Aston Martin V12 Vanquish S

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 Aston Martin has a few line-up is classified as a car with great power and is the ultimate car for the British manufacturer. One is that DBS is a fast version of the DB9. With 510 hp power, DBS is one of the fastest cars ever built Aston Martin. But now the two-door car has entered a period of 'retirement' and no longer manufactured.

But Aston Martin has just introduced a successor generation of DBS, the Vanquish. Actually, the Vanquish is not a new name in the line of Aston Martin. The name was never used for the British GT car manufacturer in 2002 to 2007. But it seems that the new Vanquish is more geared as the next generation DBS, compared to the second generation of his elder brother's.

This car is built on the new VH platform. Vanquish exterior design retains the distinctive design of Aston Martin. The front can be seen an oval headlights that we find also in other Aston Martin models. LED Daytime Running Lights presence make this coupe look modern and not outdated. British manufacturers grille typical of the trapezoid is also present in these fast cars.

 Although loosely based on the Virage/V8 platform, the now out-of-production Aston Martin V12 Vanquish featured thoroughly modern technology. The main body structure included aluminum sections bonded and riveted around a central carbon-fiber transmission tunnel. Carbon fiber A-pillars, all-aluminum suspension and aluminum body panels served to keep weight down, although the Vanquish still weighed in at a little more than 2 tons.


The powertrain was equally cutting-edge, with a high-performance 6.0-liter V12 engine that first made 460 horsepower, and later 520. Tasked with getting that power to the rear wheels was an automated-clutch, six-speed sequential-shift manual gearbox utilizing F1-style paddle shifters.

 By today's standards, control efforts-steering, throttle, brake-are heavy. Aston has dispensed with the awful part-plastic steering wheel of early Vanquishes-and generally tidied up the cabin. The sport seats with deep shoulder wings are excellent, and the matching hand-stitched leather trim now extends across what had been a painted-aluminum fascia centerpiece. The rest of the surroundings are a mixture of neat (cast aluminum handles and door pulls) and unworthy (switches from owner Ford, with ill-matched plastic surrounds). The next generation of Astons, exemplified by the DB9, does these things better.

Outside, you have to be an Aston expert to spot the difference between a Vanquish and a Vanquish S. The grille is wider and has more curvature, there is a splitter lip under the nose, and the trailing edge of the trunklid is flicked up to aid high-speed stability and, conveniently, to accommodate the center brake light.

The manufacturer describes this car as the fastest-ever Aston Martin. We used to describe the Vanquish as the fastest and most expensive car in the Ford firmament, but now there is the Ford GT. So the Aston Martin V-12 Vanquish S is just the most expensive. source:caranddriver.com,autobildindonesia.com,edmunds.com