Aston achieves greatness
It is a common characteristic of sporting cars to have looks that make promises the rest of the car cannot keep. The Audi TT, outgoing Mercedes SLK and Jaguar XKR are all dramatically better to look at than drive. However, perhaps the most guilty of all was the Aston Martin DB7. It wasn’t bad to drive — at least not in Vantage or GT form — but with those lines it should have been a landmark. And it never even approached that status.
It was ever thus. Aston Martin’s history is peppered with cars that have failed to live up to their visual billing: the DB6, DBS, V8 and Virage (to name but some) all said one thing and then did something