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Aston Martin Centenary Spectacular

18 Jan, 2013 10:07am Richard Ingram

Aston Martin celebrates its 100-year anniversary in spectacular aerial style

This week we celebrated 100 years of Aston Martin with an extensive tribute gallery, capturing all the icons – from the legendary DB5 to the ultra-exclusive One-77.

Aston itself has been celebrating, too, with a series of events and commemorative videos to mark the occasion – but this is the pick of the bunch.

In this video, we see Aston Martin lifting a £190,000 Vanquish to the top of the seven-star Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai. This is no mean feat – lifting a supercar 1,000ft into the sky requires immense concentration and precision timing.

As a statement, there is no denying its impact. But we’re baffled as to what use a 565bhp, 6.0-litre V12 supercar is on top of a swanky hotel in the middle east.

But check out the video and our centenary gallery regardless, and celebrate 100 years of the British supercar, in style.

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Submitted by Hein Du Plessis on Fri, 2013-01-18 11:48.

I don't understand. What's the point of lifting the car on top of the helipad? Limited area to test drive.

Submitted by John O on Fri, 2013-01-18 13:25.

I'm with you Hein, very unimpressed. Even full screen you could hardly see the car. I was waiting for one of the sheikhs to get in and drive it off the pad and a parachute to come out.....now that would have been spectacular!

Submitted by chrisandrea on Fri, 2013-01-18 15:45.

A shameful waste of money and damaging to the environment.

Submitted by Ty Thomas on Fri, 2013-01-18 22:00.

one wonders why you follow a car mag web site If you think cars are the devils work! I certainly don't follow any green ecoterrorists web sites where ppl think we should live as we did in the dark ages to "save the planet"