New 2025 Aston Martin DB12: The World's First super car tourer😍😍 @Motoringreviews1

DESIGN & STYLING
the DB12 is wider and more purposeful and looks like it has far greater sporting intent. Indeed, the company doesn’t call it a grand tourer now but a super tourer (no, not like the ones from the 1990s BTCC). According to Aston, “grand is not enough” to describe it - which sounds like a cross between a James Bond film and what’s needed to pay the average energy bill these days. Far better to underpromise and overdeliver when it comes to launches like these, history teaches.

Chassis-wise, a redesign of key components within the DB11’s bonded aluminium monocoque brings a 7% improvement to torsional rigidity for the new car – and, allowing for the weight saved under the bonnet, delivers an 85kg weight saving overall compared with the launch-spec DB11 V12 in a car that's slightly shorter but wider. 
INTERIOR
Elsewhere, the DB12 becomes the first Aston DB model with a torque-vectoring electronic rear differential (like that of the smaller sports car) and also gets firmer suspension springs and anti-roll bars than the DB11 had, plus new latest-generation adaptive dampers. Unlike its predecessors, it has a rigid-mounted electromechanical steering system, for the enhanced steering precision and feedback such a system grants.

Thankfully, the Aston Martin DB12 does have a touchscreen. The software it runs is not perfect, the fonts are a bit small, and some of the menus are too well hidden. But of much bigger significance is the fact that the screen exists at all; that you can prod it with your fingers; and that the software is all of Aston’s own design rather than being a Mercedes hand-me-down .

You can tell this is Aston’s first proper go at designing its own modern touchscreen interface, because it’s working through a few beginners’ mistakes. Some of the menu icons are too small to easily hit with an outstretched arm, for instance. There’s no physical cursor controller either on wheel or centre console, so no option but to reach for those fiddly icons; the software’s a bit glitchy and vulnerable to crashing; and the navigation is missing a couple of display modes. Oh, and the screen as a whole gets quite hot when it’s been on for an hour or so - which makes holding your fingertip to it, to move the map around or scroll down on a menu, a little unpleasant. 
ENGINES & PERFORMANCE
On the road, the DB12’s V8 doesn’t want for much – certainly not outright power, nor mid-range response, nor effusive audible presence. Thanks not only to that headline power output but also a shortened final drive ratio, the car feels much quicker and keener than its predecessor ever did, but it's still more soulful and mellow than a visceral, frenetic Ferrari V8 might be.

Gaydon has very cleverly conjured greater energy, rapidity and vigour for this car without making it higher-strung or any less effective as a long-striding GT. The gearbox shifts smoothly in GT mode, quicker in Sport and Sport+, holding lower gears for longer - but without overworking the active rear differential or making the car feel hyperactive. Even in slippery conditions, the DB12’s ground-covering composure is first rate.

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