{"id":71155,"date":"2016-06-03T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9a2abc7855b9842fed0b1903f4a92e15"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T09:11:00","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-gets-hands-on-with-new-luxury-aston-martin-to-be-built-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71155","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State gets hands on with new luxury Aston Martin to be built in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Secretary of State for Wales spoke after touring Aston Martin Lagonda\u2019s head office in Gaydon, Warwickshire.<\/p>\n<p>He saw the latest designs for the company\u2019s DBX which is due to be produced at the St Athan \u201csuperhanger\u201d site in the Vale of Glamorgan.<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, Aston Martin Lagonda announced that the DBX \u2013 a \u2018crossover\u2019 sports utility vehicle \u2013 would be made at St Athan with the creation of 750 jobs and a further 1,000 in the supply chain and with local businesses. Work on the factory will start in 2017 with vehicle production due to begin three years later.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"mr-cairns-said\">Mr Cairns said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The decision by Aston Martin Lagonda to come to Wales was an incredible vote of confidence in Welsh manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>It shows that Wales is a manufacturing centre of choice for major exporters who want a skilled workforce and easy transport links. I\u2019m glad the Wales Office was able to work with the UK and Welsh Governments to bring this about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It was hugely impressive to see these stunning vehicles up close and see the exciting plans on the drawing board.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aston Martin launched the luxury DBX concept at the 85th Geneva International motor show in 2015. The four-wheel drive vehicle combines cutting edge engineering with Aston Martin\u2019s world-renowned design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun Cairns today saw advanced designs for the new Aston Martin DBX vehicle \u2013 to be built in Wales \u2013 and dubbed it \u201can incredible vote of confidence in Welsh manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71177,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71155\/revisions\/71177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}