Aston Martin Lagonda Restricted is a British producer of luxurious sports automobiles, based mostly in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company title is derived from the identify of one of many company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill velocity hillclimb close to Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire. It additionally designs and engineers vehicles which are manufactured by Magna Steyr in Austria.

From 1994 till 2007 Aston Martin was a part of the Ford Motor Company, changing into a part of the corporate's Premier Automotive Group in 2000. On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £479 million by a three way partnership firm, headed by David Richards and co-owned by Funding Dar and Adeem Funding of Kuwait and English businessman John Sinders. Ford retained a US$seventy seven million stake in Aston Martin, valuing the company at US$925 million.

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