Aston Martin Vantage Roadster Rental in San Diego
The yellow Aston Martin Vantage Roadster with the black interior is based in San Diego. It is the open Vantage, 503 hp to the rear wheels, 2 seats and a fabric roof that drops in under 7 seconds, and it is the car for the drive itself, the coast road with the top down and the V8 behind you. Book it for Highway 101 through the beach towns or a wedding exit in Coronado. It travels across San Diego, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
How It Drives
Hold the switch and the roof folds in 6.7 seconds, and it will do it at up to 31 mph, so you can drop it at the light instead of pulling over. With it down the quad exhaust is behind your head rather than behind the glass, and the 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8 gets a tenor edge the coupe keeps to itself. 503 hp, rear-wheel drive, an 8-speed automatic and the electronic differential that lets the tail help in a corner. The seat is low and the hood is long. Run Highway 101 from Del Mar through Solana Beach and Encinitas to Carlsbad, slow past the surf shops with the exhaust quiet, then open it up on the straight before the next town. The adaptive dampers stay compliant in town, firm but not crashy, and the car never feels nervous.
How It Photographs
Yellow is the colour that makes the Vantage read as the Aston that dropped its manners, and on the Roadster the roof down doubles it. In direct sun the paint is the brightest thing on the road and the body surfacing reads as hard edges. In open shade it stays saturated while the black cabin goes dark. After dark under street lighting it turns gold. Take the rear three-quarter with the roof down so the ducktail, the black seats and the colour sit in one frame. Shoot the wings on the hood close with the yellow filling the rest. In San Diego, shoot it at the Mount Soledad overlook at sunset with the whole coast behind it.
Why This One
We run 4 Vantages and this is the only one with a roof that opens. The other 3 are coupes. Only one of them is yellow like this car, and that coupe is in Los Angeles at $995 a day. The San Diego coupe is silver at $695. This Roadster is the only yellow Vantage based in San Diego and the only open Vantage anywhere in the fleet, at $895 a day. If the roof down is the point, there is no other Vantage to book.
What's On This One
The Vantage Roadster, the open version of the standard V8 Vantage. Standard on the trim is the 503 hp twin-turbo V8 retuned by Aston, the 8-speed automatic, the electronic rear differential, adaptive dampers with 3 settings, swan doors, the quad exhaust and the fabric roof that lowers in 6.7 seconds and raises in 6.8, working at up to 31 mph. The hood carries the wings and the nose carries no badge. On this car the paint is yellow and the interior is black leather, with the squared-off Alcantara wheel, the fixed column paddles and the start button set among the P R N D buttons. 2 seats, 2 doors, rear-wheel drive.
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