Aston Martin has sharpened after the the vantage. 436 HP, 305 km/h fast: the vantage S ahead of occasional circuit visits not shy. We asked the British to the first exit.
Say let's so: the Aston Martin Vantage S is a case for specialists. Those who must track his ten PS increased output and the 20 nm extra torque, call themselves confidently automotive seismographs. Finally the 4.7-liter V8 in the standard version provides 426 PS- and actually no reason to complain about acute power shortages.Actually, for a shovel more power under the hood has not yet damaged, Aston Martin's top selling not Vantage. The new variable intake system provides S in the Aston Martin Vantage from 3,500 rpm also audible on passage such as the exhaust diffuser applies, specifically in the sport mode. Then he thrilled passengers and bystanders with a dense cloud of sound. Bassig, rohrend and bulky, only interrupted by the Schaltpausen of new seven-speed automatic transmission. Demoted more closely and with 20 percent it is almost so fix forget as the Aston Martin Vantage S to 100 sprints (4.5 seconds) the slightly raw manual and the six-speed predecessors faster gear changes.
However, the controlled electro-hydraulic box of Graziano in terms approaches speed and switching quality not quite to twin-clutch gearbox, but saves weight. Compared to its predecessor, there are about 24 kilograms. Useful: the finer speed spread, which is even better in its wellness area S the revised V8 in the Aston Martin Vantage.
Stronger brakes, a modified suspension, wider tires and the adjustable control thresholds of electronic stability program to train the Aston Martin Vantage S as well as lighter seats (minus 17 kilograms), carbon spoiler, sill plates and a diffuser in the style of Vantage V12.
With its direct translated steering accesses curves is the perfectly balanced, high-traction 1, 6-ton still drier than in the past, remains long neutral, presses out fine adjustment, but strongly. Exactly how is it of a sharpened Vantage expected. In the core of the Aston Martin Vantage remains protected by an imaginary taste track holding Wizard S gentleman. The elegant Brit in the Prolo gravel would never drift. Who may complain there the happ-cost of 132,000 euros (143,000 euro cost the convertible version)?
