• Fitted with the sought-after ZF 5-speed gearbox • Recently recommissioned by Provost Automobiles Le Mans • More than €30.000 spent in service in the last two years • Elegant colour combination Motor magazine was particularly impressed by the power and balance of the Vantage it tested: "The DB6 has a habit of making the 70 mph speed limit seem ridiculous, reaching it with an ease few other cars can rival.

At its maximum speed—more than twice as high—it displays reassuring stability, probably more so than many cars struggling to maintain 70 mph.

Should one need to stop from high speed, the brakes are exceptionally powerful, to the point that one must constantly check the rear-view mirror for less well-equipped followers.

And its road-holding, both in the dry and in the wet, is superior to almost every production two-seat sports car we have tested, with only two exceptions".

Curiously, having brought the DB4 concept to near perfection with the DB6, Aston Martin chose to change direc...