I HAD HOPED for more sheep. When, six years ago, the British luxury-sports carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda announced it was setting up a factory in Wales, I imagined a low, thatched-roof sort of ...

Aston Martin has definitively killed off any bid to revive the Lagonda badge, with boss Lawrence Stroll declaring that the proposed luxury sub-brand “is not connected in any way” to plans for ...