Ho visto questo articolo su autocar della serie : perchè amo (o alcune volte odio)...
Questa volta c'era: perchè amo la vanquish.
Dopo aver letto ed apprezzato la sua cultura latina nel suo sfogo
STELLARE , mi sono detto facciamogli un piacere.
ecco l'articolo:
Why I love the...
Aston Martin V12 VanquishDriving super cars every day, you run the risk of seeing them as just a product... until you drive the Vanquish,
says Ben Oliver
It only finished 10 minutes ago and I can still hear the car ticking outside my open hotel room window. There's a story I'm supposed to be writing, which my editor is expecting me to deliver as soon as I finish the drive back to London early tomorrow morning. But I have to tell you about this first.
So, the situation: wrapped up a twin test and photo shoot in Scotland this afternoon, about as far north as you can go. after finishing the drive from London at three this morning and getting up again at six to start work. Shoot over, I had to get as far south as I could before tiredness overtook, find a hotel, and start cranking out the story. The route: I'd always taken the A9 south from Wick and Inverness in the past, but the A82 didn't look much longer and runs alongside Loch Ness, through the rocky, dramatic Glen Coe valley and around the base of Ben Nevis. There can't be many more spectacular drives in Europe. And despite the situation, the car seemed to warrant the marginally longer route: the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish I've just been comparing with the Bentley Continental GT.
The criticisms I'm about to make of the car -which you will already have seen by the time you read this - are justified, but seem a bit churlish after what the Vanquish has shown me in the past few hours. You see, I've a confession to make - one which those who haven't done this job might find hard to understand. I get to drive the fastest and most expensive cars made. But when you drive them every day, when you have to approach them with utter objectivity, and when there are so many to test that you're flat out just trying to keep up, you run the risk of seeing them as just a product and forgetting why you do the job in the first place. I was worried I was falling out of love
with cars.
The Vanquish has just shown me what an arse I was being. Obsessed with testing cars, I'd forgotten how to enjoy them. But for a couple of hours, testing done, I just enjoyed the Aston.
You'd have to be dead inside not to. How many sources of pleasure and stimulation do you reckon you can handle at once?
First, there are the Aston's road manners: incredibly deft for a big car, it handles with a
precision that lets you forget what it is and get on with enjoying what it does. There is the mildly heroic feeling you get from using all of a supercar's performance. All of it. Or at least as much as a British road can take, right up to the top of fourth and deep into fifth, when the road opened out over Rannoch Moor.
There was the choice of views, both so good I didn't know where to look: either at the
Vanquish's dials, paddles and out over the bonnet's creases and vents to the next apex; or beyond that to Glen Coe's vast rockfaces. No choice of soundtrack, though; the mighty Linn stereo was soon abandoned, drowned out by the VI 2's intense, flat, metallic blare that penetrates solids like a Captain Scarlet-era sonic weapon, filling Glen Coe and threatening to shatter its million-year-old tors. I was aware that the Glen's other users probably had something more peaceful in mind. But frankly, I didn't care; if they didn't like it, they should have.
And I was only passing, and quickly.
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