Properly designed touch controls I can live with. The screen sticking up as if the designer went to lunch and forgot to integrate it within the dash is a deal breaker for me.

 

I thought it was a Subaru - can you imagine pulling up next to the Silver one?

 

It looks like this is the car that the artist who did the Vantage renderings used for a starting point. Same rear bumper/diffuser profile, same contour lines along the body, exactly the same window shapes.

 

Successful execution is always in the detail

 

Have you driven this new Vantage that doesn't officially exist, yet?

Didn't think so.

But if you look at this entire thread, we're talking about how it looks, not how it drives. As nobody except Aston Martin employees have driven it, it'd be absolutely stupid to talk about how the next generation Vantage feels.

 

I'm a +1 on the **** train. (Uh, don't read too far into that...)

The haptic feedback on my iPhone 7's home button is very impressive, but it's a single button on a small device that stays in a relatively consistent position in my hand. In a car, there are a bunch of buttons in close proximity to each other all over the place and I'm busying watching the road, other drivers, and all sorts of other stuff. ***** and buttons let me reach out to a general area, feel the buttons and ***** there, and press the one I want without ever having to take my eyes off the road - and it's all subconsciously done.

Think of it like a computer's keyboard. Your hands rest in a specific place, and the F and J keys even have little bumps to use as reference points for your index fingers. You hit all these buttons in crazy succession, and never need to take your eyes or attention away from the screen.

Now imagine typing on a completely flat glass surface.

The only reason touch-screen phones get away with it is because it's a small device, but it requires your attention, AND it has a lot of technology built into it for autocorrect and predictive word choices (which are very impressive pieces of technology, btw - I'm saying that as a linguist and language analyst by training). Autocorrect in a car? Probably not going to go well anytime soon. If it autocorrects an input, your attention is off the road to figure out not only how to get the input you meant to press, but also what was actually changed, and how to change it back.

As for the styling... none of us know. There are renderings, there are test mules, only a few people on this forum have seen it and they're not going to say anything lol.

 

Looking at the renderings, I need a 07-09 roadster in addition to my coupe.

I guess we will keep the value with our cars.

 

I seriously doubt that the rendering is accurate - it does not appear to come from Aston. From the people who actually saw a mock-up I heard it looks sorta like a 1-77 rear-ended the car and morphed with the existing Vantage... that rendering looked like the sides of a F-Type coupe was photoshopped with the rear end of he DB-10 and the front end conformed to a DB-11. Like all else if the super-fly the interior like the DB-11, I'll be happy keeping onto my GT. The I-Pad Nav is a no-go for me too.

 

not a fan of those super slim tail lights.

 

Absolutely loving these renderings above (Thank you OP for posting/sharing).
I hope AM would put more DB10 (and less of DB11) styling elements into the new Vantage while keeping the current car's dimensions and AMG's dual clutch trans too. Personally, I don't mind that iPad screen from DB11 since current Vantage's flip-up screen is not that much better either anyways.
Well, one can only hope right?

 

looks more like the AMG GT its based off of to me than that jag, which is fine because other than my Vantage, I would love to own an AMG GT If it only had a manual gearbox!

 

I hope it will not look exactly like that rendering. The roofline and C-pillar are virtually identical to the F-type.

However, it makes me comfortable to drive my 07 for a few more years at least

 

I asked the Aston people who saw the actual mock-ups of the next gen Vantage and they said the rendering looked absolutely nothing like the next one. They said it's got more of a Vulcan look (eeek) a very wide profile.

 

The Vantage platform is not based on the AMG GT. Don't know where you got that idea.

 

That makes alot more sense. Still, it's a bit more 70's stingray Corvette than I'd prefer.