Here's The New Aston Martin DBX Powersliding Around In The Snow
Aston Martin’s very first SUV is almost here. Certainly, some will regard its arrival as sacrilegious, but perhaps seeing this test mule going rather sideways will placate those who find the idea of such a vehicle to be unsavoury.
It certainly has no trouble getting its slide on in this video, which was shot during cold weather testing at the Flurheden Proving Ground in Sweden. We can expect it to handle well on grippier surfaces too, as Matt Becker heads up the team of “dynamics specialists” tasked with making the car steer as an Aston Martin should. Becker spent a good chunk of his career at Lotus and was responsible for the Vantage and DBS Superleggera’s very fine chassis, so it’d be a bit of an understatement to say he ‘knows his onions’.
If you’re wondering why the camouflaged DBX has a ruddy-great dragon on the side, that’s all about where the vehicle will be made: Wales. Specifically, Aston Martin’s all-new facility in St Athan.
The DBX will go into “prototype build” at the plant halfway through 2019, while full production is due to start next year.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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This is actually pretty cool seeing an SUV going offroading
But literally 99.9999999% of the owners will never take it off-road
why do SUVs exist
Because people want SUVs and car brands have to make them becuz business and moneh.
DIfficult. I kinda see it as snuffing out a demographic.
because people feel so useless and small they need to seat higher than the rest
Why does it have a lipstick outline around the front grille?
I thought Aston Martin’s famous for that. They had it on their GT3 DB9 IIRC
Can’t wait for this.
Would you look at that. A luxury expensive SUV with actual off-road ground clearance
As long as this funds more of these amazing new sportscars that aston is putting out, i’m completely fine with this.