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And Astons battered share price which at 52.8p sits below its recent 62p a share fundraising will be 6, 7 or 9 over the next five years, Stroll proclaims.

Lawrence Stroll the Canadian petrolhead leaving Aston Martin shaken and stirred.

The most important thing in luxury it doesnt matter if you are making handbags or automobiles is you have to align demand with supply.

When Stroll pulled up in January, dealers forecourts were awash with cars.

Aston Martin had pumped too many products into a struggling market.

The billionaire, who made his fortune with the brands Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors, had not initially intended to buy Aston; he was keener on getting it to work with his Formula One team Racing Point.

Victor Gauntlett, its chairman in the 1980s, said the only way to make a small fortune out of Aston Martin was to start with a big one.

Its eighth was starting to look like a distinct possibility.

Ex-boss Andy Palmer, former No 2 at Nissan, sold the City his second-century plan, which projected the launch of seven cars in seven years, and eventually sales of 14,000 a year.

In came Stroll and a consortium of wealthy backers including JCB owner Lord (Anthony) Bamford and Silas Chou, Strolls fashion partner.

The Canadian tycoon took the role of executive chairman and replaced Penny Hughes, the chairwoman who had overseen the disastrous float.

Strolls gang took 25 of Astons shares as part of the 536m cash call, last month following up with another fundraising that handed 20 of the company to Mercedes, in return for its latest technology and eventually gear to power electric cars.

Out went Palmer, in came Tobias Moers, German boss of Mercedes high-performance AMG division.

He knows luxury better than the previous management, thats for sure.

Stroll is a bit old-style, adds the source, given his love of big-engined supercars and the F1 paddock.

But the automotive world is changing fast, and rivals fear being regulated or shamed out of existence.

While rivals launch electric and hybrid hypercars, its much-delayed Valkyrie, to be launched next year with a 2.5m price tag, will be powered by a 6.5-litre V12 engine.

That is the greatest hyper sports car that will ever be made, says Stroll.

The new 250,000 Vanquish supercar will be powered by a hybrid engine, but arrives in late 2023, with Astons first electric car not due till 2025.

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Aston ultimately ends up at full electric but theres a whole transition in between about electrification, about hybrid.

He did. He met Ralph Lauren and won the right to expand the brand into Europe while in his early twenties, again successfully.

In 1989, Stroll bought a struggling company doing 5m of sales called Tommy Hilfiger.

He then took Michael Kors from sales of 14m to a 20bn New York Stock float.

He is a forceful personality if hes got an idea he will keep pushing it He also has a reputation for hiring the best people.

A lot of analysts and journalists were misled and have what I call a mad-on hangover about this company because of what the previous management did, he says.

Aston, he says, is the greatest brand in the world for luxury automotive regardless of what a certain rival in the Italian town of Maranello might say.