Bulldog bursts through 200mph
he resurrected Aston Martin Bulldog blasted through its decades-old 200mph target on 6 June at Machrihanish airfield, a former NATO base in Scotland. With multiple Le Mans class-winner Darren Turner at the wheel, William Towns’ twin-turbo 5.3-litre V8 wonder-wedge reached 205.4mph to eclipse the 191mph it achieved in 1979. It was a stunning comeback for the 1977 car that had been intended to spawn
