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Reading through this months vantage magazine I see an article on the v12 vantage prototype in a rather fetching shade of green , at one point they were going to use cougar tail lights under clear covers but on showing them to an early customer he laughed !, they went with fiat ones for the prototype after that, looking at the side profile with the lower bonnet line I can see more than a little cougar there.
 
There are photos of some early Vanquish prototypes and crash test dummies, complete with Cougar tail lamp units and KA air vents, here:

http://astonmartins.com/car/v12-vanquish-prototypes/

The 'Project Vanquish' shown at the US Detroit Motor Show in January 1998, the same show that saw the launch of the Cougar, had Ford 6000 CD head-units (with rocker-switch volume controls) partly concealed behind a CF dash panel and Mondeo mirror adjustment knobs.