The Future of Aston Martin

"CAcoalminer" (CAcoalminer)
03/05/2015 at 14:30 • Filed to: None

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will allow Aston Martin to build a vehicle like !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! :

I won't complain one bit.

DISCUSSION (19)

djmt1 > CAcoalminer
03/05/2015 at 14:35

I kinda like the weird crossover thingy. If Fox Hunting was still a thing and for some reason I was into killing small animals with a legion of dogs it would be the car I would you to bumble around the estate.

Manuél Ferrari > CAcoalminer
03/05/2015 at 14:39

me either!!

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > djmt1
03/05/2015 at 14:40

Or you could hunt foxes the real way, with one dog and a shotgun. :)

But yeah I second that like.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > CAcoalminer
03/05/2015 at 14:41

Aside from the likelihood of DBX being a 3-box coupe, rather than a fastback hatch (more akin to DB9/Vanquish, rather than Vantage's lift back) I think more all-road coupes would be welcomed... but preferably more affordable.

Compact 5-door CUVs make less and less sense, especially the sportier they get.

The rear seats are just as small as a 2+2 coupe, and are not the focus of usual use... usual-use rear seats usually put customers into mid-sized or larger 5-door CUVs.

Little CUVs such as XV Crosstrek, HR-V, and others might as well be coupes. X4 and X6 should really be coupes. Nissan Juke might as well not exist, but a coupe version of the Sway concept could be cool.

DBX, and last year's Parcour X-GT Giugiaro concept are very cool all-road coupes... but rich-buyer vaporware is inconsequential... it never gets built, and if it does, not many people are even exposed to it, due to it's exclusivity.

I am much more interested in a 30,000$ car sold to a few million people, than a 300,000$ car sold to a few hundred people at most.

Axial > CAcoalminer
03/05/2015 at 15:05

Amen.

It doesn't even look that bad.

CAcoalminer > djmt1
03/05/2015 at 16:52

Haha. I can actually envision that.

CAcoalminer > Manuél Ferrari
03/05/2015 at 16:52

It hasn't gone too badly for Porsche.

Manuél Ferrari > CAcoalminer
03/05/2015 at 16:55

exactly

And for some weird reason I like this concept they made

Nobody else makes a car exactly like that

CAcoalminer > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
03/05/2015 at 16:56

I understand your perspective. However, my main point was that if Aston was to partake in a strategy of making CUVs or SUVs like Porsche, then I would be happy because it frees up capital for interesting projects.

CAcoalminer > Axial
03/05/2015 at 16:58

Exactly!

CAcoalminer > Manuél Ferrari
03/05/2015 at 17:01

I do too. It's funky and brings something new and exciting to the market.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > CAcoalminer
03/05/2015 at 17:02

They can, if they want to, I don't have a problem with that, either.

But DBX may be under the umbrella of the term Crossover Utility Vehicle... but it sure looks like an all-road AWD sport coupe to me... not a large abundance of 'Utility' in that vehicle.

The DBX seems more in the idiom of Giugiaro Parcour X-GT, than Bentley's upcoming SUV/CUV, or a Range Rover, etc...

A better illustration of a '_UV' would be Jag's upcoming F-Pace.