{"id":534276,"date":"2010-04-18T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/18\/survey-aston-martin-db9-is-uks-favorite-car-of-last-25-years\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T23:33:00","slug":"survey-aston-martin-db9-is-uks-favorite-car-of-last-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534276","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Aston Martin DB9 is UK&#8217;s favorite car of last 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/coupes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coupe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/aston-martin\/\" rel=\"tag\">Aston Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/uk\/\" rel=\"tag\">UK<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/luxury\/\" rel=\"tag\">Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.directline.com\/about_us\/news_12042010.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/astondb9favuk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just six years old, but Britons have lived with it long enough to declare the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/db9\">Aston Martin DB9<\/a> their favorite car of the past 25 years. Great Britain&#8217;s drivers were asked to choose their favorite car from a list of 30 rides going back to 1985 and fully ten percent of them chose Aston&#8217;s middle-child coupe, said to be &#8220;synonymous with James Bond&#8221; even though he never drove one. Germany rounded out the podium spots with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/golf\">Volkswagen Golf<\/a> at number two, and the (Anglo-<strike>Saxon<\/strike>German) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/mini\/\">Mini<\/a> at number three.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the jump for the press release on the survey. Or you can have a look at the DB9 Volante in the high-res gallery below and see if you can figure out why its hardtop sibling took home the trophy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-aston-martin-db9-volante\/low\/\">Review: 2009 Aston Martin DB9 Volante<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-aston-martin-db9-volante\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2008\/10\/abg_db9volante_04_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-aston-martin-db9-volante\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2008\/10\/abg_db9volante_06_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-aston-martin-db9-volante\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2008\/10\/abg_db9volante_12_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-aston-martin-db9-volante\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2008\/10\/abg_db9volante_13_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/review-2009-aston-martin-db9-volante\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2008\/10\/abg_db9volante_08_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directline.com\/about_us\/news_12042010.htm\">Direct Line<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/18\/survey-aston-martin-db9-is-uks-favorite-car-of-last-25-years\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Survey: Aston Martin DB9 is UK&#8217;s favorite car of last 25 years<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/18\/survey-aston-martin-db9-is-uks-favorite-car-of-last-25-years\/\">Survey: Aston Martin DB9 is UK&#8217;s favorite car of last 25 years<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:33:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/18\/survey-aston-martin-db9-is-uks-favorite-car-of-last-25-years\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19444127\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/18\/survey-aston-martin-db9-is-uks-favorite-car-of-last-25-years\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Aston Martin, UK, Luxury It&#8217;s just six years old, but Britons have lived with it long enough to declare the Aston Martin DB9 their favorite car of the past 25 years. Great Britain&#8217;s drivers were asked to choose their favorite car from a list of 30 rides going back to 1985 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}