Aston Martin - Dud bits

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 13:50
Aston Martin - Dud bits - oldroverboy.

Aston Martin is recalling over 17,000 cars, equivalent to three out of four vehicles the British luxury car maker has made in the past six years, because of a potentially defective part made by one of its Chinese suppliers.

So, the VERY expensive and exclusive make is using cheapo chinese bits to build there cars. Nothing new there then.

they could at least have bought uk sourced dud bits to continue a long tradition in the uk motor trade. Fibre glass wings too, being eaten by pets? At least Rolls and bentley are still making proper cars,, Aren't they?

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 14:02
Aston Martin - Dud bits - RT

"a potentially defective part" - have there been any actual component failures?

If you're worried about Chinese quality in general - then don't fly, use computers or phones !

Edited by RT on 06/02/2014 at 14:02

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 14:23
Aston Martin - Dud bits - Sofa Spud

QUOTE:...""At least Rolls and bentley are still making proper cars,, Aren't they?""

Maybe, but they're not British.

The Rolls-Royce name is still owned by Rolls-Royce PLC, the aero engine manufacturer, from whom BMW obtained a licence to use it on a new range of super-luxury cars designed and built in Britain.

The VW Audi group owns Bentley, and the factory in Crewe where they're made.

Edited by Sofa Spud on 06/02/2014 at 14:23

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 14:32
Aston Martin - Dud bits - RT

There's only Morgan left of the British-owned car manufacturers.

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 14:48
Aston Martin - Dud bits - madf

Morgan uses a BMW engine

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 15:06
Aston Martin - Dud bits - RT

Morgan have always used someone else's engine - JAP, Ford, Rover etc.

But they are British-owned.

Edited by RT on 06/02/2014 at 15:07

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 16:51
Aston Martin - Dud bits - oldroverboy.

And nobody spotted the "tradition of using british sourced dud bits!"

Nothing is made wholly from 1 country anymore, don't all our ECU,s come from Thailand?

Edited by oldroverboy. on 06/02/2014 at 16:51

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 17:32
Aston Martin - Dud bits - Collos25

QUOTE:...""At least Rolls and bentley are still making proper cars,, Aren't they?""

Maybe, but they're not British.

The Rolls-Royce name is still owned by Rolls-Royce PLC, the aero engine manufacturer, from whom BMW obtained a licence to use it on a new range of super-luxury cars designed and built in Britain.

The VW Audi group owns Bentley, and the factory in Crewe where they're made.

Some of them are still assembled in the UK some of the Bentleys are made here in Dresden .RR cars is a different company altogether from the aerospace company owned soley by BMW

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Thu 6 Feb 2014 18:04
Aston Martin - Dud bits - RT

QUOTE:...""At least Rolls and bentley are still making proper cars,, Aren't they?""

Maybe, but they're not British.

The Rolls-Royce name is still owned by Rolls-Royce PLC, the aero engine manufacturer, from whom BMW obtained a licence to use it on a new range of super-luxury cars designed and built in Britain.

The VW Audi group owns Bentley, and the factory in Crewe where they're made.

Some of them are still assembled in the UK some of the Bentleys are made here in Dresden .RR cars is a different company altogether from the aerospace company owned soley by BMW

All Bentleys are built in the UK - for a short while, 2005-6, the Continental Flying Spur was assembled in Dresden but moved to Crewe when production facilities had been expanded - the other Continental models were all built at Crewe along with the Arnage and Mulsanne models.

Rolls-Royce are built in the UK, in Derby then Crewe until 2003.

BMW licence the Rolls-Royce trademarks from the aerospace company Rolls-Royce plc and build cars at Goodwood.

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Fri 7 Feb 2014 13:34
Aston Martin - Dud bits - John F

All Bentleys are built in the UK - for a short while, 2005-6, the Continental Flying Spur was assembled in Dresden but moved to Crewe when production facilities had been expanded - the other Continental models were all built at Crewe along with the Arnage and Mulsanne models.

Built? 'Assembled', I think. We might still do the wooden and animal skin stuff but the clever reliable bits that make them go [turboed W12 and 6HP26] are built in Dresden and Saarbrucken.

It's a bit sad at Le Mans these days - barring crashes the Audis purr effortlessly round to win while the Astons tend to scream themselves to failure after a few hours.......

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