I Spy...

An Aston Martin Lagonda?


No! I spy two Aston Martin Lagondas!


Until today, I've never had a confirmed sighting of this car. Back in 1993 I was taking a trip to the Soviet Union and had a 1 hour lay over in Shannon, Ireland. We got off the plane and wandered around a nearly empty airport very early in the morning. From a window I could see a parking lot and I thought I saw a Lagonda out there. But it was probably half a mile away and I wasn't sure. No doubt about these.


Never heard of it? Not surprising despite a production run of 15 years only 645 were ever built. They were an attempt at a 4 door super car and made Time's list of 50 worst cars.

Per Wiki:

The Lagonda was the first production car in the world to use computer management and a digital instrument panel, although the computers in many of the original cars are failure-prone. The development cost for the electronics alone on the Lagonda came to 4 times as much as the budget for the whole car. The second series used cathode ray tubes for the instrumentation, which proved even less reliable than the original model's LED display.

Remeber, the electronics on this car are Lucas, the prince of darkness.