In Sunday’s Autos section, Lawrence Ulrich reviews the 2011 Aston Martin V-12 Vantage:
Compared with the V-8 version, the V-12’s brilliant carbon-ceramic brakes, lower body, stiffer springs and higher-rate antiroll bars create an Aston that can attack any curve with no excuses.
Still, partly because of its nose-heavy V-12, the car feels less spellbinding than the current supercar wizards like the Ferrari 458 Italia. And a slew of sports cars, including garden-variety ’Vettes, can beat the Aston’s 4.2-second sprint from 0 to 60 miles per hour and its 190 m.p.h. top speed.
But I’ve yet to hear an Aston owner use the phrase “bang for the buck.”
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