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Texas. No country for old men. A place where everything that does live will cut you, stick in you or try to eat you. Zig-zagging through one of the toughest terrains in the Northern Hemisphere, whilst avoiding any feral hogs, might not seem like the most obvious place for a Rolls Royce Phantom. Well, it…
Robert Clayman lets the train take the strain before Aston Martin’s latest polishes remove any sense of tension or stress in a brisk jaunt around Cornwall. The rain is coming in horizontally now. I peer out through the window of the 9.30 to Penzance that I’d nearly died running for (note to all cab…
It’s official, Bond is back and he’ll be chasing down villains in a brand new ride, a specially designed Aston Martin DB10. You can stop pondering those Fiat 500 rumours now. Cast members gathered at Pinewood Studios yesterday for the big reveal. While Director Sam Mendes was disclosing the 24th Bond movie’s title (Spectre – which…
The things we buy are getting smarter. Many of them now know how to do all kinds of things we don’t. You’re not missing out on much when you don’t understand how to operate the eco-function on your washing machine or the reading mode option on your Samsung S5. But what about your new £190,000 car?…
The question is apposite. It sits there. Immovable. Requiring only one thing. An answer. A resolution. “You look at it”, says Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnell on examining the new featureless monotone artwork for their Smell The Glove album, “and you ask yourself – how much more black can this be?”. “And the answer is ‘none’. None…
It all started with an Atom. It always does. The miracle that spawned a monster. Draw a line through each modern sports car’s lineage and you’ll end up here; under the sweeping bonnet of the Aston Martin Atom, where the automotive equivalent of the Big Bang took place in 1939. The Aston Martin Atom –…
Reaching age-specific milestones brings with it certain rights and responsibilities. Aston Martin, on reaching the ripe old age of 100, has decided to treat itself to a very generous birthday present: two one-off Zagato’s. High-class, exclusive and fully age-appropriate. Zagato, the Atelier that’s been refining Aston chassis with sexy, Italian styling for the last fifty years, unveiled both…
Those British gents and gentesses at Aston Martin have been busy. The latest addition to their famous cast of cars has just taken to the stage, and the new Vanquish Volante brings you all the drama and excitement you can handle. Every body panel of the Vanquish is constructed from the high-performance, flexible carbon-fibre ‘skin’, limiting the need…
The big reveal from Aston Martin to mark their centennial year comes in the form of the all-new, mega-powerful V12 Vantage S. A fiery way to kick off their second century we think. The V12 Vantage has always been a favourite amongst the supercar enthusiasts here at LUSSO HQ. So we’re understandably beside ourselves about this new flagship…
Picture the scene: the Eifel mountains of western Germany, a wild land of volcanic peaks and crater-lakes. Shrouded within these dark forests looms the Nürburgring, one of the most dangerous race tracks in the world. Known to petrol heads as The Green Hell, this 25-kilometre, blind-cornered endurance test of man and machine will become proving ground for…