Aston Martin DBX (SUV)

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Could Aston Martin roll out a multi-million-pound DBX special?

SuperSUVs are here to stay, and Aston wants to make its one work. Here’s how

Aston Martin is mulling ways to make the DBX SUV more enticing, according to its new boss Adrian Hallmark. Yes, it still makes the DBX SUV and might very well make a very expensive version.

“It would be good to be the first one that does an SUV special,” Hallmark said at a briefing last week. “And I’m not talking about a six-wheeler G-Wagen because they’re special in a different way.”

What he means is a proper, super expensive, super exotic take on the premium segment’s favourite style of motor vehicle. “A multi-million-pound SUV doesn’t exist yet, as far as I’m aware,” he said.

Not since the outrageous V12-engined Maybach Laundaulet has a premium carmaker flirted with such conspicuous excess. Hallmark didn’t elaborate on what form this DBX could take, but our money’s on one with a massive V12.

 
Aston Martin reveals its fastest and most powerful SUV: the new 717bhp DBX S

Incoming new Aston super-tank deploys Valhalla turbo tech for 0-62mph in 3.3s

This is the new Aston Martin DBX S, which takes the already punchy DBX707’s 4.0-litre biturbo V8 and turns it into something so punchy, you’d pay to see it slug it out in front of a sold-out Wembley crowd.
Because it uppercuts that 707 out the way to become the most powerful DBX on sale today. According to Aston, it also becomes the pointiest iteration of Gaydon’s super-tank, but we’ll come back to that shortly. First, some power.

The AMG-sourced 4.0-litre turbocharged V8 here gets training tips from the incoming, mid-engined Valhalla super-hyper-car in the shape of larger compressor wheel diameters and “other internal improvements”.
The increased focus on the heavy bag means the DBX S – using a suffix Aston’s quite keen on – has moved up a weight division, now able to deploy 717bhp, up from the 707’s… 697bhp. Torque is unchanged at 663lb ft. We’re told said power – the last thing a heavyweight loses, right – “provides even greater urgency at the very top of the rev range”.

 
Urgency is a very good word. These things haul like scalded cats.
 
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