By 1965 the lithe and elegant Aston Martin DB4, via the more refined and faster DB5, had become the bigger heavier and more brutal DB6. It was a car that almost forced you to admire it instead of charming you with its refined elegance as its predecessor had been renowned for doing, but it was [...]
Tractor tycoon David Brown bought the ailing sports car maker Aston Martin in 1947, but had something of false start with under powered four cylinders Aston Martin DB1 of 1948. He more than redeemed himself, however, with the DB2 of 1950, a car that set the pace for all subsequent Astons. Here was a luxurious [...]
We drove the Aston Martin Vantage on the track after the SL and XK, and it was the first in this group to feel like it belonged there. Unlike the first two, you can imagine a Vantage owner booking himself a trackday, and you can feel the underlying promise for the racing versions Aston Martin [...]
A couple of years ago, I would have said that Aston Martin was the coolest car brand in the world, and a Vanquish was a permanent feature on my list of favorite cars of all time that I’d buy tomorrow if I had the money and a garage the size of an Aircraft Hangar. But [...]
Aston Martin has been one company that has been giving us loads and loads of cars, concept and goodies too. And the good thing about that is they don’t just wish to stop. Well it’s quite sad that now all the focus of the people is on all the new cars and during this they [...]
Well companies don’t just get tired from making more and more cars. And this makes it quite tricky for us to be able to remember the name of our favorite car. The same is the case in super cars where companies are making their designers as hard as possible to make them more and more [...]
The Aston Martin DB9 was released for 2005, presented in an admiring 2+2 coupe and translatable body styles. The drop-top variant is called as the Volante, which for those who missed out on the 101 means “flying.” All DB9s are motorized by a 6.0-liter V12 that churns out 450 horsepower and 412 pound-feet of extremely [...]