AP Interview - incl. why Gaydon production limit is 7,000

[Jon39]

http://europe.autonews.com/article/20171006/ANE/17...

[RobDown]

Interesting. Would be amazing if they can break 10k cars per annum, would presumably allow a lot more investment

[IanV12VR]

Very interesting article Jon, thanks for posting.

[RL17]

RobDown said:

Interesting. Would be amazing if they can break 10k cars per annum, would presumably allow a lot more investment

relatively they are investing a lot already and need new Vantage and then DBX to show good sales and get to a consistent overall sales level they can sustain and recover development costs for these models & new plant and costs of building up workforce and new key hires etc. Good sales of DBX at anticipated level and strong 2 seater & 2+2 sales could get you above those levels but need to maintain a good sales level or risk having too high cost base. Each new main model critical.

[JohnG1]

Andy Palmer said:

We can see a clear line of sight to reaching that in 2019, when we will have a full year of the Vantage and the Vanquish replacement.

So new Vanquish must be due around the same time as the new Vantage?

We've seen lots of press photography of the Vantage, some folks saw it in Frankfurt recently. But where is the new Vanquish?

[V8V Pete]

JohnG1 said:

Andy Palmer said:

We can see a clear line of sight to reaching that in 2019, when we will have a full year of the Vantage and the Vanquish replacement.

So new Vanquish must be due around the same time as the new Vantage?

We've seen lots of press photography of the Vantage, some folks saw it in Frankfurt recently. But where is the new Vanquish?

Maybe it'll be a DB11S so not too much "new" to see. More power, carbon where there's currently plastic etc. etc.

[Ex Boy Racer]

I think he meant they'll have the new vanquish and a year of the new vantage. So vanquish might just have arrived

[M5MarkM]

JohnG1 said:

So new Vanquish must be due around the same time as the new Vantage?

We've seen lots of press photography of the Vantage, some folks saw it in Frankfurt recently. But where is the new Vanquish?

Tricky comment, could read that there will be a new Vanquish in 18/19 or that it's replacement will be around in 18/19 being something else. I think they milk the DB11 a lot more, 600bhp for that engine is pretty weak really, plenty do with releasing upgraded versions of that first. They've also not finished milking current Vanquish with special edition releases.

It will be interesting to see what does replace the current Vanquish, anyway you look at it will probably not be n/a (other than special editions of current Vanquish) and something based on the 5.2TT