2017 COUPE New Manual RWD Manual Coupe V12

2017 Aston Martin Vantage COUPE Description

This V12 Vantage is a special run of just 100 examples. Aston built this car to taunt 911 Turbo drivers and leave Ferrari drivers scratching their heads! A pure and 'Analog' driving experience.

From Road & Track magazine: "We continually hear people say that this is the golden age of horsepower. It’s true, but this is also the golden age of enhanced-reality video games on wheels that can pull enough g’s in all three dimensions to distort your face in any matter—except, paradoxically, replicating that most revered human facial expression: the smile. It takes seconds behind the wheel of anAston Martin V12 VantageS to understand the appeal of an actual sports car over a supercar.

You don’t even need to start the Vantage to start to feel the difference. Its driving position is perfect, with a steering wheel and three pedals directly in front of the driver... And then you reach for the gearshift. It’s thick and stubby with delightfully short throws, clearly defined detents, and enough sticktion to remind you that its beefy internals are charged with managing planet-distorting firepower from a big V-12 up front.

Then you look at the shift pattern. The knob tells you that second gear is where you expected first to be. The numbers on the top row are all even—second, fourth, and sixth gears. First gear is all the way down and to the left. This is a true dogleg manual, the first we’ve seen in a new car in America for 16 model years.

I defy you drive this Aston on the road or on a racetrack and argue that it needs a turbo or two. This monster will spin its tires in fourth-gear corners. It’ll drift around high-speed bends at half-throttle in third, all the while spraying spectators with unmuffled V-12 exhaust noise so rich and complex you’d swear you can hear each of the 24 exhaust valves slamming shut. Could the V12 Vantage use more rear-axle traction? Yes. Would it improve the experience? Certainly not.

From Motor Trend magazine: "Throws are direct and the gates are well defined, but the new shifting pattern will throw you. You will "downshift" from 4th to 5th instead of 3rd a few times, until you get used to it. Making it into a manual hasn't impacted performance either. The Vantage will hit 60 in 3.9 seconds and a top speed of 205, the same as its paddle shifted brother."

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