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Aston Martin Vantage History

The Aston Martin V8 Vantage has been around for quite some time -- longer even than you may think. Its first time around the block came in 1977, when Aston Martin put the V8 engine from its "saloon" (that's a sedan to us Americans) and put it in the vaguely muscle-car-looking V8 Vantage (there is more than a hint of Ford Mustang in there). In the Vantage, the engine got several upgrades and the body had aerodynamic add-ons like front and rear spoilers. In the end, it had a top speed of 170 mph and a 0-60 mph time of 5.3 seconds -- plenty quick. It was popular enough that the Aston Martin V8 Vantage continued in this form until 1989.

The next Aston to wear the Vantage badge was an oddball of a two-door produced from 1992 to 1995. This time, it had a larger engine with a top speed of 186 mph and a 0-60 time of 4.6 seconds. From 1999 to 2003, the DB7 carried the Vantage moniker, along with the first V12 engine in the Aston Martin lineup.

In 2005, the modern V8 Vantage was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show with its distinctively Aston Martin design.

Engine

The all-new engine of the modern V8 Vantage was tested in extreme heat in Dubai and in extreme cold in Sweden. In the tradition of most Aston Martins in history, the hand-built engine is mounted up front with the weight situated behind the front axle. In 2008, the engine was upgraded from 4.3 to 4.7 liters, with rises in power and performance to boot.

Design

The design of the V8 Vantage as both a coupe and a roadster is singular and sleek while being firmly in the make's tradition. The long hood begins at the old-school dented-oval grille and sweeps up over the two-seater cabin to the short rear deck. It's only 14 feet long, making it the smallest Aston in the lineup (as long as you don't count the ugly duckling Cygnet).

Interior

When the 2008 do-over came around, Aston Martin did away with the V8 Vantage's traditional key in favor of the Emotion Control Unit, or ECU, as they call it. This is a heavy fob with a crystal end that the driver plugs into a slot in the center console to star the car. Necessary? No. Cool? Oh, yes.

The interior, always luxurious and wrapped in leather and full-grain wood, got some other tech upgrades, like a new navigation system and iPod integration.

Specs

Engine: 4.3-liter V8
Horsepower: 420 bhp
Torque: 346 lb-ft
Top speed: 175 mph
0-60 mph: 4.9 seconds

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A few months ago, we reported that Aston Martin was in danger of running afoul of new US safety regulations that could force it to take some of its most popular models off the market. The automaker, its dealers and – according to the overwhelming results of our informal online pole Â– you yourselves reasoned that the constricting regulations were unfair to a small-scale, niche automaker like Aston Martin. And the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration evidently agrees, granting the British automaker a temporary exemption from the regulations and allowing it to keep its cars on the US market. The issue comes down to new side-impact crash standards that require motor vehicles to better withstand a collision with a stationary object like a pole or a tree. The Vantage and DB9 models do not meet the new regulations, and Aston, it seems, doesn't have the wherewithal to re-engineer the cars to meet the regulations. But given the small nature of the independent automaker and the relatively small number of vehicles it sells, NHTSA has granted Aston an exemption. As a result, instead of being forced to comply with the new regulations that took effect for the coupes this past September and for convertibles the next Â– or else withdraw from the market altogether Â– the DB9 coupe will have until August 2016 to comply, while the DB9 Volante and both coupe and convertible models in the Vantage line will have until August 2017. It's entirely possible that, by that point, Aston will have all-new models on offer, potentially replacing the Vantage and DB9 models or giving it sufficient new products to offer that taking those older, non-compliant models off the market would not cause it the same degree of financial harm. The automaker has an all-new platform in the works and a new engine deal with Mercedes-AMG in place, and was recently spotted testing what could be the first of its new generation of models at the Nurburgring.

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