Inside the Vanquish Volante, there are only two seats — enough for the driver and a rich buddy. Those two are going to enjoy an interior that’s almost second-to-none when it comes to materials and quality. Absolutely everything is covered in some sort of rich leather, carbon fiber or aluminium. The layout of the interior is fairly intuitive, with a nice mix of hard buttons and two 10.3-inch screens serving as a gauge cluster and infotainment screen. The highly adjustable 16-way heated and ventilated seats are a lovely place to spend time. If I were a pickier man, I’d say that these seats should have a massage function, but who am I to complain?
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In most ways, it’s the same interior as the hard-top Vanquish, but now we’re working with a roof that can disappear in 14 seconds and reappear in 16 seconds. That means it’s better. When you drop the top, you get nearly unfettered access to the wonderful sounds of that 5.2-liter V12. Oddly enough, Aston does pump in a small amount of sound to make up for some of what’s lost with all the emissions gubbins, but the engineers did a masterful job of blending it altogether. There’s no real way to tell there’s synthetic noise in here. If that noise isn’t for you, don’t worry. Turn up the lovely sounding Bowers and Wilkins stereo with double amplifiers and enjoy your tunes.
Space for two isn’t an issue, either. I don’t feel cramped in either of the seats while in the Vanquish Volante, and there’s more than enough room for a weekend’s worth of crap to take on a trip. Aston says the Volante has 7.7 cubic feet of trunk space with the roof closed and 6.6 with it open. If that’s not enough, there’s plenty of space behind the two seats, and you can get custom luggage that can either match or contrast with your interior choices. Oh, to be wealthy.
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The Vanquish Volante is also one of the first vehicles to get Apple CarPlay Ultra. Aston has ceded its infotainment to Apple for iPhone users, and it’s all the better for it. Old systems the automaker produced were never particularly good, so CarPlay Ultra picks up the slack. If you prefer to use Android or just don’t want your car to be that connected, there’s a regular Aston Martin OS beneath it.
Sure, there’s still some lag, but there are a myriad of gauge cluster faces and information to choose from, including a full-screen map and even a full-screen audio player. The infotainment is a bit surreal, though. In my mind, it feels kind of odd and incongruent to be scrolling through the vehicle settings using an Apple UI. Luckily, like all Apple products, it’s incredibly easy to use, so the learning curve is a quick one.
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Like most modern cars, the Vanquish Volante comes with a whole suite of safety features beyond the ones meant to keep the driver on the straight and narrow. As standard, the Vanquish gets adaptive cruise control, lane-keep assist, auto high-beams and traffic sign recognition —not that anyone who owns a Vanquish Volante is going to care about speed limits.
