Is this the most controversial car of 2011? The new Aston Martin Cygnet is either a fabulously clever way to make a heap of money and cut CO2 emissions, or an abomination not fit to wear the iconic winged badge, depending upon whom you talk to. Now we’ve driven the Aston Martin Cygnet in its natural city [...]

Aston Martin has revealed its new V8 Vantage S. It’s the sportiest and most powerful V8 Vantage yet, with styling inspiration from the supercar-slaying V12 Vantage and an extra 10bhp over the N420, currently the highlight of the V8 range. The Vantage S retains the standard car’s 4.7-litre engine, but boasts outputs of 430bhp and [...]

The Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster was introduced only a year ago, but already it’s been revised, the headline stats being a V8 that’s been bored and stroked from 4.3 to 4.7-litres (new pistons, liners and crankshaft), pushing power from 380bhp to 420bhp and torque from 302lb ft to 346 lb ft. The price? It [...]

This is a new kind of Aston Martin. It’s open, but it has just two seats and isn’t called a Volante. The V8 Vantage Roadster is clearly based on the V8 coupe, but its suspension is actually stiffer than the closed car’s. That could not have happened if there were worries about structural integrity. What [...]

I remember it well. A glorious summer’s day, I was still in my 20s and somebody casually threw me the keys to the Aston Martin DB9 Volante parked outside. ‘Try it,’ they said. Then I headed out onto a road I knew well, roof down, firing through the gears with the big paddles that operate [...]

You might have seen elsewhere that CAR was embedded in the Aston Martin pit team at the weekend’s 2010 Le Mans 24-hour race. Which meant we were well placed to pilfer one of the facelifted DB9s on display at the Aston customer hospitality unit at the French race circuit and drive it back to Blighty. [...]

It’s not an all-new car, but the Aston Martin Virage is still an important addition to the firm’s line-up. The looks are similar to the DB9′s, but apart from the roof and windscreen, every body panel is brand new. The result is a sharper, more masculine look than the DB9, while LED daytime running lights [...]

Billed as Aston Martin’s first four-door, four-seat sports car, the Rapide needs some context. The 1941 Aston Martin Atom had four doors and four seats, as did the 1976 Lagonda and the 1994 Lagonda Virage. There’s also Uli Bez, Aston Martin’ chief executive’s work on the abandoned front-engined 989 Porsche project and there’s the fact [...]

For Live out your James Bond daydreams with the car that he prefers as his latest set of wheels. Carbon-fibre body panels save weight, while an uprated V12 engine give the DBS the pace to keep up with 007. Against Some would argue the DBS is simply a tricked up DB9, even if Aston says [...]

After taunting us with one annoyingly inconclusive shot, Aston’s finally come good with full-frontal pics of its V12 Vantage rebodied by Italian coachbuilder Zagato. It marks the 50th anniversary of the trouser-tightening 1961 DB4 Zagato and it’s being revealed at this weekend’s Villa D’Este Concours. Not a lot’s happened mechanically, but Zagato’s gone to preposterous [...]