Aston Martin recently unveiled would could prove to be it’s fastest production street car to date. Aston has been trying to prove to the world that it does just fine without Ford. Following the release of the very potent DBS, Aston Martin set out to dominate the European middleweight market and put to shame some of the best that Ferrari and Porsche has to offer. Targeting cars like the Ferrari F430 and GT3 Porsche takes a lot of muscle and style and Aston Martin definitely delivers.

Gulf Oil racing colors will adorn a pair of Aston Martin DBR9’s for the famous 24hr Le Mans race in 2008. Gulf Oil’s first Le Mans winning car, the powder blue and orange painted Ford GT40 driven by Pedro Rodriguez and Lucien Bianchi, took the win back in 1968. A car very few of us forget, and even more of us dream about. Since then Gulf has sponsored many other Le Mans contenders such as the Porsche 917, and  in 2001 the Audi Sport UK R8.

Aston Martin swings for the fence in ‘08 with a new V-12 offering. Tagged as the DBS, the 510 horsepower “Top Dog”, as Forbes Magazine calls it, replaces the late great Vanquish S which ceased production in 2006. The DBS is based off the still running DB9 and although they share the same displacement V-12 and basic body design the DBS looks more like a DB9 on steroids than a car of its own.