Remember when Clarkson made that film "driving an ending" with the first V12 Vantage?... Well here we actually are, enjoy it while it lasts.

I own a Vantage V12S manual with Performance Pack and for my opinion the shape and the power of this car are timeless and unique. And always loved from all the guys around.

I do miss the days of new Aston Martins being beautiful. Compared to the first gen Vanquish and the DB9, this looks just like a clown to me. I agree with Harry that the dash is an absolute mashup of horridness and the V12 makes up for a lot thankfully. It better be a special drive for that money. Many thanks Harry for a great review.

I was playing around with the configurator on the Aston website, and there are styling options to make this thing look a thousand times better (rear wing delete, removing the carbon fibre bonnet, sophisticated colours etc.), to the point where you can get it to look quite classy and stylish. Why anyone would order a V12 Vantage in this spec is beyond me...

We miss the weighing of the cars that he used to do in the past!! Great videos and informative as always!

The sound from outside on that launch was incredible. Just beautiful. Damn.

Best car reviews on KZfaq, could watch these for hours. Keep it up Harry 👍🏼

I think it's key market is the collection warehouse that shmee and others visit around the world. Tucked away in a corner,waiting to be described as 1 of 333 and what an individual spec'd on it for a colour combination.

I believe a lot of Aston's current struggles when it comes to sales could be laid squarely at the design department's door. The good ol' Vantage and DB9 were simply irresistible, while these newer models never quite seemed to have the same panache. Then there's the interior, which is their weakest point indeed. If I had that sort of money to burn on a new sports car, I think I'd patiently sign up for a spot on Ferrari's waiting list.

I never thought Aston Martin would ever make another V12 powered again. I'm glad I clearly had no idea.

Yay, my Sunday dose of Harry!!!

Thanks for this Harry, loved this as always, comes from really liking the Vanquish V12 !!

You know what, Harry? I REALLY enjoy watching you talk about and drive fabulous cars that I'll never be able to afford! You're the kinda guy I would enjoy hanging out with! Keep up the great work!

Thanks! Appreciate your thoughtful critique. Can't wait for your T50 drive, still rewatching your wonderful Gordon Murray interview

Absolutely brilliant video very interesting about the gearbox how it is limited by the 750 toque I really like how your videos are layout v12 is absolutely wonderful thanks you so much harry.

Nice job Harry, keep them coming.

I have seen some less than favorable reviews on this car but I think Harry nailed it for what this car is about. A real world special car. Great review Harry. Styling wise this is no shrinking violet and perhaps not Astons best but it screams supercar.

another excellent video from my favorite auto channel...thank you

An awesome video of a super car, thank you Harry, and I for one savour each and everyone of your great videos because I do not know how much longer we shall be able to enjoy the rarity of a new petrol engine. Enjoy.

I saw and heard you, blasting along just out of Burford on the chippy road,could hardly miss it. It looks amazing in the flesh 👍

Great car! Also, the wonderful Toyota in the back, the amazing GR Yaris! Cheers from Argentina, Harry!

There is ALWAYS a great surprise on a Sunday early evening from THE BEST CAR GUY Harry’s Garage …… great content as we always get …. Cheers 👍

Fantastic video ‘H’ as always. 👍🏻😀

Another great video has always harry 👍

Send one in the post please , loved it , excellent review once again , best on KZfaq in my view

Driving one of these like you do must knock 40 years off!! Great fun!

Great video once again, what can I say… V12 Vantage!!!! Greetings from Greece!

Give me the console buttons all day, every day. I'm so over the "deep into submenus" hunting for controls. Every time I'm in an early Panamera I breathe a sigh of relief. It doesn't take long to learn where they are and what they do.

Incredible car in many ways. Just a shame that the interior looks so low-rent.

I love your off-road tests. The classic land Rovers and the jeep videos mua chef's kiss

Having owned, loved and driven an 03 Vanquish, I still feel there are few AMs that carry as much presence and attitude. The fact I needed a cushion due to no seat height control? What do you expect for £200k.

I never can't effort that beautiful automobile, but I love to seeing it on your show, which I follow for a long time.

Another great review!

Another superb video Harry-no other KZfaq channel gets close to your offerings.This is a great car but the Gaydon era V12V will always be more desirable overall to me.

Thank you Harry for the review, I enjoyed it. I wish that Vantage F1 Edition will be your next review. The prominent reviewer said it's not comfy and it's only for the track no good for daily.

Gréât video as always Harry! We will need a review of the F40 at some point in the future!

your storylines and commentary are a joy to experience

A v12 in 2022, a new one? I can respect that!

333, I imagine they, (Aston Martin) know already who will want to own one. I want one or two

I hope at some point you could review the Aston Martin F1 edition 🤞 Really enjoyed this episode 👍

Couldn't help but noti e the iron fencing Harry.very nice. V12 spec at £325k woe bot ever.. Not what you would call a bargain. Another epic video. I will wait for one to come up in the Silverstone auction.. Quality video as ever. Thanks.

Great video Harry 👍👍

It's great that it has a V12 in it - as I suspect it's probably the last time we will ever see one of those engines. Shame that it has a flappy paddle gearbox though, as I did like the manual in the old version of the V12.

I don't like the trendy exterior spec on this particular car, and the interior hasn't been updated - it's a disaster for a modern supercar. But I do like the short gearing, the sound , and (trusting Harry's views) it's a very satisfying, quality-feel drive. But not IMHO not worth the £140k premium over the V8, even in Monopoly land.

Buttons are good Harry. Better than a touch screen any day and far easier to use when you are driving. Nice review though, love your style.

Nice vid thanks Harry 🤓🤓

Harry, please take into account AML is a small independent company with a small development team, they also don’t have the massive development budgets of VAG etc, so, yes the facia is now showing it’s age (even though the rally call from many motoring journalists on other cars are bitterly complaining about lack of buttons) but, can you imagine what the costs are for tooling up a new facia, the development costs etc. Aldo the price, we’ll, as you say all are sold anyway. As for the design, it’s gorgeous! Yiu are seeing the sad end of ICE cars and this is fantastic xar

Sunday evenings Harry's garage. Like the days before on demand TV.

I like everything about it. It's like the lovechild of a Porsche and a Ferrari. I think Aston Martin does some great design work. Like a Lexus or a Cadillac, these are luxury cars that just happen to be sport capable. So, I can understand critiquing the interior, but the rest of the car is on point. Seems like Aston Martin doesn't get a lot of respect, and perhaps it's deserved (I'm just an ignorant moron with way more than two cents), but I think they make some great looking cars. :)

The better and best looking V12 Vantage ever!

13:20 It always cracks me up when Harry speeds off on that bit of straight whenever he’s in an Aston🤣

Great video as always Harry, thank you. Amazing car, just a shame about the interior. The red paint work reminds me of the old Vanquish S Red Arrows special edition!

Do love British cars Harry we are underated as a car building country. We still have it .That special thing in many British cars. Unbeatable mate 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍

I owned the new Vantage V8 and enjoyed it. I gave it to JayEmm on Cars for his KZfaq review in 2020. Whilst the looks aren’t loved by all, I thought mine was gorgeous with the original front end. It always lacked a bit of steering/suspension finesse and the traction in the wet was a bit lacking. However, I find this Vantage V12 rather ugly and extremely overpriced. Interior was dated when I had mine and it’s not commensurate with the asking price of this model.

Awesome review as always Harry! They should have given it a manual option. Also, just some feedback... A good mic near your mouth would really help. I find some of your reviews maybe you are using a camera mic? Either way, it sounded like your voice was very far away. Nevertheless awesome review as always. You are the main reason I want to come back to KZfaq

I love the looks of this!

That's one of the best sounding squirts up the hill I've heard in a while

The DBS is just so much more special and a thousand times more beautiful

Gosh what a memorable drive. As you say what a way to end this era for Aston,

Really struggling to hear you on the move Harry . Always enjoy your videos 👍

Interesting that Harry, and a couple of other reviews online have been quite positive of the ride and the car in general, yet Sutcliffe in Evo, hammers it, really lays into it. Appears to be the same car in all tests.

Hello Harry, a really great video as always. Whilst I doubt I'll have a V12 Vantage anytime soon, I do have the rather good looking Moto Guzzi V65-TT that's in the background. Is that a new addition?

That estate fencing up the drive looks amazing maybe do a video on it 😁🤣

Good video Harry, going forward its all going to be about how a car makes you feel otherwise buy electric

Great review. I think the price comments are just however if you strip it back Vs the DBS SL, this will ultimately hold its value and indeed increase in value over DBS. It happened with GT12 and to a lesser extent V12S vs previous generation DBS. A friend of mine has been one of the lucky few to have ordered one and got one of the allocation. Really looking forward to seeing it.

Great video.

Spot on, Harry!

The dual-clutch vs torque convertor is an interesting question and seems to divide a lot of people. I have a couple of torque converter performance cars and a dual clutch performance car. The torque converters are really really good at giving you a smooth ride in traffic, but when you are on it, as Harry says, you do feel the dual clutch is crisper. For me it's also a choice between manual and dual clutch and a separate choice of a torque converter car. And that's because a dual clutch is a joy in traffic compared to a manual so I am happy to sacrifice some jerkyness at low speeds for something that is crisp and F1-like when I'm driving hard or on track. Finally I'd add that if you like to be in tune with what your mechanicals are doing, you get a feeling the torque converter doesn't really like to have it's gears changed and prefers to be in control, whereas on a dual clutch, you really feel like you are the driver and it's a manual gearbox with lightning-fast changes.

just a great contrast of colors!!!

extremely well explained and felt this marriage between the gearbox and the "nearly normally aspirated" feeling to the 5.2. V 12 - I have the same opinion in my DB 11.and driving it in manual gearbox setting overruling its nearly hysteric wish to kick down 3 to 4 gears in "sports is the key."The price is just mad though

Many here say Aston have lost its way but maybe many of us here probably aren’t the the target audience. They’ve all sold. These cars will most likely spend a lot of time in garages and come out on special occasions and be around for a long time and the latest screens and technology will soon look dated. This is a collectors / investment car and as a package looks great to me.

Im glad they brought back the v12

Love your honesty, Harry. You’re certainly not a sellout like Dan Prosser.

Another superb review from the maestro, sundays wouldnt be the same without harrys garage, i could quite easily picture harry with his own show on t.v , half hour show on bbc4 for the discerning viewer, let the plebs watch top gear. Christ knows there isnt a decent motoring show on tv at the moment.

I would love if you could go back to review the Aston One-77. I've always loved that car, but never seen a proper review of it.

Harry, as a man and a father, I don't think I'd be overstepping the mark in saying I love you. There, I feel much better now.

That engine sound is heaven[y👍👍

It has the interior of a lap dancing bar in Birkenhead and a paint job to match.. it’s like some yoof with a corsa specced it.

Thank you Harry

Looks chuffing quick!

Love that both of the magazine reviews were written by Chris Harris.

Yes it’s an Aston - lovely great wonderful. What it isn’t, is a Lancia Zagato hopefully nearing the final stages of a stunning restoration. The suspense is killing me here Harry!!!!!

Aston Martin is the only car manufacturer that has all in its cars with the duck tail and a bulging backside. They are pretty sexy, that had urged me to own a DB11.. you are marvelous Aston Martin.. keep it up.😬👍

Really enjoyed this one, I can see that you did too 🙂

I've been watching your channel from a far and I've got to say i love your channel , the content is great and varied and informative ,although I'll never be able to afford any of the cars you own or cover you make them a pleasure to watch. thanks Harry

i was just thinking of harry's lovely back country narrow'er roads as we have in nz, whether of not he ever comes across a cop car with the speeds of all his test cars do ie standing acceleration etc speeds & whether he has radar detectors to slow down in case.. Also as harry mentions about the electric steering cars for the last decade, & how they have a certain non feel about them as for example my manual 997.2 turbo gets last of the mechanical steering cars & totally feels 'everything especially on some of our crappy-ier roads sent back through the steering wheel, having full bilsteins will also have something to do with this..back to harrys v12 vantage test, also on the fence about it's rear spoiler- i think could have been better designed?. this car guessing 600-700,00nz$ here. informative as ever thankyou harry's garage.

What a sound! Harry why don't you get Charlie to look at a seperate mic you can wear on your top. At times you were very hard to hear over that superb V12! You can get small ones that Bluetooth to the camera. Again another great watch!

I like the exterior design of the vantage, but not the OTT flourishes on this one. However, like many others, I think the interior in this (and the db11) really lets it down... The air vents look like Dame Edna's glasses! I do like the interior of the DBX though, as it appear much more cohesive and less like it was laid out by a 7 year old boy. I really want Aston to succeed, but I couldn't see myself buying anything from their current range... Not that Aston should care about that as I'm far to poor to even look at their used cars! Great job as usual Harry, thanks!

OMG... those hips! Aston truly has a lock on beautiful car design. Lose the wing=timeless ❤️

£265k and Aston Martin cant be bothered to paint all of the bloody thing!

I can just imagine the magnet snapping out of Harry's grip, adhering itself, metal to metal, to the rear wing! At a cost of tens of thousands of pounds, probably. I hope you wrap your magnet in soft felt before testing for construction materials!

Simply The best...😎👍⛽

The V8 Vantage is lovely. Not to shouty and can be acquired for reasonable money. Look after it and it’ll look after you. 👍

It’s crazy to think of the world we’re living in - How on earth an EV , and I don’t care if it does 10 thousand miles per charge , can compare with this masterpiece of a soundtrack ? Been in Taycan , drove Model 3 and I find that their quietness kills all the joy , excitement and anticipation. What remains is : missus shouts get the car ready we’re going shopping that’s the purpose of these EV’s

Very nice

Very nice sleek looking car! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎🏎

You are my favorite Gary.

I think my choice would be the end of the line previous shape V12 s AMR, 600 bhp and manual gearbox, find a low mileage example for around £175k.

Sold out? From the configurator it has loads of color options to choose from.. just built one earlier..

It’s not perfect but which Aston is ? Great review 👍