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    Knack for the future

    May 03, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS OLLIE KEW
    PHOTOGRAPHY LEE BRIMBLE

    To misquote Dr Emmett Brown, “If you’re going to build electric into a car, why not do it with some style?”

    Meet the most modern car Aston Martin has ever made. It’s from 1970. Valkyrie? Pur-lease. Still a prototype, confined to simulators and test beds. Propelled along by a cacophany of exploding ex-dinosaur vapours. No, this 49-year old slab of ivory and red is the cutting-edge. Aston Martin’s first electric car.

    Humming as it charges in one of Aston Martin’s skunkworks garages at Silverstone, the DB6 MkII Volante is proudly introduced to me by a beaming Paul

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