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Faster, lighter, more engaging limited edition Aston Martins to farewell long running Vantage ahead of replacement model with AMG-sourced V8.
IT CAN be hard to say goodbye. Clearly so for Aston Martin, which is launching a series of limited editions of the long-serving Vantage before its replacement by an all-new car next year, with a new seven-speed manual gearbox for the V12 Vantage S and a motorsport-inspired GT8 with a stratospheric price-tag.
The surprise is that Aston seems to have done all its work on just one side of the power-to-weight ratio, with the GT8 having a barely modified version of the standard Vantage’s V8 engine. The company claims a 7kW power increase to 328kW, with the weight saving having cut the claimed 0-100km/h time to 4.4 seconds – down from 4.8 seconds for the Vantage S. Both a six-speed manual and seven-speed automated shift version will be available.
All these specials are proof that the Vantage’s days are numbered; we know that it is being replaced next year by a new car that will be powered by the 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 that Aston is buying from AMG. With the greatest of respect to these two, that’s the one that we’re really looking forward to seeing.
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