Aston Martin unveils today the new Vantage GTE, a racing model based on the GT2 version prepared to compete next month at the 12 Hours of Sebring but also at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The British racing car is powered by a modified 4.5-liter V8 engine which benefits from new cylinder heads, valves and camshafts. The V8 engine...
The British at Aston Martin were getting a little bored over at the office so they decided to facelift the V8 Vantage. Sounds like a great way to pass the time. The only problem is that as they got to work, the Brits got a little bored with this task so they decided to move on to another one. What...
When Aston Martin introduced the enormously expensive One-77 hypercar on the brink of a global economic crisis, most journalists and sales experts had a good laugh. A few years later, Aston Martin is still here, doing brilliantly and their One-77 has been such a success that they're sold out. Almost. We're not talking a wide margin like the last time...
The British car maker decided to reveal the production variant of the new V12 Zagato, a model we talked about several times before. The starting price of the Aston Martin V12 Zagato starts from $520,000 in the United States or around €400,000 in the Europe, with only 150 vehicles being planned to be built. Under the bonnet sits a powerful...
The British sure seem to be happy with re-heated soup when it comes to high end cars like the Aston Martin. We know how many times we've seen the DB9 worked over and over again and though you can't really complain about how it ended up, it's not a new car is it. Now the same thing is happening with...
The British at Aston Martin have lavishly announced that they will be coming to next year's Geneva Motor Show with a bit of a treat for V12 engine fans. Having pretty much hit the jackpot with their V12 Vantage, Aston Martin is readying a Roadster version of their most powerful small sports car. Knowing this, gives us a solid extra...
I think that the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 needs no extra introduction to you as its name says everything. We talked about the racing model from Aston Martin few weeks ago but today we got the confirmation that the company started testing the model in the UK. To be more precise, the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 hit the...
Even though it is one of the most criticized cars ever made and a general target practice situation for the automotive journalists, Aston Martin's Cygnet is in very high demand. That isn't exactly bad news for the British company which stands to make quite a decent amount of money from the process as well as dodge a bullet with average...
The Aston Martin DB9 is the much needed lineup update the most prestigious British sports car brand received back in 2004. There's plenty of speculation on why the Aston Martin DB9 is named this way. A first but less impressive call would be that the Aston Martin DB9 wasn't called the "8" because that would have implied it used a...
The first generation Aston Martin DBS entered production in 1967, the British manufacturer producing only 787 units of this model. Taking the relay from its predecessor, the Aston Martin DB6, the British model featured in James Bond's film, namely On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969. The Aston Martin DBS is placed in the grand tourer class and comes with...
Even though it's been a serious while since we've heard the original rumors about Maybach and Aston Martin working together it's only today that we find something official from the two. Of the very few British and German collaborations worth noting, as far as the automotive spectrum is concerned, they've generally been successful, so there's very little for this one...
The upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show seems to be the best opportunity for Aston Martin to unveil two special editions of the DBS Carbon Edition. The model is already available in the Carbon Black finish but the British manufacturer will add two more paint choices, namely Ceramic Grey and Flame Orange. According to the official details, the new special models feature...
I have not lost my marbles, the British at Aston Martin have announced that they will be unveiling the V12 Zagato at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show. There's one slight detail of that information missing as this soon to be released Aston Martin is the production version of the V12 Zagato we've been hearing so much about lately. After the...
The British at Aston Martin may have dropped their DBR9 racer from the lineup of specialized competition vehicles, but that doesn't mean they won't be offering a V12 for racers of the world. To that end they've just announced that they will be offering the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 racer as a replacement soon and we've got a decent...
After being caught rather unprepared yesterday, the British at Aston Martin came through with a full press release on the production of a road going version of their V12 Zagato. In it, the British company confirms their plan to grant their Nurburgring racing Aston Martin V12 Zagato a limited production run of 150 units, all of which will be ready...
People bored enough to browse Aston Martin's website for no apparent reason have found that on the pages dedicated to the V12 Zagato, there's something quite interesting written in the description. Even though were lacking in actual details or something of the sort saying so, Aston Martin (.com) speaks of a number of road going V12 Zagato models being built....
The British people from Aston Martin released a special version of the current Cygnet, a model which will be manufactured in a limited edition of 14 units and it's crafted together with the French fashion house, colette. From the beginning, we have to advise you that small British model built on the same platform with Toyota iQ comes with a...
After the British at Mini surprised us with their contender for this years 24 Hours of Nurburgring, in the shape of the 2012 Mini Coupe racer, the ones at Aston Martin also have something to say. Their award winning Aston Martin V12 Zagato is going to be participating in the 24 hour German race and they are doing it fittingly,...
Aston Martin's partnership with the Italian renown design house that is Zagato may turn up to be even more profitable than ever before for the British company. The collaboration between these two well known torch bearers for modern car design finally lead to both of them receiving an award which certifies what they can do. This is because Aston's celebratory...
Aston Martin released details and photos for the new V12 Zagato, a model based on the current V12 Vantage and built in partnership with the specialists from Zagato. Actually, we can see the Italian influence brought by the Milan-based design house in the exterior appearance of the British supercar. The previous information also confirms as few days ago we talked...
