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This is not a car. This is an experience worth experiencing.
Sitting in the cinema, watching a James Bond movie, and hearing that incredibly sexy roar as the Aston Martin whisks yet another drop-dead-gorgeous diva off into the wild blue yonder you say to yourself “Naah! No car can sound like that!”
Wrong. Very, very wrong!
The Vantage V8 sounds exactly like that.
In addition – and this is not a sexist or chauvinist comment – without exception, every woman who heard the sexy, throaty roar of the car wanted to either drive it or be driven in it!

To own this car will set you back a shade under R2 million. Shares in Caltex would probably also help, as it is extremely thirsty. And to get all of the negatives out of the way up front, don’t wear takkies while you are taking it for a test. The pedals are designed for drivers who wear Italian designer shoes!

Apart from that this is a car that makes you search the Thesaurus for superlatives. But what is the superlative of best; of stupendous; of exhilaration; of rapture?

Sit at a traffic light and just tap the accelerator pedal of this exquisite beast and watch the heads turn. Most people have never heard a sound quite like it.

It begins (just like it does in the Bond movies) as an incredible growl and then settles into an aggressive purr that just cannot be reproduced.

The response is instantaneous – whether accelerating or decelerating – and the car sits on the road as if it was glued there every metre of the way.

The tech specs are in the box, so if you want to know about kilowatts then read downwards. Who cares? This is the ultimate driving experience

The sound system is out of this world – feels like being in a recording studio – and yet you never lose the feeling of driving a beast of a car; the seating hugs and loves you and yet you are always aware of being 20 cm off the road; the gears are as smooth as honey and yet you always know that you are in control of a very powerful car; the steering response is perfect but you have to take it through every turn whether you are travelling at 60 kph or 160 kph. (The speedo says that it can do 280 kph, and I don’t doubt it for a moment) But why do that speed when you can be so very cool overtaking a German sports model in sixth gear at a mere 150 kph?

They call him Bond – with good reason: you need a bond to pay the R1 700 000 to buy the car. But what the heck, if you’ve got the money and you want to cut the ultimate dash, then there is no other car that will do it for you quite like this one.
Drive it and you will see what I mean.

John Doolan

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