Elegance

FIRST DRIVE

MERCEDES-AMG SL55

(1989-2002)

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

Winter’s never far away. But first, a pair of open-top Italian supercars, on sublime Italian roads, on a perfect late-summer afternoon…

Not just another befinned land yacht, the 1957-’58 Eldorado Brougham was a truly handbuilt luxury car, perhaps the last really special Cadillac of all and still the only one to feature ‘suicide’ rear