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Unique Aston Martin restored in Bridgnorth finally achieves its 200mph target

A forty-year-old Aston Martin that has been restored in Bridgnorth has reached its goal of hitting 200mph in a speed test on Tuesday.

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The Aston Martin Bulldog in Scotland at its speed test

The Aston Martin Bulldog never achieved its 200mph top speed when it rolled off the production line in 1979.

The Bulldog was designed by Aston Martin in 1977 to be the fastest production car on the road. However, in late 1979, the Bulldog only recorded a top speed of 191mph at MIRA (Motor Industry Research Association) test track, just short of the hoped-for 200mph.

Now the Bulldog has been driven to victory by three-times Le Mans 24-hour class winner Darren Turner, works driver for Aston Martin, who previously got the Bulldog to 176mph in tests at the Royal Naval Air Station at Yeovilton in 2021.

He smashed the Aston Martin's top speed at the Machrihanish airfield, a former NATO base in Campbeltown Scotland on Tuesday (June 6) and hit a recorded top speed of 205.4mph.