Yahoo Autos 671-horsepower Aston Martin DB12 improves a winning formula
Although it still turns heads, the Aston Martin DB11 has reached the end of its life cycle. Its successor, the Aston Martin DB12, keeps the shapely proportions but inaugurates a new design language while offering more tech features and a far more powerful twin-turbocharged V8.
Marketed as a Super Tourer (as opposed to a Grand Tourer) by the British brand, the DB12 lands as an extensively updated evolution of the DB11. "The DB12 [has] 80% new components compared to the outgoing DB11," a company spokesperson told me.
Designers gave the front end a bigger grille, new-look lights, and a redesigned splitter. They also widened the front and rear tracks to give the coupe a more muscular-looking stance, and the DB12 inaugurates the subtly redesigned emblem that all future Aston Martin models will wear. The distinctive vents behind the front wheels remain, and the visual modifications made to the rear end of the car are more minor.
