Aston Martin Vantage 2018

[poliziottesco]

58 minuti fa, VuOtto dice:

Bellissima auto. Una scultura a livello stilistico! Perplesso su quanto fatto notare da @Rohypnol.....da Aston non mi aspetto accoppiamenti del genere.

Queste vetture sono dei prototipi, quella della presentazione ai futuri proprietari era anche peggio ?

[VuOtto]

4 minuti fa, poliziottesco dice:

Queste vetture sono dei prototipi, quella della presentazione ai futuri proprietari era anche peggio ?

 

 bè....resta davvero bellissima lo stesso. E' sottinteso che sono pre serie...però al posto loro prima di presentare un prodotto da proporre a certe cifre, darei una sistematina agli allineamenti. Lo so sono malato, però io potendomela permettere, queste cose le guarderei e le farei notare.....

[poliziottesco]

15 minuti fa, VuOtto dice:

 

 bè....resta davvero bellissima lo stesso. E' sottinteso che sono pre serie...però al posto loro prima di presentare un prodotto da proporre a certe cifre, darei una sistematina agli allineamenti. Lo so sono malato, però io potendomela permettere, queste cose le guarderei e le farei notare.....

Sanno fare anche di peggio, sono inglesi  ?‍♂️

[poliziottesco]

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What is it?

Here we have another chance to experience a prototype version of the Aston Martin Vantage ahead of its launch, but this time on British roads rather than the frozen Lapland lake of our previous encounter.

While this isn’t a finished production car, the chance to see how it copes with rural Warwickshire was more than a sufficient excuse to take another turn.

The basics have been well detailed in our previous stories on the car. The Vantage is the second Aston to use AMG's 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8, but tuning means it has a fraction more torque than the same motor in the junior DB11.

The other significant addition is the arrival of a very clever electronically controlled locking differential, a first for Aston Martin and something that the Vantage’s engineering team reckon is critical to the character of the car.

Our drive in a prototype started at Aston’s new engineering base in Wellesbourne and took in many of the local roads – including the Fosse Way – that have been used most heavily during its development.

What's it like?

The hard-worked prototype wears a ragged zebra pattern disguise and the scars of a life that’s been lived hard. The dashboard reports various functions are unavailable and the interior has the unwashed aroma that suggests many engineers have spent many hours sweating in it.

It feels tighter inside than the DB11, and not just because of the lack of rear seats, with switchgear and gear selector buttons clustered lower on the centre console. The position of the seat closer to the windscreen also means that the fat A-pillars eat more front-quarter visibility.  

Starting the engine proves that despite a high percentage of shared componentry, there’s no chance of confusing the Vantage with the DB11 V8.

It's louder and angrier from idle, with the prototype’s optional sports exhaust adding a savage rasp to revs and responding to every throttle lift with pops and crackles. It sounds more aggressive than anything else using this engine except, perhaps, the full-on Mercedes-AMG GT R. 

The Vantage is definitely Aston fast. The engine produces plenty of low-down grunt, but it really impresses when extended. There’s lots of drama on the way to the 7000rpm redline, with the Vantage pulling increasingly strongly over the last couple of thousand revs – the area in which most modern turbocharged units start to feel tight.

The marriage with the eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox, which AMG doesn’t use, is a particularly happy one as well. It's refined under gentle use but swaps cogs practically as fast as a twin-clutcher under manual control or with the powertrain in its more aggressive Sport Plus and Track modes.  

The Vantage is firmer and louder than the DB11, thanks to both chunkier chassis settings – the adaptive dampers lack a Comfort mode, with Sport their base setting – and a rear subframe that's mounted directly to the body without any insulating bushes, improving rigidity at the expense of refinement. It’s certainly not crude, but there's a fair amount of road noise evident beneath the exhaust note. Still, the car tracks impressively straight and accurately at higher speeds. 

Onto twistier roads and the steering starts to really impress. The Vantage’s rack and its ratio are identical to that of the DB11, but the car's shorter wheelbase increases the effective ratio, making responses feel much keener. There’s plenty of front-end bite, even in the damp conditions we drove the car in, with corners giving the electronically controlled differential a chance to prove how clever it is. 

The device can produce a huge 1845lb ft of locking torque almost instantly, but, unlike a conventional limited slip differential, can also fully disengage when not required. The result is outstanding traction, with the addition of some torque vectoring to sharpen responses yet none of the low-speed understeer that sticky mechanical lockers usually engender.

The engine has more than enough low-down torque to keep things interesting, especially with the stability control switched to its more permissive mode or full de-energised. But even when the Vantage is sliding, it never feels wayward or excessively lairy. Drivers are going to have a huge amount of fun in this car. 

Should I buy one?

While the Vantage impresses in isolation, even in prototype form, the comparison we’re really looking forward to is finding out how close it runs the Porsche 911, which is Aston’s avowed target.

On the basis of our early experiences, we suspect the answer is going to be 'very'.

Yet the clever differential will also throw up another dilemma for potential buyers because Aston has confirmed that it won’t be offered on the seven-speed manual car that will be launched some time after the automatic.

Even those in love with changing their own gears are likely to find that a grievous omission. All things considered, we suspect the eight-speeder will turn out to be the better all-rounder. 

Aston Martin Vantage prototype

Price £120,900 On sale tbc Engine V8, 3982cc, twin-turbo, petrol Power 503bhp at 6000-6500rpm Torque 505lb ft at 2000-5000rpm Gearbox 8-spd automatic Kerb weight 1530kg (dry) 0-62mph 3.6sec Top speed 195mph Economy 26.9mpg CO2, tax band245g/km, 37% Rivals Porsche 911, Mercedes-AMG GT

fonte: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/aston-martin/vantage/first-drives/aston-martin-vantage-prototype-2018-uk-first-drive

 

 

Prime impressioni di guida su strada, al volante di uno dei prototipi. 

 

Niente di particolarmente dettagliato, confermato quello che si e' sempre detto, cioè' che si tratta di una vettura con un carattere hard core rispetto alla più' paciosa e classicamente GT DB11. 

 

Fanno notare che il differenziale elettronico non sarà' disponibile sulla versione con cambio manuale, dove invece ci sarà' un piu' convenzionale differenziale di tipo meccanico. 

 

Modificato 21 Marzo 2018 da poliziottesco

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Un'auto sportiva inglese deve essere emozionale, come le sportive italiane, aspettarsi un'auto sportiva inglese perfetta è da sempre un'utopia, la db11 alla fine non i piacerà mai completamente, il designer che che disegnata ha uno stile troppo freddo e nordico, questa invece è bellissima

[poliziottesco]

 

[ISO-8707]

@poliziottesco

 

Scelto il colore? 

[poliziottesco]

18 minuti fa, ISO-8707 dice:

@poliziottesco

 

Scelto il colore? 

 

 

 

tinta scelta, pero' dato che la Vantage la prendo in comproprietà' (cosi' come la 488) e dato che l' italiana l' ho configurata tutta io, nel caso della Aston ho dovuto in parte cedere ai desideri del socio...non e' un colore alla poliziottesco ma la resa e' molto molto bella, compresi i cerchi che, anche quelli, non erano la mia prima scelta. 

 

PS - mi sono appena accorto che il video della Vantage lo avevi già' postato tu, pardon 

 

allor aposto questo, non che dica tanto eh  

 

 

Modificato 24 Marzo 2018 da poliziottesco

[naviossab]

Che fuffa inascoltabile...

Non l'auto eh.

[poliziottesco]

 

 

In attesa che la settimana prossima vengono pubblicate le prime impressioni di guida 

 

Queste le ho guidate tutte, la GT8 aldilà' del peso su strada si rivela una vettura agile, compatta ed affascinante a causa della guida vecchio stile (l' estetica e' opinabile) e del suono orgasmico, tuttavia da questa nuova vettura ci si aspetta ci sia un miglioramento epocale...

Modificato 6 Aprile 2018 da poliziottesco