I know what you mean. An Aston Martin dealership is really close to work. I drive past it twice a day and walk past it once or twice a day. I find the part ex section much more interesting than those Xeroxed Astons now. They had a new Mustang in recently but my fave in terms of "nice!" appeal was the red 355 Spider, until I saw it with steam billowing out of the engine bay... I might be interested again when the AMV8 Vantage arrives or if they had any of the old ones like this
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although I saw the new AMV8 years ago whenI worked in Newport Pagnell and drove by the Aston Martin factory everyday - one day a big gate was open that wasn't normally open so I peeredin, saw a car and thought "that's definitely an Aston but it's far toosmall" then a couple of months later I saw the rumours of "Baby Aston,911 basher" all over the car magazines :D Oh and that Aston dealership near work currently has a DB9 with the most hideous, tacky aftermarket alloys. Mind you some of the standard alloys that came on earlier DB9s are pretty naff too but never tacky like those ones.