Worldwide economic meltdown? Don’t tell Aston Martin. They just opened a new showroom in Charlotte, NC. As it turns out, Aston Martin isn’t doing too bad for themselves. Unlike most of the other high-end sports car / supercar / luxury car companies, Aston Martin is no longer owned by an automotive giant – ever since [...]
You’re probably familiar with supercar tours by now, which include World Class Driving, Road & Track Live, and Gotham Dream Cars. These tours let you and a small group of people take some of the wildest supercars on the road for a drive. Most of these tours travel across the US, and some travel overseas. [...]
From the ‘We’re not kidding file’ comes news from that hotbed of espionage and Bondian villainy, New York, comes news that car sales in the world of exotics have gotten so cut-throat that dealers have actually started spying on one another. And this, it would seem, is a tale of not only greed, but disgruntled [...]
Aston Martin just released their newest promo video for the One-77 – their super-crazy-ultimate supercar, which kind of looks like a fish. All One-77s have been claimed already, of course, at somewhere around $1.5 million. Rumor has it that power will come from a 7.3 liter V-12 engine producing around 700 horsepower. Here’s what Aston [...]
Sometime last year, a few Photoshop gurus got together and made some very funny “mini” versions of their favorite cars. The trend caught on, and soon lots of people were taking their favorite cars, and through the process of image manipulation, made them mini versions of themselves.
Below, you will find a photo gallery full of [...]
Here’s some racing news that’s just too cool to pass up (especially when Automoblog head honcho Chris is a big Aston Martin fan): Aston Martin, sometimes competitor at the famed Le Mans 24 hour race will be competing this year, and they will be all decked out in a full blown Gulf Oil livery.
Why is [...]
When Aston Martin released the hugely popular V8 Vantage in 2006, they fitted it with a 4.3-liter V8 and 380 horsepower. This wasn’t enough for many people, since the Vantage’s competitors such as the Porsche 911 Turbo and Audi R8 were easily faster. Finally AM decided to up the ante for the 2009 V8 Vantage [...]
2009 Aston Martin V8 Vantage
New for 2009
Since its release in 2006, the V8 Vantage had a 4.3-liter V8 which produced 380 horsepower. Much more than that, and the light-weight Vantage would keep up with its older brother, the V12-wielding DB9. In an effort to keep that from happening (and pissing off DB9 owners,) Aston Martin [...]
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