Starting with the exterior paintwork, the Henley Royal Regatta DB11 is finished in Diavolo Red combined with Satin Scintilla Silver roof and roof strakes available from Q by Aston Martin – Commission.

Full specification of the DB11 Henley Regatta as follows

• Diavolo Red coachwork with Satin Scintilla Silver roof and roof strakes
• Carbon Fibre Body Pack (front splitter, side sills and rear diffuser) and satin finished Carbon Fibre Exterior Pack (Side Strakes, Hood Blades and Mirror Caps)
• 20” Gloss Black Directional wheels with diamond turned faces and a smoked finish
• Carbon Fibre Exhaust finishers, Smoked Tail Lights, Exterior Black Pack and Carbon Fibre Wings Badge
• Metallic Black leather with Chancellor Red on the seats and door panels. Chancellor Red contrast stitching
• Obsidian Black Alcantara headlining and cantrails
• Shadow Chrome Jewellery pack

The heart of the DB11 AMR is a twin-turbocharged 5.2-litre V12, now developing 630bhp, an additional 30bhp compared with the outgoing DB11 V12, and 127bhp more than the V8-engined DB11. Torque remained unchanged at 700Nm. A 0-62mph time of 3.7sec is an improvement of 0.2sec over the outgoing model while a top speed of 208mph makes the DB11 AMR the fastest model in the series production range at the time.

The handling of DB11 AMR’s chassis was been refined by Aston Martin’s skilled dynamics team, led by Chief Engineer Matt Becker. Their work, which included amongst other things, a new rear subframe and a new front anti-roll bar, has delivered a greater sense of connection without harming the supple ride. Similarly, a new shift calibration for the transmission was chosen and a slightly more vocal exhaust note became available with ‘Sport’ and ‘Sport +’ mode’ engaged.

Visually the DB11 AMR is distinguished by carbon fibre side strakes and bonnet blades together with gloss black splitter, difuser, sills, mirror caps, roof panel and cantrails. Also all brightwork has been lost with darkened headlamp bezels, front grille, exhaust finishers and the tail lamps are smoked as standard.

The dark theme continues inside, with monotone leather and Alcantara upholstery and an optional bold contrasting central lime stripe, while DB11 AMR is treated to a leather sports steering wheel as standard.

To launch the car, AML featured the AMR Signature Edition with distinctive Stirling Green coachwork and front to back AMR Lime Green stripe. This was limited to just 100 cars worldwide priced at £201,995, considerably more than the £174,995 needed for the DB11 AMR in standard form.

In 2021, the AMR part was dropped from the model name and the car became the DB11 V12 Coupe once again.

The DB11 was discontinued in 2023 when it’s place as the GT car in the range was taken by the greatly updated, DB12 Coupe.

Based on the Rapide and using the almost infinitely flexible VH architecture, the new saloon drew significant inspiration from the highly sought-after William Towns-designed Lagonda of 1976 and features many of the same cutting edge engineering techniques seen in modern Aston Martin sports cars like the Vanquish such as the use of carbon fibre body panels.

AML initially stated that the exclusive luxury four-door was being produced solely for the Middle East markets, but following serious enquiries from a number of wealthy customers elsewhere in the world AML announced days ahead of the 2015 Geneva Show, that the UK, European and South African markets would also be able to order the car. At the show during March, an example of the Taraf was exhibited within the VIP area. There was also some evidence that AML might have planned to market the Taraf in North America but it now appears not to have happened.

The Taraf was hand-built at Aston Martin’s manufacturing facilities in Gaydon, Warwickshire, in a dedicated building previously given over to the creation of the One-77 hypercar. Although no price was initially officially quoted, it is believed that British customers were be charged £580,000 plus VAT and German customers needed to find a sum towards a million Euros. Bespoke features commissioned from ‘Q’  will of course have pushed the price considerably higher.

Sales were anticipated to be quite low due in part to the extremely high sticker price and AML stated that an absolute maximum of only 200 are to be built in both left and right hand drive. In fact rather less examples were built making the Taraf one of the lowest volume VH cars ever made.

UK debut for the car was in the showroom of Aston Martin Works in Newport Pagnell in May 2015. The event coincided with the annual Bonhams auction and as the AMOC concours is traditionally held the next day, the Taraf was shown at Woburn Abbey too.

In an unusual spin off, it is rumoured that the extended Taraf chassis may form the basis of a long wheelbase Rapide  for launch around 2017 although this sadly never happened.

Lagonda Taraf side view

The AMG built V8 engine also powers the AM6 V8 Vantage

The open-top DB9 Zagato shares the same styling treatment as the DBS Zagato, although the curvaceous roof is lost, repalced by a folding soft-top. The Spyder, retains a new representation of Aston’s familiar side strake and vent, although this is absent from the coupe. This particular car has been based on a regular Gen4 DB9 Volante complete with the new V12 AM11 engine with 510bhp and a six-speed paddleshift transmission. It appears to have been finished in traditional Aston Martin Racing Green with Sahara Tan leather interior.

Following on from the Kensington Palace event, the Spyder recieved it’s US debut on the concept lawn during the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegence in August 2013.

A press release issued during the 2014 Geneva Salon confirmed the existence of a third Centennial Zagato, a Virage based Shooting Brake, due to be shown later in the year.

The curvaceous styling of the car was by the gifted Frank Feeley who had been at Lagonda from 1926 and was also responsible for the pre-war LG45 Rapide and many post-was Aston Martins. Described as both graceful and modern, it sadly dated rapidly as more modern full width coachwork became the fashion.

The 2.6 Lagonda sold reasonably well in austerity Britain although it was expensive at £3,420 inclusive of tax, heavy (1543 kg), thirsty and not overly fast, struggling to reach 90 mph. The 4 door saloon version was a little cheaper at £3110.

The car shown here is LAG/48/5, the first 2.6 litre drophead coupe, a factory demonstrator, 1948 London Motor Show car which became the personal transport for Mrs David Brown, the wife of the new company chairman.

• Ultramarine Black Paint
• 10-spoke Silver Diamond Turned Wheels
• Bespoke Solid Sterling Silver Lagonda
• Wings Badge with red transparent enamel
• Bespoke Volcano Red Side Strake Housing
• Black Bonnet & Side Strake Meshes
• Q wing badges
• Bespoke two-tone trim split
• Upper Environment- Aurora Blue
• Seats and Lower Environment – Q White Essence Semi-aniline
• Seat Inners – Snowflake Perforation
• Aurora Blue Colour-Keyed Steering Wheel
• Bespoke Red trans-enamel rotaries
• Bespoke Quilt Pattern
• Caspian Blue Carpet with Dark Blue Lambswool Overmats
• Final Edition Sill Plaque
• 3-piece Lagonda Luggage – Aurora Blue leather
• Lagonda Wings embroidery

Now the  final Taraf’s are completed and delivered, AML will probably never build another petrol engined Lagonda. All future Lagonda cars planned to be fully electric vehicles.