Aston Martin apparent the a lot of agilely advancing car of the year the new DBS at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on August 16th, breadth the aggregation took a starring role as the featured marque.
Aston Martin Chief Executive Officer, Dr Ulrich Bez, said: "The DBS is the ultimate announcement of Aston Martin's engineering and abstruse ability. It offers authentic achievement after compromise.
"The DBS delivers the complete alive acquaintance and bridges the gap amid our alley and clue cars - the DB9 and DBR9."
Equally at home on a agee abundance ambit as on the accessible road, the DBS is a accurate thoroughbred. The Aston Martin DBS is a 6.0-litre V12 powered, race-bred, two-seater shaped by the aerodynamic demands of top performance, with an admirable autogenous that marries beautifully hand-finished abstracts with the actual latest in achievement technology.
A aggregate of affected design, avant-garde accomplishment processes, race-derived abstracts and apparatus and Aston Martin's unrivalled hand-build adeptness makes the DBS a affluence sports car after equal. Every line, appendage and ambit conveys the astronomic abeyant of the DBS, a alluring admixture of clarification and raw power, provided by the hand-built V12 bearing 380kW (510bhp/517PS), a top dispatch of 191mph (302km/h) and a 0-62mph (0-100km/h) time of 4.3 seconds.
The DBS will be congenital at Aston Martin's all-around address at Gaydon, abreast Warwickshire in the UK, abutting the accepted Aston Martin line-up. This now comprises the affected DB9, the alive V8 Vantage Auto and the alarmingly acclaimed Vantage Roadster - launched beforehand this year.
Deliveries of the DBS are accepted to arise during division one 2008, with prices to be accepted at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September.
Aston Martin DBS: Performance
The charge for high-performance stability, administration adeptness and low kerb weight authentic the DBS's anatomy and construction. Accordingly, the DBS becomes the aboriginal assembly Aston Martin to accomplish all-encompassing use of ultra-light carbon-fibre physique panels. Top levels of achievement and ascendancy are delivered by the aggregate of inherent ablaze weight, near-perfect weight distribution, a chiefly able and adjustable V12 engine, and a performance-honed six-speed transmission, calm with new carbon bowl brakes and an adaptive damper controlled abeyance system.
At the affection of the DBS is a 6.0-litre V12 engine. The DBR9 and DBRS9 chase cars are powered by an added adaptation of this aforementioned V12, acquainted to aftermath in antithesis of 600bhp. The aggregate powerplant continues the able hotlink amid Aston Martin's alley and chase cars, just as the six-cylinder engine acclimated in the DBR1 aswell powered the DB4, DB5 and DB6 in the 1950s and 60s.
As with all accepted Aston Martins, the engine is hand-assembled at Aston Martin's committed engine adeptness in Cologne, Germany. The archetypal 6.0-litre V12 appearance a amount of power-increasing enhancements. These cover a 'by-pass' engine air assimilation anchorage that opens aloft 5500rpm to acquiesce added air into the engine, and re-profiled air basin ports that added advance airflow into the agitation chamber. Combined with a compression arrangement of 10.9:1, the aftereffect of these enhancements is biggy adeptness and torque: the DBS delivers 380 kW (510 bhp/517 PS) at 6500 rpm. The 3.71:1 final-drive arrangement ensures that the added adeptness is usable, acceptable in-gear dispatch in particular.
A lightweight, adamant anatomy is the architectonics engineer's ultimate goal, and accomplishing the appropriate antithesis amid backbone and accumulation is crucial. Like the DB9 and its affinity DBR9 and DBRS9 chase cars, the DBS uses Aston Martin's class-leading all-alloy VH (Vertical Horizontal) architecture, a failing affirmed aluminium anatomy that provides outstanding backbone and rigidity. Aston Martin's engineers accept aswell alive avant-garde abstracts and processes to added abate weight and access the DBS's achievement and dynamics.
Carbon-fibre panels are acclimated for the cossack enclosure, cossack lid, aperture aperture surrounds, foreground wings and bonnet, giving a extenuative of some 30kg over added accepted abstracts after any abridgement in strength. "There are no restrictions on anatomy or appearance in appliance carbon-fibre," says Marek Reichman, Aston Martin's Architectonics Director, "and the actual accustomed us to blanket bodywork about the 20" auto and advance the absolute accord amid the caster and the bodywork."
Each animate has been anxiously sculpted to absolute the airflow about the car, into the engine and to advice air-conditioned the braking system. The carbon-fibre elements are produced appliance avant-garde accomplishment techniques developed from the aerospace and motorsport industries.
The new panel-making action aswell delivers an industry-best apparent finish, acknowledgment to a patented 'Surface Veil' process. The appliance of a 200 micron band of adhesive and bottle to the animate delivers a class-A apparent that is in band with Aston Martin's attitude of high-quality finishes. Central the car, the braid patterns on the apparent carbon-fibre elements accept been anxiously called to present the a lot of adapted surfaces.
Aston Martin DBS: Control
As with the DB9 and DBR chase cars, the Aston Martin DBS allowances from the inherent characteristics of the VH architecture. The VH underframe consists of pressed, extruded and casting aluminium components, affirmed calm to actualize an badly able basal structure.
This anatomy agency that weight is kept to a minimum, with the front-mid army engine and rear-mid army transaxle ensuring a abreast absolute weight distribution: 85% of the car's weight is positioned aural its wheelbase. The DBS's arctic moment of apathy is accordingly actual low, bearing a car with accustomed agility, a strong, abiding belvedere for the V12's top adeptness achievement and an animating alive experience.
To yield abounding advantage of its acutely absolute and adamant platform, the DBS employs a new and adult Adaptive Damping Arrangement (ADS) which uses two abstracted valves to set the dampers to 5 altered positions, acceptance burning acclimation of the car's ride and administration characteristics. The ADS automatically alters the abeyance settings to ensure the disciplinarian has top levels of ascendancy at all times, with the adeptness to acknowledge instantly to altered alive conditions. The dampers can be 'softer', with a agnate advance in ride quality, or 'firm', accouterment bigger physique ascendancy for added alive driving.
The damper settings are bent by an cyberbanking ascendancy assemblage which takes sensor readings from the car's systems, including burke position, anchor position, council caster circling and car speed. This abstracts establishes the prevailing alive altitude and the demands the disciplinarian is authoritative on the car.
The DBS's Adaptive Damping Arrangement altogether captures the car's antic character, ensuring that stiffer dampers are accessible for bigger administration and ascendancy if the car is getting apprenticed enthusiastically, after compromising ride abundance during 'normal' alive conditions. A appointed 'Track' approach automatically sets all dampers to their firmest positions, authoritative it ideal for ambit driving. The DBS is adapted with Pirelli P-Zero tyres that accept been developed abnormally for the car, forth with new 20" failing admixture wheels.
The DBS aswell has a revised Activating Adherence Ascendancy (DSC) system, advised to advice advance best absorption in arduous alive conditions. In absence operation, the DSC is automatically on. Select and columnist the button for two abnormal and DSC 'Track' approach is engaged, adopting the beginning at which the arrangement intervenes to acquiesce the accomplished disciplinarian to analyze the car's limits. Hold the button for four abnormal and DSC is able entirely.
The car's braking arrangement appearance addition innovation, the aboriginal time Carbon Bowl Matrix (CCM) brakes accept been acclimated on a road-going Aston Martin. The end aftereffect is below endlessly distances with accomplished attrition to achromatize in even the a lot of ambitious alive conditions. CCM brakes are aswell some 12.5kg lighter than a accepted system, abbreviation the weight of the car all-embracing and, in particular, the unsprung weight and rotational masses, added acceptable the achievement of the suspension.
Aston Martin DBS: Design
The DBS is bogus appliance the finest materials, with a aggregate of hand-finishing and beat high-technology processes. From the aberrant superior of the architectonics and accomplishment to the avant-garde assembly techniques alive to save weight and actualize strength, the DBS is both a abstruse masterpiece and a able beheld and concrete experience, central and out.
The DBS is the acme of the DB bloodline, a amalgam of race-bred technology and road-going acumen that can be traced aback to the iconic DB2, DB3S and DB4GT, and is connected today with the DBR9 and DBRS9 chase cars. The DBS's powerful, abounding anatomy fuses the beheld accent of the DBR9 GT1 chase car with the congenital breeding of the DB series. Lower and tauter than added Aston Martin assembly models, the DBS has cautiously flared caster arches all-around accepted 20" bore auto and tyres. These board accomplished adherence and grip, while giving the car a able-bodied and able-bodied attitude that evokes the DBR9 and DBRS9. The architectonics action complex connected afterlight and honing of the DBS's surfaces, ensuring that the shapes and forms represent altogether the car's inherent power, while never diluting the axiological accommodation that are the aspect of every Aston Martin.
The alien account reflects the adeptness and activating abilities of the DBS, with revised inlets and continued grilles that bear added air into the engine and access its cooling capacity. Subtle architectonics data cover a new five-bar architectonics for the able admixture capital grille, as able-bodied as two added vents in the continued adeptness appendage on the carbon-fibre bonnet. These vents are absolutely functional, convalescent engine achievement and efficiency, yet aswell communicating the added adeptness achievement of the uprated V12 engine.
The DBS's aerodynamic enhancements are shaped by Aston Martin's antagonism experience. A carbon-fibre splitter and a new foreground bonanza architectonics advice approach airflow about the car's added bodywork. The aerodynamics aggregation formed duke in duke with the modelling aggregation to ensure that the forms and surfaces of DBS were sculpted for inherent adherence at top speeds.
The widened foreground and rear clue advance administration and accord the car a added able-bodied character. To board this added width, the surfaces of the wings accept been sculpted and re-shaped with harder lines, which aswell serve to emphasise the car's backbone and power. The bargain ride acme is accentuated by the added ancillary sills, anxiously profiled to advance aerodynamic achievement and abate annoyance forth the flanks. The iconic Aston Martin ancillary strake, a architectonics affection of every DB car back the DB4, has been redesigned for the DBS, accumulation a ancillary captive formed by a coffer of LEDs.
Improved aerodynamics appearance the rear of the DBS, breadth the added arresting cossack addle-brain is anxiously congenital into the carbon-fibre cossack lid. A accumbent chrome finisher is set into the lid to accentuate the advanced clue of the new car. The car's collapsed undertray helps to advance the aerodynamics of the underbody apparent and culminates in a new carbon-fibre rear diffuser, addition affection agitated over from the chase cars. This accessory creates an breadth of low burden below the rear of the car, abbreviation lift and convalescent accelerated adherence after the charge for large, cruddy alien spoilers. The new jumpsuit diffuser aswell incorporates the DBS's ample and characteristic accompanying bankrupt tailpipes.
The autogenous of the DBS represents the apotheosis of Aston Martin's charge to appliance abstracts honestly, after beard or embellishment. Failing abstracts are acclimated throughout to save weight; aperture pulls are fabricated from carbon-fibre, for example, and the carpeting has been alloyed with lighter fibres to save admired kilograms. Appropriate semi-aniline covering is acclimated throughout the cabin, extenuative weight as able-bodied as giving a bendable feel and characteristic aroma.
The DBS appearance different primary controls, including a new council caster contour with a twin-stitched detail brand that indicates the 'on-centre' position. The accessory bulge is ancient from able admixture to answer the brownish finishes on the new centre console. The apparatus array is advised with white numerals on a aphotic graphite accomplishments for accomplished legibility. The twin-stitch arrangement runs through the autogenous as a signature device; the alignment of both stitch curve is attestation to Aston Martin's advancing attitude of aberrant craftsmanship.
As an advantage the DBS may be able with distinctively developed failing seats (outside North America). These affection a carbon-fibre and Kevlar® blended anatomy and are bogus by a supplier to the motorsport and aerodynamics industries afore getting alternate to Aston Martin's Gaydon branch for hand-trimming. The anatomy is created by sandwiching a band of Kevlar® amid two layers of carbon-fibre with the alien accomplishment larboard apparent on the bench backs, lacquered to actualize a abiding and adorable finish.
The aggregate of Kevlar® and carbon-fibre provides acute weight extenuative by acceptance the anatomy of the bench to be abundantly slim: amid 2.5mm and 3mm. Overall, the akin bench provides a weight extenuative of 20kg. The failing seats are a anchored structure, but can be adapted for rake as able-bodied as sliding ahead and aft.
The DBS alpha arrangement blends attitude with top technology and a blow of theatre. The agitation ECU (Emotion Ascendancy Unit) has acquired into a machined and awful concrete able azure ECU, accumulation a stainless animate close case. Resembling a accomplished wristwatch or a section of abreast sculptural jewellery, this azure ECU epitomises the spirit of the DBS.
To accomplish the car, the azure ECU is amid into a appropriate advancing base in Aston Martin's signature dashboard-mounted azure amateur button, and glows red to announce if the car is accessible to start. The engine is accursed by acute the ECU even with the apparent of the amateur button. After acute to stop the engine, the ECU automatically motors out of the dashboard for removal.
The alpha arrangement of the DBS is aggrandized by an all-new centre animate architectonics with a casting metal surround, brittle typography and new graphics. The new animate has a acceptable dial-face alarm at the centre, belted by two rotary controls for the heating and air-conditioning system, ancient from solid, angry aluminium.
These controls are aswell acclimated to cross the audio system, Bluetooth blast alertness and digital aeronautics functions. The Aston Martin 700 W Audio System, with Dolby® Pro Logic II® has been alone developed for Aston Martin to board outstanding complete quality. A aperture for the six-CD autochanger is amid at the top of the console, while aural the centre armrest accommodation box there is built-in connectivity for MP3 players. Bluetooth blast alertness is accepted on the DBS, enabling you to synchronise your adaptable blast agenda through the car's affectation screens. It can aswell affectation the endure 10 calls received, fabricated and missed.
Aston Martin DBS Specification
Body
Two-door auto physique appearance with 2+0 seating
Bonded aluminium VH structure
Aluminium, magnesium admixture and carbon-fibre blended body
Extruded aluminium aperture side-impact beams
High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps (main beam)
LED rear lamps and ancillary repeaters
Engine
All-alloy, cloister aerial camshaft, 48-valve, 5935cc V12.
Compression arrangement 10.9:1
Front-mid army engine, rear-wheel drive
Fully catalysed stainless animate bankrupt arrangement with alive bypass valves
Max power: 380kW (510bhp/517 PS) at 6500rpm
Max torque: 570Nm (420 lb.ft) at 5750rpm
Acceleration: 0-100 km/h (0-62mph) in 4.3 seconds
Max speed: 302 km/h (191mph)
Transmission
Rear-mid mounted, six-speed chiral gearbox
Alloy torque tube with carbon fibre ballista shaft
Limited-slip differential
Final-drive arrangement 3.71:1
Wheels and Tyres
Front: 8.5'' x 20'' Pirelli P Zero 245/35
Rear: 11'' x 20'' Pirelli P Zero 295/30
Steering
Rack and pinion, Servotronic speed-sensitive power-assisted steering, 3.0 turns lock-to-lock. Column angle and ability adjustment
Suspension
Front: Independent bifold wishbone accumulation anti-dive geometry, braid springs, anti-roll bald and monotube adaptive dampers
Rear: Independent bifold wishbones with anti-squat and anti-lift geometry, braid springs, anti-roll bar and monotube adaptive dampers
Adaptive Damping Arrangement (ADS) with Clue mode
Brakes
Front: Ventilated carbon bowl discs, 398mm bore with six-piston calipers
Rear: Ventilated carbon bowl discs, 360mm bore with four-piston calipers
Dynamic Adherence Ascendancy (DSC) with Clue mode
Anti-lock Braking Arrangement (ABS)
Electronic Brakeforce Administration (EBD)
Emergency Anchor Assist (EBA)
Traction control
Dimensions
Length: 4721mm (185.9'')
Wheelbase: 2740mm (107.9'')
Width: 1905mm (75'') (exc. Mirrors) 2060mm (81.1'') (inc. Mirrors)
Fuel catchbasin capacity: 78 litres (17.2 Imp.galls, 20.5 US galls)
Height: 1280mm (50.4'') Weight: 1695kg (3737lb)
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