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Aston Martin DBS Sports car | Aston Martin Sports Cars | Luxury Lifestyle Essentials | DBS ASTON MARTIN
Not even James Bond has driven the Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic yet. Quantum of Solace is just about to open but Daniel Craig must content himself with the standard manual DBS. We’ve already driven his likely next car: the DBS Touchtronic with an automatic gearbox, a new Bang and Olufsen sound system and gorgeous new optional wheels. Read our
An auto? Isn’t that a bit soft for the hardcore Aston Martin DBS?
We thought so, at first. The combination of a six-speed manual and a 510bhp, 6.0-litre V12 makes the DBS a Proper Bloke’s Car™ even if the engine/clutch/gearbox interaction is so sweet as to make it a doddle to drive in traffic or on a track.
But launching the DBS with the manual only at first helped to distance it from the predominantly auto-boxed DB9 on which it’s closely based. Now, nearly a year into production, Aston is offering an auto and expects up to 75% of DBS buyers to choose it.
So does the DBS have a self-shifting manual, or a real automatic?
The latter. Aston says it looked at using the Sportshift box from the V8 Vantage but found that – though good – it still couldn’t match the smoothness of the magnificent ZF six-speed torque-convertor auto used in the DB9 and a bunch of other high-end cars from Jaguars to the Rolls-Royce Phantom.