For sale: 2021 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster - £ 91,750 - Description
2021 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster
£ 91 750
Vehicle Specifications
Year: 2021 (21)
Mileage: 17,750
Paint: Xenon Grey
Trim: Obsidian Black
Transmission: ZF 8-Speed Auto
Key Information
- Main dealer service history throughout.
- Most recent service March 2026 at 17,284 miles.
- Consistently low annual mileage since new.
About This Example
Not every Aston Martin is built for the same job. The DB11, the DBS, the Vanquish – these are cars for crossing continents, long-legged and built around a 2+2 cabin and a boot big enough to matter. The Vantage was never meant to do that job. It’s the one built for the road outside your front door: a strict two-seater, shorter, lighter, and considerably more willing to be threaded down a B-road or squeezed into a city parking space than its bigger siblings. Where the GTs ask you to plan a journey, the Vantage just asks you to go for a drive.
That difference shows up in the details as much as the dimensions. The Vantage’s V8 sits lower and further back than anything in the GT range manages, a product of Aston swapping Mercedes-AMG’s dry-sump lubrication for a wet-sump system of its own — the sole meaningful engineering change to a 4.0-litre twin-turbo unit shared with the AMG GT. The result is 503bhp and 505lb ft, 0-60mph in 3.4 seconds, and a car that changes direction with a keenness the longer-wheelbase Astons simply don’t attempt. This is the sports car end of the range, not the grand-touring end, and it drives like it knows the difference.
This example wears that character in Xenon Grey, a paint with none of the deep, jewel-like intensity favoured on the bigger GTs – appropriately, since the Vantage has never been about quiet gravitas. It’s a cooler, more graphic grey, one that lets the car’s short overhangs and wide haunches read as pure shape rather than colour, and it sits particularly well against the black detailing found throughout the rest of the specification: gloss black roll hoops, gloss black character wheels, a black exterior bodypack, and smoked tail lamps front and rear script badge finished to match.
Inside, the theme continues with real intent. Obsidian Black leather covers the seats, dashboard and door trim, contrasted throughout with yellow stitching and embroidery – including the driver’s own embroidered detailing and the Wings logo picked into the sports seats – a genuinely sharp combination against the black-and-silver interior pack. The seats themselves are heated, sixteen-way adjustable, and fitted with memory.
The chassis is specified to match the ambition of the rest of the car. Three-stage adaptive damping and adaptive steering are fitted alongside a three-stage Dynamic Stability Control with a dedicated track mode, giving a genuine spread between comfortable daily use and something considerably more serious. Auto Park Assist, front parking sensors, a 360-degree camera system and blind-spot assistance round out a specification built for using the car properly rather than simply looking at it – brake calipers finished in yellow to match the interior stitching are the one detail that gives the game away before you’ve even opened a door.
The service history is entirely main dealer: a pre-delivery inspection at Aston Martin Mayfair in February 2021, followed by services at Stratstone of Mayfair and Aston Martin Walton-on-Thames, most recently in March 2026 at 17,284 miles. Averaged out, that’s a little over 3,400 miles a year since new – a car that has been used sparingly and looked after properly throughout.
About This Model
The word "Vantage" wasn't coined for a car at all. In 1950, an Aston Martin employee was handed a thesaurus and asked to find something to call the DB2's new twin-carburettor, higher-compression engine option - a mere 250 of which were built. For the next twenty-two years, "Vantage" meant an engine, not a model: it appeared quietly across the DB4, DB5 and DB6 as the specification enthusiasts asked for by name, before Aston Martin finally let it stand alone in 1972, on a straight-six DBS that was, somewhat ironically, the least powerful car in the range. The name didn't find its proper home until 1977, when the V8 Vantage arrived as Britain's answer to the Countach and the Boxer - by which point the thesaurus entry had become one of the most storied words in British motoring.
This generation traces back to a 2013 technical partnership with Mercedes-AMG, which supplies the 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 also found in the AMG GT - though Aston's engineers swap AMG's dry-sump lubrication for a wet-sump system, allowing the engine to sit lower and further back in the chassis for near-perfect weight distribution.
The Roadster followed the Coupé in 2020, its Z-fold fabric roof lowering in 6.7 seconds and raising in 6.8, at speeds of up to 31mph - at launch, the fastest full cycle of any automatic convertible roof on sale. The weight penalty over the Coupé is a mere 60kg, and most of that is structural reinforcement to keep the body as stiff without a roof as with one, not the roof mechanism itself.
Options
Model & Performance
Vantage Roadster
4.0-Litre Bi-Turbo V8
503 BHP (375kW)
505 lb-ft Torque
0-60mph: 3.4 seconds
Top Speed: 195mph
8-Speed Touchtronic III Automatic
Right Hand Drive
Exterior
Xenon Grey paintwork
Character Wheels - Gloss Black
Brake Calipers - Yellow
Exterior Black Pack
Exterior Bodypack - Gloss Black
Roll Hoops - Gloss Black
Front Grille - Vaned, Black
Tail Lamps - Smoked
Rear Badge - Centre Aston Martin Badge
Wind Deflector
Protective Film - Standard Fit Helitape (front end)
