Aston Martin Vanquish _ Car Review _ Top Gear

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhen I drove the DB9 earlier this year I remember thinking why would anyone buy the Vanquish I mean they're the same size they look pretty much the same they have the same engine same power same top speed and yet the Vanquish is 60,000 more expensive it just seemed potty but now Aston Martin have said that this has been made a lot lot better this is the result the Vanquish s the idea is that you buy a DB9 if you want to lope across Europe and then one of these if you want a bare knuckle pedal to the metal thrash on a Sunday morning so how then they created this new spottiness it looks the same as the old car from the outside and the interior is pretty similar as well so you're probably expecting the engine to be some kind of nitroglycerine fueled rocket let's have a look nope they fiddled with it a bit but in essence it's the same 6 L V12 you get in the DB9 sounds pretty much the same as before and at £ 174,000 it also costs pretty much the same as well so at this point you're probably wondering have they actually done anything significant at all well they've lowered the ride height stiffened up the suspension and quickened up the steering but the simple answer is no however if you really concentrate you can tell that all those little changes add up to make a big difference I mean watch this flat out you'll be doing more than 200 M an hour and it stops better too because it now has brakes which aren't made from old biscuit barrels but what about the stupid Flappy paddle gearbox well they say they've cracked it with the vanquishes so let's find out let's just stop put it into first now if I put my foot down in the old car i' just got a lot of smoke from the clutch let's just try this that's okay up changes are still ludicrously jerky though and it still won't change down when I want it to come on I want second now now now I paid for the car I want to choose when to change the gear not you I know best I have to say though that apart from the gearbox this is way better than it was before it feels faster tter and harder so there's no doubt they have moved it away from the DB9 unfortunately however that means they've moved it right into the firing line of one of the biggest names in the business what we have here is a Ferrari 575 like the Aston it's a big two-seater no compromis sports coupe with a V12 engine at the front a flappy paddle gearbox in the middle and rear wheel drive at the back and like the ason it has recently been given a thorough goinging over to make it a bit more of a brute when the 575 first came out it was a soft quiet rather wallowy old Hector now they fixed that quite quickly and now they've fixed the fix with what they're calling the GTC handling pack for an extra £6,000 you get thicker anti-roll bar bars stiffer suspension fatter tires and ceramic brakes you also get a new exhaust so it sounds like a Ferrari shook have to say the changes have really sharpen this thing up this has got a much much better gearbox than the one in the Aston still Flappy paddles but less jerky on the way up and faster on the way down better still if you're a serious driver you can have a proper manual with a clutch pedal this is really designed for you know posers people who've got carpet warehouses in Huddersfield who what to show off to the MS at golf club hey I've got I've got one of them gearboxes like Michael shacker so what are we reckon on paper these two cars are incredibly similar they both cost about the same they both produce more than 500 brake horsepower and they'll both crack 200 mph to to decide which is best we need to do some back-to-back tests and that means I need another driver for the other car there's only one man for the job Rowan Atkinson sadly Rowan was busy so I called an old mate of mine he's a big petrol head Steve cougan the first test we have is a simple drag race yes well I've got five more break horsepower than cougan in the Ferrari but I'm carrying an extra 100 kg and it's the weight that's costing me this race next we did a breaking test and once again the Ferrari was the winner but the big deciding factor is how these cars make you feel so what we're really saying then is that for a thrashing round on a test track the Ferrari is the better car yeah definitely but we think it's a bit Flash and a bit boring now yeah and also they needed to the stylings you know the last nice I three five five is nice but all those daytonas and dos had real style and there's something just a bit I don't think these will age well given the choice I'd have one of those yeah so um should we should we arm wrestle for it um that's controversial I know agreed yeah so you both agreed you'd have the Vanquish do you know what I would actually save the £60,000 and have the DB9 still really I really would the problem with this is its gearbox it's just it's still that bad oh no bad Robert mcabby is bad this is just in a way different League of Badness that's very bad it's appalling now I mean the thing is after I finished with it gave it to the dig Halfway Around the lap it stopped selecting third went back to the factory got fixed came down he set off again it stopped selecting all gears back to the factory again so did it ever actually manage a complete lap yeah finally 3 weeks after it first set off it finally managed to do a LP and we've got it for you now oh slow off the line obviously trying to keep the gearbox in one piece before he gets down to the first Corner which he is approaching now quite tidy through there still the gearbox has worked all the way down to Hammerhead so that's not bad going around that he's got an awful lot of under steer there man of God because it is quite a heavy car you have to remember that it is one of the greatest noises in the world that that thing makes here he is second to last Corner kissing the Apex perfectly and around the last corner and across the line and the time is 1 minute 27.1 which goes oh and off the line he's leaving a huge fat number 11 CU of course the gearbox in that can take the power through the first Corner look how flat that's cornering it looks just so much more Nimble than the Aston get he'll have to lift he has to lift through the tire wall of course the paddle gear box is better in this than it is in the astim but that is like saying that rabies is better than botulism as he comes round the last corner and across the line and the time is 126.80 three of a second faster than the vanage only three of a second faster than the DB9 I was expecting more than that I must be honestwhen I drove the DB9 earlier this year I remember thinking why would anyone buy the Vanquish I mean they're the same size they look pretty much the same they have the same engine same power same top speed and yet the Vanquish is 60,000 more expensive it just seemed potty but now Aston Martin have said that this has been made a lot lot better this is the result the Vanquish s the idea is that you buy a DB9 if you want to lope across Europe and then one of these if you want a bare knuckle pedal to the metal thrash on a Sunday morning so how then they created this new spottiness it looks the same as the old car from the outside and the interior is pretty similar as well so you're probably expecting the engine to be some kind of nitroglycerine fueled rocket let's have a look nope they fiddled with it a bit but in essence it's the same 6 L V12 you get in the DB9 sounds pretty much the same as before and at £ 174,000 it also costs pretty much the same as well so at this point you're probably wondering have they actually done anything significant at all well they've lowered the ride height stiffened up the suspension and quickened up the steering but the simple answer is no however if you really concentrate you can tell that all those little changes add up to make a big difference I mean watch this flat out you'll be doing more than 200 M an hour and it stops better too because it now has brakes which aren't made from old biscuit barrels but what about the stupid Flappy paddle gearbox well they say they've cracked it with the vanquishes so let's find out let's just stop put it into first now if I put my foot down in the old car i' just got a lot of smoke from the clutch let's just try this that's okay up changes are still ludicrously jerky though and it still won't change down when I want it to come on I want second now now now I paid for the car I want to choose when to change the gear not you I know best I have to say though that apart from the gearbox this is way better than it was before it feels faster tter and harder so there's no doubt they have moved it away from the DB9 unfortunately however that means they've moved it right into the firing line of one of the biggest names in the business what we have here is a Ferrari 575 like the Aston it's a big two-seater no compromis sports coupe with a V12 engine at the front a flappy paddle gearbox in the middle and rear wheel drive at the back and like the ason it has recently been given a thorough goinging over to make it a bit more of a brute when the 575 first came out it was a soft quiet rather wallowy old Hector now they fixed that quite quickly and now they've fixed the fix with what they're calling the GTC handling pack for an extra £6,000 you get thicker anti-roll bar bars stiffer suspension fatter tires and ceramic brakes you also get a new exhaust so it sounds like a Ferrari shook have to say the changes have really sharpen this thing up this has got a much much better gearbox than the one in the Aston still Flappy paddles but less jerky on the way up and faster on the way down better still if you're a serious driver you can have a proper manual with a clutch pedal this is really designed for you know posers people who've got carpet warehouses in Huddersfield who what to show off to the MS at golf club hey I've got I've got one of them gearboxes like Michael shacker so what are we reckon on paper these two cars are incredibly similar they both cost about the same they both produce more than 500 brake horsepower and they'll both crack 200 mph to to decide which is best we need to do some back-to-back tests and that means I need another driver for the other car there's only one man for the job Rowan Atkinson sadly Rowan was busy so I called an old mate of mine he's a big petrol head Steve cougan the first test we have is a simple drag race yes well I've got five more break horsepower than cougan in the Ferrari but I'm carrying an extra 100 kg and it's the weight that's costing me this race next we did a breaking test and once again the Ferrari was the winner but the big deciding factor is how these cars make you feel so what we're really saying then is that for a thrashing round on a test track the Ferrari is the better car yeah definitely but we think it's a bit Flash and a bit boring now yeah and also they needed to the stylings you know the last nice I three five five is nice but all those daytonas and dos had real style and there's something just a bit I don't think these will age well given the choice I'd have one of those yeah so um should we should we arm wrestle for it um that's controversial I know agreed yeah so you both agreed you'd have the Vanquish do you know what I would actually save the £60,000 and have the DB9 still really I really would the problem with this is its gearbox it's just it's still that bad oh no bad Robert mcabby is bad this is just in a way different League of Badness that's very bad it's appalling now I mean the thing is after I finished with it gave it to the dig Halfway Around the lap it stopped selecting third went back to the factory got fixed came down he set off again it stopped selecting all gears back to the factory again so did it ever actually manage a complete lap yeah finally 3 weeks after it first set off it finally managed to do a LP and we've got it for you now oh slow off the line obviously trying to keep the gearbox in one piece before he gets down to the first Corner which he is approaching now quite tidy through there still the gearbox has worked all the way down to Hammerhead so that's not bad going around that he's got an awful lot of under steer there man of God because it is quite a heavy car you have to remember that it is one of the greatest noises in the world that that thing makes here he is second to last Corner kissing the Apex perfectly and around the last corner and across the line and the time is 1 minute 27.1 which goes oh and off the line he's leaving a huge fat number 11 CU of course the gearbox in that can take the power through the first Corner look how flat that's cornering it looks just so much more Nimble than the Aston get he'll have to lift he has to lift through the tire wall of course the paddle gear box is better in this than it is in the astim but that is like saying that rabies is better than botulism as he comes round the last corner and across the line and the time is 126.80 three of a second faster than the vanage only three of a second faster than the DB9 I was expecting more than that I must be honest\n"