Around the time this was filmed the factory invited all V8 owners to take their car to this factory, I had a series 2 AM-V8 at the time, you left your car with the service department who road tested the car and gave you a full report for free. Whilst your car was being checked over you had a guided tour, I was shown the chassis of the last V8 Vantage being made, shortly after the Vanquish was launched, a day my wife and I still have vivid memories of, I took pictures of the visit, I'll have to try and find them.
Rubbish. All that stupid handwork make the car expensive. Not better. Using pre-war manufacturing methods and machines does not contribute to reliability.
Rubbish. All that stupid handwork make the car expensive. Not better. Using pre-war manufacturing methods and machines does not contribute to reliability.
@Matt Frazier What I mean is: They use handtools only because stamping the body panels is not economical if you only produce a handful of cars a month.
@@olafzijnbuisOf course, but if I think that the Jaguars were built like this only in the 80s, and now the chassis is made by robots, the engines are bought at the market, made by robots in large quantities and often with "ridiculous" displacements, interiors where the class English has disappeared ......... I prefer the flaws and poor reliability of a time ......
sfenodonte You can use robots and manufacturing in conjuction. One doesn’t need to exclude the other. I get that the idea of purely human made cars is nicer, but objectively the quality is worse than when you use robots as a help. Though not necessarily in every area.
Lovely to see craftsmen and women at work, but this was 1995 and the factory scenes look like they come out of the 1950's. Thankfully Aston Martin have invested in modern facilities and techniques and can now produce better quality cars more efficiently. These artisans did however leave us with a fine body of work that we can continue to cherish and enjoy.
with absolute robotic precision - free of too many "pints" last night, free of "I have to get out of here Friday's", free of "oh no it's Monday and I have to go to work", and finally the real killer of hand-built cars, "I'll teach these a-holes that didn't give me my raise"
I love these cars, Newport Pagnell wasn't a factory, it was a Manufacture :-)
Superb video. Artisans and craftspeople everywhere. Brilliant!!
Around the time this was filmed the factory invited all V8 owners to take their car to this factory, I had a series 2 AM-V8 at the time, you left your car with the service department who road tested the car and gave you a full report for free. Whilst your car was being checked over you had a guided tour, I was shown the chassis of the last V8 Vantage being made, shortly after the Vanquish was launched, a day my wife and I still have vivid memories of, I took pictures of the visit, I'll have to try and find them.
That's how expensive cars should be made.
Rubbish. All that stupid handwork make the car expensive. Not better.
Using pre-war manufacturing methods and machines does not contribute to reliability.
Rubbish. All that stupid handwork make the car expensive. Not better.
Using pre-war manufacturing methods and machines does not contribute to reliability.
@Matt Frazier What I mean is: They use handtools only because stamping the body panels is not economical if you only produce a handful of cars a month.
@@olafzijnbuisOf course, but if I think that the Jaguars were built like this only in the 80s, and now the chassis is made by robots, the engines are bought at the market, made by robots in large quantities and often with "ridiculous" displacements, interiors where the class English has disappeared ......... I prefer the flaws and poor reliability of a time ......
sfenodonte You can use robots and manufacturing in conjuction. One doesn’t need to exclude the other. I get that the idea of purely human made cars is nicer, but objectively the quality is worse than when you use robots as a help. Though not necessarily in every area.
The own British knowledge wow 👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 BRAVO !!!👏👏👏👍
The good old days when you could buy a real hand made Aston Martin good real craftsmen and woman creating your masterpiece
Lovely to see craftsmen and women at work, but this was 1995 and the factory scenes look like they come out of the 1950's. Thankfully Aston Martin have invested in modern facilities and techniques and can now produce better quality cars more efficiently. These artisans did however leave us with a fine body of work that we can continue to cherish and enjoy.
My era at Astons, Shame they included the DB7.
The early years of the DB7?
line six name?
Which model is it at 5:45?
Mainly V8 and then Virage and later in film the DB7
That was the DB4 Prototype/Design Study, DP114/2.. @@davidsalmon5405
@@DB7PHiL Thanks Phil. I mis read the post. I didn't realise he asked about the car at 5.45 !
He asked that question a year ago, so probably found out by now! :) @@davidsalmon5405
@@DB7PHiL opps I missed that to. Put it down to age ? I had only just seen this post of this video on the AMOC site
The question is ......... How are they built today?
with absolute robotic precision - free of too many "pints" last night, free of "I have to get out of here Friday's", free of "oh no it's Monday and I have to go to work", and finally the real killer of hand-built cars, "I'll teach these a-holes that didn't give me my raise"
@@robertmatthews7527 ?????????????????
sfenodonte He’s talking about the unreliability and errors of humans...
@@robertmatthews7527 it's not a Ford factory lol
thank you fb for blocking me .. now i can get smarter by watching u tube ,, not dumber playin fool on fb