June 17th, a nice Vanquish, my first one on the road

[TT]

Strange the world isn't it? while Ferraris are pretty common around here, Astons are a rare sight, and I mean RARE! Even the DB7 is hard to spot. The only Vanquish I saw so far beside car shows was the one at the Supercar rally 2003 in Geneva!

Since I started taking my pics last year, I got only two DB7:

My 567th picture...


And the 584th one, the day after...


So I was quite amazed when today, while I was parked after I picked up my girlfriend, this car passed by in the opposite direction_



And shit, as you can see, in that place you can't really make an U-Turn (check the middle white line)... but well.. a Vanquish is a Vanquish, so I simply jumped on it! And who cares anyway traffic was light and I managed to be behing him in 10 seconds, thanks to two consecutive green lights!

This one was worth also an high-res of course


And going uphill after the next red light he pushed a bit on the throttle, filling Lausanne with one of the best sounding engine ever built! Sublime!

After a while I preffered giving up since it was pointless to keep following him taking pics just the last goodbye sadly not worth a big version because of the reflections on the windshield of my car.

[schnell318]

Extremely lucky man and it looks stunning in black too, too bad you couldn´t get a picture from the front.

I just imagine the sound of that V12, similar to the DB9 i suppose.

[TT]

Well yes, it's similar to the DB7 of course, but.. well.. deeper and louder

[jon_s]

Yeah, they have a really nice burble to them!

I woulder if the driver spotted you pulling all sorts of antics to catch him lol I he/she was famous, I bet they thought you were press! haha

[TT]

Well, my U-turn could have catch his attention, but in the meantime the light was turning green, so maybe he wasn't focused on his rearview mirrors , but the big picture was taken at a red light, and although I was quite fast (as always), in hiding the camera, he could have spotted me...

anyway right before third picture I saw him and dont' think he was a VIP and who cares about him I loved the car

[jorge]

I once saw one in the street and it sounded like nothing else!

[Erez]

nice 8) and yeah... who cares about the guy.. what a nice thing to see hu..

[saadie]

kewl pix TT ....... how do ya manage too do all the things like taking pics just abt everyday .... being here 23.59 hours a day ... and painting dolls ....

8) 8) 8)

[abbor]

The only Astons I've seen is on exhibition, and in a garage.. Would like to have it like in switzerland... Ferraris all day long

[Vansquish]

I've heard the DB7, DB9 and Vanquish at various points in time and I'd have to say that between the DB7 and Vanquish, the Vanquish has a much more full basso than the DB7, but it also has the ability to sing a better contralto as the revs jump...I don't think it is as nice as the sound the DB9 makes though believe it or not. I followed a prototype DB9 around Royal Oak, Michigan a few weeks ago and I could hear it from three blocks away...made my knees weak. The Vanquish, however sweet, sounds more like a racecar than the DB9. It depends on what you're looking for in a car. I'd take any of them hehe.

[BADMIHAI]

Astons sound just orgasmic. They just do.

[SilviaEvo]

Astons sound just orgasmic. They just do.

Astons sound more than that

[M-pulse]

I saw one awhile back and was in aw or the beast all my mate just look at it saying: 'its no ferrari" :x (I need to get smarter friends. Hell what do they know one drives a Starlet and the other has a TOYOTA CORONA

[Fleischmann]

Well, a few months ago only the 1000th Vanquish was shipped to Japan as far as I remember, which makes this a rare car. I've only seen it once, hiding in a small parking in Italy. And back in England I saw a V8 Vantage. 2 Astons, 17 years of life.

[AlienDB7]

You're one lucky guy TT! I have yet to see an Aston in Vancouver... Jag XK's are much more common but they're usually only XK8's not XKRs