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So what happened here? A Rapide S, stationary in a pool of water, with the windows open and the fuel cap open?
This weekend, the Power Beauty Soulmates (a dutch Aston Martin club) visited Zwolle, to have dinner at the famous 3-star restaurant De Librije. Because of the nice weather, the amount of members that actually arrived in their Astons in this time of the year was surprisingly high. Here’s some quick photos I took of the Astons present:
It’s Friday the 13th, but no bad luck for me, because today is the day I can pick up the newest addition to my Aston Martin collection: a 2006 V12 Vanquish S! (BTW: remember that white V8 Vantage S Roadster in the background? Yes, that’s my ex-V8-Roadster, the one I traded in on my V12 Roadster. It pains me to see it’s still in the showroom, waiting for a new owner. Like it? Please go and buy it!)
The V12 Vanquish has always been one of my favorite Astons, a timeless classic. It was inevitable that sooner or later I would own one, just a matter of the right car becoming available on the market. And this week, it did! My dealer told me about this beautiful 2006 V12 Vanquish S being for sale. So I visited the showroom, checked the car out, went for a test drive… and bought it the same day! 🙂
This weekend’s Sunday Drive of the Dutch PBSM Club was a special one, as two members had organized the “Aston Martin Elfstedentocht”. For the non-dutchies among us: the Elfstedentocht is a 200 kilometer long ice skating tour leading past 11 cities in the northern part of the Netherlands. The Aston Martin edition of this “eleven cities tour” had to use the roads instead of the canals and rivers, so it was slightly longer, 230 kilometers, and including the trip to and from the hotel came to just over 320 KMs, for most part over winding B-roads.
In July we learned that Aston Martin and AMG are planning to work together, that is, AMG will deliver V8 engines for future Aston Martin models. However, it now seems that the first results of that cooperation could take another 3 to 4 years.
Grand Theft Auto V, the most eagerly anticipated video game ever, was released last week. The game features 257 vehicles, all with made-up names, but most of them still recognizable as real-life car brands and models. Five of the available cars are obviously inspired by Aston Martin models, in particular the cars of the made-up “Dewbauchee” brand:
Each year, Coolbrands lists the coolest brands in the UK, as voted by 3,000 consumers and a panel of 38 VIPs. In 2011, Aston Martin was voted as the #1 coolest brand, dropping to 3rd place in 2012. This year our favourite brand has moved up to the 2nd place again, after Apple and followed by Rolex.
Yesterday, just like last year, my wife and I participated in the the Droomrit voor het Leven event, a charity event for children with serious health problems. My wife driving our Cobalt Blue V12 Vantage Roadster, while I drove our Fire Red V12 Vantage.