Rumormill: Daimler looking to buy big stake in Aston Martin
What started up as a rumor this Mercedes-Benz is able to commence furnishing Aston Martin providing engines has evolved to a full-blown partnership the current may input both automakers co-developing platforms and technology. The latest projection comes courtesy of Autocar, offering the current M-B is given buying a stake in Aston Martin and the Kuwaiti Investment Authority will in turn earn a seven-percent slice of the Daimler AG pie.
The partnership might force sense on a multitude of levels. Aston Martin, that is a tiny fish in a especially substantial pool, serves to wish to speculative severe elements based on information from mainstream suppliers yet its ties providing Ford are legally severed. Imagine AMG-levels of gas nestled inside Aston’s sensuous sheet metal. Yum. But the partnership wouldn’t be one sided. Recent alleges appearing out of Germany say who M-B is seeming to call a lightweight aluminum platform for the consequently production SL. Aston Martin has the technology to make it easier for boost this kind of an architecture, and provided Mercedes stepping away based on information from McLaren later year subsequent to generation of the SLR ends, M-B needs a new supercar manufacturer to join the party.
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Rendered Ruminations: The AM V10, Aston Martin’s next halo car (not really)
Such a low-slung, mid-engine exotic like this AM V10 concept could do the trick. It’s swoopy with a familiar Aston Martin front face, but the rest of the body is pure sex. Again, we reiterate, these renderings are purely fantasy and nothing like this is being planned, but we wouldn’t mind if it were. Thanks for the tip, Timon!
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Bond stunt driver takes plunge into lake in Aston Martin DBS
At 6:30 that morning, a stunt driver coming a scene for the next James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, lost control of an Aston Martin DBS additonally filming a chase scene and plunged to Lake Garda in Italy. The film’s executive producer, Anthony Waye, alleged who the scene was making shot in the pouring rain, and although the DBS did not go on it is unplanned excursion to the water, the driver sustained one and only tinier injuries and was released according to the hospital in the past right now afternoon. MI6 declined to comment on the incident, but a spokesperson for the agency remarked such a the submersible kit for the Aston was underneath development. Too little, too late Q.
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ALMS at Long Beach
With Champ Car going the way of the dodo bird after this year’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, it looks like the American Le Mans Series is poised to take over top billing at America’s Monte Carlo. The street course around downtown Long Beach, California is quite a track, with a long tradition of motorsport excitement. Everything from Formula 1 to CART to Trans-Am have run here, but very few series can match the thrill of four different classes running into the dusk like the ALMS presents. This year’s sophomore running of the Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach showed exactly why the series deserves more support and coverage than it gets. Not only was the on-track action enthralling, but the huge crowds that Long Beach always attracts seemed to go ga-ga over the prototypes and GT cars wearing names like Porsche, Aston Martin, Corvette and Ferrari. In case you haven’t seen the race yet, the results are after the jump. Don’t let that stop you from clicking through the massive high-res gallery however.
VIDEO: Bond’s DBS extracted from the drink
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The typical 007 Aston looks phenomenal, goes incredibly fast, and has enough gadgets to single-handedly depose a hostile government. Unfortunately, not all of those attributes apply when it’s raining, as Mr. Bond’s Euro KITT ended up at the bottom of lake Garda in Italy after a chase scene on the set of Quantum of Solace went awry.
