David Brown Automotive recently revealed its first electric model – the Mini eMastered – and now its first customer takes delivery. David Brown Automotive has built a business over the last decade by creating first the Speedback as an Aston MartinDB-esque model based on the old Jaguar XKR, and more recently with restomod classic Minis […]
David Brown Automotive’s Mini Remastered Oselli Edition is a £100k reborn Mini
David Brown Automotive, purveyors of remastered classics, delivers a new performance take on their Mini Remastered – the Mini Remastered Oselli Edition. David Brown Automotive started off by taking the underpinnings of a Jaguar XK and clothing them in Aston Martin inspired panels to create a car – the Speedback GT – which looks like […]
David Brown Automotive Speedback Silverstone Edition – 593bhp of Retro Seductiveness
David Brown Automotive has revealed their Speedback Silverstone Edition, complete with 593bhp and classic racing influences. Just 10 being built at £745k. David Brown Automotive has made a big success of its Speedback GT, managing to deliver an incredibly complete car with 1960s Aston Martin styling covering Jaguar XKR underpinnings and make it individual, rather […]
David Brown’s new car is the Speedback Silverstone Edition
The new car from David Brown Automotive, which will debut at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, is the Speedback Silverstone Edition, a 600bhp ‘hardcore’ version of the Speedback GT. When we ran a tease from David Brown Automotive of a new car on the way for the Geneva Motor Show, we did think it might […]
David Brown Automotive TEASES new High Performance GT reveal
David Brown Automotive is extending their classic-inspired offerings with a new high performance Grand Tourer, which will debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month. David Brown Automotive has managed to do what so many small makers of cars fail to do: it’s offered credible and appealing retro-inspired cars people are actually willing to buy. […]
Mini Remastered by David Brown heading for UK debut at London Motor Show
The Mini Remastered from David Brown Automotive – a new bespoke Mini from the makers of the Speedback GT – gets its UK debut at the London Motor Show. David Brown Automotive delivered a 21st take on the Aston Martin DB5 – the David Brown Speedback GT – in 2014, and two weeks ago they […]
Mini Remastered by David Brown Automotive is the Mini MINI isn’t – at a price (+ video)
David Brown Automotive has revealed its Project 2 as the Mini Remastered, a recreation of the iconic 1960s Mini at a price north of £50,000. We love what David Brown Automotive (DBA) has done with the Speedback GT, a recreation of the Aston Martin DB5 but one fit for the 21st century. So when they […]
David Brown Speedback GT heading for the USA – debuts at Pebble Beach 2015
The delicious David Brown Speedback GT – a modern recreation of a classic Grand Tourer – goes on sale in the USA with a price tag of $753,000. Debuts at Pebble Beach 2015. It’s a little over a year since David Brown Automotive revealed their Speedback GT, a modern take on a classic Grand Tourer […]
David Brown Automotive Speedback UK debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed (video)
The David Brown Automotive Speedback – a 1960s Aston Martin-like creation based on the Jaguar XKR – will get its UK debut at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The reveal of the David Brown Automotive Speedback was a pleasant surprise. We’d expected the Speedback to be yet another take on the E-Type – based as […]
David Brown’s Speedback is an Aston Martin DB5 for 2014 (video)
David Brown’s ‘classic’ car with Jaguar XKR underpinnings is a glorious-looking tribute to the classic Aston Martins of the 1960s. Last month we revealed that the David Brown Automotive’s take on a classic, luxury British Sports Car would be based on the underpinnings of the Jaguar XKR, and we’d expected another classic E-type creation like […]