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Aston Martin: How Recycled Platforms and Eight-Year-Old Tech Could be the Brand’s Downfall
Unlike Bentley, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce – who are owned by highly successful mainstream brands Volkswagen, Audi, Fiat and BMW respectively – specialist manufacturers such as Aston Martin have a hard time in the market. Whereas a company like Mercedes-Benz can afford to spend €5 billion (US$7.1 billion) in one year on research and development, the Gaydon-based manufacturer of performance/luxury coupes is planning its next models on the eight-year-old platform that first underpinned the DB9 coupe in 2003!
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Zagato Shows New One-off Aston Martin Dbs Coupe And Db9 Spyder At Centennial Gathering
The festivities for Aston Martin's 100th birthday continued this past Sunday at Kensington Gardens, where we had the largest ever gathering of Aston Martin cars with some 550 models worth around an estimated £1 billion (about $1.5 billion / €1.2...
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Aston Martin Said To Reveal New V12 Vantage Roadster Next Year
While Aston Martin may not have a lot of cash going around for the development of new platforms or engines, the British automaker is trying to make the best of what it already has. What this means is that it is churning all sorts of models and body...
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Aston Martin To Participate At 24h Of Le Mans With Gulf Oil Livered Lmp1
British sportscar manufacturer Aston Martin has set its eyes for an outright victory at this year's Le Mans 24 hour race that will be held over the weekend of 13-14 June, 2009. Aston Martin will return to La Sarthe with two Works LMP1 cars bearing...
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Idiotic List With Celebrity Polluters
A green motoring organization in the UK called “City Car Club†has come up with a list that includes the top-10 celebrities that pollute the most. The Brits added the total CO2 emissions of the celebrities’ automobiles creating an average...
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Low Volume Automaker Sales In The Usa - June 2010
This isn't something GoodCarBadCar.net is able to do every month, but since we're halfway through 2010 and June Sales Stats were available early, here's a rundown of eight low-volume premium automobile manufacturers from June 2010, along with...
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