Aston Martin Car Hire

Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire.

In a long and distinguished history, Aston Martin has seen many changes but they are still passionate about the cars they produce and they know this is a passion shared by all Aston Martin enthusiasts. All of their sports cars will continue to be hand-built and bespoke but using high technology processes in a very modern environment.

The Aston Martin ethos hold firm today. The company still believes that a sports car should have a distinctive and individual character and that it should be built to the highest standards and be exhilarating to drive – many things have changed over the ninety years since Aston Martins birth, but those goals are still very relevant to us today.

An Aston Martin combines three important elements: power, beauty and soul.
 

Aston Martin was formed in 1913 by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin.  The two made vehicles for racing events and were inspired to make their own cars through Martin's interest in racing around Buckinghamshire's Aston Clinton hills in England. Over the rest of the decade the two worked on their cars and in 1921 the Aston Martin company entered a competitive race for the first time.

Prior to World War II Aston Martin did not make many cars for public use. The company was devoted primarily to racing and the group entered various racing cars for endurance races like the Le Mans 24 Hours race.

In 1947 the company was bought by David Brown. While the company continued to make cars for racing purposes Brown introduced new cars that would be available to the public in the DB line. The line wouldn't truly get into popularity until 1963 when the DB5 was introduced.

In the 1960s Aston Martin's popularity took off thanks to Ian Fleming's James Bond films. Fleming gave his secret agent character an Aston Martin car in many of his books.

Aston Martin was majority owned by the Ford motor car company for a period of time in 1987 and the Virage line of cars was introduced around this time. The company would also return to racing in 2005 under the Aston Martin Racing line.

Today the company continues to build Aston Martin cars bay hand in new state of the art facilities.
 

Perhaps the most famous Aston Martin because of the specially equipped Silver Birch DB5 that starred in the James Bond film "Goldfinger" and in standard form in "Thunderball". The DB5 made a comeback to the big screen in the 1995 film "GoldenEye", and has had a cameo role in subsequent Bond movies.

For Bond's 20th adventure, he returned in the Aston Martin Vanquish. Following the success of the Vanquish in Die Another Day, 007 gets use of Astons latest flying machine the DBS for his missions in Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace.