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Reviewing my new Aston Martin V8 Vantage on the country roads of Cheshire. Sports car, sports Supercar, GT or muscle car? The Vantage features the new aluminium architecture already used on the Vantage, but only 30% of the components are carried over. It’s 284mm shorter overall, 100mm shorter in wheelbase and weighs 200kg less than the Vantage V12. In a video released a few days ahead of the official launch, Aston Martin dynamics chief engineer Matt Becker invited Red Bull F1 star Max Verstappen to Rockingham to test a verification prototype. Becker revealed the new Vantage weighed just 1530kg dry, which made it more ‘playful’ and controllable in handling – something amply confirmed as Verstappen drifted the new Vantage with ease. The 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 that powers the rear wheels via a ZF 8-speed transmission delivers 503bhp and 685Nm of torque. It catapults the new Vantage from 0-62mph in just 3.6 seconds – over a second faster than its predecessor. Three modes are offered; Sport, Sport+ and Track, which illustrates the difference in character with the Vantage, whose modes are GT, Sport and Sport+. The Vantage comes with an Electronic Rear Differential, an Aston Martin first. It can go from 100% open to fully locked in milliseconds, much faster than a conventional limited slip diff, and by being linked to the electronic stability control it can learn from the driver’s inputs, making it composed and stable at high speeds yet delightfully agile and responsive in cornering