It’s the last of the line for now, but Aston’s flagship front-engine supercar is going out with a big bang that reminds us of days gone by.
, its flagship front-engine supercar is not leaving the scene quietly. The snarling V-12 engine under its hood now makes 760 hp, and on an empty autobahn it will take you all the way to 211 mph.—its peak torque output of 664 lb-ft at 1,500-5,000 rpm remains unchanged—comes courtesy of fuel and ignition calibration changes and a 7 percent increase in turbo-boost pressure. Aston's intoxicating 5.
What all that adds up to is a DBS that feels more concise, more precise on the road than before. The front end reacts the moment you pull the steering wheel off-center, the recalibrated shocks offering greater support across the rear axle to help reduce understeer and improve turn-in response. The dialogue with the road through the front and rear tires is more intimate than before, yet the ride retains the veneer of compliance that is a hallmark of the best modern Aston Martins.
Selecting Sport and then Sport+ sprinkles the digital instrument panel in cliché red hues and elicits more snarl and snap-crackle-pop from the exhaust, though the computer-generated aural fireworks are—thankfully—more subtly rendered than in some recent Astons. More important, the big V-12 feels instantly more alert, not that any engine that happily revs to 7,000 rpm yet delivers its peak torque from just 1,500 rpm could ever be considered lazy.
The Vantage version looked a lot like the regular Virage, though it shared no exterior panels other than the roof and doors. The engine made it special: The charismatic 5.3-liter quad-cam Aston Martin V-8 designed by Tadek Marek in the 1960s had two—count 'em!—superchargers, one mounted over each cylinder bank, and they helped the engine punch out at as much as 585 hp and 555 lb-ft of torque.
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