At first glance, the rumor is very plausible. Ford owned Aston Martin between 1991 and 2007. While Aston Martin produced some of its most iconic vehicles around this time, took center stage in the Bond films, and achieved good fortune on the race track, it also saw many popular Ford parts. as a component of it. High-end cars. There was also a Mondeo that looked suspiciously like the DB9 that had a Duratec V6 under the hood, as well as a Ford Fusion (launched as Mondeo in the UK) a little later that borrowed a lot of Aston Martin’s styling.
Then there’s the level of performance Aston Martin offered at the time, which adds yet more credibility to the suggestion. While current Astons are pushing things to the limit under the hood, older models weighed heavily on their looks. Casting aside any rose-tinted spectacles, 0 to 60 times on a DB7 were around six seconds, and the DB9 managed to get it just under five. This was, and still is, fast, but it was noticeably slower than similarly priced supercars of the era.