Aston Martin and Mercedes to Collaborate on Nearly Bloody Everything

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Aug 9, 2008
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If aliens visited Earth today, and were somehow also obsessed with speed (hey, if you're travelling light years...), they might also be curious about how we do it on Earth.  If they know anything about our history, they might look at the international automaker relationships and curiously ask the world, "Hold on, didn't most of you lot try to bloody exterminate each other some sixty years ago?"

Fair question, and if BMW owning Mini and Ford owning Mazda wasn't enough, it's even more so now with Aston Martin and Mercedes coming together in a top-secret collaboration on just about everything.

The September 2008 issue of The UK's car magazine has got its hands on information that intimates just how close the two automakers are set to become.  The following is the list of areas Merc and AM are expected to work together on.

  • Mercedes engines could power future Aston Martins
  • AMG's 6.2-litre V8 may appear in upcoming Vantage models
  • Merc Diesel and hybrid engines planned for AM
  • Top-end models expected to share underpinnings
  • Future Astons to sit over 8-speed Merc automatic transmissions
  • Even Maybach will be working with Aston on possible models

Apparently known by the classy title Project Alligator, the joint works are expected to shape the future of Aston Martin.  Here's hoping it doesn't ruin the lines of the classiest supercars out there.

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  • Maxamillian [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    Damn it, is nothing sacred anymore? Leave me Aston alone, ya damn krauts!*



    *Intended only as parody of mid 20th century attitudes ;)
  • Gigantic Assault [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    Eh, it's fine. Let Merc handle the engines - they more than know what they're doing there - and leave the good looks to Aston. Winning recipe, I say.
    • Woofa [reply]
      2 years ago 0 points
      what u reckon merc dont know how to make good lookin cars??
      • Gigantic Assault [reply]
        2 years ago 0 points
        What on Earth are you smoking... Sure they know how to make good looking cars, I'm just saying Astons are far hotter. :)
  • Rex Andrews [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    Having owned a british car I learned one thing they sat a large block of timber under the thing then built all of the car around it when they had the beast ready for you to pay your money for the thing they would burn the block (that would then let you drive it away) Then the trouble started HOW TO YOU GET TO THE BROBLEM SO YOU CAN FIX IT no more block! what do we do well let me tell you get a bloody Mercedes! Silly you may think they built them upside down. No block
    Rex
  • Godspeed [reply]
    2 years ago 0 points
    "Merc diesel and hybrid engines planned for AM"

    NOOOoooo!! What are they thinking?

    How times have changed since the twin supercharged V8 Vantage of the early nineties...

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