If Ringbrothers was doing a new merch drop, it would be exciting. The Wisconsin outfit has simply been building too many spectacular cars for too long; anything it does now piques interest. Its latest creation seems very much cut from the same crazy cloth; once a 1971 Aston Martin DBS, this is now ‘Octavia’ - and it has eight hundred horsepower.
Specifically, Ringbrothers reckons on 805hp, which sounds about adequate. That power reaches the road through a six-speed manual gearbox. Perhaps more exciting even than those aspects is how the Octavia is going to look. Now entirely carbon-bodied, the William Towns-designed DBS is eight inches wider up front and fully 10 inches broader at the back, so it’s going to look like the Aston Martin of a comic book villain - just how we like a Ringbrothers project. Mad, bad and like nothing else, but also with unflinching attention to detail.
‘Every fact of the Aston Martin has been tailored with bespoke components that showcase Ringbrothers’ zealous attention to detail… Octavia furthers innovation in engineering and celebrates the spirit of hot rodding on the grandest scale of them all.’
Raising the bar for Ringbrothers ought to mean something very special indeed. On the finely manicured lawns of Monterey, around supercars that have been seen before or those that will never go anywhere, the Ringbrothers Octavia has to be an absolute must-see. Full details coming next Friday.
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