The 58 left hand drive examples were all exported, principally to the USA. Of these cars, 47 had automatic transmission and only 11 had the 5 speed manual transmission. Some of these cars will have had their engines uprated to full Vantage specification and also, it is possible to have the rubber bumpers changed to chrome – although this is quite costly as it needs some extensive modifications to front and rear coachwork.  The cars are a very rare site in the UK and Europe.

Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante cosmetic spec V585, an unusual car that features the fuel injected V585 engine with European spec bumpers

Although this car has European chrome bumpers, it can be seen that this car also has a flat bonnet indicating the non-Vantage tuned 585EFI engine. Although it impossible to be sure, this car could have been subsequently exported to Switzerland or Japan.

Photograph above courtesy of Aston Martin Lagonda