I understand that Aston Martin was bought by David Richards, the chairman of the motorsport and automotive engineering group; Prodrive.
That's not quite right. Dave Richards is CEO (or some such other title) but the company was bought by a group of Kuwaiti businessmen.
As for current Astons, the DB9 was lovely when it first hit the streets but has lost some appeal since then, I personally don't like the Rapide at all, it just doesn't look quite right, but I think the V8 has the best, tightest look (I like the hunched muscular look - in my cars not my women!!
) and I was very very close to buying a Roadster very recently.
However like all modern AM's and most modern cars in this price bracket, it just wasn't ........ special enough? For the record I also rejected the R8 V10, the Gran Cabrio and a coupe of 911 iterations for various reasons. I think we're very spoilt!
