THE WORLD’S FIRST SUPER TOURER
NO MERE GT
The category we invented, reinvented again
An icon risen from an icon. The latest landmark in a seven-decade lineage of legend. Uprooting and reinventing the category we first coined 75 years ago. A blood-stirringly beautiful monument to modernity. Born and relentlessly reborn to race hearts, level mountains, shrink continents and eviscerate every benchmark that’s gone before. Pulsing with new technology that places the driver in a seat of new perfection. Redesigning what it means to be a ‘tourer’. From its inside, out. This is no mere GT. This is fiercer. This is purer. This is sharper. This is bolder. This is finer. This is DB12. The World’s First Super Tourer.
FIERCER
A new standard of performance
An exhilaration-seeking missile. Fired by a hand-built twin turbo V8. Wielding a benchmark-bruising 680PS that arms it with the speed to supersede any peer and every predecessor. Propelling it so far top of its class that it creates a category of its own.
Precedent pulverising performance
Conquering all before to its all-devouring core. DB12 raises the simply grand into the superpowered. With a pulse-quickening twin turbo V8, delivering a class-leading 680PS for a top speed of 202mph. Stamping 800Nm of pinpointed potency across each and any terrain it’s dared to drive on. Set with Zirconium alloy heads for perfected temperature resistance. Fit with lightweight forged pistons and hand-built from aluminium to tap every drop and nanosecond of real-world performance from its 4.0 litres. Its only upper limit is 7,200rpm.
Transmission without inhibition
Exhilaration growing the gears. An automatic ZF 8-speed transmission comes twinned with electronic rear differential. Channelling power into place and weaving it individually through each wheel. Shorter gears, shortening acceleration time, particularly across the mid-range. Allowing your super tourer to be super fast and super smooth. From a sumptuous standstill to a category crushing top speed of 202mph.
Coolly intelligent
An intravenous drip of cold. DB12 comes with triple the number of radiators for even more cooling capabilities. A fiercely efficient front splitter that inhales far more air to enhance airflow without compromising balance or downforce. Increased hot air extraction through larger wheel arch liner apertures. Crowned by icily intelligent head mounted liquid coolers that can drop 1400°C to just 250°C. At full load. Without lowering the output of the engine.
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PURER
A car born to be driven
Purity and poise without previous or precedent. The cockpit centres you in your DB12. Enveloping you with peerless ergonomics that etch their way into your being for the ultimate connection between car and driver. Become one with your car and the road.
Constantly connected
Driver centricity breathing feeling beyond compare. Enlightened by connected technology. Focussing each eyeball. Holding you at a deliberately altered position, calculated to the millimetre to deliver a near-perfect hip/heel ratio.
At the epicentre of control
The equally obsessively-measured raised centre console places you even more viscerally at the core of the car. With an automatic gearbox that can be overridden to place the purity of power in your hands through the steering wheel mounted paddles. Released by the stop/start button that delivers 680PS and 800Nm of torque at the glance of an index finger.
Peerlessly precise ergonomics
At a new apex of steering and handling. Reborn with five drive modes, each tuned and tightened by ESP that manoeuvres the grip of the tyres based on the terrain they’re biting into. Bringing unadulterated control, uninterrupted by momentary shifts in stability. The non isolated steering column provides truer, more immediate feedback and feeling. Bowing even more instantly to every twist of wrist and adjustment of ankle.
Lined with luxury
Piece by piece, made pristine. The DB12 is centred around a new steering wheel. Merging tradition and technology with handstitched leather, embossed with modern driver controls for infotainment, safety and technology. Offered with a range of trim inlay options, complementing the advanced interior design. Making your super tourer as personalised, as it is unique.
Sharper
Attacking corners and continents
Autobahn after Riviera after rolling country road. Exquisitely handled. Chicane after hairpin. Effortlessly forced into line. The slicing finesse of unparalleled dynamics. Cut with a sabre-like sharpness of touch. Married with intelligent torque distribution that tames tarmac between its tyres. To mould a new standard of dynamic precision.
Steering dynamics into a new class
A chassis that is stiffer. For a drive that feels more malleable. Bolstered by anti-roll technology and a double wishbone suspension. Slicing up slip roads and carving round corners with intelligent dampers by increasing the amount of force it can distribute by 500%. Enlightened by the latest evolution of e-diff. Tailoring torque, one wheel at a time, to pinpoint potency precisely where the car needs it.
Halted by carbon ceramic
400mm at the front. 360mm at the rear. Grooved and drilled, disc by disc, to fight off fade in the cauldron of high speed. And for the first time for any Aston Martin’s core GT model: the choice of carbon ceramic. Anchoring your ankle with the courage to let loose and the conviction to rein in, its full remit of power. While reducing unsprung mass by 27kg to quicken its feel at your feet and control in your hands.
Reactions in rubber
DB12 debuts the new Michelin Pilot Sport 5S tyre. Developed alongside Michelin and bespoke to Aston Martin. A hand spun compound for unparalleled lateral grip for more reaction in your rubber and precise steering. While dampening the effects of rain and cushioning comfort into every roll of tread.
BOLDER
A ballet of ballistic balance
A pupil brimmingly beautiful feat of sculpture. Not shy and not sorry to make an entrance. Chiselled with the unapologetic aggression of its enlarged grille and 10mm wider track. Fused with classical elegance that cruises forward while paying homage to all seven decades of its past. To make this latest first impression of an icon even more impossible to forget.
21” forged wheel
Next generation car mounted on next generation wheels. 21-inch alloy wheels, lighter than any other of the same size. A result of forging and re-forging metal to reduce weight and trim every dimple of excess. Leaving a wheel that stands the test of a super tourer. And maximises the harmony between the tyre and tarmac.
LED headlights
A new way to illuminate your journey. DB12 comes fronted with futuristic, re-designed LED headlights and shining with a new daytime running light (DRL) signature. These are backed by the Automatic High Beam to give you ultimate clarity even in the darkest of nights.
FINER
Holding you in stitched hedonism
75 years of history. Accelerated forward furiously and sumptuously by the fine-tuning hands of the future. Taking state-of-the-art technology and lining every innovation with signature Aston Martin handcraftsmanship. A portrait of the perfected past and ingenious beauty to come. Swelling the surface of your senses. And embroidering your ears with a symphony of smart sound conducted by the command of your voice. To redesign the category. From the interior, out.
The vanguard of sight and sound
The eye of the cockpit is a 10.25 inch digital screen. Fully and unblinkingly digital for the first time. Widening the blacks of your pupils with newly enlightened graphics that are a vision of every single Aston Martin to come. The single dial design brings true sports focus into the highest definition touch screen in any car in the category. Tailoring every reflex of the super tourer to your literal touch.
Turning sound into a sport
An orchestra of up to 15 speakers. 1170 watts steeping you in a new deep end of sound. Deepened further by QuantumLogic immersion™. Built bespoke by Bowers and Wilkins, the acoustic artists behind the equipment at Abbey Road Studios. DB12’s audio system is hand tuned to harmonise with every obsessively curated swatch and material of the interior. Without shedding or dampening a decibel.
The première of a new system
A world exclusive: the Aston Martin of infotainment systems. Debuting with the DB12. Dreamed up, designed and built in house. With WHAT3WORDS enabled 3D mapping and navigation. While summoning every album you own with the full symphony of its soundscape. And putting every app and button of your phone at the command of your voice or touch.
An engine of intelligence
Every cell of your super tourer now has a brain in it. For the first time in 110 years, we’ve put online connectivity at the core of a car. Through a trilogy of the Aston Martin app, DB12 and server that learns more about how you drive it, with every millimetre of road it devours. Built to evolve with an arsenal of features.
