Aston Martin British Again

[star a]

david richards, the boss of prodrive, has LED a consortium and bought aston martin for £450m. :)

[Unregistered_User]

Good on him! I salute thee :D

A pure British born and bred motor...

Jamie

[Kazi]

Excellent! I was hoping for a British backed bid! Will be in one this summer for a day! :D

[Ellz]

david richards, the boss of prodrive, has led a consortium and bought aston martin for £450m. :)

Thats not that much really, is it ???

My old company wickes got sold to travis and perkins for just under 1 billion

[Guest inicol63]

david richards, the boss of prodrive, has led a consortium and bought aston martin for £450m. :)

Thats not that much really, is it ???

My old company wickes got sold to travis and perkins for just under 1 billion

I believe that this is a bargin buy for the new owners, even in the current car market with billion being lost by all of the American Car Giants.

Ford Motor Company should have off loaded Jaguar and continued with the already good job their done with Aston.

However I understand that the current Aston boss is staying with Aston Martin.

[Unregistered_User]

For the sake of Aston, I really hope they make it and good luck to them!

Jamie

[rush]

david richards, the boss of prodrive, has led a consortium and bought aston martin for £450m. :)

Wasn't he the boss of Jag f1 team? then he sold it to mmmmm... who did he sell it to????

[Thommo]

He was the boss of BAR.

[Y2Kanjar]

he could have given me the money

anyway its good to here its back to the brits

[Scarlet Pimpernell]

Definitely, it's good for it to be back. But for how long? Sorry to be gloomy, but it'll all end in tears again. You have to think about why it's being sold for such a small amount of money.

Surely it's not a profitable business...

[Kazi]

Definitely, it's good for it to be back. But for how long? Sorry to be gloomy, but it'll all end in tears again. You have to think about why it's being sold for such a small amount of money.

Surely it's not a profitable business...

Its a fair point, but Ford has not made a penny off Jag since owning them. Infact Jag has cost Ford millions!

Aston Martin however might not have made Ford loads of $$$ but they were not running at a loss.

[fatpieman69]

Definitely, it's good for it to be back. But for how long? Sorry to be gloomy, but it'll all end in tears again. You have to think about why it's being sold for such a small amount of money.

Surely it's not a profitable business...

I'd back them and buy one! all I need now is some money! ahah, I have a plan so cunning you could pin a tale on it and call it a wheezle!!!!

I'll be back later!?

[Scarlet Pimpernell]

I'll watch this space then

[fatpieman69]

I'll watch this space then

anyone got a stocking and a sawn off shotgun?

[Scarlet Pimpernell]

I'll watch this space then

anyone got a stocking and a sawn off shotgun?

[munch]

Ford dont need aston anymore. Personally i think its a bad investment because they will never make a car as good as a ferarri or as beautiful as a DB9. Jag (owned by ford) are making a cheaper and fresher looking DB9 in the form of the XK and now that ford has sucked the life out of that shape by making the common company car look like a DB9 (ish) that style will surely die a horrible death when it becomes mediocre.

[fatpieman69]

Ford dont need aston anymore. Personally i think its a bad investment because they will never make a car as good as a ferarri or as beautiful as a DB9. Jag (owned by ford) are making a cheaper and fresher looking DB9 in the form of the XK and now that ford has sucked the life out of that shape by making the common company car look like a DB9 (ish) that style will surely die a horrible death when it becomes mediocre.

I thort Aston Martin was the only branch of ford that was making money?

[Kazi]

Ford dont need aston anymore. Personally i think its a bad investment because they will never make a car as good as a ferarri or as beautiful as a DB9. Jag (owned by ford) are making a cheaper and fresher looking DB9 in the form of the XK and now that ford has sucked the life out of that shape by making the common company car look like a DB9 (ish) that style will surely die a horrible death when it becomes mediocre.

The same designer designed the Jag your going on about.....

The DB9, infact any Aston Martin will never die of death......look that DB5.....still an iconic car and fetch hideous amounts of money...

[RayKhan]

I have come close twice now in buying one.

One day my dream to own an Aston will come true.

[munch]

Ford dont need aston anymore. Personally i think its a bad investment because they will never make a car as good as a ferarri or as beautiful as a DB9. Jag (owned by ford) are making a cheaper and fresher looking DB9 in the form of the XK and now that ford has sucked the life out of that shape by making the common company car look like a DB9 (ish) that style will surely die a horrible death when it becomes mediocre.

The same designer designed the Jag your going on about.....

The DB9, infact any Aston Martin will never die of death......look that DB5.....still an iconic car and fetch hideous amounts of money...

i wouldn't say he deisgned it, i would call it photocopying. As for the new mondeo? again ripping off Astons look which should be a protected from common cars in my opinion.

While the DB5 is a beautiful car it is from the 60's and aston havn't made any money from it in a long long time. I wouldn't use that as a reason to part with $925,000,000. I feel ford has taken the best from aston and left it with very little to look forward to in the future. Who wants to pay a hundred grand + for a car that looks like a mondeo?

[chips229]

He was the boss of BAR.

Hi,

He also worked for Benetton for a year before Renault bought them out.

Who knows we might see Aston Martin in F1 in a year or two.

[aido]

Will be interesting to see what happens, read about this a week or two ago and the guys then didn't think it was going to be happen!

Have to admit I do like the new Mondeo myself though