| Collecting cars is a bit like collecting wine – you’re never quite sure if a bottle that’s been in the cellar for five, 10 or 20 years will turn out to be a delicious revelation or a sour surprise. If we’d have coughed up close to £100,000 for an Aston Martin DB7 back in the early-2000s, we’d now likely be ruing the day we ever set foot in the showroom. However, if we’d have forked out the extra £60,000 for the exotic Zagato-bodied version, of which just 99 examples were hand-built at Bloxham, it would be a different story altogether. Like a fine wine, it’s been quietly maturing and increasing in desirability to collectors. And if you deconstruct the ingredients that form its heady Italo-Anglo cuvée of power, style and rarity, it’s not difficult to see why. Alex Easthope
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