This car almost broke my legs!

This is the aster Martin db12 valante and it is a bit like Big Ben. You see, it looks very similar to what it had before on the outside when it was the db11, however, under the skin it has been completely modernized. Did you know that Big Ben now has an elevator in it and LED lights, all that kind of stuff anyway, what I'm going to do is tell you what's new about

this

car by telling you about the outside, like it's floating, showing you the inside. They thought about the British customer. trying out their tech can get you fired up tell you what's good about it what's not good about it let me out let me out I'm going to take it for a spin, totally crazy, I'm going to go crazy and throw it at Look how fast it is from under 60 MPH .

I forgot my name. I'm Matt Watson and you're watching Carwo get to work. Let me tell you about the design of

this

DB12, so visually at the rear it is very similar to the DB 11 they tried to keep the same design, although in reality the body is about 20 mm wider. You can see it's nice and wide here at the rear, the track is 50mm wider. I wish they made them wider, although the exhaust looks pretty much the same. like before, they could use a little more volume to move them down the side, oh, before we go down the side, I like how the shape of the lights looks so cool, don't you?

Anyway moving down the side they got some new alloy wheel designs and The wheel sizes are all 21 on the car, it comes with new mlin Pilot Sport 5 S tires, they have been developed specifically for this car, ah, this is something I want to show you, we need the key, please be patient, so in the past I have to push the door handle to open it, but now I didn't know it was there. See, you can get it with poppy outis, so when I unlock it it comes out, although I keep thinking about this design because of the way you hold it.

It's just not as easy to use as a normal handle like that. Okay, I love the way the side skirts just stick out from part of the body and this is something new. In general, the car body can be 20 mm wider, but from the door mirror. to the door mirror, which is the widest part, is exactly the same as the db11, so come here and look at this, you have smaller Dormer because now they have no frame and this whole unit moves when you want to alter the angle of the door mirror. looks good that now here, the whole design is new compared to the db11 before the car had a clamshell bonet, but now they have done it in several segments, one advantage of that is that if you have a little joke, the have.

It doesn't cancel out a completely huge piece of bodywork, you can replace bits and pieces and there are little vents here to help let air out of the wheel. Well, you have vents down there to smooth out the airflow down the side of the vehicle. Huge brakes and you can upgrade to carbon ceramic of course, here at the front there are more vents underneath to help smooth out the airflow. You get Matrix LED headlights with a new Aston Martin headlight design that I really like. I really like this part. the car also with the grill, it's like it floats, then you have this lower part of the bumper, you might be wondering what the heck is that piece of black plastic that is for the cruise of the car, is it the radar system that is there, unfortunately No I can paint it, so it's a bit annoying.

The trade-off is that this car has automatic cruise control, which is nice and useful if you do longer trips; After all, it's supposed to be a GT, although I like it now. Call it a sporty GT, so it's a little more fun to drive than a standard GT. Apparently, if you're shopping for a new or used car, then you should visit Carwow and we'll help you find the perfect car at a price you love. Only answer. ask a few simple questions about the car you want and our trusted dealers will respond with great deals, then choose the deal that's right for you and contact the dealer directly through carwow, no haggling, no fees, and on average users from carow save over £1,800, but what if you're not sure which car you really want?

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Your love now with the video of this Aston Martin db12 valid from £25,000 now, this interior you may not believe it, but it's pretty much completely standard, it's what you get at that asking price. The only interior options I have here are the upgraded stereo and I have the seat cooling function. things like heated seats are standard you get autoc cruiser standard a lot of kit is standard but there is nothing standard about the way this feels inside the leather is lovely the design is so custom I love these aluminum panels here, aluminum here like well, very cool and most of the things you touch, like the switches, just have an expensive, solid metal feel to them, like, that's the drive mode selector, you have real physical buttons or should I say rollers for the ventilation system, so that's your temperature. again, nice heavy metal feel, you have your fan there, your temperature there for the passenger volume for the stereo, everything is very nice, there are just some parts that don't feel as exquisite as this gauge, that's very Mercedes . and the heat events are a little sticky, especially when you compare them to the heat events that happen in a Bentley Continental GT, but other than that, my goodness, just the stitching on the seats.

I love the color of this interior, there are like 25 different colors. options in the configurator, but with the Martin's Q you can choose pretty much any color you want and I love these seats, they are amazing, very comfortable and look great, especially with the roof down and the sun shining on this nice bright interior finish, so this car has a new entertainment system for Aston Martin the old system was like something inherited from Mercedes of yesteryear this is a much better high definition screen if I could get it to turn on it was on a minute ago but now I'm filming it , it doesn't want to be there, come on, so this is connected to Apple CarPlay.

You also have Android Auto and could access the current system menus for Ason M, but you are not going to use the ones you are going to use. Your phone doesn't have wireless Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, but if you buy the car you can get an upgrade to make it wireless in the future like later models. well, look at storage, we've got some cup holders here and you've got some storage under here, two old school 12V USB C plugs under here look, look, look, follow them in your hand, that's your wireless charging pad for your cell phone, bone, we have a tiny glove. box, there we go, it's pretty small isn't it, but you could fit some gloves in there, which is really all you need.

I guess you have an absolutely glorious and expensive feeling. Parasols are like tailor-made luggage. A nice vanity mirror, too, it's a shame there isn't one. It illuminates the rear view mirror, as are the side mirrors, they are frameless so there is great visibility and yes this is a bit problematic although the door bins are quite small and shallow so it is likely Let things fall from there. There's a lot of stuff in there, but there's no room for a big bottle. Does that really matter in a car like this? Maybe not in terms of seating position.

Yes, it's really nice. You can tell this is a car that was built in England because of the seating position. It's perfect, no left hand drive set up, they also thought about the British customer and of course you have an electrically operated steering wheel and the controls for the seats, if you give it to me I'll show you where they are. you won't see this is how you control the seat right down here and you have lumbar support on that and you can switch between upper and lower lumbar now you want me to look because I'm going to try the back seats because this is a 2+2 so let me adopt my ideal driving position, that's right, this could be uncomfortable.

I

almost

think the back seats are more for show because they look cool. I love the back of them, this is just a pretty design. See if I can fit in them, okay though, come on, don't break my

legs

, no, look, the new thing is pinching me. Rory, yeah, would you mind getting in the car and trying to get comfortable? How are all six of you? 61 62 61 so calm a big boy, get on now if you would take me back from the pub, get to a position where you can drive, uh, we're, uh, let's try a side chair, no, that doesn't work either, no, I'm going to have to go.

I'm backing up a little bit, I'm sorry, okay, are you okay if you drive with your foot there like that? It doesn't smell any better, but okay, actually, that's not feasible. Let's try again, let's jump, no, stay like this, so the trip is very short, children, probably, but I do it. I want to show you this aspect, you have isopix anger points, where are they? where are they? I know you're there, there's isopix, yay, now you could put a little reinforcement in there. I don't think you can fit a huge. rear facing seat in the back there is no one sitting in front you would have to push the chair forward I can't even plug this in, I'll just hold it I'm sure everything will be fine, it always is It's important that a car like this can carry a golf club set.

Ah, that's annoying. There is no opening for the trunk here. You have to do it from here with the key open, try again. Do you think you could fit a set of golf clubs? golf clubs here I don't think so not with a driver there is no way there is no way especially when you have this is a wind deflector I have to take it out this well this is intermediate space when you have the roof down you can push raise it when you have it up, if we go up the roof, let's raise the roof and we'll see how the trunk will be a little bigger once the roof is up, let's see how quickly and efficiently we can do this, we'll time it go on, turn on the clock, so I'm timing it, it's a mechanism pretty good and the rear windows oh oh no I think he panicked and pressed the button twice anyway for the roof to go up if he had done it correctly it's just over 15 seconds now let's take a look at that boot again oh I have to go and let her go look I told you it's annoying okay where are you?

Come on now, with any luck, I should be able to push this up, look, there we go, so the boot is a little bit bigger, let's see if it's big enough for a man if it's big enough for a man, it I will forgive. I haven't been able to fit some golf clubs. Go ahead, I'll do my best and when it's time, you should do it. let me go I can't even move to touch, oh I tell you how cute the rug is in a let me out, let me out, let me out, I just had to turn all the way around, I forgot to let me out, let's go to a really extensive useful consumer.

Testing the practicality of the new db2 oh anyway that brings up five annoying things about this car this black plastic trim here gets scratched a lot take a look at this and the car has only done about 1,600k now I could put ppf over it, but I wonder if you'll ever be able to open and close this again because there's not much room in there, if you put film on it it'll probably snag or bunch up, which wouldn't be ideal. The reversing camera is very low. land that will be covered in dirt very soon and it doesn't have a washing facility like there are with many others, this is what a surveillance facility looks like and it does, so with this one you will have to go out and lick stick your thumb out to clean it , which is not worth £25,000.

You get quite a few thoughts on the new digital dashboard. The definition is much better now than before, but I'm surprised that it can be a little annoying under some direct sunlight. Also, if you look at this, the system is not the fastest. You can see it responds a little slow and I don't like this button, we have to scroll down and it's touch sensitive, and I think I find it when I drive it from time to time, if you keep the steering wheel light off you might press accidentally the buttons with the tip of your thumb, as part of the upgraded bars and the stereo, you get this beautiful speaker here with this nice metal grill, unfortunately, it's right where your elbows move if you're in the back, what? can you see all this?

It's been dented to an absolute damn, it's a shame the inside of this car is hand stitched and we can see a little bit ofHuman error in places, so it's a little wobbly. but this part, this seam here is actually quite annoying and would really hurt my OCD. For some reason Aston Martin hasn't fitted individual switches for the rear windows, obviously you have them for the front windows, like this look and this look, I don't know why I'm trying this, it's quite GL and obvious, however for To operate the rear windows you have to use the roof switch so you pull it there and then it will allow all the windows to go on. bring it back up, you did that, but if I want the butts to go down on their own, how do I get the butts to stay on their own and why will it stay down there?

What is happening with this? What are eight? This is chance. It is the methodology. to this, why might it have had some individual switches? Then everything would work the way I want. Now I raise these windows and I can lower them again, yes, but what if I want that one up and that one down, can I do it? Read my mind or is it just

broke

n. I don't know. Can I do this alone? Read my mind. Car. I want this one down alone. Just what I have. I have no idea what's going on, let's move on to five good things about this car, although the db12 is based on the db11, about 80% of the parts are new, this car is also more rigid, for example it has this new reinforcement bar on the front shock towers.

This means that between the two shock towers, the stiffness of the db11 has increased by 130%. There are also other reinforcement panels at the rear of the car that help increase the stiffness of the rear shock absorber tires by 40%. The car has been fitted with some new adaptive dumers. unlike the adaptive dumers on the previous car the db11 they are much more adjustable so there is about a 500% difference in adjustability compared to the previous car which should give you a wider range of capability , something I will find out when I drive it if you have a small baby and you need to carry him in one of those big, bulky rear facing seats, don't worry you can fix the Anor points here in the front seat and there is also plenty of room here for one of those baby carriers.

Upgrade the rear seats to have a beautiful wood finish in the back, very nice, also there are two other seat options, there is a sport seat that fits more to the body with slightly larger side hoops and a rear seat. Pretty glorious carbon fiber too. I love fuel. filler cap on this car not because it's anodized aluminum or anything like a flashlight, it's because it doesn't actually have one, it's handy, you can just put the fuel nozzle straight across without wasting time. I know you have it in a Ford Focus but it's useful in a car like this where you might have to fill up quite a bit, this car has five different driving modes, there's GT Sport Sport Plus and as you go along the adjustments for steering, throttle response, gearbox, exhaust noise, etc. and so on, the dampers get more and more aggressive and get more and more stiff, however there is also an individual mode where you can set it however you want and mix and match and Max of settings Plus for the first time since Martin added a wet mode . where everything is good, safe and you have the ESP at its most cautious setting, speaking of which, they have a new ESP system installed in this car, so it will do things like measure steering angle, throttle position, how your car drives. glide. angles all that kind of stuff, it has a special sensor in the middle and it can determine whether you have the skills or not and it will dial back or deploy the ESP as needed depending on what it thinks you're going to do. and what you're capable of now because you have that wet mode, they've been able to roll the envelope for the ESP spe, so that when you're in normal mode it'll give you a slip to get into Sport Plus or onto the track. mode and then it will give you a little more slip so you can have even more fun, you can even turn it off completely and then also the amount of traction control to see how much the wheels will turn, from which one is the safest.

It's set to maximum by simply turning the D and that works in conjunction with a new electronically controlled limited-slip differential on the rear axle to help deliver some pretty epic slides. Unfortunately, I can't make any donuts on this surface because we'll end up shooting rocks everywhere. Let's listen to this engine. Switch it on. He's spitting out water. Wow, so we have a bit of a soft limiter, but I'll forgive that because it sounds fantastic. Come have some more. I love it. In this way, it's also unpredictable, so it makes you want to do it a little more to see if you can make it happen.

Good power comes from a 4L twin-turbo V8. Wait a minute. I thought we were supposed to have two snails. I can only see it. one here anyway is made by Mercedes AMG and in this particular car it makes 680 horsepower, 800 Newt meters of torque and drives the rear wheels for an 8-speed automatic gearbox. I really like this feature, so the air gets in there and gets to this little guy. The breather here goes through here and then comes out over the turbos to keep them cool. Those are the air intakes there and the air is sucked in on both sides, so you get this Ram Air effect at high speed, talking about the maximum speed of this vehicle with the roof down 200 and 2 m hour not at 60 well it's supposed to take 3.6 seconds, we'll find out if I can do it on a day like today, all that PA and rear wheel drive and a slightly greasy road, what could go wrong?

Since this has to serve three main functions, it has to be good at putting a smile on your face when you hit a winding road, it has to be able to comfortably sink into the miles as you cross continents, but it also has to be. It's good at just wandering around town as you go from boutique to boutique or winery to winery, so can it cope with that considering Aston Martin has tried to make this car sportier than the DB1 as part of its ability to have such a wide range of those new suckers, so I have it in its configuration setting and while it feels casual and sporty, it doesn't feel uncomfortable, it feels expensive, refined and purposeful, but not annoying, which It could be annoying if you couldn't see out.

I see it as a Lamborghini, but it's absolutely possible that the visibility is excellent. The turning radius is 12.4 m. It has surround cameras and they are on top so I can see if I can move without scratching my alloy wheels now that I have the steering. sporty setup but it's not too heavy the gearbox is easy to shift between forward and reverse these cameras are really nice and clear the outside mirrors are large so it's surprisingly easy to maneuver even though I have the longest hood in the world , it's not a problem at all, so it's stress free to just drive around Little Country Villages while enjoying your Sunday and one of the things I've noticed as well is that sometimes in convertible cars, when you go over potholes or potholes, the steering wheel may shake. and that's because their bodies wobble a little because they cut the roof and reduced its rigidity, but this one barely gets any movement through the steering wheel when I go over these bumps it feels really solid.

The really expensive gearbox helps. Really smooth and the brakes are very well assisted, it's not really like you have to push them hard, but they don't feel mushy either, so they are responsive and firm at the same time, that's one of the nice things about them. a little annoying as with all modern cars you have security systems that are on by default, so when you want to toggle them, you go into this system here and you go to assistance, but you'll probably notice that the buttons down here are quite small. that you used to press and it's all very dark and the font is small, so when you do things like oh I need to turn off the speed limit audio warning, I want it to be off, you spend a lot of time looking at the screen which could do with having a font bigger and brighter, yeah that's not ideal because it's on by default like with all cars.

I think we only need one physical button, just on, off, off for those types of settings, which is much easier to do. Although changing the driving mode is quite simple. It feels so satisfying when you do it, so let's go to GT mode, so this is your normal Cruise mode, so it loosens things up, so my throttle response weights the steering, so this is a totally relaxed mode for when Now I'm browsing. I'm in Cruise mode. What I am going to do is check the response of the engine and gearbox when they are in their least sporty settings.

You just know when you need to put your foot down. look how well the car responds, here we go three 2 1 floors, now it's better to delay it oh, that's interesting. I'm going to do the same thing again, but with the car in the sport setting, so I want to check the answer now 3 2 1 floors. Now, oh damn hell, there's a completely different response to kicking it, like Kick Down, an extra gear when you're in the sportier setting, so instead of it just being a lag and stuff, really try to make it smoother. Relaxed and totally crazy, it goes crazy when you have it in the sport setting.

Now I'm noticing the difference in the suspension because I have it in Sport Plus and it seems quite firm, so I'm going to go back to the individual, where everything is in maximum attack, but I have the suspension relaxed, now let's see if the chassis matches that engine , so we're going to manual, we're going to fly so fast, so it's surprising that the nose is really direct, so responsive and this part is quite shocking. Maybe I don't feel a slight whiff of movement on the steering wheel, but this feels like it. Tor doesn't drive the way you think it will based on how it looks and feels here on the inside you know it feels like a luxury car it looks quite gentlemanly and civilized on the outside elegant beautiful handsome but it drives like a crazy it's

almost

like those students who are going to be eaten you think they're all that sensible but my god they can have fun on the weekend and this on a winding road is a bit of a party, you absolutely feel it in it, the traction and those Mionion tires have great grip.

Wow, I'm actually quite surprised at how this handles, this convertible is actually over 100 kilos heavier than the coupe due to the roof mechanism, but it still doesn't feel heavy at all. It was fun. I'll do it again here we go. I would have expected it to be like sending it sideways when I did. that the grip is incredible, I don't know if that's the new stability control system or those tires or both or the extra rigidity of the chassis, the new suspension, but my god this is crazy, really a great compliment, the engine It gives you so much confidence.

This is a global AP part of db11. Wow, if there is anything I would change. I would like a little more delicate steering wheel. It's a little too BMW in its girth. I like a more delicate rim. Now let's find out how fast it is. the car really is n 60 it's supposed to take 3.6 seconds let's see what we can do, start of the race, that's a hook, like a money explosion, 3.6 seconds lie, they have no traction, it's amazing, I thought it was like turning its wheels, this was just wow, right? how long does it take to stop from 60 M hour then 3 2 1 now how many meters is less than 35 wow that's good 31 m goes well and stops well just one last thing let's put the roof on oh okay you the rear window with the raised roof is not so good, quite limited, it was more claustrophobic, well obviously I'm not so sure about this lowering part, that's a bit CU, a bit too close to you, I'm not so sure about that for be fair, unless it's raining.

I'm driving this thing with the roof down and you should too, so what's my final verdict on what's new like Martin Valante? Should you avoid it? Should you consider it? Should you shortlist it or should you just go ahead and buy it? I think you should put it on a short list. It looks lovely, feels luxurious inside, vastly improved, has monumental performance and is also surprisingly sporty to drive for a GT, sorry it's not a GT, it's a GT Sports, anyway yeah it's nice . I hope you enjoyed the video. If you liked it, let me know what you think of my verdict in the comments below, click on the windows to see more videos and click on the car logo to sell your car the easy way.