, which was Daniel Craig’s last turn at the role. Today, the company is reinforced with financial backing from recent purchaser Lawrence Stroll, as seen on the Netflix seriesThe DB12’s engine is in the front and it sends power to the rear wheels, and only the rear wheels, exactly as the gods of combustion decreed. My test drive on the Route Napoléon in the South of France provided ample opportunity to sample the various settings: Wet, GT, Sport, Sports Plus, and Individual.
Turn-in and steering response benefit from the vehicle’s 4.0-liter V8, instead of the DB11’s heavier 5.2-liter V12, which produced 41 fewer horsepower than the DB12’s engine. Because the Aston is a super tourer, not a supercar, it needs to have a serene ride in addition to having a lot of grip for cornering, accelerating, and braking. The tire’s performance needed to be balanced, just as the suspension is able to slice up switchbacks or cruise without waking my passenger. “That means not only in terms of lateral capacity but also finesse,” Newton explains. “We needed it to steer well and to ride well.
“It was a lot of work and it still goes on,” says Newton. That’s because while the engineering team toiled to ensure that the brakes are as good as possible when they are new, there are opportunities remaining to learn about their performance as they wear and make additional improvements, he said. Toward that goal, the company put in 100,000 miles of testing in hot weather, at various elevations, and at different points in brake pads’ wear life.
For all this work, the carbon ceramic brakes on my test car are optional, and customers can stick with the easier-to-design cast-iron brakes. Those brakes get their own attention, with specific booster profiles and brake pads too, so it isn’t just a matter of having a different set of rotors.All of these technical changes to the car are backed by electronics that augment the DB12’s ability to respond to driver input.
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