with the production of the virage (soon rechristened "v8" following vantage styling revisions) continuing at newport pagnell, a new factory was acquired at bloxham, oxfordshire that had previously been used to manufacture the xj220, where every db7 would be built throughout its production run. the db7 and its variants were the only aston martin automobiles produced in bloxham and the only ones with a steel unit construction inherited from jaguar (aston martin had traditionally used aluminium for construction of the bodies of their cars, and models introduced after the db7 use aluminium for the chassis as well as for many major body parts).