Aston Martin Virage: More of the same... which is good

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Aston Martin has been building some of the most beautiful cars in the world, dating back to the Ian Callum design of the Jaguar XK8 from 1996, one of my favorite cars, and the car which really saved the Jaguar brand. At the time, Aston Martin was the big brother to Jag, and they developed the DB7 off of the Jag platform.

And it was gorgeous.
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Since that time, the new cars (Vantage, DBS, Vanquish, Rapide) have really been just an evolution of that styling.

And now there is the Virage. While the ultra-rare One77 is nice, this is the car I want.


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