The 36-hectare (90-acre) factory in St Athan, Wales features three converted 'super-hangars' from MOD St Athan, and serves as the production site of Aston Martin's first-ever SUV, the DBX. The old 3.6-acre facility in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire is the present home of the Aston Martin Works classic car department, which focuses on heritage sales, service, spares and restoration operations. The headquarters and main production of its sports cars and grand tourers are in a 22-hectare (55-acre) facility in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England on the former site of RAF Gaydon, adjacent to the Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Centre. The company has survived seven bankruptcies throughout its history. In 2003 it received the Queen's Award for Enterprise for outstanding contribution to international trade. The company is traded at the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Aston Martin has held a Royal Warrant as purveyor of motorcars to the Prince of Wales since 1982, and has over 160 car dealerships in 53 countries, making it a global automobile brand.
Their sports cars are regarded as a British cultural icon. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Its predecessor was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, the brand's current flagship modelĪston Martin Lagonda is a British independent manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers.
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