Category Archives: Aston Martin
- April 28, 2009
- First completed Aston Martin One-77 wins Concorso d’Eleganza Design Award
Aston Martin finally took the wraps off the first completed One-77 this past weekend at the Concorso d’Eleganza on the shores of Lake Como and came away with the top design prize at the event.
Aston Martin CEO Dr Ulrich Bez was on hand to show off the car that we saw in skeletal form at [...]
- February 1, 2008
- Segrave Car Club spent £1.6 Million in a day on cars– also posted in Bentley, Lamborghini, Mercedes, Rolls-Royce
Take a look at this video of when AutoCar magazine tagged along with the Segrave Club when they went car shopping.
The budget? £1.5 million to spend in 1 day on a Rolls Royce Phantom (£278k), Bentley Continental GTC (£150k), Lamborghini LP640 (£220k), Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera (£170k), Mercedes SLR (£330k), Aston Martin DB9 (£100k) and Aston [...]
- January 10, 2008
- Mustang-based Aston Vanquishes other replicas– also posted in Ford, Mustang
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In our day-to-day, we come across a fair number of replicars. Some are especially convincing, while others are just plain bonkers. Far more so than the Miata-based AMX07 we brought you back in 2006, this Aston Martin V12 Vanquish replica could have had us fooled.
Made by Ontario, Canada-based Exclusive Motor Cars, this Aston replica [...]
- January 4, 2008
- Aston Martin releases sketches of new Vantage GT2
Aston Martin has released sketches of a new GT2 race car, based on the Aston Martin V8 Vantage road car.
The Aston Martin Vantage GT2, as it will be known, will feature likely feature a race-spec version of the V-8 engine found in the road going Vantage, but whatever the configuration, we do know that it [...]
- December 12, 2007
- James Bond keeps his Aston Martin DBS
Ever since Ford sold Aston Martin earlier this year, there was speculation as to whether the marque would provide James Bond’s company car again when the 22nd installment of the movie series hits theaters next November.
Speculation over. Aston Martin announced today that its flagship DBS would return to play the hero car alongside Daniel Craig [...]
- November 27, 2007
- 2007 Class of The World’s Most Beautiful Automobiles– also posted in Audi, BMW, Lamborghini, Lexus, Maserati, Mazda, Mercedes, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Renault, Supercars, Volvo
The Lamborghini Reventón has been named L’Automobile più Bella del Mondo. Translation: The World’s Most Beautiful Automobile.
It earned this honor in the Special Models category of this annual automotive fashion show, recently held for the fifteenth time at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Italy.
There are eleven categories in all, though the Special Models category is [...]
- November 23, 2007
- An Aston Martin built outside of the UK ? Rapide likely to go elsewhere
With sales of Aston Martin’s existing sports and GT lineup continuing at a strong clip, the question of where to build the new Rapide four-door becomes more problematic.
For a company that is still relatively low-volume (7,000 cars last year) like Aston, investing in tooling for more capacity is difficult. That’s where contract builders come to [...]
