Audi Wallpaper HD: Aston Martin Dbs

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Aston Martin Dbs

In the movie the car made a cameo appearance – on screen for a matter of seconds – but it made an impact and entered The Guinness Book of World Records by rolling seven times in the air before it crashed. The road car is one rung down from the DBR9 sports car, a rocket ship which won the GT1 class at the Le Mans 24-hour last year at the hands of Australian David Brabham, Rickard Rydell and Darren Turner.

For $520,000 fully optioned including all on-road costs you get the most technological Aston ever built, full of space-age materials and lashings of carbon fibre. Under the V-shaped bonnet, which can be lifted with your little finger, hides a 6-litre V12 that screams to 6500rpm and maxes out at 380kW of power and 570Nm of torque. Acceleration is not for the weak-kneed as it tackles the 0-100km/h measurement in a supercar-qualifying 4.3 seconds.

There is carbon throughout the car, the front wing lip, the rear diffuser, the wing mirror joins, door opening surrounds, etc that amount to a considerable slimming of overall weight.

A complex Adaptive Damping System uses two valves to adjust the dampers to five different settings.

The DBS is shod with specially developed Pirelli P-Zero 20-inch rubber. Huge br....