Jumat, 16 Januari 2015

aston martin vanquish blue specs and review

Vanquish sits proudly at the top of the Aston Martin model range. As our flagship Grand Tourer it represents the height of our design, engineering, technology and craftsmanship.

Available in Coupe or Volante format it is a car of unprecedented ability, it is the very essence of Aston Martin.

Vanquish is now also available in unique and distinctive Carbon Edition specification.

Aston claims a storied 100-year history full of iconic cars and racing successes (plus a few bankruptcies for added drama). There were the competition Ulsters and DBR1/2s and, of course, the James Bond affiliation. The firm’s honors also include a Royal Warrant of Appointment to HRH the Prince of Wales—who owns a couple of Astons—for motor manufacture and repair.

You pay for those unmistakable Aston Martin aesthetics. The Vanquish Volante wears the brand’s signature grille, used for decades and modernized early in the past decade by Ian Callum for the DB7. Here it’s perched above a double-lip lower front air dam. The rear graphics and the droptop’s shapely flanks draw on Aston’s heritage, too, but in a dramatic, contemporary way. The body sides are defined by three character lines, the muscular wheel arches visually signal the ample underhood power, and an organically shaped spoiler traces the rear of the decklid. In profile, this Aston eschews the typical exotic-car long-hood, short-deck proportions for more balance front to rear.