• First registered in Monaco • Left-hand drive • Two owners from new • Present ownership since 2005 • Used sparingly • Recent extensive recommissioning "We wanted a car that was a new form.

Fresh, exciting, purposeful but unquestionably Aston Martin," explained Aston Martin Chairman and Chief Executive Victor Gauntlett on the Virage's arrival, while stressing: "It was important that, although new in virtually every way, the Virage was of evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, design.

It has to be a car that could stand in line with every post-war Aston Martin and be the self-evident successor to that tradition." After almost 20 years in production, Aston's well liked V8 was updated for the 1990s as the Virage, body design being entrusted to Royal College of Art tutors Ken Greenley and John Heffernan.

The existing Lagonda chassis and suspension were used in revised form for the new car, while engine development was entrusted to Callaway Engineering, of Connecticut.

Immensely stron...