Aston Martin DB12 Plays a Game of Sporty Succession
We visit the French Riviera and get behind the wheel of British automaker Aston Martin's most poised and powerful super tourer, the DB12.
Driving conditions were far from ideal across sections of the Route Napoléon last month. The normally achingly bucolic stretch of winding backroads commencing from the glistening coastline of the Côte d’Azur retracing the footsteps of the French Emperor’s 1815 flight from Elba to Grenoble was being rudely doused across sections of the carefully curated route plotted to acquaint us with the most recent iteration of an automotive icon with few peers. Downspouts of rain descended from the mountainside at times with such severity it seemed like I was driving through a carwash (albeit at speeds no carwash would ever permit) rather than the storied route often considered one of the best drives across France. But behind the wheel of the newly unveiled Aston Martin DB12, the trying conditions seemed to play out as an opportunity rather than any real reason for concern. Photo: Gregory Han
Photo: Gregory Han
The vehicle’s wide haunched stance borrows heavily from its predecessor, the DB11, with most of the notable changes found under the hood (a new 671 horsepower twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8) or behind the GT’s low slung doors. But according to Aston Martin director of design Miles Nurnberger, the sum of the DB12’s exterior changes ? the enlarged grille, the addition of matrix-LED headlights, an even m...
Driving conditions were far from ideal across sections of the Route Napoléon last month. The normally achingly bucolic stretch of winding backroads commencing from the glistening coastline of the Côte d’Azur retracing the footsteps of the French Emperor’s 1815 flight from Elba to Grenoble was being rudely doused across sections of the carefully curated route plotted to acquaint us with the most recent iteration of an automotive icon with few peers. Downspouts of rain descended from the mountainside at times with such severity it seemed like I was driving through a carwash (albeit at speeds no carwash would ever permit) rather than the storied route often considered one of the best drives across France. But behind the wheel of the newly unveiled Aston Martin DB12, the trying conditions seemed to play out as an opportunity rather than any real reason for concern. Photo: Gregory Han
Photo: Gregory Han
The vehicle’s wide haunched stance borrows heavily from its predecessor, the DB11, with most of the notable changes found under the hood (a new 671 horsepower twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8) or behind the GT’s low slung doors. But according to Aston Martin director of design Miles Nurnberger, the sum of the DB12’s exterior changes ? the enlarged grille, the addition of matrix-LED headlights, an even m...
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