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Quick Spin: Aston Martin DBS Volante gives convertibles a very, very good name

When you love the performance of a particular coupe, it's not often that you get to hop in the convertible version and say to yourself, "So... you mean I can have the same thing with the top down?" But in between the tight and relentless esses of Monterey's Carmel Valley Road, that's what we found ourselves debating. What we settled on was this: While the handling envelope of the DBS coupe is excellent, the envelope of the DBS Volante is, well, excellent. Follow the jump for our thoughts. ... Read more →

From the Ringside Rumormill: Aston Martin working on upgraded DBS? Noah Joseph

It may be too soon to say, but word has it that Aston Martin is working on an even more extreme version of its lightweight DBS super-GT. Rumors have been circulating around the Nurburgring, where ...

BREAKING: Top Gear not dead [w/VIDEO] Jonny Lieberman

Internet rumors are a funny thing. Back during the last presidential campaign, 10% of voters polled thought Barack Obama was a Muslim... until his campaign staffers came out and denied he was a ...

Pics Aplenty: Aston Martin V12 Vantage, DBS Volante Drew Phillips

Aston Martin makes some of the most visually appealing cars on the road today. Their latest offerings, the DBS Volante and the V12 Vantage, continue the company's tradition of elegant styling ...

Geneva 2009: Aston Martin DBS Volante drops its top Jeremy Korzeniewski

The curiously shaped Lagonda revival, absurdly potent One-77 supercar and V12-powered Vantage were not the only new vehicles that Aston Martin brought to the Geneva Motor Show. Last but certainly ...

Q-Car: Autoblog drives James Bond's DBS from Quantum of Solace 10 months ago on Autoblog

Your English-manor-garden variety Aston Martin DBS has 510 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque. The 6.0-liter V12 that powers it will pull the coupe to 60 in 4.3 seconds. It costs $305,000, and it is a special car. But we drove one that was even more special. We drove one of the Aston Martins ...

Bond girl buddies up with Ford Ka 1 year ago on Autoblog

Who's not looking forward to the new Bond flick Quantum of Solace that opens in theaters on October 29th? Agent 007 returns with an Aston Martin DBS as his daily driver and a beautiful woman on his arm, per usual. The new girl's name is Camille, and she's played by Olga Kurylenko. Her job is to make ...

Aston Martin debating DBS convertible nomenclature 1 year ago on Autoblog

Aston Martin has a whole slew of new flagships on the way. The One-77 supercar has yet to be fully revealed, the Rapide four-door is in the pipeline, and the V12 Vantage is undergoing testing. But before any of those hit the market, Aston Martin is preparing to unveil a convertible variant of ...

Daniel Craig gets free pass to drive Astons for life 1 year ago on Autoblog

As if being chosen to play the consummate British secret agent wasn't enough for Daniel Craig to brag about, the current 007 has been extended a free pass to drive Aston Martin's best cars any time he pleases. And he isn't limited to driving on the street. Aston has made its test track available ...

Bond fan buys totaled Aston for $120k over list 1 year ago on Autoblog

The people behind the latest Bond films seem to have a knack for destroying perfectly good Aston Martin DBSs. First they rolled one (repeatedly) in shooting Casino Royale. Never missing an opportunity to total a perfectly good Aston, they crashed another one in a rock quarry for the opening ...

Aston Martin DBS gets Touchtronic tranny 1 year ago on Autoblog

The ultimate Aston Martin is only a year old, but it's already getting some updates including a new automatic transmission. The DBS will receive an optional automatic transmission dubbed the TouchTronic 2 for the 2009 model year, a re-engineered version of the ZF six-speed unit equipped in the ...

Aston Martin gets the Bang & Olufsen treatment 1 year ago on Autoblog

The era of the luxury exotic with a so-so sound system is nearly over. Bang & Olufsen worked with product developers at Aston Martin to create the BeoSound DBS audio system that is specifically tuned to 007's cabin. Thirteen speakers -- five tweeters, five midrange, and three woofers -- are ...

Q would be proud: Aston Martin and Jaeger LeCoultre release their second DBS transponder watch 1 year ago on Autoblog

With a 510 hp V12 under-hood, you wouldn't need any extra motivation to buy an Aston Martin DBS, but the James Bond factor certainly doesn't hurt. So if you're going to be driving 007's ride, you're going to need a Bond-esque watch to go with it. While 007 sports an Omega, Aston Martin's official ...

Quantum of Solace trailer shows little bit of Aston, lot of movie 1 year ago on Autoblog

We have to admit, when we heard the next Bond film was going to be called "Quantum of Solace," we kind of scrunched our faces a little bit. Still, Casino Royale was so good that we figured we'd give it the old innocent-until-proven-guilty treatment. Well, now we've seen the trailer, and it looks so ...

Enough is Enough: Bond crashes Aston DBS into wall 1 year ago on Autoblog

Despite a couple of disastrous and debilitating setbacks, filming of the next Bond flick, the Quantum of Solace, is back, with production continuing in the mountains of Carrara, Italy. Unfortunately, these newest shots from the set are further proof that the writers and producers have absolutely no ...

Aston Martin DBS owners have to wait a bit longer to be Bond 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Aston Martin DBS. According to Autocar, the lucky few that have put a deposit down on the new Aston Martin DBS will have to wait an additional three-months to get behind the wheel of the body-kitted Bond car. The problem apparently stems from suppliers who ...

Bond stunt driver takes plunge into lake in Aston Martin DBS 1 year ago on Autoblog

At 6:30 this morning, a stunt driver shooting a scene for the upcoming James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, lost control of an Aston Martin DBS while filming a chase scene and plunged into Lake Garda in Italy. The film's executive producer, Anthony Waye, said that the scene was being shot in the ...

Spy shots: Aston Martin DBS Volante 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click the image above for a gallery of high-res shots of the Aston Matrtin DBS Volante. Somewhere in the Swedish boonies there's a stunning burgundy mule testing its wares in the snow: the Aston Martin DBS convertible. Differing from its hardtopped sibling in only its roofline and side window ...

James Bond keeps his Aston Martin DBS 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for DBS photo gallery Ever since Ford sold Aston Martin earlier this year, there was speculation as to whether the marque would provide James Bond's company car again when the 22nd installment of the movie series hits theaters next November. Speculation over. Aston Martin announced ...

Thanks DuPont: Aston Martin DBS now available in Racing Green 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for our Aston Martin DBS hi-res gallery When the good ship Lotto comes into port for us, one of the items very high on the shopping list is the Aston Martin DBS, which adds a dash of toughness to the slinky lines of the DB9 and generally causes the car-aware to trip over their tongues. ...

Top Gear flogs the Aston Martin DBS 2 years ago on Autoblog

Top Gear has laid hands on the new hotness that is the Aston Martin DBS, and after watching Jeremy Clarkson take us on an eight-minute tour of the car and what it can do, we desperately want to win the lottery. In his review, he literally places it head-to-head against the DB9 (prettier and less ...

Aston Martis DBS voted "Rear of the Year" 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view more angles of the Aston Martin DBS derriere The Aston Martin DBS has been voted as having the "Rear of the Year" in a poll conducted for the MPH '07 car show takes place in early November. It's J-Lo-esque posterior narrowly beat out the Bugatti Veyron's bum for the top ...

Frankfurt 2007: Aston Martin DBS is the new House of Lords 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click the image above for more hi-res pics Neither Daniel Craig nor his latest avatar made an appearance at the Frankfurt Auto Show, but that's all right. If we had a choice of meeting Bond or his car in person, we'd have to go with the car. And there it was, the DBS, "the ultimate luxury sports ...

Pebble Beach Week 2007: Aston Martin DBS brings Bond to the commoner man 2 years ago on Autoblog

Although we did our best to get around to all of the events up in Monterey last week, the fates sometimes conspired against us. Bear with us then as we play a bit of catch-up this week and share some pics of the unveilings and debuts you may have missed. Here we show off a few shots of the more ...

Spy Shots: Aston Martin DBS caught on Autobahn 2 years ago on Autoblog

PistonHeads just posted a bunch of pics of the new Aston Martin DBS. Although the car was wearing DBRS9 badges, it's actually believed to be the DBS that is expected to take the place of the outgoing Vanquish in the A-M lineup. The car was caught unattended after a high speed run on one of Germany's ...

Aston Martin developing a DBX? 2 years ago on Autoblog

With the ink still moist on the purchase agreement for Aston Martin, there are some interesting developments already. As we've heard ad nauseum previously, David Richards of Prodrive, along with Texas banker John Sinders, and the Kuwaiti Investment Dar and Adeem Investment have taken a 90% stake in ...






Autoblog Podcast #155: 'Twas the night before LA...

Chris, Dan, and Editor Paukert go over some LA Preview action and quietly whoop it up on the podcast.

 
 

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