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Matt building a road for the DBS to climb - we find this photo a little suspicious!

DBS drives past at speed

Anthony can’t stop waving his hands…

We stop briefly to take some photos with the locals.

What a road! This is why we travelled over 2,000kms!

Matt’s dirt road pays off as we drive the Aston up high for some photos.

The scenery says it all (spot the Vantage!)

Driving hard into a corner… the noise.. oh the noise…

Anthony and Matt wondering if Alborz plans to come back with the DBS

After our two day stay, the car’s are back on the truck and we head to Mt Isa.

Our video should be ready in a few weeks, but the written review will be online within the next week.

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The Tokyo Shimbun said, without naming sources, that if the two companies reached an agreement, it would be the first time that the Prius, the world’s first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid vehicle, was made in the United States.
Toyota may produce Prius cars at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), a venture established by the two groups in 1984 that currently makes the Toyota Corolla, Tacoma and Matrix plus the Pontiac Vibe, it said.

The Japanese company plans to ship key components from Japan and assemble them at the venture in Fremont, Calif., where demand for environmentally friendly cars is high, the newspaper said.
A Toyota spokesman in Tokyo declined to comment on the report, saying: “As usual, we don’t comment on the details of negotiations, but nothing has been decided yet on the reported NUMMI case.”
Toyota aims to sell at least 1 million hybrid vehicles a year from about 2010.It currently produces the Prius in Japan and China.

The carmaker said this month sales of the Prius had topped one million vehicles since the launch in Japan in 1997, followed by North America, Europe and elsewhere in 2000.

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