This isn’t the long-awaited replacement for the DB9 or Vantage. As Aston Martin chief executive officer Andy Palmer announced only recently, only 10 units of the so-called DB10 will ever be made. And good golly, the entire lot will star in the 24th movie of the James Bond franchise. SPECTRE will be screened on 6th of November, next year, so there's a lot to wait.
By the way, Pinewood Studios is adamant that SPECTRE is an acronym for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. Don’t ask, we don’t really care about 007 right now. Let’s focus on the car instead. As it happens, the Gaydon-based sportscar brand is not going to sell the Aston Martin DB10. The 10-unit production run will be abused and destroyed in the upcoming SPECTRE flick and that’s that!
There’s no info available on powertrain specs, nor interior photos, which is telling us only one thing - this is just a glimpse at Aston Martins of the near future. The gills on the sides are way more aggressive than those of the DB9 or V8 Vantage, while the front grille is all-new for the British marque. We’re not so sure about those squinty headlights or the 10-spoke wheels, but the muscular haunches are to die for!
The rear fascia design resembles that of the Jaguar F-Type, with two strips of LEDs acting as taillights
The C-pillar is edgier than that of current Aston Martin models, giving the impression the DB10 is more low-slung than mass produced Astons. As for the flared wheel arches and pretty big tracks, we have a sneaking suspicions that the DB10 borrows the chassis of the turbo Vantage prototype our spy photographers caught on film in October. You know, the one that’s propelled by a Mercedes-AMG V8.
We recommend Aston Martin to concentrate on making the DB10 a little bit more gracious because it sort of looks like a diamond in the rough. Moreover, please stop producing horror machines such as the Lagonda Taraf. In the DB10’s defense, the design team doesn’t have a lot of work to do to polish the rough details, then copy-paste every visual element to the future generation of Aston Martin models.
Last but not least, chief executive officer Andy Palmer commented on the Aston Martin DB10's reveal that“in the same year that we celebrate our 50-year relationship with 007, it seems doubly fitting that today we unveiled this wonderful new sports car created especially for James Bond.”
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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