This 214-mph, V-12-powered droptop is drop-dead gorgeous. The reveal of the Aston Martin Vanquish Volante, which is set to arrive in the U.S. in the third quarter of this year, will surprise no one.

If you’re the sort of person who tracks miles per gallon, you are not the sort of person who buys an Aston Martin.

Sixty years ago, Aston Martin unveiled the Volante badge on a new convertible at the London Motor Show. This car was neither the outgoing DB5 – which, like DB Astons before it, had had its own ...

The seductiveness of a soft-top Aston Martin never required very much explanation. There was the glamour and the prestige of the badge, the promise of a stonking powertrain, and a sense of occasion ...