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New Vantage Roadster turns the clock back to the good old days

2025 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster Glen Waddington APRIL IN THE eastern Alps. Green grandeur, exquisitely surfaced roads, the prospect of some excellent weather… well, maybe. But also rain at times, a

WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE, THEN? A PAIR OF TWIN TESTS or a four-car group test? Perhaps confusingly it’s both. It used to be that 600bhp-plus and 200mph was the exclusive preserve of God-tier exotics. But

The Yorkshire Dales. The sun’s out. The roads twist and flow. The Ribblehead viaduct was just back there, now we’re getting stone barns and gambolling lambs. Spring is in the air, roofs are down, warm

THE latest Aston Martin Vantage is a fearsome sports car. Think of it as Britain’s answer to a Porsche 911 Turbo, with more panache but a little less performance, and you’ll be getting the picture. We

Eyebrows were raised when an Aston Martin engineer, speaking at the Austrian launch of the new Vantage Roadster, suggested the spring and damper rates had been carried over wholesale from the coupé un