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...Ford, the experience was akin to buying a new car and then suffering a serious dent only a few days later. The No. 2 U.S. automaker began last week by announcing plans to acquire a 75% stake (price: more than $30 million) in Aston Martin Lagonda, the manufacturer of hand-assembled sports cars that carry an average price tag of $130,000. While the British car company has sputtered financially, its products have long enjoyed a sterling reputation. Queen Elizabeth II gave an Aston Martin to Prince Charles for his 21st birthday, and James Bond has driven the cars...
...Oddjob, Rosa Klebb, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Jaws), so they incited schoolboy giggles with the names of his women. Pussy Galore and Octopussy! Kissy Suzuki and Plenty O'Toole! Mary Goodnight and Holly Goodhead! They were as indispensable and interchangeable as 007's other accessories, the Walther PPK and the Aston Martin. Pussy Galore might be a judo expert who could toss Bond like a crepe, but he would merely toss back a wolfish double entendre: "We must have a few fast falls together some time." In its Connery years, Bond comprised equal parts of Jack Kennedy's playboy glamour...
More than two decades have passed since moviegoers first watched James Bond tail a Rolls-Royce to Goldfinger's Alpine retreat by tracking a moving blip across a screen on the dashboard of his Aston Martin. Now advances in computer technology have turned this Hollywood fantasy into automotive reality...
...some destinations, vacant rooms are already in short supply. The 4,600- unit Aston hotel chain in Maui, Hawaii, is completely booked for much of the summer season. Sales are also brisk at less renowned vacation spots: Rock City Gardens, a scenic 14-acre spot atop Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tenn., is attracting 20% more visitors than last year. At Best Western Hotels, the world's largest lodging chain, reservations are up 36% at its 1,892 U.S. hotels...
...luxury auto market, Britain offers the sporty, two-door Rolls-Royce Corniche at $156,000 and the road-hugging Aston Martin Lagonda sedan at $150,000. Last week in Denver, Auto Dealer Jerry Morris unveiled his own very different vision of automotive high life, American-style. Equipped with a bar and Baccarat crystal, trimmed with teak and priced at $50,000, Morris' showpiece is a 19-ft.-long Jeep station wagon. The dealer bills it as the world's first stretch limousine with four-wheel drive. Morris' theory is that off-road travel should be comfortable. Said he: "People have...