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I finally gave up on my SL63 and ordered the new 2025 Aston Martin Vantage. Highly tweaked same engine with significant power increase and design features. With my new engine, the SL has performed well and still looks great, but the total engine failure lost my allegiance. It's not due until December and I look forward to trying out that new engine.
'22 AMG SL55;'23 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe;'13 Porsche Boxster S
Congratulations. The new Vantage will also be my next car (I’ve owned 2 Vantages and a DB11 before) The updated interior, front end, and increased H.P. are awesome.
Congratulations, beautiful car. On the short list once our M8 lease is up. Compared to what MB is asking for these cars the Vantage is a no brainer. Aston is killing it.
I finally gave up on my SL63 and ordered the new 2025 Aston Martin Vantage. Highly tweaked same engine with significant power increase and design features. With my new engine, the SL has performed well and still looks great, but the total engine failure lost my allegiance. It's not due until December and I look forward to trying out that new engine.
$191,000 base plus options totaled $240,800. Probably overdid the options and a very nice build could be done for $210,000 I think.
Configuration code is T5NEWWLM7G and I think you can look it up on their configuration site for details.
Congratulations. The new Vantage will also be my next car (I’ve owned 2 Vantages and a DB11 before) The updated interior, front end, and increased H.P. are awesome.
Agree, thrilled with my SL63 and coming from the 2019 Vantage, my sights are squarely set on the facelift for my next car - just gorgeous and love the upgrades - Drive in good health! KH
Agree on preferring a convertible, but the Vantage Volante configuration may be six months away and I also think the coupe looks really good as is. I will probably look at the convertible version after 18 months or so.
I finally gave up on my SL63 and ordered the new 2025 Aston Martin Vantage. Highly tweaked same engine with significant power increase and design features. With my new engine, the SL has performed well and still looks great, but the total engine failure lost my allegiance. It's not due until December and I look forward to trying out that new engine.
1. Congrats! That's a fantastic car.
2. Are you really expecting an Aston Martin to be more reliable than a Mercedes? Or easier to service for that matter?
'22 AMG SL55;'23 Porsche Cayenne S Coupe;'13 Porsche Boxster S
I previously owned 3 Aston Martins (2 Vantages and a V12 DB11). All three were trouble free. I owned one of the Vantages for 7 years before trading it in for the DB11. The service costs were much higher than the SL, but you are dealing with a different level of ownership experience. Although cars from MB and Porsche (I have owned 10 Porsches) overlap with Astons on price point, AM customers are treated in the same tier as Bentley, Rolls Royce, Ferrari, etc. (lots of sucking up, and invitations to private events, owner drives to special venues, lots of opportunities to spend money at high end jewelry brands, private jets, pick up of vehicles for service in covered flatbeds, etc.). The downside with many of the high end cars is the limited length of the factory warranty (typically 3 years with unlimited mileage). The extended AM factory warranty runs about $5k/year. Annual service runs about $1200 to $2500 per year. Unlike some Ferraris and Lamborghinis that have negative reactions from the public, you will almost always get a positive reaction to the AM. The new interior in the AM is the icing on the cake. My next car will also be the new Vantage.
Shaken, not stirred. The man with the license to kill, code named 007, would be nothing without his Aston Martin!
When I was a lad, I had a matchbox replica of the DB5.
05-18-2024, 07:20 PM
