5 Road & Performance for sale

An Exercise in Excess Just occasionally a car gets made to celebrate what can be done when a bunch of engineers get together and tear up the rule book. With the impending move towards electrification and hybridisation, the boffins at Aston Martin huddled together and talked in hushed tones about the idea of taking the mega twin-turbo 5.2 litre V12 from the DBS Superleggera and shoehorning it into the smallest car they make, the Vantage. What we ended up with after countless hours and millions

It becomes all too easy to use hyperbole and cliche when describing a particular car having “the best spec” or “no box left unticked” etcetera, however for this particular DBS we absolutely mean it! This Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is so jaw-droppingly beautiful that we should add the word “art" in front of “collector" instead of “car”. No matter what angle this car is viewed from it is a miracle of design and engineering where the aesthetic hasn’t been compromised by anyone in a lab coat. W

Owned this for almost 20 years, car body has around 100 thou on it, the engine was built with bigger cams, stage 2 BC Engine was rebuilt with a triple plate gasket kit throughout, runs E85 1000cc injectors, bigger external fuel pump, brand new hyper gear turbo low mount with steam pipe manifold, straight through 3 inch exhaust with twin blast pipes, five stud conversion with s15 brakes. So many mods done, it’s been dyno tuned with a haltec platinum, heaps of after market steering arms from gktec