ASTON MARTIN V8 Vantage Roadster - On gastronomy and automobiling in the south of France

摘要

IT MADE GOOD SENSE THAT ASTON Martin feted us in Provence at la Ferme le Viguier, from which many five-star restaurants get their truffles. The Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster, in a sense, is the truffle of motorcars. Truffles are rare, very refined and not inexpensive bits of gastronomy. Their appeal lies in a wonderful earthiness, an affinity to the land from which they came. Likewise, Aston Martins are rare, very refined and not inexpensive. And the V8 Vantage Roadster is a true sports car with an affinity to earlier Astons, all the way back to their 1922 origin (the Aston part of the name deriving from the Aston-Clinton hillclimb).