Category: Convertibles 
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Vantage's amazing performance and sound. Traditional British interior furniture.
Rather cumbersome to drive. Colossal costs.
Appealing, but a bit of an oddity.
The automatic versions have light controls. The manual Vantage has a heavy clutch, stiff gearbox and imprecise throttle, so smooth driving demands both concentration and brute strength. All versions are very wide and it's hard to see their extremities, so they're tricky in crowded streets. Performance is the thing, but steering is precise and handling good in the coupé and Vantage. The gearbox would be more at home in a lorry, though. The Volante is more of a stately cruiser, its imprecise steering making it a handful in fast driving on twisty roads.
The V8 versions, coupe and Volante (convertible), are very heavy and have inefficient automatic transmissions, so they're not as shatteringly fast as their huge engines might lead you to imagine. The Vantage has not one but two superchargers, forcing more air into the engine so as to get more performance out. Much more. It's one of the fastest cars anywhere, and sounds like a low-flying Spitfire. A plaque on top of the engine gives the name of the craftsman who built it.
