RE: Aston teases DBS replacement

[chickensoup]

Who the fk thought it should be painted red

[JohnGoodridge]

365daytonafan said:

Overall not a bad evolution of the DB9/DBS theme. Front end is a little unresolved but I guess this is in part to meet the pedestrian impact regs.

Pricing will be important, will need to kept under £200K othwewise base price will drift uncomfortably close to the Ferrari F12 which will offer significantly more performance if the rumoured 573bhp of the Aston is correct.

Is it just me or does the front end look distinctly Ferrari California-esque (esp. in THAT colour)? Rear 3/4 is lovely though.

[Twincam16]

XJ40 said:

The DB9 is a stunningly beautiful car

It's a vulgar, blinged-up DB9 with a bodykit. The modern equivalent of this:

[P4ROT]

Yep wheels are stupid- but the rest looks fairly yummy- if not a bit awkward at the front...

[AMGpower]

A white DBS Volante with anthracite wheels, red leather and red roof is a car which i aspire to own one day, however this red 'concept' looks less handsome and considerably more vulgar.

[AJS-]

Aston can just do no wrong for me at the moment. They are just wonderful cars.

[FourWheelDrift]

It looks more like a new design for the Vantage to me, not enough presence (wow factor) to be a DBS.

[turbobungle]

Noooooooooooo! Leave it as it is for f*** sake!

[chris116]

Really don't like this, how have they managed to take something as beautiful as a DB9 and develop it into this?

I have always liked the DB9, thought the DBS was a little fussy but really liked the Virage. Hope some of the details on this are just for the concept and are dropped for production.

[natben]

I like it.

[MrTappets]

Aston Martin, in almost ten years, still seem unable to work out where to go from the basic DB9 shape, as evidenced by this. I can see their problem but this looks a bit desperate. DBS got some bling, Virage got some more bling, this has more bling still. Seriously, is their only option to keep desperately adding vents and carbon bits?

After all the faffing about, they've been forced to make it genuinely uglier for the sake of looking 'new', which I suppose means they're trying...

[0a]

Aston have a great problem - how to redesign the best looking range of cars on the market, and some of the best looking cars of all time.

Another big problem they have is that their designs have become over familiar due to increased sales volumes - again a problem that is great to have.

The bloke at the end of my road got his early DB7 out for summer this week, to my mind this is the perfect looking modern Aston.

I wish Aston well wherever they go styling wise. I'm confident they know best.

[tommy vercetti]

Don't like the rear, looks too bloated.

[DeltaEvo2]

That really looks st...

[AlexKing]

Fussy.







(The design that is, we already know PH'ers are.)

[Mastodon2]

What a mess, I think the phrase is "A swing and a miss"! The front end is a trainwreck, it looks like the front grill of tiny hatchback car with a overbite splitter bunged underneath it to make it fit the car. Except it doesn't really fit, it just looks terrible.

[will261058]

Well I must have st in my eye because I dont see that as "undeniably beautiful". It looks cheap compared to previous AMs IMO!

[Matthen]

I'd rather they took a step back toward the vanquish than a step toward the.... Well, toy matchbox car look.

I'd be surprised if it is the new DBS, looks to soft, to DB9 like... Aston are loosing themselves

[loudlashadjuster]

Matthen said:

Aston are loosing themselves

[grimace]

[DB9VolanteDriver]

will261058 said:

Well I must have st in my eye because I dont see that as "undeniably beautiful". It looks cheap compared to previous AMs IMO!

Agree. It is more like 'undeniably unattractive'. If this design goes forward as is, Aston is doomed.