Prior to the introduction of the Supercharged Vantage, Aston Martin offered existing owners of the Virage an extensive (and expensive) performance conversion to 6.3 litre specification. The £50,000 conversion (at 1992 prices) also involved extensive changes to the suspension, brakes, wheels, tyres and bodywork to cope with the additional power and torque. Page updated with full specification and sales brochure
The N400 Roadster page has been updated with new photos of this exclusive, desirable and collectable 2008 Special Edition.
The first and still the best. The V8 Vantage was the halo Aston Martin for 12 years yet less than one a week were built. It may have been considered a ‘dinosaur’, especially towards the late 1980’s, yet the Vantage could easily keep up with fancy mid engined Italian contemporaries. The ‘Oscar India’ Vantage page has been fully updated with new pictures, full specs and a brochure download.
The website has had it’s annual update and I’m pleased to announce that it has two new features. Firstly, the site has the capability to show the contemporary sales brochure for each car. Also detailed specifications can also be displayed. The first page to feature these new features is The Series 2 Aston Martin Lagonda
The Virage GT Lightweight is a unique car from the early 1990’s. With a 6.3 engine and a weight loss regime of over 200 kg, the lightweight is considered equal in performance to the supercharged Vantage.
The V8 Vantage N24 is the most successful Aston Martin race car of all time, if only in terms of numbers produced. Previewed by a converted prototype, Rose. the production car was initially constructed in a special facility within the Gaydon factory. As demand grew, production moved to Banbury and the AMR facility at Prodrive.
The original version of the V8 Vantage Roadster with the 4.3 engine was only in production for a little over a year. Seven years on and it has become one of the most popular cars to those buying their first Aston Martins.
The original V8 Vantage from 1977/8 are much revered by marque enthusiasts. Only available to good customers, built in a special area, lighter, purer and possibly faster, the bolt-on and flip-tail cars feature in a much revised page today.
A new page featuring the prototype V8 Vantage has been added today with previously unpublished images of this important car in history of the marque. The V8 Vantage was not only the first Aston Martin supercar, but the first British supercar, built to take on the Ferrari 512BB, Lamborghini Countach and Porsche 911 Turbo. Unlike most of the others, it could carry 4 passengers to a speed of 170 mph and accelerate from a standstill to 60 mph in 5.4 seconds.
The last of the line of William Towns styled V8 was fitted with fuel injection from 1986. The page featuring the cars that used to be called the ‘series 5’ has been revised with more photographs.
