Aston Martin DB7, DB9, V8 and Vanquish: Books

Aston Martin DB7 - The Complete Story

The car that would become the DB7 began its gestation in 1991. Developed entirely under the ownership of Ford, this new smaller Aston Martin was intended to add a new higher-volume strand to Aston Martin's range, and when the good-looking car was launched in 1993 it soon became obvious that this was sound policy. The straight-six-powered coupe was an instant hit and sold well.

A cabriolet version followed soon afterwards, and in 1998 Project Vantage - a V12 version of the car was unveiled. In 2002 the range was joined by two special editions - the Vantage Zagato and the GT.
When production of the DB7 family ended in 2003, giving way to the DB9, just over 7000 cars had been produced, making the DB7 the most numerous of all Astons.

Written with the full co-operation of the factory, this is a book for every lover of this superb car.

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Aston Martin DB9 and Vanquish

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At the beginning of the 21st century, Aston Martin introduced the Vanquish, having showcased a fully operational prototype, Project Vantage, at the 1998 Detroit Show.
The Vanquish became the company's flagship model, designed by Ian Callum, with a distinctive shape that was later refined for the slightly more affordable DB9. These two models were crucial for Aston Martin, not only in terms of publicity but also in engineering.

The Vanquish featured an entirely new and advanced body structure, which was further developed into the VH platform for the DB9. This platform was intentionally designed for flexibility, forming the foundation for all new Aston Martin models in the early 21st century.
This book narrates the full story of the DB9 and Vanquish, the cars that marked a new and successful era for Aston Martin.

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Aston Martin V8

Development of Aston Martin's V8 engine began in 1963 as a replacement for the six cylinder engines which had powered every model of Aston Martin since the 1950 DB2. In 1966 design work began on a new GT model and both car and engine were to be unleashed on the public in October 1967. With barely twelve months to complete the car, Aston Martin pulled it off, and the DBS was born.
Unfortunately, the new V8 engine wouldn't be ready for another two years and the DBS had to make do with the old-fashioned Lagonda engine. Being heavier than the car it replaced, it was slower but in many ways more refined. When the V8 engine was finally ready for the DBS chassis, the resulting car was one of the fatest, safest and greatest cars of its generation. It would set the benchmark, not just for the next thirty years of Aston Martins, but also its competitors in the GT class. The last of the 5,016 V8-powered cars, a Volante Special Edition, left the factory on 20 October 2000, ending an era for Aston Martin.

This book describes the entire history of Aston Martin's V8.

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Bond par Bond

This book, signed Roger Moore, is a fascinating opus in which we find all the themes and ingredients that form the legend of this "so British" secret agent with humor, composure, precision, self-mockery, a sense of duty and friendship, supreme detachment in the face of danger, and a fabulous power of seduction...

By often speaking in the first person, Roger Bond... no, James Moore..., finally, the author of the book, gives a very tasty relief to his story which reviews all the characters who have made and are making the success of the films: his fellow actors (we feel that he has a weakness, not to say a strong admiration for Daniel Craig, the Bond of the Third Millennium...), the legendary producers and directors who have become his friends, the dream creatures he has rubbed shoulders with on screen but not only, and the Bond style, his fetish objects, in a word the inimitable signature of a dream lifestyle, between permanent dangers and imminent pleasures.

You thought you knew everything about Bond, it's because you still didn't know James, alias Roger Moore, and his book Bond by Bond.

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