2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage User Reviews

Pros

Beautiful, Incredibly fun to drive

Cons

Horrible ergonomics

Purchased As New

I've had my V8 Vantage Roadster for 2 weeks now, and I absolutely love it! It is such a pleasure to drive; like no other car I've ever had. It really makes driving fun, plus it's quite the head-turner.

It is far from perfect however. The ergonomics (or lack thereof) are startlingly awful. Nothing in that car is where it should be, and nothing is easy to do. The display on the entertainment unit is tiny and impossible to read in anything but total darkness. You cannot tell what radio station you're on, what the A/C is set to, etc., even with the top up. The GPS system is probably the worst I've ever seen (it's the Volvo nav unit). The menu system on the nav system and just about everything else in the car is so complicated that you pretty much have to pull the car over and stop in order to do anything. The displays and buttons that you'd use most often are in locations that make it impossible to drive and use them at the same time because you have to take your eyes completely off the road. Yet buttons you'd never need while driving (such as the D, R, N, and Comfort buttons) are high up in the console so you can press those all day w/o taking your eyes off the road. Even the driver-side window controls are misplaced and very hard to press even with small fingers like mine.

I could talk about the horrible ergonomics of this car for an hour, but you know what... it doesn't matter. The horrible ergonomics just make this car seem more exotic. No other car out there has such an awful layout of buttons and displays, so it makes the car seem even more unique, and honestly, I kinda dig it. This car is AWESOME!