Porsche 911 Carrera S: Against the Aston Martin V8 Vantage!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Porsche 911 Carrera S: Against the Aston Martin V8 Vantage!

Here's a superb comparison between the Aston Martin V8 Vantage and Porsche 911 Carrera S. The winner... well you'll have to read on! Great gallery as well!

Porsche’s 911, the perennial City boy choice has long since shed its Gordon Gecko, red braces image, becoming the default choice. But now there’s a new contender, the Aston Martin Vantage V8. So once the mistress, the new Rolex, the Sunseeker and the Caribbean pied-a-terre have been paid for, which dealer deserves a visit? We took a Porsche Carrera S and a V8 Vantage to the Brecon Beacons in Wales to put them through their paces and assess them back-to-back, thinking this would produce a clear winner. It didn’t. First up, here’s what I thought…