Aston Martin’s $191,000 Vantage Coupe Is Great, But That May Not Be Enough

I was inclined to love the 2025 Aston Martin Vantage at first sight when I met it on a damp April day in Seville, Spain. The $191,000 coupe’s welterweight body is more chiseled than its predecessor’s, with hypercar-inspired LED headlamps and 21-inch wheels split into spokes, plus new air vents on the side and hood. It’s wider, too, with the grille stretched into the grin of a Guy Ritchie bruiser.

Even better, as I discovered when I jumped inside for laps at the Circuito Monteblanco racetrack before winding about 100 miles through Andalusia: Aston has at last overhauled its poorly designed infotainment system in favor of a single instrument display. And in the old cars, you had to push different buttons to change gears. It was not intuitive and a bit infantilizing. Now there’s a single lever, as God intended.