Lots of us love a V12 Aston Martin.....

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hashluck said:
Come and try it :)

Even rarer in this colour
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I have a 'thing' about red cars.... I don't

The other thing I've noticed when trying to find DB9's to test (few and far between) is lots of them don't see to have things like blutetooth and seat memory. I'm rather attached to both of those things, for my sins

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makeshiftUK said:
Was the V12 DB7 something you could envisage crossing continents in? I've always had a soft spot for their shape, given that I had the poorer cousin 'X100' XK8 that was engineering on the same wheelbase.

When I grow up :))) I'd quite like to tour around Europe with Mrs.Makeshift with the top down of a DB7 V12 Vantage Volante... if that's not too pretentious.

Two children to put through education first, however.
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With two people definitely- boot size was ok and you have the silly rear seat space for soft luggage as well - it ate up motorway miles albeit it also ate tanks of fuel, I think the best I but on a steady motorway run was 22mpg
 
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I drove 3 cars back to back yesterday to give them a run

Jaguar XK 5.0 - A GT, properly nice, generally a bit soft but can be a different beast in Sport Dynamic mode. Unfortunately there is no middle ground and it hangs on and hangs on to gears in that mode. You can use paddles but it is not really set up for that.

Aston Martin Vanquish - Sports GT, special in so many ways but you have to really mean it to get it going. But, did I say it was special?

Maserati Gransport MC-Victory - Sports. The other two cars took me a while to reacquaint myself with what they were all about. The MCV on the other hand got straight on with the job and put a massive smile on my face. It has a clear purpose.

Which one would I take home? Which one did I take home? The MCV :)
 
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Scaf said:
With two people definitely- boot size was ok and you have the silly rear seat space for soft luggage as well - it ate up motorway miles albeit it also ate tanks of fuel, I think the best I but on a steady motorway run was 22mpg
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Last year's post-Le Man rum north to Calais proved that my Vantage does fewer miles-per-tank than a GTS. MPG is ok and not stupidly different, but it does have a fuel gauge that gets nervous early.
 
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I'd consider a Rapide in that colour - love four-door GT's no matter how impractical....
 
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Andyk said:
It was 1978.....What was back then......Moved onto Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Van Halen and Def Leppard after that...
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ACDC, Metallica?
I'm a wee bit later, but got into Seattle Grunge and then somewhat retrospectively Pink Floyd.
 
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Andyk said:
It was 1978.....What was back then......Moved onto Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Van Halen and Def Leppard after that...
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Joy Division, Pistols, The Pogues, The Stranglers, The Clash, SLF?

That enough grandad lol!!
 
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