Today he is a scripted clown! 😢

Straight six "Kurzhuber" from the finest, and not a BMW🎉

Somehow you're right, but then again you're not. Take the Mk III: the first mass-produced AM with the iconic grille (with 31/33 [?] hand-built DB3S [mainly racing cars], this was the prototype, so to speak). The Mk III was perhaps the last "old fashioned style" AM, more for the country road than the highway, which as far as I know did not yet exist in England. Wasn't that Ian Flemming's private means of transportation? Take the DBS, which as a Vantage perfectly marks the transition of the David Brown era into the very difficult pre-Ford phase. But the AM customer wanted power, hence the V8. Well, you'd have the argument that they were all AMs before the DB7 anyway. Incidentally, Jeremy Clarkson used that in TopGear as a killer argument against the first Bentley Continental Coupé of the VW era. If I remember correctly: "But when it comes down to the essence, it still is a Volkwagen!"

@@KlausLBern I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say ? the DB7 was based on a Jaguar, conceived as a Jaguar, styled as a Jaguar (heavy XJ220 styling cues) If you Google "DB7 prototype as Jaguar" the first image shows the car as originally intended as a Jaguar, the car was rejected by Jaguar and then at the last minute slightly restyled and built miles from Aston Martin and sold as an Aston Martin. when Bentley was bought by VW the cars may be based on VW family underpinnings but the models where designed as Bentleys, the same can be said about BMWs Rolls Royce designs, based on shared family structures for some models but always intended to carry the Rolls Royce name, new era Astons (DB9 and later) have been designed from the beginning to be Astons. The DB7 was never intended to be an Aston, as I said the only thing to link it to Aston martin is the badge.

@@nigelwest3430 OK, I can agree with you. Unlike Bentley and RR, the DB7 falls into the "badge engineering" category. The two sides of the coin: as the best-selling model, it saved AM and as half a "Jag", it may have initiated a rethink (never again?).

@@KlausLBern Yes I agree the DB7 did save Aston Martin from going out of business, Ford did not understand hand crafted ultra low volume car production, they just wanted to sell as many cars as possible (not unreasonable) my preferred future for Astons would have been just the ultra low volume hugely expensive models like the Vulcan, Valkyrie, Valhalla etc that would have still made the company profitable but on a much lower production volume, so keeping the brand exclusive like it used to be. Gordon Murray has the right idea with the superb T50 and T33.