Aston’s old-school charmer

Convertible version of the twin-turbo V12 grand tourer is heavy and huge, but it’s also hugely enjoyable

‘BEST ASTON MARTIN OF THE LAST 25 years.’ So said John Barker, editor-at-large, evo co-founder, and a man who knows a thing or two about engineering cars, in our review of Aston Martin’s latest Vanqui

The Valhalla may be an Aston Martin like no other, but it isn’t a supercar like no other. It’s a two-seat, carbonfibre-tubbed coupé, with a mid-mounted turbocharged vee engine supplemented by an elect

ON looks alone, the Aston Martin Vanquish Volante could, quite rightly, sit at the top of any man, woman or child’s lottery-win wishlist. Building on the aggressive but elegant profile of the Vanquish

It’s 90kg heavier. Antiroll bar stiffness and rear spring rates have been upped by 7%. And the roof goes up and down. There you go: the material differences between the coupé and Volante. The Volante’

The mercury is climbing steadily into the high twenties, and above us the blue sky is dotted with only a smattering of little fluffy clouds. At last, summer is here. Better still, we’ve got the scener