Aston Martin Vantage
Vantage is a term Aston Martin uses on a wide variety of its vehicles.
Powerful special models
Usually, the upgraded versions of an Aston Martin series have this addition. The Aston Martin DB6 Vantage, for example, had a factory-tuned engine that delivered 239 kW (325 hp) instead of the 207 kW (282 hp) of the base model. Later models like the Aston Martin V8 were also offered as Vantage. This is the car that Timothy Dalton drove in the James Bond film The Living Daylights . A special feature was the Aston Martin V8 Volante Vantage , which combined the performance-enhanced engine with the open body of the Volante.
Most recently, the name Vantage was used for the V12-powered DB7 Vantage and the Aston Martin V8 Vantage and V12 Vantage , which were introduced in 2005 as an entry-level model .
Vehicles with the additional designation "Vantage"
- 1951-1953 DB2 Vantage
- 1961–1963 DB4 Vantage
- 1963-1965 DB5 Vantage
- 1965-1969 DB6 Vantage
- 1972-1973 Vantage
- 1977-1989 V8 Vantage
- 1986-1989 V8 Vantage Volante
- 1988–1990 V8 Vantage Zagato
- 1992-1999 Virage Vantage
- 1999-2003 DB7 V12 Vantage
- 2005-2017 V8 Vantage / V8 Vantage S
- 2009–2017 V12 Vantage / V12 Vantage S
- since 2017 V8 Vantage
The Aston Martin Vantage
| Aston Martin | |
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 Aston Martin Vantage (1972-1973)
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| Vantage | |
| Production period: | 1972-1973 |
| Class : | Sports car |
| Body versions : | Coupe |
| Engines: |
Otto engine : 4.0 liters (207 kW) |
| Length: | 4585 mm |
| Width: | 1830 mm |
| Height: | 1325 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 2610 mm |
| Empty weight : | 1706 kg |
| Previous model | Aston Martin DBS |
| successor | Aston Martin DB7 |
In contrast to this, the name Vantage was used between 1972 and 1973 for an independent model. It was a vehicle that was sold as the Aston Martin DBS between 1967 and 1972 and was equipped with a modified inline six-cylinder engine.
The reason for the renaming of the car was a change of ownership. Long-time owner David Brown had to sell Aston Martin in the summer of 1972 for financial reasons. Corporate Developments became the new owner . Their managers wanted to avoid any reference to David Brown (DB) in the future. Accordingly, the Aston Martin DBS became the Vantage, while the otherwise identical eight-cylinder DBS V8 became the Aston Martin V8 .
Like the V8 Saloon, the six-cylinder Vantage was given a new front section with two individual headlights and a traditional radiator grille. Nevertheless, he was a discontinued model. The much faster V8 saloon, which looked the same, had long overtaken it in the buyers' favor, and the fact that the six-cylinder was a little more economical than the V8 did not play a role in the time before the oil crisis. As a result, only 70 Vantages have been sold in just over a year. Most of them were vehicles that were still being produced "on stockpile" under the David Brown management.
The Vantage was the last Aston Martin to come with spoked wheels. It was also the last Aston Martin to have a six-cylinder engine until the DB7 was introduced in 1993.
literature
- Andrew Noakes: Aston Martin fascination . Parragon, Bath 2006, ISBN 978-1-40547-900-4
- Rainer Schlegelmilch, Hartmut Lehbrinck, Jochen von Osterroth: Aston Martin . Verlag Könemann 2005. ISBN 3-8331-1058-9
- Chris Harvey: Aston Martin and Lagonda , The Oxford Illustrated Press, 1979, ISBN 0-902280-68-6
- William Presland: Aston Martin V8 . Crowood Press 2009. ISBN 978-1-84797 066-4
Current models: DB5 | DB11 | DBS GT Zagato | DBS Superleggera | DBX | Rapide | Vantage | V12 Speedster
Future models: Valkyrie | Valhalla
Historical models: Bulldog | Cygnet | DB1 | DB2 | DB2 / 4 | DB4 | DB4 GT Zagato | DB5 | DB6 | DB7 | DB9 | DB10 | DBS (1967) | DBS (2007) | Lagonda | Lagonda Rapide | Lagonda Taraf | One-77 | V8 (1972) | V8 Vantage (1977) | V8 (1996) | V8 Zagato | V12 Vanquish | V12 Zagato | Vanquish | Vanquish Zagato | Vantage (1972) | Vantage (2005) | Virage (1989) | Virage (2011)
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