A Ravishing Aston Martin That Lets You Drop the Top
'You get the blue one,' said the Aston Martin representative, pointing at the ravishing Vantage Roadster parked in front of the hotel in Palm Springs, Calif. A convertible version of the redesigned Coupe, the Roadster debuts three color schemes, one of which—Satin Iridescent Sapphire—infuses the carbon-fiber body panels with a hitherto undreamt, scarcely believable shade of teal, its polarized highlights shifting from indigo to forest-green in the brilliant sun like the chromatophores of the world's sexiest octopus.
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