First Aston Martin DBX SUV built at St Athan
The first cars have been built at Aston Martin’s new St Athan Plant in Wales, and they’re pre-production versions of the new Aston Martin DBX SUV ahead of its debut.
Now, with that debut looming, Aston Martin has started building the first pre-production models of the DBX (pictured above) and they just happen to be the firts cars ever built at Aston’s new Plant in St Athan, Wales.
It’s taken three years from when AML grabbed the old MoD site in St Athan to get to the point where cars can be built, in the process delivering up to 750 jobs – and another 3,000 in the supply chain – to an area which needs it.
Not only will St Athan be churning out the new DBX next year, it will also be the home of the Lagonda EV range, when it arrives.
Andy Palmer, Aston Martin CEO, said:
This is an exciting time for Aston Martin Lagonda. Our second luxury manufacturing facility is now producing cars and is ready to go into full production in H1 2020. Our facilities and manufacturing teams, led by VP and Chief Manufacturing Operations Officer Keith Stanton have done an outstanding job in getting the factory ready almost a year before full production starts, on time and on budget.
Sadly, the start of production in St Athan puts paid to antics like this.
Cars UK says
The ‘sadly’ bit refers to the fun AML had when St Athan was an empty shell. The link on ‘this’ shows you.
MARK ALLEN GELLER says
Why is that sadly, confused? The resurrection of manufacturing, especially of an exciting new vehicle with a resurrected company like AML is to be celebrated. What’s the ” puts pays to antics??