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Aston Martin Is Famous for the DB Range That The Best Car Company In The World. 英語寫作類 學生 淡江高中 雙語二 李學軍 指導老師 Brad Hilbrich 1 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com The Best Car Company In The World. 1. Introduction There are so many types of car and car companies in the world, but how can you be the most famous one ? Did you choose car by wether is looking good or you choose it by how it designed? For me I choose by car’s function . Aston Martin is famous for the DB range that have enabled James Bond to drive around in style, but how was this famous company established and how did it become the renowned car manufacturer that it is today? 2. Findings and Discussion It all started in 1913 from Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. They were both handy mechanics and Lionel was an accomplished driver. In 1914 they decided to start to build their own vehicles and in 1920 the Aston Martin was born. The name “Martin” was named from Lionel Martin, and the combination of "Aston" was from the hill climb races. In 1922 Robert Bamford decided to quit and sell all of his equity to Lionel Martin. In 1947 the company was having financial crisis so they post on the newspaper to sell the company for 20000 Pound. The buyer David Brown bought it that’s where the “DB” series come from. As the same with other small production car company, in 1972 Aston Martin has financial crisis again, so David Brown decided to sell the company. As the result of Oil Crisis in 1974 the company have to close for 1 year, until 1975 Peter Sprague and George Minden rebuild the company. Let this vehicle emblem, can sparkle in front of everyone’s eye again. But, the financial crisis is still closely associated, Aston Martin after several degrees exchange ownerships, faces the life and death truly in 1987 the moment, “the saviour” appeared! The American Ford Motor Company by 14,500,000 US dollars buys Aston Martin 75% stockholder's rights. 2 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com The Best Car Company In The World. On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards and co-owned by Investment Dar and businessman John Sinders. Ford retained a US$77 million (or 12.1%) stake in Aston Martin, valuing the company at US$925 million. http://www.amlvantage.com From 1920, namely by the consistent -like production high performance top race car world famous Aston Martin Cart yard, emphasizes “the personalization” throughout and “the manual making artware” characteristic. More than 70 for years insist its consistent style for the vehicle in the best quality goods, at present the selling price from 133,550 pounds to 180,000 pounds different, if the addition personalization re-equipping equipment, may amount to 250,000 pounds, its rank is not inferior to “the vehicle king” Rolls Royce, above Ferrari, Porsche. From 1926 to 1936 Augustus Bertelli was appointed technical director of the company and the subsequent range of cars became known as the ‘Bertelli cars’. These were racing rally cars and included the 1½ litre Aston Martin T-type, the 2 litre 15/98, the International, the MKII and the Ulster. Then in 1936, the company shifted their focus from rally cars to road cars. Meanwhile, as World War II broke out Aston Martin retained some of their success by manufacturing aircraft engines and engine components. After the war, the company was bought out by David Brown Limited and the DB range of Aston Martin vehicles was born. This range included the 1950 DB2, 1953 DB2/, the DB2/4 Mk11 in 1955, the DB Mark III in 1957 and the DB4 in 1958. Then in 1964 the DB5 featured in the Bond film Goldfinger and with that one iconic model James Bond was given the style and class that only an Aston Martin could deliver. 3 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com The Best Car Company In The World. Throughout the 1960’s and 70’s the production of Aston Martin cars became more industrial, which helped to ensure that the company made substantial profits and became the manufacturing giant that they are today. In the 1990’s the 2,000th DB7 rolled off the production line, with sales continuing even further until 2002 when the 6,000th DB7 was manufactured. On 12th March 2007 Aston Martin was purchased for a record figure of £479 million and to date it is thought that the company is worth in the region of £575 million. http://www.centralcontracts.com The reason why Aston Martin is famous today because the movie 007. Throughout the James Bond series of films and novels Q Branch has given Bond a wide variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. Among the most noteworthy gadgets Bond has been equipped with various vehicles that have numerous modifications to include weapons systems, anti-pursuit systems, alternate transportation modes, and various other functions. The most popular vehicles is Aston Martin DB5, it mainly appears in movie Goldfinger. It had re-equips from Dr.Q including bulletproof automobile body, bean, smoke screen launcher, machine gun, revolving car license, follow-up device receiver, but also has the most famous ejection seat. In the movie Goldfinger DB5 is Bond’s private car but in the movie Casino Royale Bond won the DB5 when he is playing poker in the casino at Bahamas. Aston Martin DBS The car was seen in only four scenes, including the pre-credits teaser and as James and Tracy's wedding car. Nothing is known about what kind of gadgets were installed, except that it had a hiding place for a sniper rifle in the box. Obviously — given what happens at the end of that movie — it was not fitted with bulletproof glass. The DBS is glimpsed in the subsequent film, Diamonds Are Forever, parked up in Q Branch back in London when 4 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com The Best Car Company In The World. Bond calls Q from Amsterdam. The car was actually cropped out of the frame on the “pan-and-scan version” of the film. Aston Martin V8 Vantage a convertible, it is later "winterised" with a hardtop. It comes with all the usual refinements, including extending side outriggers, spike-producing tires, missiles, lasers, signal-intercepting smart radio, head-up display and rocket propulsion. It could also self-destruct when primed. Aston Martin V12 Vanquish The car is equipped with all the usual refinements, including front- firing rockets, hood-mounted target-seeking guns, spike-producing tires, again and a passenger ejector seat in homage to the original Aston Martin DB5, but used here in a clever bit of improvisation by 007 to right the car when it's been flipped onto its roof. The Aston was also equipped with "adaptive camouflage" – a cloaking device that allowed it to become effectively invisible at the push of a button. This vehicle was also featured in the video games Nightfire and Everything or Nothing. http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk The reason why Aston Martin is famous is not just because it shows up in the movie 007 is also because the DB9 with V12 engine producing an output of 470bhp and One-77 with a 7.3 litre V12 engine with 750 hp. The DB9 is famous because it is a product of Aston Martin which has established itself as a reliable company when it comes to car manufacturing. Another important reason for the car being famous is that the DB series was used in the James Bond movie which made it a really popular car. Aston Martin can be used as a powerful race car as well. The V12 engine is capable of producing an output of 470bhp. The car engine is a 6.0 liter and in combination all these statistics make the Aston Martin a ferocious machine on the road. The DB9 version of the Aston Martin series is the first one to be developed from aluminum platform, but this factor has raised the price tag up to some extent. The DB series of the Aston Martin 5 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.pdffactory.com The Best Car Company In The World. is highly appreciated by its users and the car really satisfies the requirements which are expected from it. Overall the car is simply great and is enjoyable to drive. Aston Martin One-77 first appeared at the 2008 Paris Motor Show, although the car remained mostly covered by a "Savile Row tailored skirt" throughout the show, before being fully revealed at the 2009 Show. http://www.drivingdaysuk.co.uk 3. Conclution How did Aston Martin still one of the most famous car companies in the world? One of the reason is that Aston Martin keep change the owner, so it can get idea from all different bosses, which can sees others' merit and corrects own shortcoming, obviously the most important reasons is the James Bond movie 007, the main actor James Bond drove Aston Martin since 1960’s. The movie did a good advertisement and they also made people think if they bought an Aston Martin they can be as cool as James Bond. In the movie they showed a lot of impossible technology on the car, for example spike- producing tires, this technology might be easy to do it now but in the day movie produce this was just magic, that’s how make Aston Martin so special and attractive.
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