When Aston Martin Built The Most Powerful (And Stupid) Car In The World - Jalopnik
Today’s Aston Martin seeks to cultivate a crisp, modern, James Bond in a very trim suit image. In 1987, Ford bought a 75% stake in Aston Martin. I can’t even be bothered to look up its exact name, but it was a loose confederacy of Lincoln, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, maybe Mercury, and Aston Martin. The keen-eyed among you will note that it does not make sense to have the same company running both Jaguar and Aston Martin. Before it gave up ownership, Ford did inject a huge amount of cash and development input into Aston Martin through the late ‘80s and into the ‘00s. By the time the V12 Vanquish rolled out in 2001, the international automotive press raved about how... Aston did everything they could. Only Aston didn’t really go far enough. It was a hard time for Aston, right in the middle of the transition to total Ford ownership. Aston actually had no engineering director when. Source: jalopnik.com
