Sorry if I'm hogging this game! That's definitely an Aston Martin Lagonda, an outrageously expensive (when new) and achingly desireable piece of crap. Aston was putting touch sensitive electronic buttons on the dash before they'd actually figured out how to put touch sensitive electronic buttons on the dash! They didn't exactly work very well, apparently.
I recall seeing a fairly early white example once at a RM classic car auction up in Toronto a few years ago. I was astonished by how low slung the thing was, and I thought it was strange that the only sunroof was in back instead of above the driver. It only sold for about $19,000 - a lot of car for the money, but I can't imagine it's a cheap car to run!
I saw another a few years later in the collection of St. Louis-based classic car dealership Hyman Ltd. They had been moving a few cars around while I was in there, and none had any trouble manoeuvring around the garage. However, I had to laugh when, after seeing that familiar low-slung nose come into view, the car had to make a few back-and-forth attempts at squeezing through the same corner several other cars had just zipped around with ease!
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Sorry if I'm hogging this game! That's definitely an Aston Martin Lagonda, an outrageously expensive (when new) and achingly desireable piece of crap. Aston was putting touch sensitive electronic buttons on the dash before they'd actually figured out how to put touch sensitive electronic buttons on the dash! They didn't exactly work very well, apparently.
I recall seeing a fairly early white example once at a RM classic car auction up in Toronto a few years ago. I was astonished by how low slung the thing was, and I thought it was strange that the only sunroof was in back instead of above the driver. It only sold for about $19,000 - a lot of car for the money, but I can't imagine it's a cheap car to run!
I saw another a few years later in the collection of St. Louis-based classic car dealership Hyman Ltd. They had been moving a few cars around while I was in there, and none had any trouble manoeuvring around the garage. However, I had to laugh when, after seeing that familiar low-slung nose come into view, the car had to make a few back-and-forth attempts at squeezing through the same corner several other cars had just zipped around with ease!
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