You Can Buy An Aston Martin DBS For The Price Of A Porsche 718 Cayman S
There’s never been a better time to have the money and desire for a car in the £60,000 sports car bracket. The choice is broader than ever, from the Alpine A110 (with lots of change for options) to the new Toyota Supra and the benchmark 718 Porsche Cayman S.
But thanks to the wonders of depreciation, there’s another option; an option that neither lumps you with a ‘necessary’ four-cylinder engine nor borrows a six-pot (however good) from another brand’s pockets. Welcome to the £58,000 Aston Martin DBS, which we found after being inspired by news that the Gaydon-based merchants of suave really will build an open-cockpit, long-nosed V12 Speedster.
That’s right: for about the same price as a Cayman S with some customary options – PASM, metallic paint, Sport Chrono and 911 wheels – you could have a modern classic British sports GT with an orchestral V12 and more head-turning charm than you can wave your Insta-whatsit at. The DBS was an evolution of the DB9, adding a sharper edge and a thousand small refinements that added up to a big leap overall.
Under that effortlessly graceful bonnet is a 6.0-litre V12 that plays the gods’ own music. You get a modest-sounding 510bhp and 420lb ft, the redline sits at 6900rpm and torque doesn’t crest until 5750rpm, so this is a creamy V12 that wants to be worked. The dazzling spectrum of sonic rewards mean you won’t want to go easy on it anyway. Autobahn maximum is 191mph and it’ll get to 100mph from rest in 8.7 seconds. It’s plenty quick enough.
This one is also a very classy spec. Midnight Blue paint sits over full black leather. No one with taste and/or subtlety would ever get tired of it. After all, a car as handsome as its original buyer’s bank balance – it cost over £180,000 plus options – doesn’t need to dress in vibrant clothes. The flashes of yellow brake calipers behind the gun-metal 10-double-spoke wheels are just enough of an accent to make the whole thing perfect.
Impressively, the car’s amazing cosmetic condition comes despite some 97,000 miles having been covered. We doff our Internet caps to the owners for actually using it as Aston intended. There’s a full-body paint protection film that has kept stone chips and tar at bay; useful when most of the panels directly facing the road’s gritty hazards are carbonfibre.
It’s for sale at Aston Martin’s main dealer in Leeds, for £57,990. Lower-mileage ones aren’t much more but this one seems particularly well cared for. It’s not usual for a main dealer to take stock with so many miles, so that’s encouraging.
The dealer will give you a 12-month unlimited-mileage warranty on top of an independently certified history for the car. Presumably it’s also very shiny in the showroom, if that launches your rocket. A lighter, lither Cayman might be a better bet for a B-road, but it would take a heart of granite and lithium-ion not to quiver a little at the thought of owning this. The DBS is beauty and beast in perfect balance.
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Question for the Europeans: everyone knows insurance for such a divine machine is eye watering, that’ll be true everywhere, but of course it’s relative, so as a yankee I have an idea what it would be over here, but what would ballpark be the annual cost to the average UK or Euro driver for a slick Aston like such? (Versus say… a 718 S, which I aslo wouldn’t mind owning)
UK, male, late twenties, cheapest quotes coming out to around £800 annually for fully comprehensive cover. But even that’s all relative as I live in a rural area and many years of no claims history.
210 euro for a 20y/o
Man, 31 years, single, own boss, +10 years driving licence without any incident, living 10km near a big city, 1300£ annually full coverage (absolut minimum). A 718 S would be around the same price (probably because it’s a 10y more recent car…).
I was 26 when I had my V8 Vantage, and that cost about £600 fully comprehensive.
Don’t forget in the UK we also have to pay annual road tax (for simplicity, it’s like the US licence fee) that costs about £500.
I drive BMW M2, I’m 22 an just got insurance back at 9k!! A monitoring box / black box brings it down to 2.5k.
BMW M4 = 3.2k
Nissan GTR = 2.3k with no monitoring, literally makes no sense :/
All kind of okay, considering my age & type of cars
Sure, you can buy a DBS for the price of a Porsche 718. But should you? Yeah, I don’t know about that one…
okay MAYBE not this exact one.
but considering you can get amazing low milers for about 75-90k.
id totally get one.
I wouldn’t.
Shit will break the moment you drive it off the lot
Idk why you’re getting downvoted, I feel the same way. Too big of a gamble
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The DBS is a pretty car anyway but in that colour, that is properly good looking.