Chris Harris Drives The Aston Martin DB11 | Top Gear

So this is it, so the first all-new Aston Martin in a long time looks nice, but they did something good within 20 seconds of driving this car. You know right away that it's a teenager, not a sports car, how big it is and with the shock absorbers fitted. soft is flexible, it's much more comfortable than any rival, even an s12 with retracted shocks is not as flexible as this and I like that there is now a guy working at Aston Martin who used to be at Lotus. I won't do it. say its name you will be embarrassed but you can feel it influencing the way this car is very flexible thats how good it will travel and its happy to go further all the time so I like that it chooses the character of the car.

Engine which is interesting, it doesn't feel that turbocharged to me but the torque is so huge it frankly overwhelms the rear wheels, as you can see it's raining on a wet wet day like this, you can barely use it even with numbers like the soft . It's already a bit of a pain, but you can really change the personality of this car with these two, but another battle with an S here and that one is here, so this S button gives me the DNA of my powertrain. The shifter put an end to that kind of thing and that means.

I can go from sport sport plus four normal plus it gives me a loud exhaust slot if you don't hear some of this they have done a very good job of detecting the intake noise considering it is turbocharged some other master margin the damper button again three settings The normal and critical GT mode, well, that sport and then Sport Plus, throwing up, you get lower support, let's roll and a less kind movement over the bumps, but you lose a lot of that proper comfort, so On the road I don't believe in GT. I'm having it in the second powertrain mode, so just for better throttle response, a little more noise so as not to walk alone?

Do you like the style? It doesn't photograph well and I'm worried that the whole floating C pillar thing will age the car like this. and the i8 a bit quick, but on the road they actually headed like with the DB 11 - and 6 look at the figures 600 horsepower from the 5.2-liter twin-turbo v12, 516 pound-feet of torque and weighs 1770 kilograms, Aston He claims he will. 200 miles per hour and it feels punchy the front brakes are 400 millimeter steel the

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box is a ZF 8 speed unit and Bridgestone calls the tire S double oh seven AB sweet so fast highway driving I think this car it's really good The judged

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box calibration is very clever - ZF 8 speed just leave it in gear and really just think, because you don't need to have it in manual from time to time, it's a good gear, but I just leave it in March.

You reinforce the cabin's GT credentials again and it's a place to sit, it's lovely, there's a lot going on here. Mercedes infotainment doesn't seem so modern nowadays, but I love the readout here, it's very clear and it's a new direction for Aston Martin. steering wheel, yes you can keep the wind all over the nose again well suppressed, supporting the GT role, but what is it like if you drive it very fast? I guess we should go to a race track. The weather in Angle C is horrendous today, quite flooded, so it's There will be more side window looking forward than wind current and I know I'll be accused of being irrelevant, but that's the way it is.

I can tell you what it's like on the road I've been on. I told you about refinement and cushioning. Otherwise, now you need to know how absolutely great the new DB 11th is within an inch of its life. Someone else's family does it for you, although it looks really, really, really fun, so we'll see what we can do without executing the Irishman first. All in all, I'm in the most aggressive chassis mode, I have my shocks in medium mode and I have my traction stability completely off, this means that the first three gears should be used tentatively, of course you can give them. a complete little bit so it's its second year the idea of ​​how we're going there little accelerator and it's already pulling so what weight we're going at easily the greater balance the talk has the other river absolutely longer we have a lot of direction and level of progression towards the outer limit note I have never experimented with an athlete, it can only be worth fighting this is actually very nice, it is building up the differential, the last few fast Astins I have driven have been a bit of a nightmare, this gets hot. and it becomes a symmetrical job well, we are not the other, this is not the same, this feels like a completely new setup for us, the gearbox on the mazda3 is excellent, it shifts quickly, I put it on the manual setting, the tire, the Bridgestone tire feels quite unwieldy.

I mean, you don't find anything close to the grip that an equivalent Mitchell would have in these conditions, but it's wonderfully progressive when you break the engine. It's very interesting. I had to remind myself that it was supercharged a minute ago because it makes such a loud noise and the delivery is so linear that you only realize it's turbocharged when you stop to think about how hard it's fighting for traction, hit the accelerator. and I'm just trying your food, I'm here, I just turn to the side that's there. get married guys the brakes are good they're not ceramic for the price they should be ceramic probably the other thing I've noticed is that when you want to turn the car in this case because they have a little bit of lean back you use the brake alone. to help you, now go there and think about it.

I did that on the brake system, like the buckle, it needs to be cleaned, that's quite useful, ugly, irrelevant to a big disease, arguing that they are universal. I didn't expect it to be so fun. It's a very very fun car, very balanced, much easier to slide than I expected and it feels like it could do it for a long time, it feels robust so yes these miles are better than I expected and again It has the heads. The closest thing, isn't it?