The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage Offers Open-Air Thrills

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The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage Offers Open-Air Thrills

What could provide more driving excitement, while demonstrating your refined automative taste, than sitting behind the wheel of a 2025 Aston Martin Vantage? Sitting behind the wheel of a 2025 Aston Martin Vantage with the top down.

The Gaydon, U.K., automaker introduced the new standard Vantage at a special track event in Spain last year. The open test run allowed for a maximum test of the car’s Mercedes-Benz AMG-built, 4.0-litre, twin-turbo V8 power plant. The 656-horsepower engine manages a top speed of 325 kilometres per hour, accelerating from 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in 3.5 seconds.

The acceleration is immediate and satisfying. An eight-speed transmission puts the force down, while a double wishbone front suspension with coil springs and a multilink rear suspension with adaptive damping empower the Vantage to bite off corners with sharp accuracy.

You’d expect all that in a car selling for a high price point in its original form. Enter the Vantage Roadster with its trifold soft top, and the price jumps higher. The mechanism enabling the convertible roof adds some extra weight to the Vantage Roadster, but there’s no hesitation in speed in this latest Aston.

 

The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage Offers Open-Air Thrills

 

 

The purest sports car in the automaker’s line, the Vantage Roadster doesn’t have the extreme comfort of Aston’s grand touring models such as the Vanquish or the DBD707 SUV. Driver and passenger fit snugly in wraparound bucket seats sewn in leather of the owner’s colour choice. Still, it’s a comfortable enough ride, with all the necessary infotainment additions standing by for maximum convenience. (That’s no minor achievement, as previous Aston Martin models occasionally struggled with GPS and other digital bangs and whistles).

The driving experience is a rare blend of civilized and adrenaline-soaked excitement. At cruising speed, the ride is smooth, grounded, and balanced. Goose the accelerator, however, and a sudden surge of prompt but controlled rage sends your head back into the leather headrest. The driver won’t mope around in too many freeway wolf packs, as other lesser automobiles will only have a brief glance of the Vantage Roadster’s tail lights as the vehicle (responsibly and legally, of course) vanishes into the distance.

Handling is tight even in the most severe turns with minimal understeer. After an aggressive run in the Vantage Roadster, the only drawback is having to get out of the car.

 

 

 

The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage Offers Open-Air Thrills

 

As for styling, Aston Martin resides in the rarified air of the “supercar for grownups.” It’s by no means modest or indistinct, with its signature frowning grille and widened, aggressive haunches, but the company’s designers opted for an aesthetic without aggressive spoilers, prominent splitters, fins, or the angles of a stealth bomber. Like the rest of its family, the Vantage Roadster features smooth, graceful lines from nose to tail with a low profile that plants driver and passenger down in the centre of mass.

The choice between the Vantage and its Roadster cousin simply comes down to the choice between a hard top and a soft-top convertible. Obviously, climate might play a role in that selection, but there should be no concern that the ragtop version sacrifices even an ounce of performance.

 

 

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