Archive for the 'Aston Martin' Category

Aston Martin V8 Vantage N420 special edition introduced

A new special edition Aston Martin is now available for order from the UK automaker. The Aston Martin V8 Vantage N420 has a trimmed weight, and features a new sports exhaust system.
The weight reduction comes from the use of carbon fiber at the diffuser, side strakes, splitter, and seats. In total, 27 […]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

EDO Competition converts five-year-old Aston Martin DB9 into DBS

You’d think that someone who can afford to have their Aston Martin DB9 transformed into a DBS could probably afford to simply buy a new DBS. We can’t really speak to the motivations of one Russian DB9 owner, but Edo Competition wasn’t about to argue with a paying customer.
After the five-year old DB9 was […]

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

First Drive: 2011 Aston Martin V12 Vantage

There’s an irony in the fact that when the Aston Martin V12 Vantage was launched last year, it was barred from sale in the USA. The irony being that with this car, Aston was following a time-honored American concept. Take your most compact bodyshell, and ram under the hood your most beef-fed, honkin’ engine. It’s […]

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Aston Martin announces plans to sell V12 Vantage in the U.S.

Aston Martin has finally answering your prayers… assuming that you, like us, have been offering up daily supplications asking that the crew from Graydon to send over its V12 Vantage to those of us living in the good ol’ United States of America.
Specs? Here goes: 6.0-liter V12 engine producing 510 horsepower, and 420 pound-feet of […]

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Car Review: Aston Martin DBS Carbon Black devours suns, spits them out

We’ll admit right now that we have never been completely taken with the Aston Martin DBS. It wasn’t that we didn’t like it – on the contrary, it’s every bit the fabulous car. It’s just that we found the DBS slightly… too much, in the same way you could have too much pampering or too […]

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Aston Martin Gauntlet Concept Design Proposal by Ugur Sahin

Turkish automotive designer Ugur Sahin has been hard at work in his office in the Netherlands. His latest creation is a rendered proposal called the Aston Martin Gauntlet.
Sahin’s goal was to draw up a concept car that had its own design language, while matching the technical capablities of the current Aston Martin lineup. […]

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Aston Martin Rapide to Contest Famous Nürburgring 24-Hour Race

Aston Martin will enter this year’s ADAC Nürburgring 24-hour race again, and this time the Rapide four-door coupe will form part of the charge alongside a slightly modified Aston Martin V12 Vantage. Speaking about the Rapide’s race debut, Aston Martin CEO Dr Ulrich Bez was optimistic about his car’s untested abilities on one of the […]

Friday, April 9th, 2010