New Vantage Front Grill
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New (old school) grill is a huge plus IMO. Convertible looks good, but the back deck seems really flat and un-detailed? Wouldn't some speedster type headrest shaping help?
Base price heads in the right direction with a stick.. $149k
Base price heads in the right direction with a stick.. $149k
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I personally don't see it. The whole "face" is entirely different between the two...
I would seriously doubt AM would be that foolish to allow the adjusted facia to affect anything other than sales...
I would seriously doubt AM would be that foolish to allow the adjusted facia to affect anything other than sales...
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That is what I thought too, but going on what the dealer tells me... I know to convert the front of the Rapide S to the Rapide (or vice versa) is about a 20k job. So maybe there's more to it?
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The turbo engine and price hike is not what hurt sales. The new car design is what hurt sales. People buy Aston Martins for one reason and one reason only. The way it looks. It’s never about performance. A corvette at less than half the price will outperform the V12 Vantage. Currently the Mustang GT 350 and GT 500 will embarrass any Aston Martin on a road course. We buy these cars because there in nothing else quite as beautiful as they are, because we enjoy the sheer adoration that these cars bring out from the average person and car enthusiast alike.
The fact that a Camaro might beat you at the stop light was inconsequential, nothing compared to how the car looked.
They destroyed all that with the new design.
That’s why they are not selling. They left the target audience to explore the Porsche audience only to find out that Porsche does Porsche better that Aston Martin does Porsche.
The fact that a Camaro might beat you at the stop light was inconsequential, nothing compared to how the car looked.
They destroyed all that with the new design.
That’s why they are not selling. They left the target audience to explore the Porsche audience only to find out that Porsche does Porsche better that Aston Martin does Porsche.
How often have we seen this mistake repeated in the corporate world? Company is overrun with managers and suits more concerned with stuffing their wallets, pompous titles (what the hell is a chief creative officer, anyway?) and egos than the business at hand. Suits bring in all sorts of grandiose expansion plans, talk up a storm, go on a spending spree and enact a ludicrous and humiliating foray into the stock market. Result: company loses sight of its raison d'être and core product, and goes down the crapper.