AMV8. 2008 Updates
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Oh dear, I mean 2007! Does anyone know how to change the heading?
Spent the afternoon at Gaydon yesterday speccing my Roadster. Usual look round the factory etc. Plenty of Roadsters to look at and I have to say it looks superb - one of the few cars where the drop top looks as good as the Coupe IMO.
Lucky enough to have a long chat with someone v.senior on the engineering side who was incredibly positive about revisions that have been made to the cars susp. and steering. So much so that he had just come back from choosing the roads for the press launch in March and he reckoned that they were so challenging that previously they would have thought twice about launching the Coupe on them let alone the Roadster! Given what they have learned from the current car he said that, with the new mods, the Roadster will possibly actually be a better drive than the current Coupe! The intention being that going Roadster won't mean the usual 'softer' route.
THIS OBVIOUSLY BODES VERY WELL FOR THE COUPE TOO which will benefit from the same mods when the new production run starts - as I understood it, production of the existing Coupe continues for another six weeks then ceases for five months for a continuous run of Roadsters. Total annual output of V8 - both versions - will be 3500. 75%/25% in favour of Roadster.
Sorry about all the edits - my handfull of remaining brain cells aren't networking too well today.
Spent the afternoon at Gaydon yesterday speccing my Roadster. Usual look round the factory etc. Plenty of Roadsters to look at and I have to say it looks superb - one of the few cars where the drop top looks as good as the Coupe IMO.
Lucky enough to have a long chat with someone v.senior on the engineering side who was incredibly positive about revisions that have been made to the cars susp. and steering. So much so that he had just come back from choosing the roads for the press launch in March and he reckoned that they were so challenging that previously they would have thought twice about launching the Coupe on them let alone the Roadster! Given what they have learned from the current car he said that, with the new mods, the Roadster will possibly actually be a better drive than the current Coupe! The intention being that going Roadster won't mean the usual 'softer' route.
THIS OBVIOUSLY BODES VERY WELL FOR THE COUPE TOO which will benefit from the same mods when the new production run starts - as I understood it, production of the existing Coupe continues for another six weeks then ceases for five months for a continuous run of Roadsters. Total annual output of V8 - both versions - will be 3500. 75%/25% in favour of Roadster.
Sorry about all the edits - my handfull of remaining brain cells aren't networking too well today.
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 08:59
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 09:04
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 13:31
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 14:49
Pugsey said:
Oh dear, I mean 2007! Does anyone know how to change the heading?
Spent the afternoon at Gaydon yesterday speccing my Roadster. Usual look round the factory etc. Plenty of Roadsters to look at and I have to say it looks superb - one of the few cars where the drop top looks as good as the Coupe IMO.
Lucky enough to have a long chat with someone v.senior on the engineering side who was incredibly positive about revisions that have been made to the cars susp. and steering. So much so that he had just come back from choosing the roads for the press launch in March and he reckoned that they were so challenging that previously they would have thought twice about launching the Coupe on them let alone the Roadster! Given what they have learned from the current car he said that, with the new mods, the Roadster will possibly actually be a better drive than the current Coupe! The intention being that going Roadster won't mean the usual 'softer' route.
THIS OBVIOUSLY BODES VERY WELL FOR THE COUPE TOO which will benefit from the same mods when the new production run starts - as I understood it, production of the existing Coupe continues for another six weeks then ceases for five months for a continuous run of Roadsters. Total annual output of V8 - both versions - will be 3500. 75%/25% in favour of Roadster.
Sorry about all the edits - my handfull of remaining brain cells aren't networking too well today.
Spent the afternoon at Gaydon yesterday speccing my Roadster. Usual look round the factory etc. Plenty of Roadsters to look at and I have to say it looks superb - one of the few cars where the drop top looks as good as the Coupe IMO.
Lucky enough to have a long chat with someone v.senior on the engineering side who was incredibly positive about revisions that have been made to the cars susp. and steering. So much so that he had just come back from choosing the roads for the press launch in March and he reckoned that they were so challenging that previously they would have thought twice about launching the Coupe on them let alone the Roadster! Given what they have learned from the current car he said that, with the new mods, the Roadster will possibly actually be a better drive than the current Coupe! The intention being that going Roadster won't mean the usual 'softer' route.
THIS OBVIOUSLY BODES VERY WELL FOR THE COUPE TOO which will benefit from the same mods when the new production run starts - as I understood it, production of the existing Coupe continues for another six weeks then ceases for five months for a continuous run of Roadsters. Total annual output of V8 - both versions - will be 3500. 75%/25% in favour of Roadster.
Sorry about all the edits - my handfull of remaining brain cells aren't networking too well today.
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 08:59
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 09:04
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 13:31
Edited by Pugsey on Tuesday 30th January 14:49
This is very good news - except for the fact that my car arrrives in 6 weeks! Dammit pugsey, I would have been happier being blisffully ignorant.....
Now how do persuade someone at AM to fit the mods to my car
Edited by stanwan on Tuesday 30th January 22:52
Composed a thousand word post on the original thread only to realise at the last moment it was not current so I deleted 
Are the new suspension/steering revisions a geometry change or do they entail the fitting of new components ?.....and do the latest Vanquish wheels fit the Vantage ( anybody ) ?
Are the new suspension/steering revisions a geometry change or do they entail the fitting of new components ?.....and do the latest Vanquish wheels fit the Vantage ( anybody ) ?
GlynMo said:
Girly!
Who me big boy (said by Glynmo the man with the closet gay car of the year a Subaru Forester!!!)!!
xxx
[whispers so "P" can't hear...]
Look it is a cab after all, don't tell Pugsey, he doesn't realise the full implications yet, closet coming out of
SO about that roof & interior (he says in deep manly voice)!!!
Edited by Grant3 on Wednesday 31st January 22:05
mikial said:
Composed a thousand word post on the original thread only to realise at the last moment it was not current so I deleted
Are the new suspension/steering revisions a geometry change or do they entail the fitting of new components ?.....and do the latest Vanquish wheels fit the Vantage ( anybody ) ?
Oops, sorry about the original topic blunder! Re susp/steering I was lucky to even be talking to the Chief Engineer on the project and to be fair I think he would like this info to be held back until the press launch in France. The steering does involve a strenghtened and I believe resited cross member for the column though. Kickback/knocking should be cured. Don't know about the wheels other than I've gone for the optional seven spokes - which I think are the ones we've all gone for on the Coupe. Are the new suspension/steering revisions a geometry change or do they entail the fitting of new components ?.....and do the latest Vanquish wheels fit the Vantage ( anybody ) ?
Edited by Pugsey on Thursday 1st February 08:34
Edited by Pugsey on Thursday 1st February 08:45
Grant3 said:
PUGSEY... come on lets start talking specs.
Love to know what you are thinking of going for, especially colour combo, colour is much more important in a cab than a coupe, particularly that roof.
I've ended up with exactly the same spec. as my Coupe. Tungsten Silver with Black Hood. Obsidian black interior with coarse silver stitching and Tailors Grey headlining. Alloy facia. When I got to the factory I thought I was going for a black car. Thought the hood would flow into the body shape but in fact as it - the hood - is a slightly lighter black it just clashed. Same with some of the very dark grey body colours so in the end I went for above which seems just the right contrast. Bear in mind that the 'speed humps' behind the seats, rear deck etc are leather trimmed so there's a lot of interior colour on view top down so pretty vital to get right. So, will it be the AM Roadster or the R8 that ends up in the Sunday Times?Love to know what you are thinking of going for, especially colour combo, colour is much more important in a cab than a coupe, particularly that roof.
Grant3 said:
GlynMo said:
Grant3 said:
(said by Glynmo the man with the closet gay car of the year a Subaru Forester!!!)!!
Well it is my wife's (except when I'm towing the race car trailer, when the Forester is anything but gay!)
Mmm me thinks Glyn protest-eth too much!!
GlynMo said:
Pugsey said:
Ah, the old "it's the wife's car" ploy!
Well you're not about to admit to ownership of an oil-burning x5........... are you?
Anyway, off for a
now. Campari and soda's, I think!
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