Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and Technology Editor. Jonathan has written and edited 15 books, including Concept Car Design, 21st Century House, and The New Modern House.
and EON Productions is worth untold millions in advertising and exposure for the car company, even if the deadlines and production challenges suck up huge amounts of resources. It's also a core component of the Bond character . However, as Bond got grittier under Daniel Craig, so the Aston element became more and more incongruous.
What the DB12 definitely has in common with its forebear is an innate, albeit far more muscular, beauty. Just like a shirtless Daniel Craig,presents a ripped and utterly contemporary aesthetic that would have been frankly terrifying to Sixties’ audiences, as if Bond was shown driving a Le Mans car.
There have been other special editions too, nodding to the Aston Martin’s twelve appearances in the series . These include a 2007 bottle of Bollinger, a custom car cover, luxury key presentation box, a Speedform scale model of the car and – ‘for something truly unique’ – a snippet from a 35mm print of the film itself, the scene in which Connery’s Bond drives the DB5 over’s rather pointed full stop, change is afoot.
The luxury British marque’s new Vanquish flagship is absolutely, positively, definitely, its final flirtation with V12 power. Or is it?Could a car be any more muscular? Aston Martin unleashes the bold and brutalist Valiant
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