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Junior grows up

on a roll. Last year it replaced the good but flawed DB11 with the excellent DB12. Now it’s the time of the 2018-on Vantage, which received mostly positive reviews when it was launched, though its exterior styling wasn’t universally popular and the interior never looked as resolved as you might hope. The big glass gear selection buttons seemed dated, the transmission

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