Is the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S the best Aston Martin yet?

Forget the Aston Martin Vanquish: the V12 Vantage S is Aston Martin’s real range-topper. It has a V12 at the front sending power to the rear, and very little interferes with the fun. Mark Tisshaw reports.

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Any great drive requires three elements: a great road, great road conditions and a great car. And one of the greatest in 2013 was in the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S. Anyone who says there are no such things as decent driving roads in America has not been to a mountain pass a couple of hundred miles inland from Los Angeles. On these perfect surfaces, under cloudless skies and amid zero traffic, the V12 Vantage S showed us everything that we’d ever wanted an Aston to be.

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