Aston Martin has been having a tough time in the Great Recession. As Britain's Autocar magazine recently noted, sales for Agent 007's carmaker of choice dropped from a record 5,500 units in 2007 to around 3,000 in 2009. Aston is upbeat on 2010, forecasting production of 4,000 2-door models at its factory in Gaydon, England, plus 500 copies of the new Rapide sedan supplied from Austria by contract manufacturer Magna International.
