Aston Martin Lagonda Vignale

The Aston Martin Lagonda Vignale is a five-seater concept car built by Ghia for Lagonda, designed by Moray Callum with interior design by David Wilkie and presented at the 1993 Geneva Motor Show alongside the Aston Martin DB7. It was built to gauge interest in a four-door Aston Martin model and was well received, but it never entered production because Ford judged that reviving the Lagonda brand would be too expensive given how little known it was outside the United Kingdom. The concept used an extended 1990 Lincoln Town Car chassis and that car's 4.6 litre Ford Modular V8 producing 190 hp with a four-speed automatic gearbox, while a production version was planned with a 5.9 litre V12. Its composite body used nickel trim instead of chrome and the interior had aniline-dyed leather, beech and aluminium trim. Three were built, and one was sold at auction by Ford in 2002 for 403,500 US dollars.