The maker of sports cars such as the DB9 has been bought by a consortium headed by UK entrepreneur David Richards, founder of Prodrive, based in Banbury, Oxon, for around £479million. He's backed by Kuwaiti investors, who will plough cash into the firm to produce the four-door Rapide and a top-secret flagship supercar, codenamed the DBX. These new models are predicted to create extra jobs at Aston.