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    The Series 4 is a HUGE improvement IMO, but my personal favorite Lagonda is the one with the DBS-like front end.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aNOBLEman View Post
    The Series 4 is a HUGE improvement IMO
    It's too heavy looking, and too soft, all the sharpness is gone. More of a 'Brick' rather than a 'Wedge'. And it doesn't have the pop-up headlights anymore

    Quote Originally Posted by aNOBLEman
    , but my personal favorite Lagondas are the ones with the DB-like front ends.

    DB-like front? I'm afraid I don't know to which Lagonda you refer. Which DB?
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    I really like these, they're so odd but so cool, I recognise those window switches from our 1995 LandRover Discovery though... Nice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waugh-terfall View Post
    I really like these, they're so odd but so cool, I recognise those window switches from our 1995 LandRover Discovery though... Nice.
    And this was made from 1976 -1989...Says a lot about LR.
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    Quote Originally Posted by go.pawel View Post
    DB-like front? I'm afraid I don't know to which Lagonda you refer. Which DB?
    I forgot the "S" on the end as in "DBS". I guess that there's only one of them also, two typos by me. That's what I get for staying up too late.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaigra View Post
    And this was made from 1976 -1989...Says a lot about LR.
    Yeah, exactly... Oh dear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaigra View Post
    And this was made from 1976 -1989...Says a lot about LR.
    So, if a buy a Land Rover I get an Aston. Great!
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    Quote Originally Posted by IWantAnAudiRS6 View Post
    Truly fascinating car; the '70s colour schemes don't do it justice... a true enigma!

    Truly ugly... been fan of aston but looking at this model, no wonder thay went under for a bit.
    Thay should have stayed inderpendent.

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    The Aston Martin Lagonda was a luxury four-door saloon built by Aston Martin of Newport Pagnell, England, between 1974 and 1990. A total of 645 were produced. The name was derived from the Lagonda marque that Aston Martin had purchased in 1947. There were two very distinct versions, the short-lived 1974 saloon based on the Aston Martin V8, and the contrasting ultra-modern version in 1976.

    Aston Martin was facing severe financial pressure in the mid-1970s and needed something to bring in some much-needed funds. Traditionally, Aston Martin had worked on 2+2 sports cars, but the Lagonda was a four-door saloon. As soon as it was introduced, it drew in hundreds of deposits from potential customers, helping Aston Martin's cash reserves.

    The car was designed by William Towns in an extreme interpretation of the classic 1970s "folded paper" style. It was as unconventional a design then as it is now. Car enthusiasts are fiercely divided on the car's aesthetic value. The Lagonda combined striking styling with opulent, club-like leather interior, and then-state-of-the-art instrumentation. Coupled to a Chrysler 3-speed "TorqueFlite" automatic transmission its 4-cam carbureted V8 provided poor, often single-digit miles-per-gallon, little improved by the change to fuel-injection in the Series 3.

    Throughout the history of the marque, these hand-built Lagondas were amongst the most expensive saloons in the world. The only other "production" cars to approach its lofty price tag were the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit/Silver Spur and Bentley Mulsanne.

    The Lagonda was the first production car in the world to use computer management and a digital instrument panel, although the computers in many of the original cars are failure-prone. The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to four times as much as the budget for the whole car. The Series 3 used cathode ray tubes for the instrumentation, which proved even less reliable than the original model's light-emitting diode (LED) display.

    It was named by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of the 50 ugliest cars of the last 50 years and Time Magazine included it in its "50 Worst Cars of All Time", describing it as a mechanical "catastrophe" with electronics that would be very impressive if they ever worked.

    Special Variants

    Non-standard variations of the Lagonda included:

    • Tickford Lagonda (1983) -- Five Series 2 Lagondas were sold with a bodykit and upgraded interiors[14]
    • Tickford limousine (1984) -- Four long-wheelbase Lagondas were made, at a cost of £110,000 each. On these cars, the rear door window glass was split vertically in half.
    • Rapide (a two-door, short-wheelbase version) -- One made, and shared the front triple light design of the Series 4
    • Shooting-brake (Estate), by Swiss company Roos Engineering—One made in 1998 using a 1987 model


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