2017 Aston Martin Db11 Revealed!
The Db9 Replacement Keeps Firing On 12 Cylinders.
We Start With The Bad News: As Previously Reported, Aston Martin’s Glorious-sounding Naturally Aspirated V-12 Engine Won’t Be Making The Transition To The New Db11. The Engine That Has Powered All Of The Company’s Larger Products Since 2003, And Was Essentially Two Ford Duratec V-6s Joined At The Crank, Is Soon To Be Retired And We Will Not Hear Its Heavenly Wail Again. Black Armbands Will Be Issued.
Let’s Cheer Ourselves Up By Skipping Straight To The Better News, Namely That The Db11 Has Resisted The Trend Of Reduced Cylinder Count And Is Keeping A V-12, In This Case A New Twin-turbocharged Unit That Aston Has Developed Itself. (we’ll Have To Wait Until The Replacement For The Smaller Vantage To Meet The First Amg-powered Aston.) The New 5.2-liter V-12 Shares Bore Centers With The Old 5.9-liter Engine And Will Be Built At Aston’s Engine Plant In Cologne, But Everything Else About It Is Claimed To Be New. We Suspect That The Engine’s 600 Horsepower—60 More Than The Db9 Gt—will Help Most Potential Buyers Move On Quickly From The Pain Of Losing The Old Naturally Aspirated Engine. It Also Produces 516 Lb-ft Of Torque, Available From 1500 Rpm To 5000 Rpm. By Contrast, The Db9’s Max Of 457 Lb-ft Arrived At A Lofty 5500 Rpm.
We Start With The Bad News: As Previously Reported, Aston Martin’s Glorious-sounding Naturally Aspirated V-12 Engine Won’t Be Making The Transition To The New Db11. The Engine That Has Powered All Of The Company’s Larger Products Since 2003, And Was Essentially Two Ford Duratec V-6s Joined At The Crank, Is Soon To Be Retired And We Will Not Hear Its Heavenly Wail Again. Black Armbands Will Be Issued.
Let’s Cheer Ourselves Up By Skipping Straight To The Better News, Namely That The Db11 Has Resisted The Trend Of Reduced Cylinder Count And Is Keeping A V-12, In This Case A New Twin-turbocharged Unit That Aston Has Developed Itself. (we’ll Have To Wait Until The Replacement For The Smaller Vantage To Meet The First Amg-powered Aston.) The New 5.2-liter V-12 Shares Bore Centers With The Old 5.9-liter Engine And Will Be Built At Aston’s Engine Plant In Cologne, But Everything Else About It Is Claimed To Be New. We Suspect That The Engine’s 600 Horsepower—60 More Than The Db9 Gt—will Help Most Potential Buyers Move On Quickly From The Pain Of Losing The Old Naturally Aspirated Engine. It Also Produces 516 Lb-ft Of Torque, Available From 1500 Rpm To 5000 Rpm. By Contrast, The Db9’s Max Of 457 Lb-ft Arrived At A Lofty 5500 Rpm.
The Most Noticeable Changes Are Those That Have Been Wrought In The Cabin, With The Arrival Of Daimler’s Electronic Architecture, The Other Part Of The Two Companies’ Collaboration. This Isn’t Particularly Well Disguised, With A Rotary Controller And Touch-sensitive Panel Identical To The One Found In Mercs. The Db11 Also Has A Single Control Stalk For Both Its Wipers And Turn Signals, Taken Straight From The Benz Parts Bin. The Cabin Is Immaculately Finished And Benefits From Tft Instruments And An 8.0-inch Display Screen In The Center Of The Dashboard. Options Include A Powered Armrest, Automatic Parking, And A 1000-watt Bang & Olufsen Audio System, Although The Db11 Doesn’t Get Many Of The Mercedes Active-safety Systems That We Were Expecting To Appear, As The Car Is Not Fitted With Long-range Radar Sensors. The Lack Of Adaptive Cruise Seems Particularly Odd In A Modern Car That’s Been Designed Around A Grand Touring Brief.
The Db11 Will Be Priced At $214,820 In The U.s., With First Deliveries Starting In The Fourth Quarter. It’s Easy To Characterize As Hyperbole Aston’s Insistence That The Db11 Is The Most Important Launch In Its 103-year History, But It Does Reflect The Truth That This Is The Model That Will Demonstrate Whether, After Years Of Stagnant Sales, The Company Does Have A Viable Future. For That, We Wish It Well.
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