2024 Aston Martin Vantage Review - A 656 Horsepower HOOLIGAN!

With an unusually strong front end and big power, the Vantage dances like almost no other. Read more below:

It’s front-engined rear-drive bliss. Combined with the stunning sheet metal, new interior, and nuclear bomb twin-turbo V-8 engine, it's something to behold. The Vantage is spectacular because it is unafraid. It will turn, and it feels like it might even turn too much. The crux of it is a robust front axle–That’s to say, the front tires will turn the car as much as you ask them to. Understeer is only at the very edges of the Vantage’s lexicon, and only happens if you rush it or drive it incorrectly. At its core, the thing will rotate as much as you demand of it.

In Motor1's "The Coolest Car of 2024" test, the Vantage was the best driver’s car there. How unusual—an Aston was the better driver’s car in a test with a Porsche RS. But it clobbered the Porsche in almost every critical metric. Not with tedious, nasally subjects like steering effort curves, or handling at the limit of grip, or lap times. The Aston just felt better.

Whether burbling around town or committing acts of terror upon a canyon road or doing track-rat stuff on the company-provided race track, the Aston just danced everywhere. It danced along the edge of traction with a steadfast front axle and a rear end that always played a game of Got Your Nose!

It never settled down, never quite took a set, and honestly couldn’t be rushed to do the job of driving cleanly. It was a mess.

It was a mess we loved lapping during every corner. An expertly calibrated, roguish, kinesthetic mess that only made sense if you let it move and search for its own traction.

Unlike everything else at Cool Car Cup, the Vantage is set up for the very top percentile of drivers, not the lowest denominator. The Aston was the only car there that doesn’t give a rip if you can handle it or not. And for that, it’s the very best one that showed up.

Specs: 2024 Aston Martin Vantage
Engine: Twin-Turbo 4.0-Liter V-8
Output: 656 Horsepower / 590 Pound-Feet
0-60 MPH: 3.5 Seconds
Weight: 3,847 Pounds
Price: $194,500

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00:00 - Intro
00:10 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Driving Impressions
00:30 - Motor1's Coolest Car 2024 Lineup
00:42 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Specs
00:54 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Suspension
1:07 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Design
1:14 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Steering
01:25 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Handling
02:01 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Exhaust
02:07 - GT or Sports Car?
02:31 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Brakes
02:42 - 2024 Aston Martin Vantage Gearbox
02:44 - Conclusion

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