The Vantage has become synonymous with Aston Martin. It wasn't always so...
Since the birth of the ‘modern’ V8 Vantage in 2005, the Aston Martin brand has reached parts it hadn’t reached before. That’s because the V8 Vantage was designed to be a more affordable car than Astons of old, and compete with ubiquitous rivals such as the Porsche 911. Yet it was a complete break with tradition to stick the Vantage name on a car that sat at the bottom end of its range.
Skip forward to 1961 and the Newport Pagnell era, and the Vantage name was back. By now, Tadek Marek’s 3.7-litre ‘six’ had taken over as the staple of the Aston Martin range, and for an extra £180 you could buy a Series IV DB4 in Vantage spec. Again, the upgrades involved bigger valves and uprated cams, along with a set of SU HD8 carbs, all of which relinquished a decent sounding 266hp. The theme was repeated when the DB5 arrived. By now, the engine was 4.
The Lagonda arrived in 1976, and the following year the Vantage name returned with a bang. The new Vantage fielded a significantly uprated version of Marek’s 5.3-litre V8 in the DBS/ V8 coupe’s body. The traditional Vantage recipe was back: bigger carbs, bigger valves, higher-lift cams and a higher compression ratio. The result was headline-making. 390hp and 406lb ft meant a top speed of 170mph and 0-60mph in 5.
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