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PHOTO:SUPPLIED It might eventually be the tallest thing on Miami’s skyline, but the Aston Martin Residence sure ain’t the prettiest.

It is quite common for luxury car manufacturers to get into lifestyle products as well. After all, if you can sell a half a million dollar car, you can easily flog off a $100 hat, a $1,000 pen or a $2,000 hand bag to eager punters with more money that either good sense or good taste.

But Aston Martin has now taken it to a whole new awful level – literally – with a high-rise building full of luxury apartments and HUGE amounts of pretentiousness, if the video above is anything to go by.

The (even pretentiously-named) Aston Martin Residences has started its rise into the downtown Miami skyline after completing the vital foundation works. Created by G and G Business Developments, the company says the 66-storey tower will become the tallest residential building south of New York City when it is completed in 2022. And, yeah, mentioning New York as a comparison when your building is not actually in New York is pretty pretentious…

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