Aston has thrown down a 680hp gauntlet - is it worth picking up?
Carmakers are fond of ambitious targets. They have rigorous internal ones, of course, played out on spreadsheets and pored over by shareholders. Then they have the more subjective ones that make for good soundbites, the ones they like to tell journalists about.
It continued pushing all the right buttons when discussing what, exactly, it meant by ‘Super Tourer’. The DB11, lest we forget, originally launched in 2016 with 608hp and 516lb ft of torque from its 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12. The AMG-sourced V8 followed a year later with 510hp before the AMR version improved the V12’s output to 639hp. The DB12, powered by a version of the 4.0-litre V8 which is said to be much more bespoke to Aston, gets 680hp and 590lb ft of torque.
That the iterative jump between here and Aston’s recent past seems multi-generational probably says more about the poxy nature of its previous HMI than anything revelatory about the new infotainment system. Nevertheless, its speed-of-thought and sleek usability is no less than the surrounding architecture deserves.
The reasoning is simple. To be truly successful, the DB12 must convince buyers that it can rival the performance of the Bentley GT Speed and Ferrari Roma, models furnished with 659hp and 620hp, respectively. And not just on paper. Evidently, many of the more detailed revisions - a revised throttle calibration, the pursuit of a quicker flow through the gears - were about making its 2+2 flagship seem assertively responsive under even partial load. Well, mission accomplished.
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