THE NEED FOR SPEEDSTER
‘Tucked behind the vestigial aero screen, the deep cockpit and uninterrupted view create a genuinely extraordinary driving experience’
After the coldest April on record it was somehow inevitable that May would be the wettest. Not due to the effects of climate change, but because Aston Martin had chosen the month of May to launch the V12 Speedster, a car with zero weather protection and 690bhp going to the rear wheels.
To be completely frank with you, I’ve struggled with the Speedster. Primarily because it and the recent flurry of similar machines – McLaren Elva, Ferrari Monza – smack of a superheated ‘collector’ market geared to milking people with more money than sense for colossal amounts of cash. In the Speedster’s case, relieving 88 people of a whopping £765,000. Then again, just because I don’t like the genre doesn’t make the Speedster a bad car. As ever, there’s only one
