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EVO Car Reviews: Aston Martin DBS TouchtronicThis is a discussion on EVO Car Reviews: Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic within the Aston Martin forums, part of the More European Cars category; Auto gearbox helps range-topping Aston find its true identity Rating: Cool car, the DBS. It just doesn’t know what it ... |
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  | EVO Car Reviews: Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic    Auto gearbox helps range-topping Aston find its true identity Rating:  Cool car, the DBS. It just doesn’t know what it wants to be. Well, that’s not strictly true. It wants to be a 599 GTB, but its lazier V12 and DB9 architecture don’t allow it to pull off the hardcore front-engined sports car thing quite so well. It’s safe to say that adding an automatic gearbox won’t change that, but it might give the DBS a clearer, more defined role, a stronger sense of its own identity. The decision to equip the top Aston with something other than a manual ’box came late last year. The trouble was, according to chief programme engineer Dave Doody, ‘we just didn’t know which one’. An automated manual was considered then discarded, but with a ZF six-speed already lurking in the DB9, the decision to carry it across to the DBS is hardly surprising. More: evo
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