There's a single variant offered by the carmaker. It gets plenty of carbon-fibre treatment that helps in making the car lighter. It comes equipped with a 5198 cc gasoline engine, which churns out exceptional performance.
The car is offered in a sole red colour, which looks very sporty and attractive.
It’s a deeply impressive and satisfying car to spend time in.Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is one of the finest looking sports cars in the Philippines. It’s here where the Bentley pulls forwards, but in almost every other respect the Aston is top dog. With the divider in place (to protect your luggage from the roof mechanism) the boot is slightly too small and the interior, lifted completely from the lesser DB11, is a little disappointing in both its ergonomics and design. The DBS Superleggera Volante may have four seats but to call it a four-seater would be over stepping the mark, as the two rear seats will invariably become a home to wind diffuser should you choose one. It’s on these roads you’ll also encounter the DBS’s gut-wrenching grip and cornering abilities, and to quell customer feedback of the DBS coupe’s grabby brakes, the standard carbon ceramics (410mm at the front and 360mm at the rear) have been tweaked to deliver a more progressive feel. But pick some speed up and trust the car’s wonderfully accurate and direct steering, and the Volante becomes a real treat to drive quickly, smoothly and elegantly. Point the Volante towards tighter, twister roads and you’ll find it hard to place you’ll have to get used to kissing the central white line. Meanwhile, the eight-layer folding roof lowers in 14 seconds and raises in 16, either from inside the car or outside by pressing the unlock button.Įven on the wide Spanish roads of our test route, the DBS Superleggera Volante always feels a big car.
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The rear haunches are lower and wider than the coupe version and, as there’s no hard-top roof, the Volante doesn’t feature the clever vents behind the rear side windows that suck air through the back of the car and out via a vent in the bootlid.īut the Volante does feature the same aero at the front that reduces drag whilst also expelling hot air from the brakes, and it still develops 177kg of downforce (only 3kg less than the coupe) at 211 mph (which is good to know) and has a better weight distribution at 50:50. In turning the coupe to a convertible, the bodywork has undergone significant work from the doors backwards. At 3.6 seconds the drop-top is 0.2 seconds slower than the coupe but tops out at an identical 211mph, and the additional weight gains amount to 100kg. Just like the coupe, the convertible uses the same bonded aluminum platform used on the DB11, and of course the same 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12 packing a colossal 715bhp and 900Nm of torque. And so the – rather pompously named – DBS Superleggera Volante becomes the new premier super GT convertible in Aston Marin’s now two-car open-top line-up. The DBS Superleggera coupe was billed as not only a new halo model for the British brand, but also as a ‘Super GT’ – one rung higher than the DB11 on which it’s based. The Volante launches pretty much a year-to-the-day to when its hard-topped sister was revealed. With a top speed of 211mph and a price tag of £247,500 before you’ve gone anywhere near the options list, the new drop-top Aston Martin certainly has the figures to back up that statement. While it’s not the most spacious and nor is the cheapest car of its type, there’s no denying the Volante is a seriously impressive car and reveals Aston Martin is currently at the top of its game.Īston Martin claims the new DBS Superleggera Volante is the ultimate expression of a four-seater convertible wearing the famous winged badge.
It mixes the coupe’s earth-shattering, gut-wrenching performance with the design and image a convertible Aston Martin naturally gives. Twelve months on from the launch of the new range-topping Aston Martin, the DBS Superleggera, along comes the convertible Volante version.
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