Just saw above motor outside the local newsagent down from work. Mouth dropped from about 1/4 mile away, just managed to restrain myself from doing sprint towards it. Met black, multi spoke alloys, red cloth inserts on seats with black leather trim, AM badges everywhere, dials, brakes etc. real thing of beauty.

After getting over seeing such a motor ( real rarity in Dublin ) thought how my Octy had some similarities, multi spoke alloys, black leather seat with white inserts, gave me a nice feeling to think that my motor had somethings in common with a car ten times the price of it, again coming back to what a value for money car the Octy vRS is

Just saw above motor outside the local newsagent down from work. Mouth dropped from about 1/4 mile away' date=' just managed to restrain myself from doing sprint towards it. Met black, multi spoke alloys, red cloth inserts on seats with black leather trim, AM badges everywhere, dials, brakes etc. real thing of beauty.

After getting over seeing such a motor ( real rarity in Dublin ) thought how my Octy had some similarities, multi spoke alloys, black leather seat with white inserts, gave me a nice feeling to think that my motor had somethings in common with a car ten times the price of it, again coming back to what a value for money car the Octy vRS is [/quote']

Fantastic the day has come when a skoda and an Aston Martin were compared in the same sentence as been alike!!

Its true though!

You should come over to the UK and have a drive round my neck of the woods mate - it will make you sick, all the money you see driving around, DB9s and Vanquish's are all over the place and I normally see 1 or 2, sometimes more of those new Bently Coupe thingies (and not necessarily the same ones either!) every day!

Had a black Bently park behind me the other day - as i walked back to my car i noticed it was FILTHY dirty and the owner had curbed ALL 4 of its alloys! That's when you know someone has just too much money IMHO

I'm still a smartclub member, one of the lads in the Midlands smartclub works for Aston ... he turned up in a DB9 V12 Volante at a club meet a few weeks ago and took us out for a spin (all 9 of us, poor sod didn't even get a drink!)

I have been more scared, but not for some time and never on 4 wheels.