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Written by Jack Rix
For all those whooping and hollering that the 600bhp DB11 was too soft and too slow (all three of you), allow us to introduce its evil twin the new Aston Martin DBS Superleggera. Effectively a replacement for the Vanquish S, it revives a badge last seen on the car James Bond barrel-rolled in Casino Royale in 2006, then adds the Superleggera suffix a nod to the "innovative lightweight construction methods pioneered by Italian coachbuilder, Touring". Yet this is no hollowed-out racer. Full carbon-fibre body panels help to make it 72kg lighter than the DB11 V12, but with a kerbweight of 1,800kg, give or take a robust lunch, it"s still firmly a GT albeit a super one. By simply tweaking the ECU and fitting a freer-flowing (and significantly noisier) quad-tipped exhaust system, 715bhp and 664lb ft of torque have been liberated from the remarkably unstressed 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12, and sent to the rear tyres via a carbon-fibre propshaft and an eight-speed auto. That"s 115bhp and 148lb ft a whole Golf 1.4 TSI more than the DB11. Get enough heat in the 305-section Pirelli P Zeros, find yourself an abandoned airfield and the DBS will blitz 0 62mph in 3.4 seconds, 0 100mph in 6.4 and keep going until 211mph the same top speed as its most natural rival, the 789bhp Ferrari 812 Superfast. Should you find yourself at 211mph in a DBS Superleggera, you"ll be pleased to hear it has latest-gen carbon-ceramic brakes measuring 410mm at the front and 360mm at the rear.
Date written: 26 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12339
For all those whooping and hollering that the 600bhp DB11 was too soft and too slow (all three of you), allow us to introduce its evil twin the new Aston Martin DBS Superleggera. Effectively a replacement for the Vanquish S, it revives a badge last seen on the car James Bond barrel-rolled in Casino Royale in 2006, then adds the Superleggera suffix a nod to the "innovative lightweight construction methods pioneered by Italian coachbuilder, Touring". Yet this is no hollowed-out racer. Full carbon-fibre body panels help to make it 72kg lighter than the DB11 V12, but with a kerbweight of 1,800kg, give or take a robust lunch, it"s still firmly a GT albeit a super one. By simply tweaking the ECU and fitting a freer-flowing (and significantly noisier) quad-tipped exhaust system, 715bhp and 664lb ft of torque have been liberated from the remarkably unstressed 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12, and sent to the rear tyres via a carbon-fibre propshaft and an eight-speed auto. That"s 115bhp and 148lb ft a whole Golf 1.4 TSI more than the DB11. Get enough heat in the 305-section Pirelli P Zeros, find yourself an abandoned airfield and the DBS will blitz 0 62mph in 3.4 seconds, 0 100mph in 6.4 and keep going until 211mph the same top speed as its most natural rival, the 789bhp Ferrari 812 Superfast. Should you find yourself at 211mph in a DBS Superleggera, you"ll be pleased to hear it has latest-gen carbon-ceramic brakes measuring 410mm at the front and 360mm at the rear.
Date written: 26 Jun 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12339