Bond Cars & Aston Martin DB7 - Top Gear 1994 Jeremy Clarkson

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Bond Cars & Aston Martin DB7 - Top Gear 1994 Jeremy Clarkson
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@andresleonel9154 2 жыл бұрын

''The great gig in the sky'' fits beautifully when the DB7 shows up

@the-subster 8 ай бұрын

Jeremy Clarkson reminds me of Sherlock with a wider face lol. Even the voice is kinda similar haha

@mosesblackhero3004 Жыл бұрын

I miss this Version of clarkson

@playtimehulot7383 Жыл бұрын

Today he is a scripted clown! 😢

@EdwoodCA 2 ай бұрын

2:03 _"Perhaps the most beautiful car Britain has ever made"_ What the hell... how does the Jaguar E-Type ever leave a British automotive journalist's mind?

@bghoody5665 2 жыл бұрын

Bond did drive an Aston Martin (briefly) in Golden Eye but it was a DB5.

@nigelwest3430 7 ай бұрын

I worked for Aston Martin, We were given a preview of the DB7 while it was still styled as a Jaguar, I didn't like it then and I don't like it now, I have never understood why people think it's so beautiful. badly built by TWR/Jaguarsport............nothing to do with Aston Martin apart from the badge.

@KlausLBern 5 ай бұрын

Somehow you're right, but then again you're not. Take the Mk III: the first mass-produced AM with the iconic grille (with 31/33 [?] hand-built DB3S [mainly racing cars], this was the prototype, so to speak). The Mk III was perhaps the last "old fashioned style" AM, more for the country road than the highway, which as far as I know did not yet exist in England. Wasn't that Ian Flemming's private means of transportation? Take the DBS, which as a Vantage perfectly marks the transition of the David Brown era into the very difficult pre-Ford phase. But the AM customer wanted power, hence the V8. Well, you'd have the argument that they were all AMs before the DB7 anyway. Incidentally, Jeremy Clarkson used that in TopGear as a killer argument against the first Bentley Continental Coupé of the VW era. If I remember correctly: "But when it comes down to the essence, it still is a Volkwagen!"

@nigelwest3430 5 ай бұрын

@@KlausLBern I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say ? the DB7 was based on a Jaguar, conceived as a Jaguar, styled as a Jaguar (heavy XJ220 styling cues) If you Google "DB7 prototype as Jaguar" the first image shows the car as originally intended as a Jaguar, the car was rejected by Jaguar and then at the last minute slightly restyled and built miles from Aston Martin and sold as an Aston Martin. when Bentley was bought by VW the cars may be based on VW family underpinnings but the models where designed as Bentleys, the same can be said about BMWs Rolls Royce designs, based on shared family structures for some models but always intended to carry the Rolls Royce name, new era Astons (DB9 and later) have been designed from the beginning to be Astons. The DB7 was never intended to be an Aston, as I said the only thing to link it to Aston martin is the badge.

@KlausLBern 5 ай бұрын

@@nigelwest3430 OK, I can agree with you. Unlike Bentley and RR, the DB7 falls into the "badge engineering" category. The two sides of the coin: as the best-selling model, it saved AM and as half a "Jag", it may have initiated a rethink (never again?).

@nigelwest3430 5 ай бұрын

@@KlausLBern Yes I agree the DB7 did save Aston Martin from going out of business, Ford did not understand hand crafted ultra low volume car production, they just wanted to sell as many cars as possible (not unreasonable) my preferred future for Astons would have been just the ultra low volume hugely expensive models like the Vulcan, Valkyrie, Valhalla etc that would have still made the company profitable but on a much lower production volume, so keeping the brand exclusive like it used to be. Gordon Murray has the right idea with the superb T50 and T33.