Vanquish Design Sold to Mystery Buyer..

[Squaremeal]

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-aston/aston-se...

Not sure what to make of this...

[bogie]

Maybe tesla fancies a nice looking design for its upcoming electric supercars

[HDPete]

What’s it likely to do to values?

[embdenb]

HDPete said:

What’s it likely to do to values?

Nothing good

[anonymous-user]

Rather surprised that nobody on the IPO thread mentioned this, or everyone missed it?

Worrying that AM would sell the rights for £20m. Times must be tough.

[JB65]

Very odd, bit of a garage sale going on there. Wouldn’t want another brand launching a car that looks very much like your exclusive AM...

[Bobajobbob]

Very strange decision. You have to assume that it is to a company that neither competes directly nor devalues the brand but not sure that company exists? Zagato?

You don’t really want to see Astin Marton Vanquyshs zooming around Beijing with electric motors..

[RL17]

Bobajobbob said:

You don’t really want to see Astin Marton Vanquyshs zooming around Beijing with electric motors..

Based on their car copyright court decisions no company there would pay a yuan for any intellectual property.

Would be gutted if it's the David Brown Automotive lot now they're running out of old Jags to DB5ify

[KevinBird]

Andy Palmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-mOKMq19zU

[leerandle]

I am assuming we are talking about the ‘previous’ vanquish and not the current model !?!

[V8LM]

leerandle said:

I am assuming we are talking about the ‘previous’ vanquish and not the current model !?!

IPO Prospectus said:

During the six months ended 30 June 2018, Aston Martin Lagonda entered into a contract within its Aston Martin Consulting business to sell intellectual property and assets to a third party car manufacturer. The intellectual property that was sold relates to tooling and design drawings for the previous generation Vanquish, as well as ongoing consultancy support for the next 18 months. The consideration for the project was £20.0 million, £19.8 million of which was gross profit.

[PotentiallyaHorse]

If I am reading this correctly and it is for the 2001-2007 vanquish then could this be for a Singer-like setup? Though there arn't enough donner cars available for that. AM Works do manual conversions, are they a separate entity?

[JB65]

Very odd, bit of a garage sale going on there. Wouldn’t want another brand launching a car that looks very much like your exclusive AM...

[john ryan]

Maybe this is simply an exercise to pass future parts responsibility to a third party, similar to the transfer of pre DB4 Feltham stuff to captain Forshaw many years ago. If so, I can see the advantages in eliminating an expensive outlier from the factory inventory/service organisation. No doubt the contract has been carefully drawn.

[ExitLeft]

Dyson?

[Agent57]

The article had a picture of the Vanquish that has just gone out of production....

"Aston Martin has made the bizarre decision to sell the designs and tooling for its Vanquish just a few months after the super-GT went out of production."

Edited by Agent57 on Friday 26th October 20:49

[Ken Figenus]

PotentiallyaHorse said:

If I am reading this correctly and it is for the 2001-2007 vanquish then could this be for a Singer-like setup? Though there arn't enough donner cars available for that. AM Works do manual conversions, are they a separate entity?

Ahh - looks like its Turkish company looking to build them - much like Romanian companies do with old Fiats and Renaults?

[alabbasi]

Might be a good source for cheap(er) parts.

[RobDown]

Ken Figenus said:

Ahh - looks like its Turkish company looking to build them - much like Romanian companies do with old Fiats and Renaults?

Would be a pitta if that’s the case. Someone in management should be skewered for it

[PotentiallyaHorse]

Ken Figenus said:

PotentiallyaHorse said:

If I am reading this correctly and it is for the 2001-2007 vanquish then could this be for a Singer-like setup? Though there arn't enough donner cars available for that. AM Works do manual conversions, are they a separate entity?

Ahh - looks like its Turkish company looking to build them - much like Romanian companies do with old Fiats and Renaults?

I can just imagine the tatty Vanquish taxi's with black smoke puffing out the back