RARITY RIDES / THE COLLECTION
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IN THE ARCHIVEAston Martin DB1 Two Litre Sports↗A MORE CONSIDERED COLLECTION
These are existing vehicle profiles grouped by their recorded classification. Read each profile for its own source notes, image context and production scope. A shared collection does not establish that different editions or chassis are the same identity.
THE COLLECTION
42 profiles
Aston Martin 2002
The DB7 Jubilee celebrated the 2002 royal Golden Jubilee in a twenty-four-car programme combining coupes and Volantes. The Volante entry is a subset of that parent edition: ten UK open cars are…
Aston Martin 2003
The DB7 Zagato brought distinctive closed coachwork to a ninety-nine-car customer programme at the end of the DB7 era. Its 2002 announcement and prototype preceded the 2003 customer model. The double-bubble roof,…
Aston Martin 2013
The DB9 Centenary Edition celebrated Aston Martin’s hundredth anniversary through rare finishes and numbered details applied to its established V12 grand tourer. The 2013 programme allowed up to 100 DB9s across coupe…
Aston Martin 2015
The DB9 GT Bond Edition joined Aston Martin’s 2015 Spectre celebrations with a 150-car worldwide limit, numbered 007 details and themed accessories. It used the DB9 GT grand-tourer platform rather than the…
Aston Martin 2003
The DB AR1 was Aston Martin’s roofless American Roadster, with Zagato coachwork and a ninety-nine-car customer programme. Revealed in January 2003, it kept the standard Volante platform rather than simply reproducing the…
Aston Martin 2010
The DBS UB-2010 celebrated Ulrich Bez’s tenth year as chief executive and showcased Works Tailored specification. The manufacturer’s magazine describes forty planned cars, twenty coupes and twenty Volantes. Later specialist accounts report…
Aston Martin 2012
The 2012 DBS Ultimate Coupe belonged to the final hundred-car edition combining closed and open bodies. A specialist account believes fifty-nine coupes were completed; that attribution is distinct from the parent total.…
Aston Martin 1974
The first-series V8 Lagonda was the low-volume four-door Aston Martin introduced in 1974, before the radically different wedge-shaped Lagonda. Seven cars were completed in period. The earlier prototype and chassis 12008, finished…
Aston Martin 2009
The One-77 was a purpose-built Aston Martin halo car combining a carbon-fibre monocoque, handcrafted aluminium skin and a 7.3-litre V12. Its staged 2008–2009 appearances preceded the completed seventy-seven-car customer programme. The manufacturer…
Aston Martin 2013
The Rapide S Centenary Edition brought Aston Martin’s 2013 anniversary treatment to its four-door grand tourer. A 100-car limit and a later specialist report of 49 completions describe different scopes. Its Shanghai…
Aston Martin 1965
The Short Chassis Volante was the first Aston Martin to use the Volante name, with 37 original cars. Introduced in 1965 on the remaining DB5 chassis architecture, it combined an earlier platform…
Aston Martin 2017
The original V8 Vantage AMR marked a late chapter in the earlier Vantage family with motorsport-inspired themes and a bounded 200-car programme. Launched in 2017, it covered coupe and Roadster bodies with…
THE RARITY RIDES STANDARD
A limited offer is not automatically a completed-production total. A surviving vehicle is not a complete factory census. We keep those distinctions visible and link each collection back to the individual profile’s evidence.
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