Aston

Aston Martin Lagonda (born Aston Martin Lagonda Limited) - British car manufacturer. At the root of stamps were Lionel Martin andRobert Bamford. Its headquarters are at Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name comes from the name of the hill Aston Clinton,where one of the founders Lionel Martin scored a victory in the 1913 Singer-10. Since 1994, he was part of Premier Automotive Group - Division Ford Motor Company, but in August 2006, Ford posted a company intends to sell Aston Martin [1]. In the II quarter of 2007, Ford Motor Company has sold Aston Martin consortium of investors led by the owner of the company Prodrive, a longtimefan and collector cars Aston Martin, David Richards. The deal amounted to $ 925 million [2].
In 2007, production amounted to 7224 cars, almost unchanged compared with 2006. The company is famous for the fact that mostmodels are made by hand. Each "hand» Aston Martin has a bronze plaque on which is written the name of the person who did and was responsible for a particular instance.