It might be a little early for it, but it seems as if Jalopnik’s Matt Hardigree has already had a spring fling.  A bittersweet five hours behind the wheel of an Aston Martin Vanquish. Hardigree is swept off his feet by the car’s looks and the sound and acceleration from its 565-horsepower V12, but […] More »

Owners of low-production hypercars with stratospherically high horsepower ratings must always feel as if they’re in a spy movie.  “I’m being tailed… Again.”  Luckily, the person in pursuit in the video below is only armed with a video camera. We, as viewers, are also fortunate.  Youtuber DLMphotos brings us surveillance footage of an Aston Martin […] More »

 UPDATE – Round SIX Winner: La Ferrari! Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our own little battle Royale throughout the […] More »

Aston Martin’s new V8 Vantage N430 was “styled to evoke thoughts of the track,” and “celebrates Aston Martin’s sporting heritage and motorsport success.” The British automaker recently unveiled its two-tone nod to the DBR1 race car at the 84th Geneva International Motor Show.  Output from the 4.7-liter V8 is 430 horsepower, the same as that […] More »

Cars are like songs.  Like music, they make terrific, pleasing melodies.  Occasionally, they can seem ground-breaking and fresh when, in reality, they sample or draw inspiration from something that was truly original decades ago. As revolutionary as Porsche’s Panamera sedan was for the sports car brand back in the 2010 model year, it wasn’t the […] More »

 UPDATE – Round Four Winner: McLaren F1! Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our own little battle Royale throughout […] More »

You’ve got to hand it to counterfeiters.  They’ve been able to clone money, Louis Vuitton handbags and Rolex watches.  Now, they’ve found a way to produce knock-off plastics used in genuinely bad-ass cars.  Seventeen thousand five-hundred and ninety of them, to be exact. Aston Martin is recalling “all of its left-hand-drive models built since November […] More »