Aston Martin Vantage Preview | Will it be better than the Porsche 911?
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Aston Martin’s Vantage returns with more power, a new look, upgraded cabin and a heavily revised chassis. Will it be enough to take on the might of the Porsche 911? CAR magazine’s James Dennison has a sneak peak.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Walkaround
4:12 - Engine and power
5:48 - Chassis modifications
9:06 - Interior
12:22 - Vantage GT3 racing car
13:07 - Verdict
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Do you prefer the looks to the previous Vantage? Comment below!
Love everything but headlight shape too big weird
This looks much better than the previous version, the previous version just looked like an Aston trying to be a Huracan. This looks like its own car but I still prefer the 911.
I prefer the last generation of the Vantage with the naturally aspirated V8. I don’t think this shape will age as well.
I preferred the look of the original version.
Dream car. Keep your lambo and your ferrari. I want this!
this car is for classy people
The previous gen Vantage looked good from the rear up until you got to the face where it looked like some sort of fish. It was the headlight's mainly that looked off....This update corrects that , the Vantage is now a LOOKER ! from nose to tail imo. simply changing the headlight's makes a massive difference. The interior is now on Point. More power , ye ! I'll have this over a 911.....Excellent job Aston 9/10
It’s the best looking car on the market. Not a bad angle on her
Hard disagree. I've loved Astons for the better part of 2 decade's but the rear lights on this gen vantage are just a mess and really take it down a notch for me. The tailights of the DB9 era were just so much more beautiful. I get that they're trying to invoke the classic Aston grille shape in these taillights, but it's kinda offputting to be honest.
@woutergrob8587 naw, man. You're in the minority here. The car is stunning from front to back.
I really don't like the back I prefer the valour or Victor style at the rear
Looks like a mini one77, and the upgrade to the power makes it probably a class leader🔥
Right
Love when the supercar flagship styling finally trickles down to the entry models
This is how a Aston should be ❤🙌
I’m glad it has buttons and dials.
As if you'll be touching any of those lmao
What a stunner...the Vantage is finally back to it's old self again and a million miles away from that awful looking MX 5 front end that had absolutely no business gracing the front of an Aston Martin and the interior is perfect as well ...well done Aston Martin...stunning 👌👌👌
Brilliant inside and out! Finally a car company that has refused the trend toward screens and haptics!
Aston Martin design and styling, in my opinion it is the best looking car on the planet, stunningly beautiful.
The racing version looked insane 🔥
The Green carbon interior is so beautiful 😍
Now they've nailed the looks
This is how you make a "big grilled car" beautiful and yes I'm referring to you BMW..
Love the interior
The Previous Car was Horrendous. I was putting photos of it into my Illustration App to give the Classic Vaned Grilled-which they did execute. But that didn’t really change the Face of the Car. This is a much better Car. Classic Aston Martin returned to Form for the New Millennia.
Gorgeous update❤
Probably the best car review I’ve ever watched. Finally someone not annoying.
Beautiful. That is one hell of a power increase!!
Fantastic update inside and out! Super work Aston!
It is not a 911 rival except in the showroom, but then it’s going to appeal to a different buyer or the same buyer for different reasons. Both great cars in their own right I suspect just not really comparable.
No one will buy this, because they wanted a Porsche. Publications should stop always comparing every new Vantage with a 911. Buy this if you prefer this, buy the Porsche if you like that, buy both if you like both.
@@stefegiliomeeCorrect. Different guy. The guy who wants this likes fine wine, weekenders and fine food. The 911 guy is different. Permanently unmarried, occasionally tracks it, hates Corvette guys.
@@jamesdellaneve9005the guy who buys Aston Martin wants a long and intense relationship with his mechanic
What a beautiful machine. A dream...
Can't wait for this review. Please do road and track testing because this deserves both.
Not available until April for them to test drive
They finally fixed the looks, the interior.. and upped the power! and there are hopes of it being comfortable too! what else does one want from an Aston?
The previous look matched was closer to the db10 show car where the slender front and rear lights balance out the car. The new design makes the front look super heavy and dramatically less elegant. This appear to have been the easy way for Aston which is to regurgitate the on-77 design and graft it onto a Vantage. Unsurprisingly they did that with the Valour as well... These two all built on the same Vantage chassis.... Wanted something more original from Aston but perhaps due to their lack of funds this is what they come up with....
I came for the hugely satisfying front-side pipe exhausts ahead of the doors on the GT3 racer.
Vast improvement all round; could get me back in their showroom and I’ve haven’t been there since 2008 when I had DB9 Volente
They finally fixed the interior, like they did with the DB12.
I think it looks better in this colour spec, rather than the bile yellow. I think it would be better still though if it was a bit smaller and lighter. It's now quite wide and 1600KG. If it was around 1300KG it would be so much more nicer to drive. Not that I'll ever to get see one never mind drive one.
Looks incredible!
I'm liking this new design. Hopefully I can eventually enjoy it on GT7. That price is JUST out of my range.
Excellent review and totally dig the color 🇺🇲
Much better , looks amazing 😍
Imagine if they offered a 4 door super saloon version of this beauty ❤️❤️
the center console is the most beutiful thing i have ever seen compared to competition
Looks great!!
You said it right. It’s not quite on the same level as a Porsche 911 and won’t get there in the future. Let’s hope it will perform as expected. 😊😊
0:16 quality control issues on front diffuser?
Awesome! Aston Martin is on a roll..
Looks fabulous 😎
Man I don't usually like green but, that color is gorgeous. Looks like a Jaguar F-Type.
Good upgrades and improvements. Kind of looks like the lovechild of a 911 and Jaguar F type. To compete with 911, it needs to have a base version at a lower price point
Beautiful!
This now fully invalidates the DB12, which already had been a slap in the face for abandoning the v12 right when it was time for DB12. Db12 has 30more hp but .2sec slower -60? They're basically the same car, but the Vantage will cost 40-60k less?
it looks fantastic!!!
We need a 4 door Aston sedan, a remake of the RAPIDE S
WANT IT!😍
The front reminds me a lot of the One-77
Still no glove box or alternative cabin storage?
Cool Car!!!
Astonishing
The dash is a lot better. It reminds me of older generation Porsche’s which had that button festooned sloping dash layout…like here! As for the looks of this and the DB12…not so keen I’m afraid. They look fat and overly aggressively styled too, especially that huge new grill up front.
aston martin new gen is beautiful
The car is amazing but with 150 more PS, shouldn’t the 0-60 improve more dramatically? 3.6 to 3.4? Is it really that traction limited?
I would take this over Porsche 911 or AMG GT. They have done an awesome job on the interior design which was dated before. A beautiful car, I ordered the Lexus LC 500 before this was released, but I will see if I can get a two year old one in the next couple of years.
Thanks for your review. Is the car finished in AMR Green or Podium Green?
Believe it’s Podium 👌
Great interview…..just one question, how tall are you and did you feel comfortable inside?
James is 5’10”. Very comfortable inside!
Can only imagine what a nice tune is going to do to this thing 😬 800hp+?
Definitely better value. Far more presence than a gts for the same price. Oh and you'll get electric seats lol
More like rwd going to fwd. awd is great especially when you can bias the power to the rear. Take note
Is it still a transaxle? It's such an important part of the chassis design and it always gets glossed over.
I just checked the Aston Martin page. This is a transmission car, so the gearbox has been moved from the rear axle to in front of the driver. This will make for a much less special driving experience. Just a fancy F type.
My favourite color 😍
You can really start to see Matt Beckers influence on Aston.
Aston Martin make the most beautiful cars in the world.
Another 2 more refreshes and they'll be back to the sublime beauty of the original 2010 - 2016 Vantage!
Hopefully it drives as well as it looks.
Beautiful car, but if I’d were in the market to buy, I’d still opt for a 911 Turbo S.
No. You buy a Porsche because you enjoy an engaged driving experience. You buy an Aston Martin because you enjoy cruising in style. It is possible you enjoy both. And if so, you buy a Ferrari 296 GTB.
Porsche still makes manuals making it worlds better
Whenever people say "outgoing car" it makes me think this one is an introvert and there is another Vantage out there that is an extrovert. Yes.
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IMO it’s great apart from its not all wheel drive if it was it would handle better.
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@@CARmagazineTV haha true though even Mercedes new GT63 has all wheel drive this is a dinosaur, try thrashing it in wet or with the slightest bit of frost, gt for me anyday.
Due to the rise of evs anything you get with a v8 in these days is good.
Which 911 would this compete with?
The handling needs to match the power.
It looks indeed nice. Interior improved indeep. Fine. Unfortunately, however, the plus in power is almost comletely equalized by the significant additional weight. Truth be told, the resulting weight is a clear disappointment. In order to be really competitive, the curb weight should not surpass 1,550 kg, ideally it would be even below 1,500 kg. That would help the handling a great deal - in particular vis-a-vis the Porsche 911 and the respective Ferraris. Weight kills performance, handling and agility. Aston could do so much better.
What's the difference between a Vantage and a DB12 ?
Vantage is the sports car in the range and DB12 is the GT.
This should help explain it: kzhead.info/sun/o9GfpcqbgIuPnK8/bejne.htmlsi=PZa76p_nLzKcWQ-q
Love the update, hope to see entry level 400-450 HP version with 6 speed manual 😍🤩🤩
no chance
655hp is the entry level, if anything, a special edition with more power will appear (F1 V2 perhaps). No word at all on a manual, but none of the last range of production models; Vantage, DB11, DBS, DBX were blessed with a manual. Only a couple of the limited edition specials they produced such as the Victor had one. So, I'd say that's an almost definite no.
Sadly I doubt they will make a mass-produced manual ever again
it wont pass emission with manual
I want to buy one but I heard the reliability is really bad just like Range Rovers. It's the only reason why I haven't got one yet but they look so nice.
what is the exterior color of this car called?
Green! 🤣 Seriously though, I believe it is called "Podium Green" and is their standard racing colour with the lime green highlights/contrast, and black
Great looking car, but I doubt it will beat the 911 in driving dynamics...
Love it but would wait a couple of years for depreciation. Not worth the MSRP they are asking especially considering how much the out going model has dropped in value.
Does it still have AMG?
Yes, AMG-sourced engine.
The English are masters. 🇬🇧
Gorgeous Cars For Sure!
It will never be better than a 911.
Wonder how many lives have been taken by the ires of vehicles yesterday 2 kids lost their life going underneath a bus while riding a motorbike which slipped
Why would you have a 911 over this.. I’m not even an Aston fan but just based of looks alone this destroys the boring 911 turbo.. well done Aston..
Because rich people don't care too look rich they want the most engaging better performance car. Which the 911 is. A poor person that wants to look rich would love to have this becuase it's more "look at me" I have money.
The aston destroys the boring 911 turbo in looks and the very boring 911 beetle turbo destroys the aston in overall performance The 911 is not popular because of the looks (it’s so stupid judging a SPORT car by the looks), it’s popular because the 911 is unmatched in global performance/engineering (acceleration,braking,lateral grip,steering,endurance,…)+ they have space and reliability and when you buy a sport car it’s firstly for the driving capabilities, if not you miss the whole point of a sport car
911 electric steering robs you of all connection to the road and it weighs a bloody ton. Get me a radical sr3 for the track and a Caterham for the Road.
@@CLSTRN911 in this sense you may as well just buy a Lotus then, it beats every car on driving dynamics, the vast majority of people buy what looks best to them, the Vantage has never looked this much better than a 911.. hence why people buying cars in this price bracket will now give the Vantage serious consideration as it blows the 911 out of the water,
@@HANNON1066 yes lotus are also crazy cars, a true raw driving experience but Porsche’s are still faster on the track than a lotus ( I see that you disagree but it’s the reality, Porsche’s (and not necessarily GT3RS’s) are doing better laptimes + they are more reliable and they can handle a whole day of track day better than any other cars + you can still daily it etc,… it’s a global package whereas a lotus for example will be good for one thing but sacrifice all the others stuff Go on a track day or on the nurb, it’s 75% of 911’s 15% of BMW’s, 5% of Renault sport and 5% of lotus (random number) these people didn’t buy a 911 for the looks. not all people are buying a 911 for the performance you are right, a part buy the car for the looks but the big majority of people who want the best car for hard push driving and track day are choosing 911’s And I agree that the aston is beautiful but it’s not 500x time better looking than a 911, a 911 is still good looking, you can personalize it more and it’s more timeless than a vantage At the price of the vantage with options etc you can have a 911 turbo (which is maybe too classic for some people I can understand) but you can also have a GT3 Touring with an exclusive manufaktur interior + a PTS color and it’s one of the most beautiful car you can have
Was going to watch this until I saw 911 mentioned. Can yall stop it already
Don't like either, will still be bought by blokes in there mid to late 60's who'll probably have a 007 (see what I did there) private reg plate. They need some new blood on the design team along with moving Marek on. Nice bloke but he's had his day. Missed opportunity do do something exciting and finally give Porsche a run for their money.
"Will it be better than the Porsche 911?" - Answer: YES.
I’ll take an F1 edition or whatever they make to rival the performance of a GT3RS.
Detune it and ship it with a manual.
absolutely no good in wet roads, cant get the power down , no grip, just watch the Grand Tour where Clarkson shows this very well!!! needs 2b 4wheel drive!!!
That question. lol.
Looks like a jaguar f type
At least 0.00010 % of the driving people in world will be happy
I had this car in 2022. The tires couldn't handle 500 bhp, how will the traction work with 650?? The transmission was slow and interior was a older version of Mercedes. Smh. Aston is only for looks. They should've gone hybrid.
sicher schöner als der 911er!
Doesn't ever look like you'd be stroking your beard, over whether this, or a 911 - completely different animal, aesthetically, & handling characteristics imo. Somehow think the new grill looks a little too wide, & wonder it this was done for purely engine cooling purposes, or whether they just wanted to differentiate between this, & DB12? I'd buy one, though?!!
MX5
A 911 turbo s would run laps around this on a track and gap it by a football field in a straight line. Not to mention Aston Martin depreciation is insane.
Neither should go on a track, too heavy and soft. Who cares if the turbo S is faster, This AM is waaayy better looking don’t u think? If I wanted the fastest car, I would go McLaren again.
Astons don't depreciate that much anymore you're stuck in the past bro these aren't Ford spare parts anymore these are AMG high tech cars
@@BrainFuck10 what does AMG even mean anymore. Mercedes is making terrible engines these days. Only BMW is making great perfromace and reliable engines.