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Originally Posted by willravel
It kinda misses me off. Aston Martin is in a class of it's own. I know that the Ford Motor Co. owns Aston, but it wasn't a Ford that saved James Bond and caused grown men to salivate. It wasn't a Ford that caused women to swoon. In order for Aston to keep it's ultimate place of class, there can't be pretenders. Can you imagine GM letting Saturn create a clone of ther Corvertte, or if Honda came out ith a copy to the NSX? Maybe Volkswagen can come out with a clone of the 911 GT.
It's wrong.
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I'd have to say that the Mustang Mach 1, especially the 429 Cobra Jets caused plenty of grown men to salivate AND you're beloved James Bond drove around in a FORD (gasp!) Mustang in Las Vegas in one of his movies, but Im sure you knew that already.
I agree that Aston Martin has a certain snob appeal and luxory that Fords dont have, but 1) the Iosis, looks more like RX-8 than anything else, 2) just because something is more sophisticated doesn't make it better than something thats more blue collar, and 3) Its Ford that pays the bank note to keep Aston Martin and Jaguar around so they have some right to take some design ideas or help from them every once in awhile.