The Aston Martin DB11 | Top Gear

Aston Martin with a turbo is big news, so if they've screwed it up, this might be the best all-around Afton in the last 20 years for 40 years, but damn, I'm old, the engine may be smaller, but Those controversial new turbochargers mean the Astin v12 now. produces 600 horsepower which is actually enough to make it the first DV car that will go over 200 miles per hour, it sounds like hell and well it's still rear wheel drive the

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box is still in the rear for better weight distribution and now there's even proper multi-link rear suspension, so if you accidentally end up in a massive power slide, yes, do that too now, some might complain that this British icon got all its electronic computers and stuff from Mercedes, Frankly, I don't care if the behind-the-scenes stuff is programmed by German guys and the metal-rimmed glasses don't bother me at all because, unlike the old Astin's, they actually work and, in addition to all the tactile stuff, they're still as they should be, this leather is very leathery and this metal is very metal E and this wood is very, oh I'm just kidding, it's a good wood, the armrest, you don't have to go through all that effort to manually slide it back to get to that little storage space underneath, no, there's a switch here. that does that for you.

I can't believe I've been manually sliding the armrests all these years like an ape. It's time I can't get back, so it's great to drive, great to pass the time, but it should be DP eleven is one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, which brings up that old debate about half the money you could have with a Nissan GTR which has about the same power and four-wheel drive and will annihilate this Aston on any circuit in the world, but come on, that's not the point of the DB. 11 This is a luxury yacht, not a speedboat, it's a private jet, not a fighter jet, it's about discreet, sophisticated, effortless elegance, yes.