By the early 1990’s, Aston Martin needed a new production facility in order to build the higher volume DB7 as there was no way enough space to build such a car at Newport Pagnell. And such a facility became available within the Ford family of factories when the special TWR JaguarSport factory at Bloxham became vacant following the ending of Jaguar XJ220 production in the early 1990’s. Production started in July 1994 with the i6 and continued until the closure of the factory and the end of V12 DB7 production in early 2004. The DB7 bodies were built at Motor Panels (now Mayflower) in Coventry, then they were taken to Rolls Royce in Crewe for painting. Then in 1998, a bespoke paint plant was installed at Bloxham itself. The 6 cylinder engines were built at the nearby TWR factory and V12’s by Cosworth Technology. 7091 DB7’s were built at Bloxham over nine and a half years of production. During 1994, a mere 30 DB7’s were built, but this jumped to over 700 in 1995. The facility was designed to build just 15 cars per week, but during V12 production peaked at 33 per week with a mean of just above 1000 per year. Bloxham was never very easy to get to see – strictly customers only and a rare open day. The photographs below were taken at the 1995 open day when early examples of the i6 DB7 coupe were being built.