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The NM&Co insiders’ guide to must-do events for Aston Martin enthusiasts in 2025
This year we were once again spoiled for choice when it came to enjoying our Astons with fellow marque aficionados and anyone who just loved getting together and talking cars.
Getting out and about in your treasured Aston Martin is one of the best bits of ownership. We’ve had another terrific year visiting events, sometimes treating them as a driving holiday or enjoyable day out on the road, on other occasions taking the Eurostar or jumping on a plane.
Don’t forget the Essendonbury Farm Ten-Two Club meetings, but here are some suggestions on how to enjoy your car with other like-minded enthusiasts, or top-tier concours and historic race meetings that you can visit by car, train or aeroplane.
So, looking ahead to 2025, what’s coming up? Here’s a selection:
1st January 2025 | Brooklands, Surrey
Get your motoring year off to a flying start!
The perfect season-opener at the birthplace of British motor racing, the setting for many an Aston Martin triumph before WW2. If you drive a convertible, you must drop that roof – just the thing to blow the Christmas cobwebs away.
Bicester, Oxon | 5 January 2025
The meeting that started the trend for Cars and Coffee in the UK and is now such a sell-out you need to get in quick to secure a place. From pocket money VSCC Austin 7 trials cars to $20m McLaren F1 GTRs, Bicester has it all.
Porte de Versailles, Paris, France | 5-9 February 2025
We do not recommend driving to this one, but we thoroughly endorse the event. It’s the first major international meeting of the year and anyone who’s anyone will be in Paris. It’s so easy to get to (Eurostar and Metro, or a flight to Charles de Gaulle or Orly) and need not be expensive.
If you have never been before, it’s a must-do, with all the attractions of Paris thrown in. Allow two days.
St Moritz, Switzerland | 21-22 February 2025
Did we say “need not be expensive” for Paris Rétromobile? The International Concours of Elegance (I.C.E.) is held in the billionaires’ playground of St Moritz so expect some serious bar bills. But, weather permitting (it was snowed off this year), The I.C.E. held on the frozen waters of the lake is an event like no other. When owners order new studded snow tyres for their $4m Lamborghini Miura P400 SVs, you get the picture.
The Golf Club of Amelia Island, Amelia Island, Florida, USA | 8 March 2025
“RADwood is a celebration of ’80s and ’90s lifestyle, blending period correct dress with automotive awesomeness.” That’s the take from the organisers, the enthusiasts working for US insurance giant Hagerty. It’s held in parallel with the respected Amelia Island Concours, now simply ‘The Amelia’, where half the field is Brass Era oldies, the other the best racing machines from the ’60s and ’70s.
Whether you are interested in the really old, icons of motor racing or the motoring equivalent of wide-shouldered jackets and Lady Diana haircuts, make the trip to Florida and you will get a lot of bang for your buck. It’s so amazing!
Goodwood, West Sussex | Members’ Meeting 12-13 April 2025
It’s Goodwood – need we say more?
Bicester, Oxon | 27 April 2025
The meeting that started the trend for Cars and Coffee in the UK and is now such a sell-out you need to get in quick to secure a place. From pocket money VSCC Austin 7 trials cars to $20m McLaren F1 GTRs, Bicester has it all.
Royal Artillery Club, London | 3-5 May 2025
We have supported the London Concours since its inception and cannot recommend it highly enough.
Nicholas Mee & Co, Essendonbury Farm, Hatfield | May 17th 2025
Our first meet up for 2025. All visitors (and all makes of cars) are welcome to join us for an informal gathering of like minded enthusiasts, a freshly roasted, barista served coffee, hot food and to have a wonder around our showrooms and workshops.
The perfect excuse for a run out in your Aston Martin (or any other interesting car for that matter) and to visit our premises. We are also blessed with some fantastic driving roads in the local environs so your trip will be a memorable one!
Tickets and booking information will appear nearer the time. In the meantime be sure to like our Ten-Two-Club Instagram account to be the first to hear about our meetings.
Villa d’Este, Como, Italy | 23-25 May 2025
The world’s most glamorous event where what you wear from neck to toe counts as much as what car you turned up in. The cars on display at Villa d’Este are the most elegant, unusual and often most valuable in the world. Saturday is essentially a by-invitation private event, but Sunday is given over to the public and for a nominal figure you can enjoy all the cars on static display at nearby Villa Erba. Later in the day they are presented in the grounds of the villa by urbane, multilingual MC Simon Kidston.
Either drive to Como and stay in the Italian Lakes for a few days, or fly to Malpensa, get a chauffeur from the airport to Como (where hotels are not expensive) then hop on a scheduled passenger ferry (14 minute-trip every 45 minutes or so in daytime, around €3) from Como to Cernobbio.
Sonoma, California, USA | 6-8 June 2025
This is a great event held in the heart of California wine country. Think of it as the Goodwood Festival meets the Monterey Historics. Coming from across the pond, expect to see racing cars run on display laps or against the clock that you’d unlikely see in Europe. Cars such NASCAR and IMSA GTPs, as well as the best F1 and sports-racing machinery from before WW2 to the late 2010s.
Nicholas Mee & Co, Essendonbury Farm, Hatfield | July 5th 2025
Our second meet up for 2025. All visitors (and all makes of cars) are welcome to join us for an informal gathering of like minded enthusiasts, a freshly roasted, barista served coffee, hot food and to have a wonder around our showrooms and workshops.
The perfect excuse for a run out in your Aston Martin (or any other interesting car for that matter) and to visit our premises. We are also blessed with some fantastic driving roads in the local environs so your trip will be a memorable one!
Tickets and booking information will appear nearer the time. In the meantime be sure to like our Ten-Two-Club Instagram account to be the first to hear about our meetings.
Goodwood, West Sussex | Festival of Speed 10-13 July 2025
It’s Goodwood – need we say more?
Beaulieu, Hampshire | 19 July 2025
The clue is in the name – a great event dedicated to our favourite marque. One of the best things is the drive down through the beautiful New Forest.
Grantley Hall, Ripon, North Yorkshire | 22-24 July 2025
Speaking of driving roads, North Yorkshire has some stunning topography and it’s a wonderful place to be at the wheel of an Aston. This is a relatively new event and the location looks impressive.
Lake Tegernsee, Southern Germany | 25-26 July 2025
A long drive through picturesque southern Germany south of Munich, almost to the borders of Austria. No doubt some unlimited sections of motorway, beer, sausages and gorgeous classic cars – we like the sound of that. And it’s organised by the team that handles the standard-setting Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court.
Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire | 26 July 2025
“It’s not beige, it’s Harvest Gold.” So ran a sign at last year’s Festival, the Hagerty-sponsored tribute to everything ordinary – and sometimes just plain naff – produced for the masses mainly in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. If that amuses you, as it did us, do make the trip to Lincolnshire next summer. While you are there, check out the local town Bourne, formerly the home of British Racing Motos (BRM).
Silverstone Festival
Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire | 22-24 August 2025
Goodwood is great but Silverstone in August has a different vibe: you can wear what you like and it’s non-stop racing, with some seriously fast cars taking to the circuit that’s the home of the British Grand Prix. Expect to see historic Aston Martins ranging from DB3Ss and DB4 GTs to more modern machinery including DBR9s.
Hampton Court Palace, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | 5-7 September 2025
Quite simply THE concours event of the year in the UK, one standing tall with Pebble Beach and Villa d’Este. Going on Friday, Preview Day, is more expensive but worth the outlay. We always attend and meet so many friends there the time just disappears. A dramatic setting, easy access and parking and – generally – fine weather with a drop dead gorgeous selection of cars, the Concours of Elegance has it all.
Goodwood, West Sussex | Revival 12-14 September 2025
It’s Goodwood – need we say more?
Nicholas Mee & Co, Essendonbury Farm, Hatfield | September 21st 2025
Our final meet up for 2025. All visitors (and all makes of cars) are welcome to join us for an informal gathering of like minded enthusiasts, a freshly roasted, barista served coffee, hot food and to have a wonder around our showrooms and workshops.
The perfect excuse for a run out in your Aston Martin (or any other interesting car for that matter) and to visit our premises. We are also blessed with some fantastic driving roads in the local environs so your trip will be a memorable one!
Tickets and booking information will appear nearer the time. In the meantime be sure to like our Ten-Two-Club Instagram account to be the first to hear about our meetings.
Bicester, Oxon | 5 October 2025
The meeting that started the trend for Cars and Coffee in the UK and is now such a sell-out you need to get in quick to secure a place. From pocket money VSCC Austin 7 trials cars to $20m McLaren F1 GTRs, Bicester has it all.
Two venues; Warwickshire and Bedfordshire | All Year Round (but booking in advance is required)
Earlier this year in 2023, Caffeine and Machine opened their second venue, located close to the Millbrook testing facility in Bedfordshire and handily about 45 minutes drive away from Essendonbury Farm.
Caffeine & Machine exists, first and foremost, as a brand that caters to everyone with a love for things that move. From first cars to hypercars, spotless classics to superbikes, microcars to trucks, there’s a place for it at C&M.
Their physical spaces are designed to be all things to all people – they’re a place to enjoy wonderful food and drink, soak up an ever-eclectic display of brilliant machinery, and above all else, come be around friends, whether they’re ones you’ve known for years or ones you didn’t know you had yet.
Please note: Dates correct as of December 2024. Do check with the organisers before booking or setting off.
