martin is being designated the DBS and it is expected to go on sale in [...]

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Las Vegas Nevada is always busy but the desert surrounding the city has been seeing more than its fair share of motoring scribes in recent weeks. Even Jeremy Clarkson braved the Nevada (Springtime) sunshine, coyotes and cops to give the new Audi R8 a good flogging. Some people have all the fun.

The Audi R8 is [...]

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