Aston Martin - The Book
Aston Martin - The Book
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Original Poster:

654 posts

149 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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Anyone going to treat themselves? biggrin



Dobie177

252 posts

163 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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Errm... at £2-3k per book, I think I'd rather spend this on some mods for my car...

Makes Grants book look like a bargain... and immeasurably more useful!

wtdoom

3,742 posts

239 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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What is this book ? Link please

Dobie177

252 posts

163 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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pschlute

733 posts

190 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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I will wait for the paperback version

Gday2

219 posts

154 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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Will it be available as Kindle eBook? smile

avinalarf

6,438 posts

173 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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From £1650 to £2K....the £2K edition comes with some tat and a roll of AM embossed toilet paper for when you're sitting on the loo reading it.
I am not a fan of this elitist style of consumerist branding.
One doesn't have to buy it,I know,but the price is silly.

JulianPH

10,084 posts

145 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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I've just seen the invite. At 3,000 editions it is never going to be an art investment.

You can buy a Matisse lithograph for less than this if you want an art investment!

james-witton

1,363 posts

138 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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I think I saw a copy in The Wotks.

avinalarf

6,438 posts

173 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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james-witton said:
I think I saw a copy in The Wotks.
The Wotks ?
Wot is that ?
You been on the cooking sherry ?

macdeb

8,760 posts

286 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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avinalarf said:
From £1650 to £2K....the £2K edition comes with some tat and a roll of AM embossed toilet paper for when you're sitting on the loo reading it.
I am not a fan of this elitist style of consumerist branding.
One doesn't have to buy it,I know,but the price is silly.
Agree (as most people will I think)
shouldn't this sort of thing be given to buyers of new cars, special edition thing maybe?
or even better to someone looking next week at buying a second hand Vantagehehe

Jon39

15,007 posts

174 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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At a recent drinks party, I met a neighbour who told me that he was working on a book commissioned by Mr. Bonomi.
Whether it is this particular book I do not know, but was slightly taken aback when told that Aston Martin has been bust ten times.

Hope the book is not riddled with inaccuracies.


james-witton

1,363 posts

138 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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avinalarf said:
james-witton said:
I think I saw a copy in The Wotks.
The Wotks ?
Wot is that ?
You been on the cooking sherry ?
Hehehehe

avinalarf

6,438 posts

173 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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Jon39 said:
At a recent drinks party..........
rofl

Big Ry

1,682 posts

150 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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Saw the email "invite" yesterday.......ah a nice book I thought.........looks great I thought...........saw the price........fk that I thought !

I've already got the TeNeues "The Aston Book" and I've bought a copy of the book that AstonParts are flogging too. The first is fantastic at about eighty quid, the second a couple of hundred but I thought I'd treat myself (not got it yet).

I will get the yearbook though, at £75 it's a nice thing to have I think.

£1600+ for a book is just silly, surely that's trading on people having more money that sense. Also a limit of 3000 isn't exactly exclusive is it. Just done the maths, 3000 at £1600 is nearly five million quid...........FFS !!!

Jon39

15,007 posts

174 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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Big Ry said:
£1600+ for a book is just silly, surely that's trading on people having more money that sense.
Also a limit of 3000 isn't exactly exclusive is it. Just done the maths, 3000 at £1600 is nearly five million quid...........!!!

I wonder if Aston Martin at present, have the feeling that they can sell anything, at any price.

500 people want to buy an unseen £3 million pound car, with 350 bring told to go away.

Cannot exactly remember the other examples.
It probably includes £11,000 exhaust pipes and £20,000 wheels.

I suppose it is worth doing while the good times roll.




williamp

20,464 posts

304 months

Friday 14th July 2017
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I wonder how it comapres to the books from the Palawan press, whose editions are mearly unaffordable, rather then bankruptable??