Aston Martin
Among the 106 Aston Martin entries in the MotorJury library, the Aston Martin Vantage holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2005. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Aston Martin Vantage properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Bugatti Bugatti Veyron, the Audi AG Audi Q7, the Kia Kia Sportage — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Aston Martin Vantage reads like this: the record lists its engine as 4.3 L Jaguar AJ-V8 engine#Aston Martin 4.3/4.7 / AM05 V8 engine / V8 / 4.7 L Jaguar AJ-V8 engine#Aston Martin 4.3/4.7 / AM14 V8 / 5.9 L Aston Martin V12 engine / AM2; kerb weight is recorded at 1630 kg (V8 Vantage) / 1610 kg (V8 Vantage S) / 1680 kg (V12 Vantage) / 1665 kg (V12 Vantage S); drive goes through 6-speed Graziano manual / 6-speed Sportshift automated manual / 7-speed Sportshift II automated manual / 7-speed Sportshift III automated manual (V12 Vantage S) / 7-speed dog-leg m; the layout is Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Aston Martin's own catalogue the Aston Martin Vantage sits alongside the Aston Martin Mark II (1934), the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, the Aston Martin Vanquish II (2012), the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3. The record names the Aston Martin Vantage as its predecessor and the Aston Martin Vantage (2018) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Henrik Fisker. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Gaydon, Warwickshire.
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