(The) Register
- 12/10/2014A virtually complete list of Aston Martins, initially created by the Aston Martin Owners Club and now the responsibility of the Aston Martin Heritage Trust.
A virtually complete list of Aston Martins, initially created by the Aston Martin Owners Club and now the responsibility of the Aston Martin Heritage Trust.
This was a collection of nine V8 cars from the late 1980’s all built to the same cosmetic specification of Hunter Green coachwork with tan hide. They comprised of V8 saloon, V8 Vantage, V8 Volante, Lagonda, V8 Vantage Volante, V8 Vantage Volante PoW, V8 Vantage Zagato, V8 Zagato Volante and a Virage. This unique collection was eventually broken up in 2005 when they were sold by Bonhams at the annual Aston Martin auction.
Whilst difficult to define, it may be considered that an Evocation is a loose copy of a classic car with an appearance of the original but with more modern running gear. Examples copies of the DB4 GT Zagato and DBR2.
An eight speed automatic transmission by ZF introduced in 2014 for the 2015MY Vanquish and 2015MY Rapide S.
London based Aston Martin dealership, which has been known to offer their own factory built special edition cars such as the DB7 i6 Stratstone, the DB7 V12 Vantage Jubilee and the DB9 Stratstone in Mayfair Black or Park Lane White
Mansory are a German company, founded in 1989, specialising in the up-rating and individualisation of ‘noble’ British and other premium automobiles – particularly the Bentley Continental GT, Rolls Royce Phantom and from 2005, Aston Martins. In 2009 they also introduced the limited edition Mansory Cyrus, a carbon bodied conversion based on either a DB9 or DBS
Removing Fuse 22 from most Gaydon Aston Martins purely removes the power supply to a vacuum valve in the exhaust which prevents it from closing at low engine revs. The upshot of this that even at low speeds, the exhaust is louder than Aston Martin or the authorities ever intended.
The Aston Martin internal code name for the V12 Vantage S
The Aston Martin internal code name for the DBS Volante