Decision made: New 2011 Casino Royale V8 Vantage is home!

[jus]

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Edited by jus on Monday 14th February 14:54

[Chipchap]

Where in SA are you ? Is Klaus Grogor [House of Sports Cars Sandton] still involved with Aston in South Africa or is it yet another Imperial Group Company.


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[clarkmagpie]

Love it!
Really starting to like these.

Off to check classifieds again....

[jus]

Chipchap said:

Where in SA are you ? Is Klaus Grogor [House of Sports Cars Sandton] still involved with Aston in South Africa or is it yet another Imperial Group Company.


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I'm in the Cape. The Aston Martin agency (along with Rolls Royce and McLaren) is held by the Daytona Group (Justin Divaris).

[jus]

Daytona also have a general exotics dealership and a BMW dealer in Sandton, and the Ducati agency, now that I think of it.

Edited by jus on Saturday 12th February 09:37

[sjp63]

I visited SA (Jo'burg and cape) probably 20 times in the late 80's and early 90's on business. Do you find driving such a conspicuous (and beautiful) car a little worrying at times?

[jus]

sjp63 said:

I visited SA (Jo'burg and cape) probably 20 times in the late 80's and early 90's on business. Do you find driving such a conspicuous (and beautiful) car a little worrying at times?

Not at all. There's lots of nice cars on the roads actually.

[bogie]

Ive been to Jo'burg and Cape on business and pleasure a few times in the last 5 years. My business partners out there drive Californias and DB9s

I dont think its nowhere near as bad as it was 20 years ago to be honest, certainly not in the nice areas of Cape Town...id could quite happily retire out there

[mlj]

Loving the colour combo on the seats.

A great looking car

[Murph7355]

jus said:

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Here in SA the Vantage now comes included with a 3 year service plan on top of the 3 year warranty, so there are no longer any servicing costs, just tyres and fuel!...

Congrats! Lovely car (brave seats ).

Now, rather than toss about with special editions all the time, I reckon Aston would do themselves far more long term good if they did the service plan thing globally. Demonstrates faith in what is a very good product.

[Speedraser]

Congrats -- looks great. Love the wheels -- still the best choice IMO.

[EBruce]

Beautiful car...the Casino Royal looks a lot like the Tungsten.

I thought the 2011 had the different sport wheels (for sport pack)? Your's are the 2010 no? I do like them much better

[jus]

EBruce said:

Beautiful car...the Casino Royal looks a lot like the Tungsten.

I thought the 2011 had the different sport wheels (for sport pack)? Your's are the 2010 no? I do like them much better

I think it's just an additional option wheel that's available now, and a different 19" standard wheel...

[Speedraser]

The Sports Pack can be had with either these (Jus's) or the others (10-spoke) that were a new (additional) option for MY10. Also, those 10-spoke wheels can also be had as a stand-alone option with the standard suspension.