Aston Martin has revealed that the naturally aspirated, 7.3 liter V12 engine in the Aston Martin One-77 will develop 750bhp & 553lb/ft of torque. You expect a lot when a car costs £1,150,000 plus tax. So the Aston Martin One-77 needs to be special. After all, at that price, you can have your pick of […]
Liberal Petrolhead. Oxymoron? Not any more
Dr Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, visited Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin yesterday. And it looks like he had a fine old time. With the Liberal / Conservative coalition now in charge we seem to have got a Government where a big chunk of the ministers are Liberals (is there a Liberal […]
Aston Martin DB9 Facelift revealed
Aston Martin has given the DB9 a facelift for 2010 / 2011. But don’t worry. It’s very subtle. The DB9 is still gorgeous. Remarkably, the Aston Martin DB9 has been with us since 2003. Yet it still conspires to look as fresh and appealing – and let’s face it, just downright beautiful – as it did when […]
Edo turn Aston Martin DB9 in to Aston Martin DBS. Why?
German Tuners Edo Competition have turned a 5 year old Aston Martin DB9 in to a DBS for a Russian customer. But why? When your business is to play games customising exotic cars you must get used to strange requests from clients with more cash than class. We’ve all seem abominations that should have been still-born, but […]
Aston Martin DB5 James Bond movie car up for auction
One of the original James Bond Aston Martin DB5 cars – FMP 7B – is being auctioned by R.M. Auctions at their ‘Automobiles of London’ sale in October. Expected to fetch over $5 million. Maybe it’s my age – maybe it’s just a boy thing – but if ever I think of a ‘James Bond’ […]
Aston Martin DB9 Facelift spied
Aston Martin are on a roll at the moment and are planning a facelift for the DB9 in time for the Paris Motor Show. There’s a fair bit going on at Aston Martin at the moment, a big change from just a year ago when the recession was causing huge pain. We’ve had the launch […]
Aston Martin V12 Vantage – No longer a Limited Edition + V12 Vantage Video
Aston Martin have admitted that the V12 Vantage is no longer a Limited Edition model but part of the Aston Martin Model Range. We love the Aston Martin V12 Vantage, even though we’ve only actually driven the V8 Vantage (4.3 & 4.7 versions). But we know from the difference the 4.7 made to the V8 […]
Aston Martin V12 Vantage: U.S. bound & on sale this year
America is to finally get the Aston Martin V12 Vantage later this year, with sale kicking off with the limited edition V12 Vantage Carbon Black. You have to love the Aston Martin V12 Vantage, if for no other reason than that it makes every other car in its class look pug ugly or short of […]
Aston Martin Rapide – First customer car
The first Aston Martin Rapide leaves the Magna Steyr plant in Austria headed for a customer. It may not seem the biggest news in the world – Aston Martin Rapide leaves factory for customer’. After all, that is rather the point. But the gestation of the AM Rapide seems to have been so long it’s quite hard […]
Aston Martin One-77 on London streets +video
Aston Martin’s £1.2 million Hypercar – the Aston Martin One-77 – has been on a supercar run from London to Silverstone. We’re getting really close to the first production Aston Martin One-77 getting in to the hands of a customer (and in all probability in to the hands of the guy who’s bought 10 AM One-77s), and […]