Aston Martin Lagonda: More Exclusive Than Any Rolls-Royce or Bentley? - The Cheat Sheet
When most people think of ultra-luxury sedans they tend to think British – namely, Rolls-Royce and Bentley. That contender is Aston Martin, and its car is the Lagonda, a revival of one of the most technologically-advanced and polarizing nameplates in British motoring history, and while the car is no retro throwback, it does the original justice while... Back then, company owner David Brown (the DB in Aston’s DB cars) had big plans for the company, purchasing luxury marque Lagonda in 1947. While the Lagonda name all but disappeared shortly thereafter, Brown revived it in 1961 for a DB4-based... While only 55 of them were produced, that car served as the inspiration for today’s DB9-based Lagonda sports sedan. Despite being nearly 18 feet long, the razor-sharp Aston Martin Lagonda had a 280 horsepower 5. 3 liter V8, which was enough to take the car from zero to 60 in around six seconds, and top out at around 150 miles per hour. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the cash-strapped Aston’s ambition outweighed its electrical skills, and the Lagonda was fraught with electrical gremlins. Source: www.cheatsheet.com
