1987 aston v8 zagato £450,000

The V8 Vantage remains an automotive icon two decades on from its launch – still riotous to drive but now tantalisingly affordable

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

Owning something powered by a dozen cylinders is the idle fancy of many of us. The silky-smooth torque delivery matched with a potent punch of performance when ‘the taps are opened’ is peak automotive

There can be few more genteel supercar showrooms than the one situated in the Orangery at Tollerton Hall, the magnificent Nottinghamshire stately home owned by entrepreneur and avid car collector Ian

(1962-1969)

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