Aston Martin seeks funds to safeguard its future

[Bobby Dazzler]

I too have witnessed AM's unreliability & poor build. Friend has owned a DB4 GT for about 10 years & has spent thousands of pounds having it mechanically restored & repaired but has never bothered with the cosmetics apart from replacing & re-spraying much of the lower parts of the bodywork, the rest has got rust & touch-in paint blobs all over it. The joke is that's it's hardly been driven because there is always something having to be done to it & it's ALWAYS mechanical. I passengered in it a couple of times. The first when it almost broke down & had to limp home. The second was downright scary because there were no exterior mirrors & the inside mirror vibrated so badly it had to be held in order to be used. Thus checking to see if anybody was overtaking or needing to change lanes when on the motorway was just dam dangerous & nigh on impossible. What made it worse & stupid was that the owner was so blinkered & pedantic to the point of eccentricity when it came to originality that he insisted on retaining the original rear light bulbs. Never have I been so pleased to get out of the dam thing & in one piece. And as for the cockpit noise which the owner kept on grinning about because it was the sound of a wonderful engine, (all clatter & rattling chains to me).
To summarise the AM was & is a static piece of machinery that rarely works properly - Oh I forgot, the passenger door had to be heaved open & had to be pulled closed with a bang or else it re-opened on its own. As for the snobby AM Club owners - don't get me started.

That’s a shocker. If you can’t count on a car which was hand built in a brick outhouse in 1959 - which has neither been modernised or restored in order to maintain originality - to be completely rattle free with pin sharp lighting more than 60 years later, then I don’t know what the world is coming to.

If he wants rid of it, then please let me know, especially if it’s a Zagato.

 

[grober]

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[A.J.]

How long before they go bankrupt again?

Overpriced and horrid looking

Exclusive: Aston Martin seeks funds to safeguard its future | Autocar

British manufacturer looks to balance the books; potential investors linked to Saudi Arabia and US

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that is one beautiful car

 

[Skd884]

 

[Skd884]

The shitshow rolls on aston martin

 

[Darrell]

The shitshow rolls on aston martin

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I thought their new SUV was intended to get them out the $hit.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

The shitshow rolls on aston martin

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More disappointing is the use of centre-aligned bullet points. Who on Earth thought that was a good idea?

 

[Skd884]

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Impressive

 

[ALFAitalia]

I buy this one.....launched at the FOS. Love the old school styling......clearly inspired from the 80s models....when they looked good........ like the DB9 too though. Pity I'm lacking the £1.5m required!!! Someone else can clean the wheels though!

Aston Martin unveils its new £1.5m 'old school brute' muscle car

Looking like Batman's off-duty runaround, the limited edition Valour mixes 21st century brawn with sharply-chiseled retro styling of the classic Aston Martin V8 Vantages of the 1970s and '80s.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

 

[Darrell]

Such beautiful cars. I’d have one over Italian exotica anyday. (But not Porsche though )

 

[ToeKnee]

Such beautiful cars. I’d have one over Italian exotica anyday. (But not Porsche though )

Is Porsche Italian?

 

[Darrell]

Is Porsche Italian?

Yes.

 

[ChrisHGTV]

Such beautiful cars. I’d have one over Italian exotica anyday. (But not Porsche though )

Even one of these Darrell? And you'd have some change.

Limited-run Kimera EVO37 Martini 7 revealed with 542bhp | Evo

 

[markjay]

The Supercar industry survives almost solely on Gulf customers (Russia is no longer on this list, China is still getting there).

This requires a lot of marketing, wooing, personal relationships, creating scarcity and exclusivity and getting customers to compete for new rare and highly desirable models (and waiting a long time to get them, that's also important, getting on that waiting list needs to be a very difficult task that only the few can manage).

In short, the customers need to be made to feel important, unique, special, and that they are getting something that their peers at home can't get. This is it in a nutshell.

I don't know why AML are wasting time building road-going cars that ordinary wealthy people can buy. Perhaps it's a leftover from the days when they were owned by Ford, I don't know.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

The Supercar industry survives almost solely on Gulf customers (Russia is no longer on this list, China is still getting there).

This requires a lot of marketing, wooing, personal relationships, creating scarcity and exclusivity and getting customers to compete for new rare and highly desirable models (and waiting a long time to get them, that's also important, getting on that waiting list needs to be a very difficult task that only the few can manage).

In short, the customers need to be made to feel important, unique, special, and that they are getting something that their peers at home can't get. This is it in a nutshell.

I don't know why AML are wasting time building road-going cars that ordinary wealthy people can buy. Perhaps it's a leftover from the days when they were owned by Ford, I don't know.

Not sure I’d agree with that, volumes of supercars have been strong in the US and Europe for the last decade or so. ME sales certainly help but I would say the market in US/EU/UK alone is easily strong enough to be sustainable without ROW. Hypercars possibly rely on ME sales more.

 

[markjay]

Not sure I’d agree with that, volumes of supercars have been strong in the US and Europe for the last decade or so. ME sales certainly help but I would say the market in US/EU/UK alone is easily strong enough to be sustainable without ROW. Hypercars possibly rely on ME sales more.

I know a bit about the subject - yes they sell all over the world, but the brands (not the parent company, obviously, where applicable) are dependent on the Gulf sales for survival.

 

[SpikyMikey]

I buy this one.....launched at the FOS. Love the old school styling......clearly inspired from the 80s models....when they looked good........ like the DB9 too though. Pity I'm lacking the £1.5m required!!! Someone else can clean the wheels though!

Aston Martin unveils its new £1.5m 'old school brute' muscle car

Looking like Batman's off-duty runaround, the limited edition Valour mixes 21st century brawn with sharply-chiseled retro styling of the classic Aston Martin V8 Vantages of the 1970s and '80s.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

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Fabulous machine.... but I keep looking at the styling around that single round headlight and thinking 'Ford Mustang'

 

[Darrell]

Even one of these Darrell? And you'd have some change.

Limited-run Kimera EVO37 Martini 7 revealed with 542bhp | Evo

Wow!! Is it road legal?

 

[Darrell]

Fabulous machine.... but I keep looking at the styling around that single round headlight and thinking 'Ford Mustang'

I thought the same about the lights.

 

[ChrisHGTV]

Wow!! Is it road legal?

Yes apparently. Seems a relative bargain, the boggo standard one was just over £400k.

if I had the money that Martini one would be in my garage way before any of the current Supercar/Hypercar offerings.