Aston Martin’s cars are the best yet – why aren’t its finances?

Aston Martin has often been in the news for the wrong reasons in recent years, and this time it’s for the secretive terms of a fresh £550 million loan that gives special rights to the new lenders not available to those already on the hook for the firm’s £1.5 billion debt pile.

How is Aston Martin not able to escape the debt doom loop? Its current cars are acknowledged to be some of the best it has ever produced, but the nature of such a cash-hungry business makes it difficult to escape the financial hamster wheel.