The significance of the achievement might just have been lost on Hannah Grisham and Rianna O’Meara-Hunt in the immediate aftermath. As Grisham embraced O’Meara-Hunt climbing out of her class-winning Aston Martin Vantage GT4 at the end of the opening round of the Pirelli GT4 America finale at Indianapolis, it was through blind adrenaline, joy, and …
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THE ULTIMATE
“A very British sense of understatement.” According to Martin Groschwald, president of The Astonishing Drivers Club – Germany’s largest Aston Martin owners’ club – this is the quality that he and his compatriots most admire in their favourite marque of car. “There are very few car brands in history which have such a feeling of …
LANCE STROLL
Lance Stroll’s Formula 1® campaign looked like it might be over before it had even begun, with a mouthful of dirt and searing pain in his extremities. Pedalling near Malaga, the Canadian had come off his mountain bike just five days ahead of F1’s pre-season test and two weeks before the 2023 championship kicked off …
VALOUR
In those analogue times, the only traction control system was the driver’s right foot. And a neatly timed burst of revs on a downchange was the product of human skill, not a software program. Valour brings all those sensations flooding back. A limited edition of 110, created to celebrate Aston Martin’s long and storied past, …
DB12 LAUNCH
This year marks Aston Martin’s 110th anniversary, but the 24th May 2023 marked a particularly momentous occasion. Shrouded in secrecy for months, the marque finally revealed the hotly anticipated new DB12 at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. The world’s first ‘Super Tourer’ with a blistering top speed of 202 mph, DB12 represents the zenith …
TIMELESS TREASURE
Luxury rarely reaches the level of iconic status achieved by the Birkin bag. For decades, this coveted accessory has captured the imagination of fashion enthusiasts, celebrities and tastemakers alike. The bag’s origin story can be traced back to a chance encounter between Jane Birkin and Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight from Paris to London. The actress …
CROWNING MOMENT
For fine jewellery curator and writer, Melanie C Grant, the King’s Coronation must have felt like an extension of Kensington Palace’s Crown to Couture exhibition that she recently helped curate. But unlike the grand archival tiaras featured in the palace’s Jewel Room, once owned by Queen Victoria and Princess Louise and permanently on display, the …
INSIDE THE STUDIO
Despite dizzying advances in digital design and AI-generated imaging, a pencil or biro sketch remains the most efficient means of conveying a designer’s vision at Aston Martin’s Design Studio in Gaydon. “It’s fast, and a way of expressing and communicating with the other people in the team,” says Miles Nurnberger. As Aston Martin’s Director of …
VAKYRIE AMR PRO
There’s no shortage of fast cars in the world. Speed and acceleration are more accessible than ever as the automotive arms race continues at pace, percolating down to everyday, mass-produced road cars. But, very occasionally, there comes a car that redefines the boundaries of performance – a radical reinterpretation of what’s physically possible when rubber …
ASTON MARTIN DB12
Anyone who has ever spent any serious time in luxury hotels knows that your expectations rise with each subsequent experience. We get so used to being pampered that we often actively seek out minor faults, imagine unintentional micro aggressions, or simply assume the tea you ordered for breakfast won’t be the way you get it …