It is indisputably a superior car in every tangible way to the previous generation V8 Vantage (which I've also driven), and yet, I still prefer the older generation! As I mentioned before, outright performance simply isn't my subjective metric of main ref
I owned a Buben Zorweg Vantage 8 Carbon for about 12 years. They don't come cheap though. The earlier edition from the 2000s had very weak plasticy holders which broke from normal usage and had to be replaced every 2 years. This drove me crazy over the ye
. . . at a nightclub in Los Angeles, backing up Page Cavanaugh on piano and Phil Mallory on upright bass. We almost always sat in the ring of chairs set around the stage, so we not only heard the PC Trio, we were able to take in their performances from a
Laguna Seca and spent a lot of time at that vantage point of the Cork Screw. I remember watching John Kocinski (250cc GP champ that year) go down it doing a wheelie the entire way. Left turn-right turn with the front wheel never touching the ground! Also