What Happened When Aston Martin Set Out to Build a Porsche, Then Had a Better Idea

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THE Aston Martin V8 Vantage, to give the so-called baby Aston its full nomenclature, started off as a not so cunning plan to build a Porsche 911 beater. Thankfully, the philosophy quickly changed for the better.

Why, after all, try to build a Porsche? Porsche builds Porsches, Aston builds Astons.

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What Happened When Aston Martin Set Out to Build a Porsche, Then Had a Better Idea

As a result we have a new high-quality contender in what might be reasonably tagged the pocket supercar class, pocket because it is a relatively compact car and because it cannot achieve the 200mph qualifying top speed.

The latter, of course, is as irrelevant a...

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