V8 Vantage set to be huge success
Aston Martin has bucked the trend of a slump in car sales over recent years. Instead of a fall in sales it has seen a staggering 448 per cent, which follows an increase of 626 per cent last year.
Admittedly, it's not hard to turn in such stellar percentages when the numbers are low: Aston Martin has built 1,238 cars in 2005 so far, but only 226 last year. The V8 Vantage and the DB9 account for the difference. First deliveries of the V8 Vantage start in October.
Aston Martin, which has been through innumerable financial bottlenecks since its inception in 1915, plans to hike production to 5,000 cars per year.