Do you like noir? No, not the perfume, the literary and film genre. You know, hard-boiled crooks, wise-cracking private eyes, Los Angeles under cover of night and blondes so blonde they’ll kill you dead. Those blondes are, of course, are better known as femme fatales, and in truth, the color of... 

24-07-2010

You remember the Vantage N400? Aston Martin released the special-edition sportscar back in 2007 to commemorate the success of its Vantage N24 racer at the Nürburgring. It packed 400 horsepower, a series of suspension tweaks and some special cosmetic touches. Unfortunately, Aston only produced 240 examples... 

21-07-2010

Aston Martin has finally put a U.S.-approved sticker onto the V12 Vantage, and if you’re aching to get into the 510 horsepower coupe, you’ll need to set aside $179,995 for the “base” model. Included in the kit is the DB9-sourced V12 powerplant putting out the aforementioned 510... 

16-06-2010

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... 

21-05-2010

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... 

18-05-2010

The world’s best-looking four-door sedan beckoned us from Miami. Enticed, we boarded a jet and paid the 2010 Aston Martin Rapide a visit. Our task was to shuttle Aston Martin’s first four-sedan up the coast to Palm Beach – someone had to do it. Of course, we took the circuitous route and... 

22-03-2010

Fall 2009 was supposed to be the next golden age of the racing game, with the genre’s two heavy hitters – Forza Motorsport 3 and Gran Turismo 5 – scheduled for release. While Xbox 360 owners were rewarded with an incredibly good Forza 3, several delays of GT5 wrecked the plans of many... 

14-02-2010

Aston Martin has finally hung a price tag on its long-awaited four door, the Rapide, in its U.K. home market. As you might reasonably expect, it won’t come cheap, starting at £139,950 or about $233,000 USD. Given pricing disparities between international markets, that’s not necessarily... 

13-12-2009

Let’s say a clandestine organization asked you, for your country, to “take care of” an enemy of the state at tonight’s performance of Tosca at The Met. And let’s say this organization gave you the choice of any Aston Martin in which to conduct the evening. Which Aston would... 

20-11-2009

When Mansory wants to give it to us good, they know how. This is the Mansory Cyrus (Khouresh Mansory told us that Cyrus was the first king of Iran), and – even though every other colleague here disagrees with us – we feel it the best use of carbon fiber we’ve seen since we’ve been... 

24-09-2009

Aston Martin doesn’t have a great track record with four-doors. After acquiring Lagonda in 1948, the legendary David Brown took the DB4 – which bore his initials – and turned it into the Lagonda Rapide. Only 55 examples were ever made. A decade and a half later, the first name came back as... 

19-09-2009

Unlike recent auto expos, the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show is going to have some fantastic jewelry on display — the Ferrari 458 Italia, Porsche’s revised 911 Turbo, the MX-5 Superlight, the list goes on and on. Aston Martin has also confirmed that three years after the Rapide concept stole... 

18-08-2009