An Aston Martin for £20k

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Tue 30 Jun 2009 10:30
An Aston Martin for £20k - perro
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/5679142/Aston-Martin-deve...l
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Tue 30 Jun 2009 10:48
An Aston Martin for £20k - mike hannon
Anyone remember the adage 'a cobbler should stick to his last'?
Just because you happen to make the sort of cars that most people can't, at the moment, afford to buy doesn't mean you should try to muscle in on an already overcrowded other area of the market.
You might think A-M would have noticed how Jaguar managed to cripple itself while selling tarted up Fords in a bid to capture the mass market.
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Tue 30 Jun 2009 12:26
An Aston Martin for £20k - Falkirk Bairn
Is this not something to with getting the average emissions of cars sold by a manufacturer to be less than a Eurocrat fixed figure - otherwise a premium/penalty per car would be imposed?

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Tue 30 Jun 2009 16:02
An Aston Martin for £20k - nick
A £20k Aston supermini? I've not been so depressed since Jaguar started making diesel estate cars.
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 02:00
An Aston Martin for £20k - Rover P6B
I've not been so depressed since Jaguar started making diesel estate cars.
The basic X-type concept isn't so bad. If it had been better-styled and RWD, with a better engine, it would have been fine. Jag urgently needs estates, or else families will continue buying the 3- and 5-series Touring. My parents have had two 318is and now a 520i, but if Jag had been making a suitable competitor, they'd gladly have bought it instead. This car could actually be the prop that Aston needs.
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Tue 30 Jun 2009 22:02
An Aston Martin for £20k - gmac
£20k does seem rather a lot for a Toyota iQ with some leather, bodykit and an Aston badge.
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Tue 30 Jun 2009 22:20
An Aston Martin for £20k - GroovyMucker
£20k does seem rather a lot for a Toyota iQ with some leather bodykit and
an Aston badge.


Yes.

But I bet they sell.

There's one born every minute.

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Wed 1 Jul 2009 01:34
An Aston Martin for £20k - madux
It was interesting to read that the company which owns Aston Martin were looking at getting into F1. Perhaps this new model will be the basis for their 2010 Le Mans entry?
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 02:02
An Aston Martin for £20k - Rover P6B
>>Perhaps this new model will be the basis for their 2010 Le Mans entry?>>
Now now, that's just being facetious. What I wouldn't mind would be a tie-up with JLR, producing a more powerful version of the LR TDV8 engine (or even building a V12 version) and putting it in the Le Mans car. Audi did diesel at Le Mans very successfully...

Edited by Rover P6B on 01/07/2009 at 02:03

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Wed 1 Jul 2009 02:59
An Aston Martin for £20k - Rattle
I think its a great idea, because these cars will still be exclusive.
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 08:23
An Aston Martin for £20k - gmac
Goes against the whole idea of small, economical, city cars though doesn't it ?
Take a small eco car and load it to the gunwhales with cow hide, body kit and alloys pushing the emissions back up.

I notice Volvo are doing the same thing with the C30/S40/V50, take a DRIVe model and then stick big alloys and R-design body kit on which pushes the emissions back up to 119, I think it is, from 104.

What's the point of that ?
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 09:36
An Aston Martin for £20k - perro
Well, for one thing - Gemima & Giles might be pursuaded to trade in their Chelsea tractor, which after all - is only used to ferry the bairns to skool + the bi-weekly sorte upon Waitrose - and still retain snob value via the Aston badge!
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Wed 5 Aug 2009 09:22
An Aston Martin for £20k - Martin Devon
There's one born every minute.

Might be twins....................40K !
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 21:33
An Aston Martin for £20k - RickyBoy
Piece on R2 this morning mentioned this/that AM will only sell you a £20K supermini if you already own a large Aston!

I thought it was July 1 not April 1, but is it really true?
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 21:42
An Aston Martin for £20k - Rattle
It says that in the article! I sometimes think people reply before reading the links :p
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 22:03
An Aston Martin for £20k - perro
>>>It says that in the article! I sometimes think people reply before reading the links :p <<<

! ... I never read that, and I posted the link :(

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 02/07/2009 at 01:57

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Wed 1 Jul 2009 22:29
An Aston Martin for £20k - Rattle
You can't get the staff these days :).

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Wed 1 Jul 2009 22:34
An Aston Martin for £20k - movilogo
How does it matter? The original owner can sell baby Aston to anyone.
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Wed 1 Jul 2009 22:37
An Aston Martin for £20k - Rattle
There will be some clause no doubt and even if there isn't very few of these things will be made making them as exclusive as a real Aston.
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Wed 5 Aug 2009 00:56
An Aston Martin for £20k - Rover P6B
I believe that the eventual plan inside AML is to release a few to existing AM owners, see if they take to it, if they do then release the car to the market.
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Wed 5 Aug 2009 11:26
An Aston Martin for £20k - jase1
Let's hope for AM's sake that the car is a little better than Lancia's ill-advised, and hideously ugly Fiat rebodies.

I criticised the little Mito on another thread but at least that one is cute. The Lancias are just, well, wrong.
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