To mark the 50-year partnership and the recent release of the latest Bond film, Spectre, Aston Martin has created a smart car dubbed the DB9 GT Bond Edition, limited to just 150 luxury cars. For over 50 years Aston Martin has been the smart car of choice for the bestselling movie legend. The long-standing relationship first took hold in Goldfinger (1964), by then the third of the Bond films. Sean Connery, as James Bond, drives the...
Newly unveiled is Aston Martin’s 2015 Vanquish Volante, a grand tourer that will fulfil your wildest supercar dreams. Driving at 100+ with 197 possible, pundits are in double-declutching ecstasy, crooning adjectives like falling confetti—awesome, astonishing, beautiful, blistering, breathtaking, thrilling. And of course they are talking about new-to-the-stage Aston Martin’s 2015 Vanquish Volante, aka ‘the ultimate grand tourer’. No doubt the superlatives are well earned, given not only the Volante’s performance (catch your breath at the ‘blistering’...
The Aston Martin centenary is celebrated with Champagne and canapés, while a discerning mouse finds an upmarket nesting place. Some of us can be surprisingly careless with our precious possessions, sometimes even forgetting where we left them. It’s possible, for example, to forget where you parked the car. But would you forget that you own an Aston Martin? Some do, it seems, because Aston Martins are quite frequently found slumbering in barns, their owners being...
