REVIEW: The Aston Martin DBS 770 Ultimate sets the tone for all future Astons - Richard Lane explains why this is no bad thing
Said corner lurks on snaking, quick, fairly narrow B-roads and is taken in second or third gear. It’s smooth on the inside but corrugated on the hedge-lined outside – especially on the exit, where you also find dust, mud or, just for fun, standing water.
Torque is the same, because ZF’s eight-speed automatic transmission can’t reliably take much more before it threatens to ingest itself, but that 664lb ft total is still enough to send the 1770kg 770 Ultimate to 62mph in 3.2sec. As for in-gear performance, it will easily leave you laughing out loud and passengers praying out loud. Top speed remains limited to 211mph.
Such breadth is impressive and also a bit confounding. The root of it all is the car’s increased stiffness. A new crossbrace and a thickened crossmember beneath the engine have lifted front stiffness by a quarter, while ‘increased engineering’ of a sheer panel has improved matters at the back. The benefit is that damper performance immediately improves, even before you refine and perfect the rates.
There are other fine-tuning elements that were parsed into the DBS recipe during the 770 Ultimate’s 18-month gestation. The torque interruption during gearshifts is shorter yet transmission ‘double-bump’ has also been eradicated, so the car swaps cogs faster but now pulls out of T-junctions with seamless ease and none of the shunt that you sometimes get with the regular car.
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