Aston Martin Le Mans

Among the 106 Aston Martin entries in the MotorJury library, the Aston Martin Le Mans holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1932. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Aston Martin Le Mans properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1930s were the streamline decade, when aerodynamics entered body design, independent suspension spread, and grand-prix engineering began flowing into road cars even as the Depression thinned the industry. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Chevrolet Chevrolet Suburban, the Bugatti Bugatti Type 57, the Lagonda Lagonda 16/80 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Aston Martin Le Mans reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1.5 L (1493 cc) Straight-4–cylinder / single-overhead-cam, dry sump; kerb weight is recorded at 2,128 lb; drive goes through 4-speed manual. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Aston Martin story

Within Aston Martin's own catalogue the Aston Martin Le Mans sits alongside the Aston Martin Mark II (1934), the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, the Aston Martin Vanquish II (2012), the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3. The record names the Aston Martin International as its predecessor and the Aston Martin 12/50 Standard as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Aston Martin Le Mans was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.