The long version

This is the heaviest, most powerful Vantage-family car Aston Martin builds, a genuine 200-mph grand tourer wrapped in the brand's most dramatic bodywork, and it depreciates like Astons always have: steeply, and mostly regardless of how good the driving experience underneath actually is. The ZF automatic is the only gearbox ever offered, ruling out the kind of manual-driven cult status that keeps some flagship GTs appreciating. Owners tend to use it for what the badge photographs well doing — valet arrivals, concours lawns, the occasional continental blast — more than for regular use, and resale numbers reflect exactly that pattern.