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Aston Martin Vantage vs McLaren 720S

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Aston Martin Vantage
Aston Martin Vantage

2024 price

McLaren 720S
McLaren 720S

2017 price

Summary

2024 Aston Martin Vantage
2017 McLaren 720S
Safety Rating

Engine Type

Twin Turbo V8, 4.0L
Fuel Type
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Premium Unleaded Petrol
Fuel Efficiency
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10.7L/100km (combined)
Seating
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Dislikes
  • Excitement dulls on public roads
  • Split personality risks alienating the track-obsessed
  • Significantly more expensive

2024 Aston Martin Vantage Summary

Aston Martin says the 2024 Vantage is designed to put the brand back where it belongs. And by that, it means thrust into the same conversation as Ferrari and Lamborghini when it comes to the ultimate in driver-focused supercars.

Which is why everything – and I mean everything – about this new model has been tightened, tuned or turned way the hell up in pursuit of performance.

Really, it has been a no-stone-left-unturned approach here. And the result, the brand reckons, is a car that delivers not just more power and more torque, but a near-telepathic connection between car and driver, too.

Well, that’s the promise anyway.

So how does the Vantage stack up in the battle for supercar supremacy? I was quite looking forward to figuring that out, to be honest.

 

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2017 McLaren 720S Summary

Years ago, McLaren wasn't really making McLarens. The ill-fated SLR was still in production, but was an oddity that made little sense - it was a highly specialised Mercedes and built to sell for crazy money to mega-rich F1 fans. Production was down to a trickle,and  the iconic and legendary F1 had completed its run a decade earlier.

The "new" McLaren Automotive had a shaky start in 2011 with the unloved MP4-12C, which became the 12C and then morphed into the 650S, getting better with each reinvention. 

The P1 was the car that really grabbed the world's attention and was then-new designer Rob Melville's first project for the British sports car maker. 

Last year, McLaren sold its 10,000th car and production numbers are closing in on Lamborghini's. Sales have almost doubled in Australia and Rob Melville is still there, and is now the Design Director. The company, clearly, has done very, very well.

Now it's come time for McLaren's second generation, starting with the 720S. Replacing the 650S, it's the new Super Series McLaren (fitting in above the Sport Series 540 and 570S and below the Ultimate P1 and still-mysterious BP23), and is a car McLaren claims has no direct competitors  from its rivals at Ferrari or Lamborghini. 

It has a twin-turbo V8, a carbon fibre tub, rear-wheel drive and bristles with cleverness. 

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