New 911 challenger?

[techweenie]

The 2007 XK looks like it's a 997 challenger...

http://www.prefergorgeous.com/home.asp

(can't link directly to the site -- click on site above, then choose "Explore the New XK.")

[FrayAdjacent911]

Linky no worky for me

[techweenie]

Me fixy.

[RickM]

Very Aston Martin like

[techweenie]

Originally posted by RickM
Very Aston Martin like

Don't they share a platform under the new Ford ownership?

[RickM]

Not 100% sure.

I can already see the upgrades for the Jag though.......

[RickM]

As far as the DB9 (regarded as a 911 GT3 competitor) is concerned:

"DB9 gives Aston Martin cutting-edge product

Ford Motor Co. has given Aston Martin enough investment capital to build a gleaming factory and develop a high-tech platform that only Aston Martin will use.

The first vehicle off the new platform and emerging from the new Gaydon, England, plant is the DB9. Deliveries in the United States started in December.

The basics: The aluminum and composite body panels are joined to an aluminum body frame....

Notable features: For all the talk about Ford Motor synergies, one must try hard to find anything borrowed from another brand. The DB9 is all about Aston Martin, with some safety-engineering assistance from Volvo.

[bigbrotherjohn]

Im a big fan of the DB9. But somehow the XK i changed just enough to be the ugliest thing i have seen in thr past week. And as far as borrowing from another brand goes, the XK shamelessly steals the grill from the might ford taurus

[86 911]

I like the rear end design, but the front of it looks too much like a Buick.

[86 911]

The Buick-like front:

[randywebb]

Yoy cannot put a big heavy lump of V-8 in the front of a car and compete with a 911.

[techweenie]

Originally posted by randywebb
Yoy cannot put a big heavy lump of V-8 in the front of a car and compete with a 911.

I watched a GTO and a BMW spank a bunch of 911s last weekend on Speed TV.