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Coming back from breakfast yesterday on one of our favorite driving roads (AZ 96 between Prescott and Bagdad) a sports car accompanied by a Range Rover jumped in line. Car had a big Pirelli sign on the side so we thought it was a tire testing. After following us for about 20 miles through the twisties at speed (our lead car was a GT3, I was driving my modified '04 996, followed by a 911 Turbo and a few others so speed was happening!) we stopped to split up for the final routes home.  Turns out it was the yet-to-be released Aston Martin DBS Superleggera! Factory guys (Brits) on a "hot weather testing" drive (they started in Phoenix) with the RR being the support vehicle. Visited for about 15 min, very nice car and all wired up with a trunk full of computer measuring equipment. 715 hp and lots of carbon fiber in that car.  Tires were donated by Pirelli, thus the sign.  A-M driver used to work for Porsche in Brittan so he was very happy tagging along. But couldn't talk him into a ride-along.

 

https://global.astonmartin.com/en-us/mod...perleggera

Funny the things you see on the desert roads. On the trip back from San Diego two days ago there was a testing caravan of about a dozen Porsche Cayenne's outside of Bishop. This was not far from where we saw the group of Macan's  a few years ago. It seems Porsche likes testing their SUV's in the California/Nevada desert.

We'll see them over here in AZ as well.  I guess if you want to test in killer weather, this is the place to go! 

They must be testing those AMs for the Dubai ( or other Arab peninsula countries ) market segment . :-) :-)

Certainly no one in the middle of these CA/NV/AZ deserts is a potential customer :-)

 

But in Las Vegas and Phoenix are plenty of high-rollers with the cash for one of the these daily drivers. US price starts at only $308k. Probably options could push it into the expensive range.

And here’s the latest from Aston ... woof !! For those of you guys looking for a convertible and just didn’t know what to get ..until now !


https://news.yahoo.com/aston-martin-prod...03471.html

Quote:And here’s the latest from Aston ... woof !! For those of you guys looking for a convertible and just didn’t know what to get ..until now !

https://news.yahoo.com/aston-martin-prod...03471.html

That's a spectacular piece of design!

I have the same ZF transmission in my Maserati, and I can tell you that it’s not just bulletproof but arguably the most extraordinary transmission on the planet, par with, if not even better than Porsche’s PDK .


But a twin turbo V 12 puts my Ferrari engine to shame ...