The 2018 Aston Martin V12 Vantage V600 is the company’s 600 horsepower naturally-aspirated V12, dog-leg manual farewell to the outgoing generation of the Vantage after its 13 years of service.

The first official photos of the Aston Martin DBX are out, confirming the upcoming sports crossover’s name and hinting at a funky, hunky and definitely polarizing look that will probably rake in tons of cash.

Today we welcome the new special edition Aston Martin DBS 59. With production limited of 24 examples, the car comes with classic forest green paint, gold badging and... wait, where have I seen this before? Oh right, my friend’s dad’s mid-’90s Infiniti i30 with a bike rack on the back.

Electric-vehicle production, fights over fuel-economy standards, earnings reports, unprovoked car fires and Aston Martin’s Brexit headaches—all of this and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018.

Aston Martin went public earlier this month, and part of an initial public offering process is tons and tons of paperwork including financial disclosures. Usually it’s a very dull process, but for Aston, it was interesting, as some documents mentioned sale of the tooling for the recently-replaced Aston Martin Vanquish…

There are a glut of well-rounded, ultra-fast cars on the market today, from the Porsche 911 GTS to, uh, all of the other Porsche 911s. Well, what I mean to say is that it’s easy to forget that it’s hard to get a fast car to have good performance and be nice to live with at the same time. At least it is, apparently,…

It’s grave times out there for the auto industry. I mean, something must be going wrong, because BMW and Mercedes-Benz are working together. All that and more on The Morning Shift for October 16, 2018.

The 2020 Jaguar F-Type will come with a BMW twin-turbo V8, as CAR Magazine reports. This is some Cold War shit. Jaguar versus Aston Martin, in a proxy war between BMW and AMG.

Various automakers small and large have gone down the “F1 car for the road” path, but I don’t know of many that nail the sound quite like the Aston Martin Valkyrie.

More bad news for Ford, Honda’s sedans struggle, good news for Elon Musk’s profits and so much more in The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018.

Things are not looking good for the supposedly most advanced and technically able auto industry in the world. The day of regulatory reckoning is here, in The Morning Shift for Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018.

A new NAFTA deal, more battles over fuel-economy regulations, a jailed CEO with the chance for a big payday, and the sedan that keeps on dying. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Monday, Oct. 1, 2018.

The Aston Martin Valkyrie was called Project 001. Its trackday special version was called 002. Now Aston has announced that a new 003 is coming in 2021. Interesting.

Toyota’s driverless vision, the UAW corruption probe widens, Volkswagen gives Trump a win, and more await you in this is The Morning Shift for Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.

Aston Martin is finally teasing out the specs behind its first all-electric sedan, the Rapide E, and it’s apparently going to be capable of hitting a difficult target the automaker set a year ago: a full lap of the historic Nürburgring, powered by more than 600 ponies.

As the company is about to go public on the London Stock Exchange, sources told Bloomberg recently Aston Martin wanted to add women to its board. Had it not, it would’ve been one of the few top public British companies without any. Aston announced early on Monday that there are now women on the board.

The small-car era at Ford really is over, NAFTA talks never will be, and Aston Martin needs more women in leadership positions. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.

Despite much of its automotive hype, the latest James Bond film, Spectre, turned out to be a bit of a dud. And it didn’t help that the Aston Martin DB10 and Jaguar C-X75 chase scene through the darkened streets of Rome turned out to be one of the most forgettable chase scenes ever shot. But at least the stunning Jag…

Last year was good for Aston Martin in that it actually posted its first profit in eight years and had record sales. There were rumblings then of the British automaker thinking about pursuing an IPO. Now, those rumblings seem to have solidified into a plan.

The current generation of Aston Martin’s lineup has truly incredible performance chops, and since the automaker is engineering its first electric car called the Aston Martin RapidE, it wants to make sure its batteries are capable of keeping up on a hot lap of the nefarious Nürburgring, which current EVs would struggle…