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It is, of course, not as bad as the Cygnet. Unlike the Cygnet, it's a powerful luxury car, and Aston make powerful luxury cars.
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Not ugly ones imo,in fact i despise them............. >:)
I love THIS......... 2005 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT :x
And the Valhalla looks amazing. So does that Bentley, even though it was a favourite amongst many football players ;)
Very stylish.
Mrs Peel only had a Jag in the '98 movie, and it wasn't the prettiest E Type around. Her Lotus was quite sweet but Elans have never really done a lot for me.
Nor are any of Aston's other models at the moment: they've gone for 'brutish' and 'muscular' as a styling cue. This one is actually quite a nice change in that regard and probably is the most elegant in their lineup.
It's actually got some subtleness to its shapes rather than the slightly silliness overmuscularity of something like the DBS Superleggera.
Rather pretty.
I think the Macan is a very well-proportioned car too. Very handsome.
Plenty of people use their Macans and Cayennes for that, you're right.
They are, yes; and that makes for a smaller market to aim at. Not everyone with a bit of money is interested in buying a GT- and you can do all of those things in this car. Most people with cash will however get a decent luxury car they can use for a wide variety of purposes.
I see what you mean. Not a first gen. Those lights without the glass domes are ugly. And so are the white wall wheels.
I'd have mine (preferably a series1) in BRG with black spoke wheels. Even though I'm partial to the C and D types.
Or a lightweight.
A guy I work with has a series 3 (I think) but he’s rather embraced the ugliness by painting it grey, stripping all the chrome off, putting it on steel wheels and making it more of a racer look. It does look awesome: he’s even flared the rear lights into the bodywork which looks great. It’s also about 440bhp too now, which is rather crazy!
Nice. That's the way to go about it, IMO. Turning it into a sort of faux lightweight. Never understood that tendency Jaguar has to ruin good things. They've done it again with the F-type. It still looks amazing, but it doesn't look better, IMO.
Well Ferrari have been making four seater cars since the 60s, and Lamborghini did SUVs way back in the 80s! :)
But yeah, people very rarely use their sportscars to do that. That's sort of the point! :D
Except Aston are dying... so clearly not!
It looks amazing but they've ruined it? Eh?
I see what you mean. I didn't want to be that cruel towards them. It's still a great looking car. If they'd presented the car like that in 2013, I would have loved it. The thing is, I loved the original design, with those original big lights. Both designs are great. But clearly different. And between the two, I like the original more, just like with the series 1, 2 and 3 e-type Jags. I guess what I meant was that I don't think they've improved upon it. Both are amazing, but the second isn't necessarily an improvement over the first.
Now there's a good challenge, a facelift that made a car look better than the original. Anyone?
A DBS next to the DB9 wasn't smart, and they even injected a Virage inbetween as well (which, btw, I thought looked the best). But all those million dollar cars come at a price, not only for the consumer.
Not yet. If the DBX succeeds they will survive.
I think they're trying to make money. Having just one model won't do it.
Yep, exactly. It's what they need. Ross' suggestion of not making it would kill them.
Anyway...
1956 Packard Caribbean Convertible. ;-)
Or how about a more British relic (I'd say also about 1948, but can an RR specialist confirm, please?)
I came across both of these beauties in Hamburg, the Rolls (is it even a Rolls, in the absence of Emily? or maybe a Bentley?) in 2009, the Buick in 2010.
I'd say it's an XK120 - agreed?
@j_w_pepper that certainly looks like a Silver Wraith to me. Problem is the grille, it isn't as straight. So, I think it's a Bentley Mk 6:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_Mark_VI
Agree on the Jag for sure!