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This is the 2019 Aston Martin Vantage. The newest 

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sports car from the famous British company. Let's 

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check out all the tech that's packed inside this 

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beautiful coupe. Now, if you're familiar with luxury 

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cars, you may recognize this eight- inch infotainment 

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screen as well as the rotary controller and touchpad 

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down here. Aston Martin has an agreement to use 

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Mercedes- Benz electronics in its cars, so the 

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command infotainment system that you may recognize 

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from a C class is what's featured in this Vantage. 

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[ MUSIC ] Now before you complain about Aston parts 

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sharing with another manufacturer consider this, older 

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Aston entertainment systems were not so great. 

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Whereas Command is really nicely polished. Using this 

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entertainment system is really straightforward. Starting 

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here on the navigation screen, I can zoom in or out by 

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scrolling the dial. Nudging it down gives me more 

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option menus. And then when I nudge it up, I can jump 

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to other functions. I can go over to the radio, for 

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instance, over to the media menu for playing things 

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like USB music. Or I can go over to the phone setting 

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for bluetooth connectivity, although it's worth noting 

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there's no support for Apple Car Player or Android 

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Auto. Now there are two ways to interact with this 

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infotainment system. I prefer using the rotary knob. 

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You can twist it to scroll through menus, nudge it up 

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and down, and left or right. But you can also use this 

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touch tad were you can swipe back and forth theres 

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back buttons and a short cut buttons. In fact using this 

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touch pad you can even write letters and numbers if 

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your entering somebody's name in your bluetooth 

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contact or entering and address in the navigation 

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system Ahead of me is a full digital instrument cluster. 

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In the center, a big tachometer with a digital 

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speedometer. At the left, gauges for my fuel level, the 

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coolant temperature, and if you're in track mode the 

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oil temperature as well. On the right of the display is a 

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reconfigurable trip computer that, again, might be 

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familiar if you've seen it in similar Mercedes models. I 

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can start by going into the trip menu and looking at 

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things like my fuel range and my fuel economy. I can 

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scroll down and look at some navigation directions 

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while I'm driving. Or see what's playing on the radio. 

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And of course you can scroll down and access the 

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telephone and even some settings menus as well. 

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Standard safety technology on this car includes a 

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360- degree camera system, parking sensors of the 

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self- park feature, and blind spot monitoring. But you 

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won't find features like pre- collision braking or 

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adaptive cruise on this model. And that's a rundown of 

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all the tech you'll find inside the 2019 Aston Martin 

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Vantage. For a full review of this sports car, be sure to 

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visit theroadshow. com