Chuffed Dave Richards is involved with Aston Martin as I reckon he is a clever guy. Not sure we can say it's in British hands due to overseas involvement but I wish all parties involved the best of luck and lets see Aston Martin at the top with great designs and fantastic engineering and I hope this is just the beginning. I still get hot and bothered when I think of the British names that were sold off, Triumph, MG, Land Rover, Mini - all iconic names and history bought by foriegn companies who appreciated there worth. What are our banks doing to encourage British business, not enough! They just take the easy money from all the punters that now HAVE to use there services.

Gordon Smith, Aberdeen,

This is good. Nice to see a UK based consortium buying it.However what a great job Ford did with the Aston, its also great they are hanging onto a stake.

Look forward to seeing Aston developer further - shame I am never going to be able to buy one.

Tim, London, UK

I wish Dave Richards well, I only live several miles from the Prodrive operation and have watched the dynamic growth of the business over recent years, I do feel Dave has overstretched himself with this overseas financed deal and purchase of Aston Martin; the boardroom will be creaking at the seams when all of the shareholders have their first board meeting.

Interesting to note that Ford has retained a small shareholding, this will to be protect manf and intellectual rights, etc, should they decide to pull out altogether in 1-2 yrs, the Aston Martin operation will be in BIG trouble.

Good luck, Dave, you will need plenty to succeed with your latest spectacular business adventure.

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Steve, Banbury, UK