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Aston Martin Vanquish S

Test date 17 May 2005  Price as tested £177,100

The original Vanquish was launched in 2001 to critical acclaim. It was the car to trumpet a new era at Aston Martin and has since been followed by the DB9 and, this summer, will be joined by the Porsche 911-rivalling V8 Vantage.

It represents a long line of big hairy Astons that started with the original V8 Vantage of the late ’70s and continued with the Virage Vantage of 1993.

This is the first time the original Vanquish formula has been toyed with, though there was a Sports Dynamics suspension package offered from mid-2004 similar to the one that appears here.

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