**Aston Martin Vanquish: A Car that's More than Just a Convertible**

As I sat behind the wheel of the Aston Martin Vanquish, I couldn't help but think that this car is more than just a luxurious convertible. It's a driving experience that will leave you wanting more. The road got bumpy, and my stiff front engine car would complain about it, but not the Vanquish. Aston has nailed the issue of road bumpiness, making it a comfortable ride even on rough terrain.

One thing I noticed was how securely held the floor mats were in place. Little plastic tabs seemed to be all that kept them from falling off. Now, I wouldn't be too harsh if this car was in the $150-$200 range, but at $300,000, it should be made of metal and not come loose so easily. On the other hand, the window system can be a bit wonky sometimes, with the one-touch function interacting with some kind of fail-safe that makes it not want to stay up. I'm still trying to understand why this is the case.

The turning radius of the Vanquish is very good for a car of its size, and the front tires aren't overly wide, which prevents traming. The engine is also positioned so far back that almost the whole engine is behind the front tire, contributing to both the ride quality and the turning radius. I have to say, it's been a pleasure driving this car with the top down. The wind in my hair and the sun on my face have made for a glorious experience.

However, there is one thing that can be a bit of an annoyance - the traction management system. It's pretty invasive unless you go full off, which is actually kind of tough to do. I tried to drift a little in the door if dough area, but it didn't like it. The Vanquish doesn't seem to like drifting either, throwing the accessory belt when even in manual Sport Plus mode.

I did manage to get into some spirited driving and was surprised at how unpredictable the traction management system is when you're drifting. Once I hit the rev limiter, it would shift up a gear and then come out of boost, making it very hard to predict what would happen next. However, this isn't a car that's meant for drifting - it's just not designed for it.

Despite these minor issues, my experience with the Vanquish has been overwhelmingly positive. The automatic transmission is easy to use, and the ride quality is comfortable and luxurious. It's also easy to park and maneuver in tight spaces. The rear window can be a bit of an issue when the top is up, but the cameras make up for it.

One thing that struck me was how well the Vanquish handles with all this power at the rear wheels. On bumpy roads with elevation change and undulation, I found myself enjoying the drive more than not. It's a delight to be able to corner hard without feeling like you're losing control. The only downside is that it can feel slightly less refined than other luxury cars in the $300,000 price range.

For instance, when compared to the Rolls-Royce convertible, which has more insulated and refined tops, the Vanquish's top is just a bit... normal. But with the top down, I've been having an absolute blast driving this car. My head might be red from all the time spent in the sun, but it's been worth it.

In conclusion, if you're looking for a luxury convertible that won't sacrifice performance on your enthusiast level, look no further than the Aston Martin Vanquish. It may not be perfect - there are some minor issues with the floor mats and traction management system - but overall, it's an excellent driving experience that will leave you wanting more. Thank you to Aston Martin for letting me review this car, and thank you to my audience for watching despite this being my second time around in the same car.

**Performance and Handling**

The Vanquish is more than just a convertible - it's a performance machine. The power delivery is smooth and responsive, with the traction management system doing its best to keep everything under control. When I put the pedal down, I was surprised at how quickly the car accelerates from 0-60mph.

But what really impressed me was how well the Vanquish handles on bumpy roads with elevation change and undulation. The front tires aren't overly wide, which prevents traming, and the engine is positioned so far back that almost the whole engine is behind the front tire, contributing to both the ride quality and the turning radius.

The turning radius of the Vanquish is very good for a car of its size, making it easy to maneuver in tight spaces. And with the top down, I found myself enjoying the drive more than not - there's just something about being out on the road with the wind in my hair that makes me happy.

**Technology and Features**

One thing that caught my attention was the traction management system. It's pretty invasive unless you go full off, which is actually kind of tough to do. I tried to drift a little in the door if dough area, but it didn't like it. The Vanquish doesn't seem to like drifting either, throwing the accessory belt when even in manual Sport Plus mode.

Despite these minor issues, my experience with the Vanquish's technology and features has been overwhelmingly positive. The automatic transmission is easy to use, and the ride quality is comfortable and luxurious. It's also easy to park and maneuver in tight spaces - a welcome feature for anyone who loves to drive.

The cameras make up for the lackluster rear window when the top is up. They provide a great view of what's behind me, making it easier to navigate through crowded city streets or parking lots. And with the top down, I found myself enjoying the drive more than not - there's just something about being out on the road with the wind in my hair that makes me happy.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, if you're looking for a luxury convertible that won't sacrifice performance on your enthusiast level, look no further than the Aston Martin Vanquish. It may not be perfect - there are some minor issues with the floor mats and traction management system - but overall, it's an excellent driving experience that will leave you wanting more. Thank you to Aston Martin for letting me review this car, and thank you to my audience for watching despite this being my second time around in the same car.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys I am super stoked to announce that omae's is giving away a 2020 c8 stingray z51 taxes and shipping paid plus 20k in the trunk all you got to do is go to omae's comm slash the smoking tire to enter the c8 stingray is one of my favourite cars of the year it's one of the best riding cars I've ever driven the dual clutch gearbox is amazing from an American company and it is way fast especially for its price point but it's totally sold out so the only way you can get one now is by going to omae's comm slash the smoking tire every donation benefits a great cause the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center check for details on the site so just go to omae's comm slash the smoking tire and check it out for yourself I will see you out on the road hello everybody welcome to the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Volante to break that down DBS Superleggera means it's the hopped-up version of the DB 11 it's got a 715 horsepower twin-turbo 5.2 liter v12 making 663 pound-feet of torque and Volante is asked and speak for convertible cloth top to go from coupe to convertible the only real changes are that you add 220 pounds to the overall curb weight bringing you up to just a hair under 4,000 pounds as it sits here it's two-tenths of a second slower to 60 and the same two-tenths of a second slower in the quarter-mile and then the top speed is down just a little bit but this is still the fastest soft-top vehicle that Aston has ever made and it's also a 211 mile an hour car with the top up or down so although I have spent significant time with the DBS Superleggera coupe they offered me the convertible what was I going to do so let's have a go and have a chat all right when we did this last time we're up in the Angeles forest wide open roads very smooth now that we've got the convertible we're on a tighter Road in Malibu it's also a bumpier road so what we are looking for is the lack of chassis rigidity we hope to find that it is minimized the mid-engine cars the carbon tub cars don't have such an issue when you take the top off because they are usually designed to be spiders from the ground up and the top isn't a structural member in this car it is now that doesn't mean they've done a bad job quite the contrary they've done a very good job this thing is awful taught my sort of seat-of-the-pants test is elbow on the doorsill hand on the top of the windshield and drive over bumpy roads if your triangle is maintained the integrity of your triangle you got a pretty rigid card the Aston DBS feel auntie bol auntie does well in that regard it also has a bad mama of an engine it is so powerful that the 8-speed gearbox limits the torque in first second and third which means fourth is like the sleeper gear when you ship from third to fourth and accelerates harder this is a very fast car although the zero-to-sixty of 3/5 is not 300k impressive in 2020 it's really all about the 50 to 200 because those are big numbers we're gonna go downhill here once you're moving and rear traction and the limiting of torque is no longer a factor then you're just sailing this road is good because it's got a lot of undulation x' leading into braking zones big ceramic brakes on the DBS we've got Pirelli PZero course the tires what I really like about the DBS coupe it extends to the Valon team for a front-engine car the ride quality is great there are three suspension settings Comfort Sport and Sport Plus comfort all the time for me this road right here it's bumpy you want comfort to keep your tire patch on the road the stiffer settings might be great on perfectly smooth racetracks but on any kind of imperfect surface such as the highway or canyon roads comfort keeps your grip levels high and your spine from being punished right here whoa whoa whoa maintain the traction oh that brings me to another thought these windows they don't like to like one touch up you they one touch up and then they go back down I put it up so you could hear me better but look if I one touch them down will drive and talk about that one touch up now now it wants to work if you put the pressure on and now it works so you see how bumpy this road is it's really absorbing the these imperfections and I have to make very few corrections in the steering in the mid corner that's good that's what you want that's what the the mid-engine and the rear engine cars are so good at about being sprung and damped with enough travel that it's not a problem if the road gets bumpy a lot of your super stiff front engine cars it's problem Aston has nailed that now until I find a spot to flip around things that are bad there's a couple there's only a couple one these floor mats are held on by little plastic tabs and I can find in here one of them that I was very easily able to break off normally if this car was even a hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand dollars I wouldn't say anything about this stars three hundred thousand dollars this should be made of metal and it should not be able to come off also the window thing is a little wonky sometimes they go up and down the one touch function it interacts with some kind of a fail-safe that makes it not want to stay up sometimes I don't understand it there we go turn around here turning radius is very good for a car of this size the front tires are not overly wide so it doesn't tramline and it keeps your good turning radius they also move the engine so far back that almost the whole engine is behind the front tire that's another thing that contributes to both the ride quality and the turning radius if you can hear that rattle I'm sorry about that I ran out of tape and I forgot and the tape is what stops that rattle it's not the car it's my camera mount and that's what happens when farah runs out of tape because he is flustered the traction management is pretty invasive unless you go full off and it's actually kind of tough to go full up it's buried in a menu in here I tried to do a little door if dough on the door if toe area it doesn't like the derivative Astin's don't like drifting my Vanquish doesn't like drifting cuz it throws the accessory belt have you tried this car doesn't like drifting because if you bang the rev limiter even in manual Sport Plus pull off it goes up a gear and then it comes out of boost then it won't go automatically back down to the right gear so basically once you get the tires spinning and you're drifting it's very unpredictable when it's going to hit that rev limiter shift up and die so don't buy this to go drifting even if you look at the specs and go that thing would be very good at drifting it's not having said that you know what it is really good for other than being a missile it's really good at being a car there is nothing about this car that's annoying there's nothing about this car that would mean you can't just use it as a car I've just driven it as a daily and as a regular car it's fine if the automatics good it's comfortable it's easy it's luxurious it's easy to park easy to see out up with the top down the rear window is horrible with the top up but the cameras are good and they work I mean yes this system is Mercedes but it works as well and this is it works in a Mercedes so I don't have a problem with that it's better than when they had a Volvo one that Volvo system stunk it's good though this thing on these bumpy roads with all this elevation change all this undulation and managing all this power at the rear wheels I mean it should be a proper handful it should be terrible it should be uncontrollable it shouldn't be easy as pie which is what it is and that is delightful and so I don't need to make this video longer and laggy er than it needs to be these motorcycles are going to come by I just wanted to give you guys a vibe for what it's like bottom line is this the two hundred pounds might matter if you're running a stop carbon if you're running a stopwatch at the racetrack if you're not put the top down the perceived loss in rigidity is basically zero the only real downside is the rear visibility and the fact that you do get more Road noise with the top up than you do in the coupe it's not the best convertible top in the $300,000 price range s-class Bentley their their convertible tops or rolls-royce they have the more the more insulated refined tops this is a little more of a normal top nice but normal but with the top down I mean I've been driving top-down all week you could probably tell because my head is red and it has been glorious so I really want to thank Aston Martin for letting you have this even though I kind of already reviewed the product and if you sat through this video I want to thank you for watching even though it's basically my second time around in the same car but it's a lovely thing and it's good to know that we're at a point where convertibles don't really mean sacrifice on an enthusiast performance level so thanks and I'll see you later byehey guys I am super stoked to announce that omae's is giving away a 2020 c8 stingray z51 taxes and shipping paid plus 20k in the trunk all you got to do is go to omae's comm slash the smoking tire to enter the c8 stingray is one of my favourite cars of the year it's one of the best riding cars I've ever driven the dual clutch gearbox is amazing from an American company and it is way fast especially for its price point but it's totally sold out so the only way you can get one now is by going to omae's comm slash the smoking tire every donation benefits a great cause the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center check for details on the site so just go to omae's comm slash the smoking tire and check it out for yourself I will see you out on the road hello everybody welcome to the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Volante to break that down DBS Superleggera means it's the hopped-up version of the DB 11 it's got a 715 horsepower twin-turbo 5.2 liter v12 making 663 pound-feet of torque and Volante is asked and speak for convertible cloth top to go from coupe to convertible the only real changes are that you add 220 pounds to the overall curb weight bringing you up to just a hair under 4,000 pounds as it sits here it's two-tenths of a second slower to 60 and the same two-tenths of a second slower in the quarter-mile and then the top speed is down just a little bit but this is still the fastest soft-top vehicle that Aston has ever made and it's also a 211 mile an hour car with the top up or down so although I have spent significant time with the DBS Superleggera coupe they offered me the convertible what was I going to do so let's have a go and have a chat all right when we did this last time we're up in the Angeles forest wide open roads very smooth now that we've got the convertible we're on a tighter Road in Malibu it's also a bumpier road so what we are looking for is the lack of chassis rigidity we hope to find that it is minimized the mid-engine cars the carbon tub cars don't have such an issue when you take the top off because they are usually designed to be spiders from the ground up and the top isn't a structural member in this car it is now that doesn't mean they've done a bad job quite the contrary they've done a very good job this thing is awful taught my sort of seat-of-the-pants test is elbow on the doorsill hand on the top of the windshield and drive over bumpy roads if your triangle is maintained the integrity of your triangle you got a pretty rigid card the Aston DBS feel auntie bol auntie does well in that regard it also has a bad mama of an engine it is so powerful that the 8-speed gearbox limits the torque in first second and third which means fourth is like the sleeper gear when you ship from third to fourth and accelerates harder this is a very fast car although the zero-to-sixty of 3/5 is not 300k impressive in 2020 it's really all about the 50 to 200 because those are big numbers we're gonna go downhill here once you're moving and rear traction and the limiting of torque is no longer a factor then you're just sailing this road is good because it's got a lot of undulation x' leading into braking zones big ceramic brakes on the DBS we've got Pirelli PZero course the tires what I really like about the DBS coupe it extends to the Valon team for a front-engine car the ride quality is great there are three suspension settings Comfort Sport and Sport Plus comfort all the time for me this road right here it's bumpy you want comfort to keep your tire patch on the road the stiffer settings might be great on perfectly smooth racetracks but on any kind of imperfect surface such as the highway or canyon roads comfort keeps your grip levels high and your spine from being punished right here whoa whoa whoa maintain the traction oh that brings me to another thought these windows they don't like to like one touch up you they one touch up and then they go back down I put it up so you could hear me better but look if I one touch them down will drive and talk about that one touch up now now it wants to work if you put the pressure on and now it works so you see how bumpy this road is it's really absorbing the these imperfections and I have to make very few corrections in the steering in the mid corner that's good that's what you want that's what the the mid-engine and the rear engine cars are so good at about being sprung and damped with enough travel that it's not a problem if the road gets bumpy a lot of your super stiff front engine cars it's problem Aston has nailed that now until I find a spot to flip around things that are bad there's a couple there's only a couple one these floor mats are held on by little plastic tabs and I can find in here one of them that I was very easily able to break off normally if this car was even a hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand dollars I wouldn't say anything about this stars three hundred thousand dollars this should be made of metal and it should not be able to come off also the window thing is a little wonky sometimes they go up and down the one touch function it interacts with some kind of a fail-safe that makes it not want to stay up sometimes I don't understand it there we go turn around here turning radius is very good for a car of this size the front tires are not overly wide so it doesn't tramline and it keeps your good turning radius they also move the engine so far back that almost the whole engine is behind the front tire that's another thing that contributes to both the ride quality and the turning radius if you can hear that rattle I'm sorry about that I ran out of tape and I forgot and the tape is what stops that rattle it's not the car it's my camera mount and that's what happens when farah runs out of tape because he is flustered the traction management is pretty invasive unless you go full off and it's actually kind of tough to go full up it's buried in a menu in here I tried to do a little door if dough on the door if toe area it doesn't like the derivative Astin's don't like drifting my Vanquish doesn't like drifting cuz it throws the accessory belt have you tried this car doesn't like drifting because if you bang the rev limiter even in manual Sport Plus pull off it goes up a gear and then it comes out of boost then it won't go automatically back down to the right gear so basically once you get the tires spinning and you're drifting it's very unpredictable when it's going to hit that rev limiter shift up and die so don't buy this to go drifting even if you look at the specs and go that thing would be very good at drifting it's not having said that you know what it is really good for other than being a missile it's really good at being a car there is nothing about this car that's annoying there's nothing about this car that would mean you can't just use it as a car I've just driven it as a daily and as a regular car it's fine if the automatics good it's comfortable it's easy it's luxurious it's easy to park easy to see out up with the top down the rear window is horrible with the top up but the cameras are good and they work I mean yes this system is Mercedes but it works as well and this is it works in a Mercedes so I don't have a problem with that it's better than when they had a Volvo one that Volvo system stunk it's good though this thing on these bumpy roads with all this elevation change all this undulation and managing all this power at the rear wheels I mean it should be a proper handful it should be terrible it should be uncontrollable it shouldn't be easy as pie which is what it is and that is delightful and so I don't need to make this video longer and laggy er than it needs to be these motorcycles are going to come by I just wanted to give you guys a vibe for what it's like bottom line is this the two hundred pounds might matter if you're running a stop carbon if you're running a stopwatch at the racetrack if you're not put the top down the perceived loss in rigidity is basically zero the only real downside is the rear visibility and the fact that you do get more Road noise with the top up than you do in the coupe it's not the best convertible top in the $300,000 price range s-class Bentley their their convertible tops or rolls-royce they have the more the more insulated refined tops this is a little more of a normal top nice but normal but with the top down I mean I've been driving top-down all week you could probably tell because my head is red and it has been glorious so I really want to thank Aston Martin for letting you have this even though I kind of already reviewed the product and if you sat through this video I want to thank you for watching even though it's basically my second time around in the same car but it's a lovely thing and it's good to know that we're at a point where convertibles don't really mean sacrifice on an enthusiast performance level so thanks and I'll see you later bye\n"