Aston Martin Vantage AMR: Your Manual Gearbox V8
It’s called Vantage AMR but behind this seemingly simple name hides all the ingredients to be yet another Aston you should really have in your life. It will make its debut at the 6 hours of Spa, accompanying the motorsport duties of the Vantage GTE and if you have assumed it should be a limited edition, you have guessed well. 200 units, of which 59 will be set up as an even more special edition called Vantage 59, bringing in commemorative badges and dedicated colors.
If under the hood there is always the well-known 4-liter twin-turbo V8 with 503 horsepower, the big news is that you’ll have the clutch pedal and a 7-speed manual gearbox. In addition to this gem that promises to enhance driving pleasure and put the grand touring side of the “smaller” sports car from Gaydon in the foreground, we have a limited slip differential, adaptive sports suspension and the AMSHIFT, an electronic rev-matching device – and then the purely performance side of the Vantage comes back into the game. If you arrive late for the manual g’box, wait before banging your head against the wall, because it will be available anyway as an option from early 2020. Prices for the Vantage AMR starts t around € 209.995.