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I
personally had heard a rumour in the late 1990's that AML had indeed
gone out and built there own Lagonda Vignale with the intention of
putting the car into production, but to
be honest, I found this a little hard to believe. I was thus
dumbstruck when I got my copy of David Dowsey's book which actually
had pictures of such a car, built at Newport Pagnell as a proposed
new model line.
DP2138 was
based on a platform from within the Ford empire and powered by a V12.
But the coachwork and interior was solely the work of the Newport
Pagnell factory - no-one else in the world could have produced such a
fine automobile. Apart from the styling, this car in fact has
mechanically little in common with the 1993 concept.
Sadly the project didn't proceed further and the car
was sold to a collector in the Far East. What stopped this fabulous
project? A focus within AML on the DB7 perhaps or the fact that the
Lagonda marque was so little known outside of the UK. Whatever, I
still think it's even better looking than the DB9 based Rapide and
represents, at least to me as the right car at the wrong time. These photographs have
been provided with the kind assistance of a friend of mine at AM.
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