RE: Aston confirms Lagonda saloon...
Discussion
MyCC said:
This does seem a little of odd, like AM cutting of their nose to spite their face. Surely there would be potential for this car in China, even parts of W. Europe (London, Geneva, Monaco) albeit in small numbers?
There's being exclusive and then there's being nonsensical.
Regards,
MyCC.
Fixed it for you. Who's being nonsensical? There's being exclusive and then there's being nonsensical.
Regards,
MyCC.
If Aston can work out a way of making heaps of cash out of re-bodying a Rapide and adorning it with trinkets then all power to them. Everything says that the ultra-luxury market is growing like topsy, and Aston would be dumb not to try and get a slice of it. The alternative may very well be to sell more slices of the company to the self same sheiks, or to the Germans.
It looks like an alternative to the Phantom, which has been out for a while now, and the sheiks will be getting a little bored. It doesn't have to be particularly beautiful (though I don't mind it at all) - it just has to be different to what they already have and reek of money. It does all these things. Luckily, car companies don't listen to the naysayers on here, otherwise Porsche would never have built the Cayenne and be in the hands of the Chinese by now.
NXXN said:
robemcdonald said:
Looks interesting.
Likely to be the most expensive car on a decade old platform.
Probably all already sold though.
Remind me, when was the Rolls Royce Phantom released? Likely to be the most expensive car on a decade old platform.
Probably all already sold though.
Happy to be proved wrong though.
Leins said:
cookie1600 said:
Always thought that Virage estate was lovely lookingAnd I like Volvo's, I just think an Aston Martin shouldn't look like one.
As for the images posted above, I think they have to compete with the brilliant looking XJ. I'm making a stretch here but from this kind of "release", they seem to realise that they have to capitalise on brand and exclusivity.
Poor show, but if it gets them to design and make a DB9 replacement, I'd say I hope they succeed.
simonrockman said:
Of course AM needs to move of from the (beautiful) DB9 design language because Ian Callum now works for Tatra.
Simon
Tatra?! As in this Tatra?Simon
If so, that's very intriguing. I had no idea they still existed. Fantastic cars. Rear-engined, with an aluminum, hemispherical-combustion-chambered V8. Oh, and air-cooled! Like a Porsche 356 on steroids! In fact, IIRC, it was the Tatra that inspired Ferdinand Porsche in his design of the KdF-Wagen.
bobberz said:
simonrockman said:
Of course AM needs to move of from the (beautiful) DB9 design language because Ian Callum now works for Tatra.
Simon
Tatra?! As in this Tatra?Simon
If so, that's very intriguing. I had no idea they still existed. Fantastic cars. Rear-engined, with an aluminum, hemispherical-combustion-chambered V8. Oh, and air-cooled! Like a Porsche 356 on steroids! In fact, IIRC, it was the Tatra that inspired Ferdinand Porsche in his design of the KdF-Wagen.
Tatra still produce commercial vehicles in Czech Republic. The last car they made was the Tatra T700 in the 1990s that was as long as an S-Class Mercedes Benz of the time.
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