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Can you believe that the Aston Martin DB9 is 11 years old? It’s a good-looking machine designed by Ian Callum and Henrik Fisker, but not even the British company can escape the fact that it’s dated. This is where we cue the so-called DB11, a future model that’ll replace the gray-haired DB9.
Nobody really knows if the production model will be called DB11, DB9, or a preposterously chintzy thing like Taraf. If anything, we’re hoping to bear the same name as the DB9 as it has a certain James Bond-ish ring to it. Our carparazzi spied the thing numerous times already, but this is the first occasion on which the cabin shares its secrets with us folks.
Bear in mind that this is a test mule, a prototype, a work-in-progress kind of Aston Martin DB11. Starting with a huge digital instrument cluster as one might find on the S-Class, the Mercedes-Benz paraphernalia continues with the car’s steering wheel. While the latter is lifted from a humble C-Class, the center console is unmistakably S-Class if you take into consideration the array of button and Mercedes-Benz Comand infotainment system’s rotary control wheel.
On the right-hand side of the center console lies the HVAC unit of an S-Class and absolutely none of these components will make their way on the production-ready DB11. A rather curious detail that will too not make it into mass production is represented by the P-R-N-D buttons of the Touchtronic 6-speed automatic transmission. Because the all-new DB11 will borrow Mercedes-AMG-grade oily bits, our guess is that the Mercedes-AMG GT’s 7G-DCT dual-clutch automatic is going to make the DB11’s cogs dance.
Although the interior design isn’t final, we’re utmost certain that the old Aston Martin 6-liter V12 and 4.7-liter V8 are to be phased out by the time the DB11 and new V8 Vantage will arrive in showrooms. Expect those two powerplants to be replaced by a Mercedes-AMG 6.0 twin-turbo V12, joined by a 4.0 twin-turbo V8 engine. Fingers crossed the German know-how will bring the AM to a whole new level of performance.
Bear in mind that this is a test mule, a prototype, a work-in-progress kind of Aston Martin DB11. Starting with a huge digital instrument cluster as one might find on the S-Class, the Mercedes-Benz paraphernalia continues with the car’s steering wheel. While the latter is lifted from a humble C-Class, the center console is unmistakably S-Class if you take into consideration the array of button and Mercedes-Benz Comand infotainment system’s rotary control wheel.
On the right-hand side of the center console lies the HVAC unit of an S-Class and absolutely none of these components will make their way on the production-ready DB11. A rather curious detail that will too not make it into mass production is represented by the P-R-N-D buttons of the Touchtronic 6-speed automatic transmission. Because the all-new DB11 will borrow Mercedes-AMG-grade oily bits, our guess is that the Mercedes-AMG GT’s 7G-DCT dual-clutch automatic is going to make the DB11’s cogs dance.
Although the interior design isn’t final, we’re utmost certain that the old Aston Martin 6-liter V12 and 4.7-liter V8 are to be phased out by the time the DB11 and new V8 Vantage will arrive in showrooms. Expect those two powerplants to be replaced by a Mercedes-AMG 6.0 twin-turbo V12, joined by a 4.0 twin-turbo V8 engine. Fingers crossed the German know-how will bring the AM to a whole new level of performance.
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