More rapide than Rapide

Monday, 22nd April, 2013

The Aston Martin Rapide S for 2014 is a luxury four-door sedan which borrows styling elements and mechanical components from the marque’s other elegant sports cars. For the latest model year, Aston Martin has upgraded its existing Rapide model with a more powerful V12 - now boasting 550 HP - along with freshened styling and a [...]

100 not out!

Sunday, 17th March, 2013

Aston Martin is marking its 100th anniversary with special edition versions of its V8 Vantage, DB9, Rapide and Vanquish. The car manufacturer will only build one hundred Centenary Edition versions of each car. The first of those is the Vanquish, which boasts a special graduated paint finish and sterling silver badges with a unique enamel [...]

A perfect partnership

Wednesday, 16th January, 2013

British-born Aston Martin, founded in 1913 - and now owned by a consortium of investors together with Ford and by the Italian ‘Investindustrial’ private equity fund - celebrates this year its 100th anniversary.
Developed exclusively for Aston Martin, the Bang & Olufsen BeoSound sound system complements the car manufacturers models acoustically and physically. “While the visual [...]

A Sound System

Wednesday, 26th December, 2012

How does the BeoSound Vanquish sound? “Extremely impressive” according to What Hi_Fi (21 December 2012) and “one of the best B&O set-ups we’ve heard. Like the car’s awesome V12 engine, there’s power and scale in abundance. You can crank the dial way past 11, into the realm of ridiculously anti-social levels, and the speakers lap it [...]