Finest vehicles for highway journeys – our high fashions for the last word driving journey

Certain, some would possibly quibble about a number of of the Vantage’s Ford parts-bin elements, or argue {that a} Porsche 911 is a extra technically achieved driving machine, however who cares? Stay and let stay, I say!

Maybe unsurprisingly, most previous-generation Vantages appear to have been outfitted with the Sportshift automated gearbox, which isn’t actually such a foul factor in order for you essentially the most enjoyable of highway journeys. They’re not two-a-penny both, with solely round 6,200 V8 Vantage Roadsters produced as much as 2017 earlier than a brand new Vantage arrived. Greater than 15,000 coupe variations had been produced, alongside the a lot rarer V12 Vantage, of which Aston Martin constructed roughly 2,500 coupes and fewer than 500 Roadsters.

You’ll be able to choose up an early V8 Vantage Roadster for as little as £25k lately, and given the guide variant’s rarity, the funding potential appears to be like very promising. 

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti 

By Tom Jervis

• BHP/engine measurement: 532bhp; 5.7-litre
• Engine/gears: V12 N/A/6-speed guide or 6-speed automated guide
• 0-62mph/high pace 4.2 seconds/196mph
• Value new/worth now: £170,500/£50-130,000

Simply because one thing appears to be like a bit awkward, it doesn’t imply somebody ought to overlook it – that’s one thing I like to inform myself once I look within the mirror, but it surely’s additionally true for the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. The predecessor to the FF, Ferrari’s first four-wheel-drive automotive, the 612 was as a substitute based mostly on the 599 of the time and donned a bespoke, if a tad cloddish, all-aluminium physique designed by Pininfarina.