Aston Martin Vantage

With more power than a nuclear power station and the opulence of an english statly home, the Aston Martin Vantage is probably the best British production car to date.In V600 format its the fastest 4-seater in the world. It weighs about twice as much as golf GTi so you'd expect it to have twice as much power, well, you'd be wrong as it has four times as much. Yes, thanks to it's twin supercharged, 6 litre V8 the Vantage churns out a stupid 600bhp @5200rpm and 600lbft of torque at similar revs. This, mated to a 6-speed corvette gearbox can produce brain squeezing statistics. 0-60mph is 3.9 sec and 0-100mph in 6.7sec, and topping out at 200+mph. But power was ...