Oh sure, once you get cooking there’s a sonorous roar from both engine and tailpipes, but I don’t want to have to rev the crap out of this thing just to hear that sweet roar. Home Aston Martin DB9 / Vanquish Products. Small gripe: This car is too quiet below 3,000 rpm, even with Sport mode activated (it opens the exhaust flaps). Considering this car’s starting price of over $300,000, you’d be right to expect better. Hell, even the miniscule information display inside the gauge cluster looks 8-bit compared to the beautiful digital displays that are quickly becoming commonplace with high-end automakers. Even the pushbutton gear selectors, with their large-print greeting-card typefaces, look out of place here.
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The infotainment screen is small, with bad graphics, controlled by a series of dials and buttons on the center stack that are often frustrating to use. The Vanquish wasn’t exactly a technological powerhouse when it debuted, and in this regard, it hasn’t aged well. Stunning to behold, with flowing lines and an aura of elegance, I have no doubt the Vanquish will continue to look smashing for decades to come. The Vanquish shape has been around since 2012, itself an evolution of the DBS that debuted in 2007. On the long stretches of freeway that lead out of Los Angeles into the mountains, I’m enjoying a relaxed, comfortable ride, with a huge reserve of power available for zipping around that infamous Left Lane Prius.īeauty never ages. As enjoyable as the Vanquish is to drive fast down a great road, it’s a formidable grand tourer. There is a heft and a level of feedback to this setup that even the best electronically assisted units cannot match, and it’s this connection with the Vanquish that gives me more and more confidence as I hustle it down winding roads. I almost forgot how refreshing it is to drive a car with hydraulic steering.
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The full experience of this engine’s power delivery – the feeling, the sound – is intoxicating. Keep the engine on boil in third and fourth gears and you’ll always have enough thrust to blast out of a corner, a deep, 12-cylinder roar accompanying your every move. Give it hell from a standstill and you’ll hit 60 miles per hour in three and a half seconds. Without the peaks and valleys of power that plague some turbo engines, you quickly learn exactly where to keep the tachometer needle pegged to stay in the Vanquish’s meaty powerband. Dig into the throttle and unleash a wave of power: 595 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque, delivered with total linearity. Our system only weighs only 7.6 kilos ~ 16.7 lbs saving a massive 9.2 kilos ~ 20lbs from the rear of the car which improves overall performance.A total powerhouse. The original factory exhaust weighs 16.4 kilos ~ 36 lbs.
With the valves removed you are able to attain a proper old fashioned elitist sound which unleashes the full potential of the Vanquish for all to hear. Retains original tips to keep the look. This 1:43 scale resin model of the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato in lava red is manufactured by True Scale Miniatures. Titanium silencer casing for weight reduction. The system has a Titanium silencer and thin-gauge Stainless Steel tube to achieve a combination of the lightest possible weight with strength and durability. This system is recommended for the true enthusiast who wants to optimise the experience. It’s also the final outing for Aston’s Ford-derived 6.0.
At lower engine speeds it produces a wonderful deep tone, with volume and pitch increasing in direct proportion to rpm climaxing in a robust race car howl at the red line. This is the new 199,950 Vanquish S - a sharper, more polished version of the Vanquish capable of 0-62mph in 3.5 seconds and 201mph. Our system offers an enhanced experience. The result is a much lighter weight system that has more efficient flow and shows a noticeable improvement in throttle response whilst enhancing that sports car sound. QuickSilver can supply a Titan 'SuperSport' exhaust system for your Vanquish.
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