Aston Martin DB7

The Aston Martin DB7 was a car that the British luxury maker Aston Martin produced from September 1994 to December 2004, designed by Ian Callum and Keith Helfet as a grand tourer in coupé and convertible bodystyles. The prototype was complete by November 1992 and debuted at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1993. Known internally as the XX project, it was made mostly with resources from Jaguar Cars and had the financial backing of the Ford Motor Company, owner of Aston Martin from 1988 to 2007; its platform was an evolution of the Jaguar XJS platform with many changes, and it was engineered at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, by Tom Walkinshaw Racing on behalf of Aston Martin. The six-cylinder DB7, based on the Jaguar AJ6 engine, was positioned as an entry-level model below the hand-built V8 Virage, and it later became available with a V12. It was the most-produced Aston Martin of its time, with more than 7,000 built before the DB9 replaced it in 2004.