2013 Tesla Model S
What you're looking up here is Motor Trend's 2013 Car of the Year. Reason why Motor Trend picked the Model S as Car of the Year is because by any means of measurement, the Model S is a truly remarkable automobile. It's the first ever 4-door electric saloon car produced in California and it's offered in three battery packs; 40kWh for the base, 60kWh for the midrange, and 85kW-h for the flagship grade. In 85kW-h battery, it develops 270kW of power but for the Performance version, power is now up to 310kW.
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| 2013 Tesla Model S |
2008 Aston Martin Vantage
The V8 Vantage is the baby of the Aston Martin lineup and it slots below the V12-powered DB9. It is essentially a production version of the AMV8 Vantage concept car as seen on the 2003 NAIAS. It was powered by a 4.3L V8 engine that develops 380HP of power and 409Nm of torque while the engine was loosely based on Jaguar's AJ-V8 engine architecture. Let's not forget that Jaguar and Aston Martin belonged to Ford at that time, years before the Kuwaitis got Aston Martin and the Indians got Jaguar Land Rover.
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| 2008 Aston Martin Vantage |
2011 Aston Martin V12 Vantage
What happens when you placed the DBS' V12 engine to the V8 Vantage? The result was the V12 Vantage, the high performance big brother of the V8 Vantage and slots near the DBS. Little known fact that Aston Martin used the V12 Vantage for their motorsports racing, from Super GT to the Nurburgring 24 Hours, replacing the DBRS9. Jeremy Clarkson once said that the V12 Vantage is "wonderful, wonderful, and wonderful" in the Series 13 ending of Top Gear even though he told the viewers that cars like these will soon be consigned to the history books thanks to such conditions...
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| 2011 Aston Martin V12 Vantage |
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