Not too shabby Aston. So glad Ford doesn’t own the company anymore.

I hate to repeat myself, but I think I did not mention today that Ford’s management is full of schmacks. They will keep only pieces of empire that don’t sell, ever.

You guys are retarded. No matter how many cars AM sells they still aren’t a big enough company to help in the reconstruction of Ford and for Ford at the same time support them. If Ford was a profitable company they wouldn’t have sold AM because it is a VERY valuable company image wise, but Ford has to get thier priorities together and sell off the smaller volume brands so they can focus on straightening out the high volume ones.

Glad to see AM is doing good though, they’re probably the most beautiful cars ever made and I wish to see more of them.

way to go aston! u have to admit that’s an awsome car….drool…:D

That is one long waiting list. By the time the people are supposed to get their car, they might have already bought something that has just hit the market. But, there aren’t many cars that look half as good as a DBS.

5 years?? good luck waiting

thees are beautiful cars for sure, but dont go hating on ford they actually helped keep astin alive, i am glad astin is back in british hands though.

Drove by an Aston Martin today. I haven’t seen one in person for quite awhile. They’re very sleek cars but certainly don’t have the presence that, for example, a Lamborghini does. Very conservative styling.

Such a beautiful machine. I would probably never buy one, but they sure are nice to look at.

People with money hate waiting. A year or two, cool. 5? That spells disaster for Aston when half that list decides to bail and start buying Ferrari, Lamborghini or the likes. Personally, I love this car. But in 5 years there will be a whole new bunch of toys to pick from.

atourya: That’s my thought

wiked: I agree with you

so let me see here, when I’m finally rich enough to buy one, I gotta wait 5 years? YAH OK. G’luck w/ that one! I’m sure there are buyers out there-as always

youre glad ford isnt at the reigns anymore you idiot? ford did amazing things for Aston, like giving them cash for one, so think where they would be if they never had a big name funding them.

300 a year w/ 1500 on backorder is 5 years?? really? thanks for the arithmetic help.
outsource their cars? so you’ll have a Aston Martin badge on a car made by some chinaman.

If I had the money I wouldn’t even wait 5 months…I’d just grab a CL63 and get what I need right away.

If anyone in advance knows that it will take 5 years to get a new one, why not buy a used one. If I had enough money to spend on a DBS, I would wait to find one in the classifieds after a year or two.

A4… who cares if Ford gave them money to fund them. If any other comapany bought them years ago, they would have funded them just the same as Ford did. Give Prodrive some years, and eventually they will start to reshape the company and bigger things will come out. Obviously any new funder of an older company will give funds to new projects. So what if it happened to be Ford. Ford screwed up Volvo.

if i was lucky to enough to have bought one in the first two years of production, why would I sell it?? I’d probably never sell it as long as my income stayed strong….

yea 5 years is a long ass waiting list. but the people that will bail on this wont be shopping for lambos/ferraris. obviously if they buy an Aston, theyre not in the market for your stereotypical supercar. theyll move on to other luxury brands like Bentley, Mercedes, maybe even a Rolls drophead, etc. these customers arent looking for pure sport…they want to be able to drive a beast, yet at the same time be surrounded by options and leather.

Terminator and A4, I stated before and I stand behind my words: Ford is extremely screwed up enterprise with corrupt governance and destined to to extinction in modern world. Because of their governance they will not be able to get intelligent management team and will be stymied by schamcks they can get. 5% of stock ownership controlling 40-60% of the vote!
All the problems Ford currently is solving are brought onto Ford by Ford! When Ford Jr. or whatever his name-title is “took” control of the company he had no scruples or experience and no one could argue with family choice. The previous CEO Nasser was experience executive not kissing Fords family collective behind or kissing not vigorously enough. He was canned. I don’t believe Ford family will make this sick company healthy and it is sick because of the governance.

wtf? people are crazy

wow.. those people are really desperate if they are willing to wait 5 years!

better to make them at a slower pace than speed up production and have quality suffer

bran, i like volvos now i didnt 10 years ago (did like the 850 turbo though)so i dont know if i can say they are screwed up

How many DB9 and V8 Vantage do they build a year? And what’s the wait on those? Two years max? Why not just adjust DBS production so the wait is at least in the ballpark of the other two cars?

I mean come on, realistically, five years from now the DBS will be on the verge of being superceded by another Aston flagship. No one who really wants a car in its first couple models years - when its still fresh - is going to settle for finally taking delivery when its about to be replaced.

^^^^^^ Did you see how long the flagship Vanquish got produced for?

This Aston is the the reason I own and love one. The best cars, FULL STOP.

by the time they are finished waiting for the car, new model will come out..but no worries, new model will look exactly same as the model it will replace

Ford has done amazing things for Aston Martin, Jaguar, Mazda and Volvo, period.

It hasn’t ruined Volvo at all, bran. Ford has only brung good into the life of Volvo, and it only looks like it will get better. Not only are they making some of the safest cars on the road, they’re now getting into alternative fuels, more performance oriented models and even safer cars. Ford gave them a good look, from the boxy cars that I’m sure you will all agree, were and are ugly.

And Ford helped Aston Martin too. Not only did Ford provide funding, but revamped many of their materials and parts with help from Jaguar.

“Terminator and A4, I stated before and I stand behind my words: Ford is extremely screwed up enterprise with corrupt governance and destined to to extinction in modern world. Because of their governance they will not be able to get intelligent management team and will be stymied by schamcks they can get. 5% of stock ownership controlling 40-60% of the vote!
All the problems Ford currently is solving are brought onto Ford by Ford! When Ford Jr. or whatever his name-title is “took” control of the company he had no scruples or experience and no one could argue with family choice. The previous CEO Nasser was experience executive not kissing Fords family collective behind or kissing not vigorously enough. He was canned. I don’t believe Ford family will make this sick company healthy and it is sick because of the governance.”-autonut

Then I guess you stand behind the words of an idiot.

Ford will never dissapear just as GM, Chrysler, and Toyota will never dissapear, the names of these companies are worth billions upon billion of dollars. You were right about Bill jr not having enough experience, it was because of him that Ford is where it is now. But if you havn’t heard they hired Alan Mullaly as CEO, the former Boeing CEO that was responsible for their turnaround to make them one of the most valuable and profitable companies in the world. Nobody liked Nasser, he didn’t stand for what Ford was all about and it was better for him to leave.

Ford knows what has to be done and that’s why companies are being sold off. Ford could no longer do anything for AM anymore and sold them off to a very good company, great things will come from AM in the future because of Prodrive. But Prodrive even today could never have taken AM in the state that it was in (it was within days of shutting its doors for good) and make into nearly billion dollar company it is today.

The only reason Volvo has been suppressed from competing with Audi and BMW is because of Jaguar. I like where Jag is going and I wish Ford would keep them but I think it is obvious that Volvo has much more potential and resources for Ford. Ford is hitting the top of safety lists because of Volvo’s research.

The only reason you won’t see GM selling off brands is because their brands are all high capacity (except for Saab maybe). It is much more beneficial for them to do a turnaround on these companies than sell because if they achieve a proper turnaround like the product merging of Opel/Saturn, they will strike it big. This is what Ford is trying to accomplish, simplify their lineup so they can focus on a turnaround of the high capacity companies instead of ignoring the little ones i.e. AM, LR, Jag which will just end up causing a slow bleed.

Just remember it’s Ford North America that is screwing up while Ford Europe and Australia are doing great.

Don’t you guys understand? Waiting 5 years to get the only ‘08, ‘09 etc. DBS, means that you actually get to own the only ‘08, ‘09 etc. DBS. Aren’t you all car guys?? The multi millionars, billionars, that buy these kind of cars didn’t get thier millions, billions from being morons. They just want a DBS.

Aston or not, 5 years for a car, it’s just too long.

wow sportmode…i think that was the most informative few sentences i have ever read….okay so im lying.
i mean im sure if a millionaire wanted a Lambo, Ferrari, Maserati or even a Koeeennnigggssiggg they wouldnt have to wait 5 years.
Hell i know people who only waited 2 years for a Ferrari. what does a Aston have over a Ferrari? nothing.
plus, if you got the money, you can get whatever you want, whenever you want.