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2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage - First Look

2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage - First Look more

Aston Martin V8 Vantage Convertible - Money Shot

This Money Shot of a Aston Martin V8 Vantage Convertible was taken at an Austrian Ski resort. more

2008 Aston Martin DBS - First Drive

The new 2008 Aston Martin DBS has 510 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque squeezed from a 6.0 Liter V12 engine making it damn near brilliant. more

Luxury exotic Aston Martin Vanquish

Restyling the luxury exotic Vanquish S more

Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster - Echo

The Ultimate Tunnel Run With The Ultimate Aston more

2006 Aston Martin Vantage - Seat Time

Until I drove the V8 Vantage, I never really bought the Aston Martin hype. Sure, the brand has a long and storied history and today produces some of the most dynamic designs on the road. But it is part of struggling Ford Motor, and I had my doubts about the overall package-especially the details the more

So you wanna be a race car driver

You know your mother will tell you it isn't safe and then she'll worry endlessly; your accountant will probably just quit, flat-out refusing to watch you blow all your money each season; your priest will confide that he'll be praying for you in the hushed voice of imminent doom; your kids' eyes will more

Aston Martin DB9 Coupe or Vantage Design

Sexiest cars built in recent memory? Have to include the BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9-Coupe or Volante-and Aston's new V8 Vantage. All were designed by the steady eye of Henrik Fisker, our Dane on the left coast. Now Fisker Coachbuild in Newport Beach, Calif., exists and he's the boss. more

2005 Aston Martin Vanquish S - First Look

Cars like the Aston Martin Vanquish S are the reason I do this job. They may not be perfect-it really isn't difficult to pick fa more

BBR Aston Martin DB7 - Seventh Wonder

The Aston Martin DB9 has the rich, the famous and the motoring press collectively salivating like Pavlov's dogs in a bell factor more

2005 Aston Martin Vanquish - First Look

To wander into the Aston Martin headquarters in Gaydon, Oxfordshire, is to witness a specialist car manufacturer at the cutting more

World News - March 2005

Aston Martin DBR9A Car That Looks Fast, Is FastAston Martin has unveiled the car that will take the famous marque back to Le Mans next year. The DBR9 is based on the DB9 coupe and was developed in conjunction with motorsport specialists Prodrive, who are best known for engineering the Subaru in whic more

First Look: 2005 Aston Martin Vanquish

Cars like the Aston Martin Vanquish S are the reason I do this job. They may not be perfect--it really isn't difficult to pick fault with the Vanquish--but they provoke a very basic, guttural and emotive reaction that's impossible to dispel. As a reader of thi more

Henrik Fisker - The Face Of Design

Henrik Fisker (1963- ) has led a charmed life as a car designer. Born in Denmark, he went to university in Switzerland and then more

Aston Martin DBR9 - We Hear...

Aston Martin Racing Reveals More: Aston Martin Racing has revealed further details of its all-new DBR9 that signals the marque's return to international motor racing in 2005. This new GT racing car, which is based on the latest Aston Martin production sports car, DB9, is being prepared by Aston Mart more

Aston Martin Vantage - 2004 Detroit Auto Show

Aston Martin's concept AM V8 Vantage, on display at the 2004 Detroit auto show, was a hoped-for indication that there would be a production version in the near future-and there will be. An undisguised prototype of the new model was caught on film during current high-speed testing at the Nrburgring. more

Aston Martin DB9 - First Look

The Italian Graziano six-speed manual transmission and the ZF six-speed automatic are mounted at the rear, driven by a carbon-fi more

Ian Callum Jaguar Car Designer - The Face Of Design

There can't have been very many newsstands in Dumfries, Scotland, that were displaying copies of Hot Rod back in 1964, but someh more

Friedrichshafen Tuning Show

In Germany's deep south, the rolling hills are interrupted only by chocolate-box houses and drivers hammering down the unrestricted roads as they test the latest hellbent creation to blast through the doors of such grand factories as Ruf, TechArt, Abt, Gemball more

Ghia

The name Ghia evokes images of high '50s fenders on big gleaming Chryslers, or low rounded noses on Volkswagen's famous collaboration with the Italians. Mile-long Imperials, De Soto Adventurers, rare Dual Ghias, and even rarer European charmers like Ferrari's more

A Short History of Aston Martin

The first thing you need to know about Aston Martin is that it is a miracle the company still exists. Since its founding in 1914 by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin, the company has gone through more than half a dozen owners, an overall win at Le Mans (1959 wi more

2002 Aston Martin Vanquish - Driving Impression

Vanquish's suspension is fully independent and free of electronic trickery-just a well-designed upper/lower control-arm arrangem more