Is vantage a wordpress based theme? Vantage is based on WordPress. We use WordPress as an application platform to create all our themes.
Do you support new modules if we need that done? I'm not quite sure what you mean. I can say that we do not create custom solutions or provide custom development of any sort. All our resources are committed to building and supporting our existing themes. We do offer regular updates with our themes. Initial purchase covers updates and support for one full year. At the end of that year, the cost is $29US for another 12 months of support. Specifically, Vantage will have two major feature updates, one this week and another in a few months.
How about speed? We're always working to make our themes as efficient as possible. The theme is pretty fast but there are many variables we cannot control like server, connection speed and more. All things being the same, it's as fast as anything else out there.
If you haven't had a chance to check out our Vantage demo, please so here:
http://demos.appthemes.com/?theme=vantage
Cheers!