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[Kevin Wood]

Passed a very shiny Aston on a lane this morning. Only way he was going to be able to pass me was by going through the big muddy puddle. Just pulled over and waited. and waited.. That's right, your move.

[mantahatch]

All power to Aston I say. If I was ever in the postion to buy a supercar it would have to be an Aston, no ferrari or anything else comes close to an Aston in my book.

Having driven a regular DB9 I found it very, very disappointing Maybe a Vantage would have been better, although a friend (who is now very happy with a 911 C4S) drove an Vantage M400 and said much the same - disappointing..

I am very jealous, would love to have a go in one. I suppose what I am saying is I tend to pidgeon hole cars and drivers. In all my 46 years I have only ever seen one Aston being driven stupidly, whereas I see many porsches driven very badly. Some ferraris, I assume driven by footballers. And out Romsey way lots of Rolls Royces driven by typical balding business men who cannot drive, make a phone call and rub their head at the same time allthough they do try 

At the end of the day are any cars as good as we think they should be ? IE grass is allways greener on the other side. 

[Kevin Wood]

At the end of the day are any cars as good as we think they should be ? IE grass is allways greener on the other side. 

It's a law of diminishing returns. I.E. they are never as good as the price tag suggests they must be. Hence why a couple of grand spent on an Omega is the sensible option. Plus, you don't care when you have to drive through a muddy puddle.

[aaronjb]

All power to Aston I say. If I was ever in the postion to buy a supercar it would have to be an Aston, no ferrari or anything else comes close to an Aston in my book.

Having driven a regular DB9 I found it very, very disappointing Maybe a Vantage would have been better, although a friend (who is now very happy with a 911 C4S) drove an Vantage M400 and said much the same - disappointing..

I am very jealous, would love to have a go in one. I suppose what I am saying is I tend to pidgeon hole cars and drivers. In all my 46 years I have only ever seen one Aston being driven stupidly, whereas I see many porsches driven very badly. Some ferraris, I assume driven by footballers. And out Romsey way lots of Rolls Royces driven by typical balding business men who cannot drive, make a phone call and rub their head at the same time allthough they do try 

At the end of the day are any cars as good as we think they should be ? IE grass is allways greener on the other side. 

The Ferrari 430 (this was on one of those experience days, sadly I'm nowhere near rich enough to afford either right now ) was every bit as good as I thought it'd be - in fact, much much better. I fell in love.. (now if someone would lend me £70,000 ..)

The Aston would probably make a great everyday car, though, it's refined, comfortable, a big cruiser really.. I'm sure I could live with it if someone gave me one

[Rods2]

I think the Aston Martin is an understated car that you could use every day, without getting the envy stripes that a Ferrari or Lamborghini would attract. 

But for any of them you would need deep pockets with the price, fuel and servicing costs to use as a day to day car, so sadly beyond my range.

About 15 years ago I had a drive of a friend's Ferrari 355 and I must admit I exited the car grinning like a Cheshire cat. I found the "H" plate gear change took a bit of getting used to, pedal to the metal in 1st and 2nd took no getting used to.  I also loved the high speed cornering. 

[hercules]

mmmmmm astons 

[belldarr]

I am a normal working class bloke but I used to part own an Aston Martin Vantage Volante V12 with a friend, a lovely car and very useable every day if you can afford the petrol, BUT it does get negative reactions like people shouting abuse if you have the roof down and you couldn't leave it parked somewhere or it would get keyed

I also toured the Aston Martin factory a few weeks ago and stood next to an Aston 177 - very nice car in the flesh but most of them have been made in left hand drive as there is very little market in the UK at the moment for this car so don't expect to see one in your local high street

Darren