It may no longer have had Sean Connery as a pitchman, and its Bulldog prototype had failed to attract engineering business, but Aston Martin entered the 1980s with confidence. Even the relentlessly geometric Lagonda sedan didn’t satisfy the automaker’s appetite for avant-garde design, so it turned to Zagato. The Italian coachbuilder that had previously clothed Aston chassis in curvaceous sheetmetal and double-bubble roofs delivered. The V8 Vantage Zagato was as different from the Zagato-bodied DB4GT of the 1960s as then-new brick cell phones were from the rotary-dial ones Connery’s Bond used to call back to HQ. But it was also of the moment, and if you want to relive that…
You Can Buy a ‘New’ 1990 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato
