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Where do car models go when they become old? In some cases, they go to developing markets to be reborn again:
Nissan built the Sentra in Mexico for ages
, and
old Peugeot saloons have been made in Iran
for decades. Sometimes a separate company buys the tooling, which has been the case for
, for instance: the
9-3 and 9-5 sedans found a new life in China
, albeit with new sheetmetal. These scenarios usually play out with passenger cars and trucks, and more rarely with
. But for the
, there might be plans afoot.
was revealed to have sold the second-generation
tooling and design drawings in June, for around $26 million. Aston didn’t disclose the name of the buyer, so speculation quickly rose. Who wants to start building the V12 range-topper originally launched in 2012?
the buyer could be a boutique European tuner such as Mansory, who would expand from converting cars into having bespoke products of its own.
, who has already partnered with Aston Martin and helped create the exclusive Zagato Vanquish. Whoever the buyer turns out to be, they will get 18 months of assistance from Aston Martin Consulting, as dictated in the deal. An interesting development would be if the Vanquish would be recreated as an electric
, if the anonymous buyer chooses not to fit their creations with Aston’s V12 engines.
Still, Aston won’t be the first British sportscar maker to sell its tooling to another company: surely everybody remembers the time the front-wheel-drive
Lotus Elan reappeared in Korea
, as the
Elan/Vigato?
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