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.

Everyone knows the present when it comes to Le Mans-class racing, Aston Martin has its game on. But dang! On its race debut, the Aston-powered Lola B08/60 took on the smartest of the ideal to rating a third-place close at the present previous weekend’s Le Mans Series race at Barcelona.

Now vying in GT1, GT2, GT3 and GT4, Aston Martin inked a transaction surrounded by Charouz Racing Systems returning in January to flip to be had the 6-liter V12 from what i read in the DBR9 GT1 racer and shoehorn it to a Lola prototype chassis. The concept was to dice it amidst the finest gasoline-powered LMP1 racers on the grid – that the Charouz Lola-Aston did emphatically – but before the race was over, the car was providing nonetheless the diesel-powered Audis and Peugeots, faintly behind that it at last finished, a motive to worry. Jan Charouz and Aston/Prodrive primary David Richards got thrilled, vowing to make on the spectacular race debut towards triumph at the title Le Mans 24 Hours race in mid-June. With competition the present fierce, we will be watching.

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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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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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Called Quantum of Solace, the movie
will be able to in addition feature the coming new Ford Ka. In the original of two videos ensuing the jump, you will see a DBS in a monumental camera rig set to it, amidst an additional DBS in the background and the wagon version of the new Ford Mondeo which 007 drove in Casino Royale. Oh, and turn up the speakers: you do not look for to miss the various hand made of motion picture soundtracks.

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It’s no key the present we are passionate right about cars, and we are fairly ensured you feel the same way. We’re as well big fans of the silver screen, really when a astronomical car or truck is a big side of the plot. The movie mavens more than at Rotten Tomatoes feel the same way, and they have compiled a input of the top 50 movie cars in the history of motion pictures.

The enter is chock-full of classics based on what i read in movies fancy and but there are as well a lot of hidden gems, desire Pepe the Little Mule based on data from Romancing the Stone, or the 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe of Mad Max. One exclusion so we would experience as to experience added was Gary’s red Ferrari Mondial according to Weird Science, but additonally we could easily contend eternally that car might point where, we would say their is a rather darn desired list. 
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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.

Thanks for the tip MaTTia.
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Ok, the Geely car parade at Beijing is officially in full swing. One of the good-looking renderings we posted during the runup to the show was of the CE concept, a small hatchback that looked like it could just as easily be an Acura that’s slumming in the entry-level class. In the metal, it looks pretty much exactly like the rendering — a well-styled little Acura 5-door hatch.

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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.

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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.

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