Aston Martin and Zagato have shared an enduring, nearly 60-year-long partnership that began with the DB4 and most recently included speedster and shooting-brake versions of the Vanquish. We now have reason to believe that the creative partnership will carry on, extending next to a very significant model.
In a recent conversation with Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer, we asked about the recent collaborations with the famed Italian design house. Palmer told us that the plan for this year?s Monterey Car Week had been to release the speedster, limited to a hyperexclusive 28 examples. But the shooting brake was an altogether different story.
?This year we have Zagato Volante,” he said, “and at Pebble Beach you saw the convertible, speedster, coupe, and the shooting brake. That one is a proper estate car. It?s the same as all the Zags, so basically a Vanquish S underneath, [around] 600 horsepower, 99 total [units]. Two weeks before Pebble, I asked for [the shooting brake], and we came to Pebble and sold it out, based on sketches. No one had seen the model. And the thinking behind it was, I wanted to put a car out there that wasn?t already sold out. So nobody knew about that beforehand, they knew about it two days before Pebble. And in the weekend, it was sold out. All based on a sketch.?
We asked Palmer: Considering all of the recent interest, and the fact that the current Zagato offerings are sold out, are there plans for a new collaboration or anything in the works&q...