Is this the most beautiful car in the world ?

[peanut]

I just cannot stop looking at it.

Do you remember as a small boy pressing your nose to the local toyshop window and looking wistfully at the latest Corgi model car and working out how many errands you would need to run in order to buy it ?!

Thats exactly how this car appeals to you in the flesh. Photos never will do this car justice.
In the flesh it simply takes your breath away and you want to pick it up and stroke its gorgeous swoopy curves just as you did when a kid.

 

[cococola]

Saw one of these the other day and I love em,fantastic car,terrific body styling[8D]

 

[nick3814]

Mmmm, quite a few 944 styling hints there I believe!!

Would still rather have a Porsche []

 

[peanut]

the photos don't show it but they are hugely wide, almost as wide as they are long and they are surprisingly short too probably not as long as a 944.
I don't think there are any styling cues here from Porsche 944 ? 911 perhaps but these curves are not Germanic in origin they are far too subtle, much more Jaguar I would say.

 

[mik_ok]

They are gorgeous (slobber). And although I detest slushboxes ~ I am finding the new XKR8 rather scrumtious too..

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[Alpine]

The Aston does nothing for me at all - I just find it a bit bland, with too many curves. The XK8 looks a lot better (maybe a bit more butch?)

 

[poprock]

Vantages are absolutely gorgeous. You get to see quite a lot of them rumbling around Glasgow city centre. Around here they often seem to be the "˜wife's car' for the wealthy types. You see lots of slightly older ladies who lunch driving them about! They look especially lush in black "¦

 

[nick3814]

ORIGINAL: peanut

the photos don't show it but they are hugely wide, almost as wide as they are long and they are surprisingly short too probably not as long as a 944.
I don't think there are any styling cues here from Porsche 944 ? 911 perhaps but these curves are not Germanic in origin they are far too subtle, much more Jaguar I would say.

What!! Those rear hips are just like a 944 only bigger and not as well made []!!

 

[Peter Empson]

I'd take a DBRS9, lardy cars trimmed with acres of cow hide do nothing for me, but Aston certainly seem to know how to make a race car that pushes all the right buttons (oh and what a noise!) []

 

[TTM]

I loved the Vantage when the first prints came out but seeing one in the flesh changed my mind ... What could have indeed been one of the most beautiful cars ever made turned out an exageration of unsubtle curves. If only they had kept the design slim and made the car not so ridiculously wide. It looks 3000 lbs heavier than it actually is.

 

[Guest]

I just want to lean over the side and smell the soft leather.... mmmmmmm [&:]

Do I have a Fetish [:'(]

 

[morris944s2john]

I was hoping you were going to put a pic of your own '44 []

Modern Astons, no appeal for me[]. 1970's models and before are a different matter.[]

 

[PJS917]

The current Aston range is gorgeous, but now rather too common. Next time your travelling
in your 944 count the ratio of Astons to 944's, you may be suprised. Me for a while I will be
sticking with rarity.[][][]

 

[appletonn]

ORIGINAL: PJS917

The current Aston range is gorgeous, but now rather too common. Next time your travelling
in your 944 count the ratio of Astons to 944's, you may be suprised. Me for a while I will be
sticking with rarity.[][][]

LOL - me too, but when i win the Lottery, the Vantage V8 with the Prodrive kit on it, will be at the top of my 'to do' list!

 

[Rotorhead]

I've never really liked Astons, but I went around the Aston Martin factory last year and agree the AMV8 is a huge styling success.

It actually makes the DB9 and Vanquish look too big and awkward - in the same way that, IMO, the Gallardo looks better than the Murcielago

 

[Wigeon Incognito]

Not a bad looker but far too ubiquitous now. If anybody here gets their hands on one (or a DB9 for that matter) just make sure you remove Fuse 22 from the fusebox in the boot...

Far more to my tastes is the very rare last of the line Vanquish S manual (yes really, a manual) that lives up the road from me. My word, when you follow that thing at full chat the crackling, spitting, banging, and howling from its exhausts really is the stuff of cloud 9.

Although you don't tend to stay behind it for long...

 

[944s2]

Gallardo [][]

The car that almost makes me stop thinking Muira or Countach when you say Lamborghini

Saw a dayglow yellow Superleggra at Knockhill last month

Someone has stripped interior, put roll cage in and went racing with it

Still cant make my mind up whether to be impressed or what a waste of a good road car

 

[PJS917]

ORIGINAL: 944s2
Someone has stripped interior, put roll cage in and went racing with it

Still cant make my mind up whether to be impressed or what a waste of a good road car

Impessed[][][][]

 

[Wigeon Incognito]

ORIGINAL: 944s2
Saw a dayglow yellow Superleggra at Knockhill last month

Was that the one that went straight from collection to track without it even being run in? It was certainly being driven 'enthusiastically' on the videos I've seen.

I followed a grey Superleggara through the Swiss Alps and the sound that V10 made as it wailed and bounced of the rocky mountain walls really was the stuff of legend!!

The 'ordinary' Gallardo I followed with Larini exhaust fitted the other day didn't sound too shabby either!

 

[944s2]

Can't be more than 1 can there?

Did a full 360 in front of me at chicane then had a weird nip and tuck race with a GT cup and Nissan Primera(ex BTCC) bizzare!