New Aston Martin Website

[Adam2S]

www.astonmartin.com

Blimey - when did that happen?? Looks very slick!

[Adam2S]

Hmmmmm, I'm a bit dissapointed already... No really new content just a nice new style for the models section. And it would seem the new models all have Beauty, but no Power or Soul!!! Each car has 3 buttons to click on, but only the Beauty button seems to work correctly.

And the news and used stock locator still links through to the old site.

Whoever is in charge of acceptance testing IT at AM needs a kick up the jacksie!

Edited by Adam2S on Friday 13th May 00:02

[DB9VolanteDriver]

This is the typical case of new not being better. Some panels are difficult to read because of the poor choice of text color for the background. I liked the old site much better. A FAIL IMO.

[George H]

The configurator isn't brilliant, can only do a few models.

Only seem to be able to do the Cygnet, Virage coupe, and V8VS coupe.

[Jockman]

When looking at the page with all the range on, it sort of runs in descending order (approx), until you hit the DB9, then after that it reads CYGNET then the V8Vs.

Why didn't they put the Cygnet after the V8Vs ??

Minor, aesthetic point really

[Adam2S]

Hmm, Power, Beauty, Soul buttons now work. So they have either fixed it this morning or my PC at home isnt happy. Strange because both home and work PCs have Win7 and ie9 on them.... :/


Hmmm - not so sure about the chap doing the video voice overs on the Power button. Sounds just a tad too posh and a little camp.

[sadlerj]

Power, Beauty, Soal, Cheese. It's all a bit 'German Lifestyle Mag' feel for me, you know the mags that you get in the airport lounges and have a browse through looking at daft watches, home interiors and yachts.

[George H]

sadlerj said:

Power, Beauty, Soal, Cheese. It's all a bit 'German Lifestyle Mag' feel for me, you know the mags that you get in the airport lounges and have a browse through looking at daft watches, home interiors and yachts.

You mean like the Aston Martin magazine? That has some of the most stupid adverts I have ever seen, like the Leerjet ones.

[EpsomJames]

sadlerj said:

Power, Beauty, Soal, Cheese. It's all a bit 'German Lifestyle Mag' feel for me, you know the mags that you get in the airport lounges and have a browse through looking at daft watches, home interiors and yachts.

I take it you've never seen the AM Magazine then? That's exactly what you've just described

[blackice1]

The site is only after Phase 1 of 3 phases , so watch that space.

[sadlerj]

EpsomJames said:

I take it you've never seen the AM Magazine then? That's exactly what you've just described

Yer exactly like that pointless mag, got issues 1-7 then the got bored of sending it to me, perhaps I don't fit the demographic they are targeting..

[JohnG1]

sadlerj said:

Yer exactly like that pointless mag, got issues 1-7 then the got bored of sending it to me, perhaps I don't fit the demographic they are targeting..

They got bored sending it to me as well.

I quite liked the ads for G5s and Sunseekers... although only for naffness value

[Murph7355]

Adam2S said:

Hmmmmm, I'm a bit dissapointed already... No really new content just a nice new style for the models section. And it would seem the new models all have Beauty, but no Power or Soul!!! Each car has 3 buttons to click on, but only the Beauty button seems to work correctly.

And the news and used stock locator still links through to the old site.

...

The cruel amongst us might suggest that this is therefore very representative of the brand at the moment

[Jay_Davis]

Funny, all I see is one big error message.

Is that phase 2??

[Mr Aston Martin]

Jay_Davis said:

Funny, all I see is one big error message.

Is that phase 2??

Just a failure to proceed and load, no doubt a AA wagon will be along shortly.....

[sjp63]

Configurator is very disappointing, wouldn't load at all on my work PC (there are no restrictions) and slow to load at home. Interior colour selection is not particularly easy to see and once you finish there appears to be no way to rotate the interior view. Pretty hopeless compared to say the Maserati configurator.

Edited to say the Virage exterior colours are extensive and some quite vivid. If you're really boring you can choose black

Edited by sjp63 on Saturday 14th May 09:56