Photo: Stefan Baldauf/SB-Medien
Aston Martin is preparing to launch a successor of the DB9, and you already know that it will be called the DB11.
The car’s name has skipped a number for its production variant, as the DB10 was reserved for the latest James Bond movie, Spectre. So the DB11 was born.
We already know from a previous teaser video that the British carmaker will employ a twin-turbo V12 engine in the new DB11, so the power plant issue is thoroughly sorted out. The video even lets us enjoy the sound of the new unit, and our interested users already know the car sounds cool.
The latest prototype of the Aston Martin DB11 was recently spotted by our friends at SB-Medien, who have provided us with a set of pictures. The car seems to have been photographed in Germany, if our memory of German road signs fonts serves us correctly.
The German part of this gallery is not over, as some of the components in the DB11 prototype’s interior are borrowed from Daimler's Mercedes-AMG unit.
Our spy photographers have gotten close enough to the vehicle to snag two shots of the camouflaged DB11 cockpit. We already knew Aston Martin had used some parts from Mercedes-Benz for the interior of their mules, but the amount of Daimler parts in the interior of this prototype is surprising.
We can spot an entirely digital instrument cluster borrowed from an S-Class, a Mercedes-Benz steering wheel with the badging removed, along with the center console control unit.
The monitor in the middle of the dash, fitted in a temporary manner so that certain functions of the car can be tested, looks like a Mercedes-Benz part as well. The center console does feature Aston Martin buttons, along with an array of controls specific to prototype vehicles, in the form of emergency stop buttons.
Next to the emergency shut-off switch on the passenger side, a cluster of temporarily mounted controls also shows a set of Mercedes-Benz buttons. The parts in question are usually mounted on the center console of production Mercedes-Benz cars, but the console in the Aston Martin DB11 was too slim to make room for them, so the engineers had to improvise a way to make them fit.
Naturally, the finished product will not have an interior like the one seen in the photos, but it will definitely feature some electronic components from the German brand that partnered up with the British carmaker.
We already know from a previous teaser video that the British carmaker will employ a twin-turbo V12 engine in the new DB11, so the power plant issue is thoroughly sorted out. The video even lets us enjoy the sound of the new unit, and our interested users already know the car sounds cool.
The latest prototype of the Aston Martin DB11 was recently spotted by our friends at SB-Medien, who have provided us with a set of pictures. The car seems to have been photographed in Germany, if our memory of German road signs fonts serves us correctly.
The German part of this gallery is not over, as some of the components in the DB11 prototype’s interior are borrowed from Daimler's Mercedes-AMG unit.
Our spy photographers have gotten close enough to the vehicle to snag two shots of the camouflaged DB11 cockpit. We already knew Aston Martin had used some parts from Mercedes-Benz for the interior of their mules, but the amount of Daimler parts in the interior of this prototype is surprising.
We can spot an entirely digital instrument cluster borrowed from an S-Class, a Mercedes-Benz steering wheel with the badging removed, along with the center console control unit.
The monitor in the middle of the dash, fitted in a temporary manner so that certain functions of the car can be tested, looks like a Mercedes-Benz part as well. The center console does feature Aston Martin buttons, along with an array of controls specific to prototype vehicles, in the form of emergency stop buttons.
Next to the emergency shut-off switch on the passenger side, a cluster of temporarily mounted controls also shows a set of Mercedes-Benz buttons. The parts in question are usually mounted on the center console of production Mercedes-Benz cars, but the console in the Aston Martin DB11 was too slim to make room for them, so the engineers had to improvise a way to make them fit.
Naturally, the finished product will not have an interior like the one seen in the photos, but it will definitely feature some electronic components from the German brand that partnered up with the British carmaker.
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