Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brake

January 4th, 2009 / Filed Under: Aston Martin Virage - Bizarre Astons - Shooting Brake / No Comments

Debuted at the 1992 Geneva Motor Show, the Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brake never really was a financial success for Aston Martin. At over 150 thousand pounds, it was the most expensive Aston Martin ever seen, and with it’s non-expected look it never really caught on.

It’s estimated that 4 of these Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brakes were made — 3 in British Racing Green, one in Rosso Red — all with right hand drive & manual transmission.

Photos below gathered across the web and through e-mail (thanks, Jonas at Cars Blog!).

Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brake
Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brake
Aston Martin Virage Shooting Brake

Aston Martin’s Racing History

December 8th, 2008 / Filed Under: Aston Martin DBR9 - Racing / No Comments

You are not a true lover of sports cars if you do not know about Aston Martin. Ask anyone who knows about this world famous car and they will eagerly tell you about its rich sporting heritage. There are few cars in the world that can compete with the illustrious history of racing that the Aston Martin has. It takes something special to have been associated with sports cars for over 90 years, but this is exactly what Aston Martin cars have been able to achieve for they have been producing sports cars for the past 90 years.

The company was founded in 1914 when its two founders Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin found out about their desire to build superior grade sports cars. They wanted to build distinctive sports cars that were both exciting to drive and also had great looks. Martin used to compete in races that required climbing hills at Aston Ciinton.

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Gold Aston Martin DB7, anyone?

November 15th, 2008 / Filed Under: Alchemist - Aston Martin DB7 - Bizarre Astons / No Comments

Okay this is just too much. I kind of liked the Chrome Ferrari 599 GTB that made it big on the web after some arab fanboy posted them all over — but this Golden Aston Martin DB7 is just a bit too much for quite a few reasons…

  1. It’s an Aston. It’s not tacky, it’s classy.
  2. It’s gold and it shines and it reflects — yet people can scratch off GOLD. They will.
  3. They wanted to go fashion with the two-tone finish (platinum and gold, but the color combos just don’t work as well on a car as they do in jewellery

Please let me know what you guys think. is there anyone out there that actually thinks this looks good?



Photos courtesy of Alchemist tuning.

Aston Martin One-77 – Ultimate Aston

October 31st, 2008 / Filed Under: One-77 - Video / No Comments

The Project One-77 reveals an ultimate Aston Martin. The company teasing the car world with an upskirt glimpse of its super car that exudes the character and attitude of the car maker.

Everyone is thanking the Dutch website which published full photo of the Aston Martin One-77. Exposed car design magnificence may be the perfect phrase to describe the 700 plus horsepower rocket in a stunner carbon fiber frame.

You know it is an Aston when you see the huge grill setup. The headlights are aesthetically blacked out giving emphasis to the other hood details and panels. The wide design of the back fenders gives it an aggressive look, like an animal ready to spring or pounce any given second.

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Glass-Roofed Aston Martin Rapide

October 19th, 2008 / Filed Under: Aston Martin Rapide - Spy Shots - Video / No Comments

The Rapide is on its way and jeezes christ does this version with a glass roof look even more stunning than the “normal” Rapide…

We don’t have any pics of our own, but there’s photos available at these sources:

A quick vid:

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Astons lined up in Belgium

October 8th, 2008 / Filed Under: Dealer - Video / No Comments

Youtuber TehJinx found this row of Aston Martins in a small Belgian town called Tisselt. They look great — but I mean — it’s pretty obvious that an Aston dealer has Astons — right? ;-)

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