No Aston Martin V12 Vantage for the U.S.

Last night, while all of us were drooling over images and the sound of the new 510-hp Aston Martin V12 Vantage, our friends at AutoBlog were talking to the U.S. Aston team figuring out the stateside availability of the most aggressive Vantage ever built.

Unfortunately, they found out that the V12 Vantage won’t make it to the U.S. Why? Apparently there are some problems with the huge front end passing U.S. crash test regulations. Also in question are....
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Agent63 - 2/4/2009 9:03:29 PM

+5 Boost

V12 Vantage would be awesome.

BM3W - 2/4/2009 11:46:18 PM

+1 Boost

The US has some pretty strick crash test regulations. Damn I wish the V12 Vantage was coming to the US.

ubercool - 2/5/2009 5:46:55 AM

-2 Boost

Americans only ever winge about British cars anyway, even though they are arguably the finest built automobiles out there.

BMWGino - 2/5/2009 3:32:16 PM

0 Boost

LexusBeautyQueen,

Doesn't matter, BMW has like waaay better quality that Lexus will never touch. I read this in my German car mag it is naturally superior. My friends at the Roxbury also think so.