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Aston Martin‘s DB12 grand tourer—Robb Report‘s 2024 Car of the Year—just got even more powerful.
Aston unveiled the DB12 S on Wednesday and said it makes 690 horsepower and can go from zero to 60 mph in just 3.4 seconds, both improvements on the older DB12’s marks of 671 horsepower and 3.5 seconds. The brakes are upgraded, too, with carbon ceramic brakes delivering a decrease in weight and better stopping power. Aston says it was able to reduce gearshift speeds, too, which helps reduce the zero-to-60 time and makes the car more responsive. Quad exhaust pipes make things more stylish in the rear, and options on the inside that include two-tone and three-tone interiors will shout that your DB12 is an S.
The DB12 S joins the DBX S and the Vantage S as the automaker’s range-topping models in each class, the cars that are supposed to represent the very best of what Aston Martin does. The “S,” in fact, harkens back to the DB3S, a car that debuted in 1953 and raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Inside the DB12 S is a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine that Aston Martin has tuned for increased power, though the top speed of 202 mph remains unchanged. The automaker paid special attention to the exhaust, which has four stainless steel tailpipes and has been tuned for sound, “to accentuate the engine frequencies throughout the rev range for added depth and potency,” Aston said in a press release. There is also a titanium exhaust option that is even louder and lighter.
Engineers have further futzed with the chassis and brakes to give drivers more confidence while slowing down into corners and accelerating out of them.
“Having added this greater dynamic and performance bandwidth to DB12 S, we believe this elevates the Super Tourer ethos to a thrilling new level,” Simon Hughes, Aston Martin’s director of vehicle performance, said in the release.
The DB12 S is part of Aston Martin’s current strategy of refining its lineup instead of remaking it, after a flurry of new cars in the past few years under a prior CEO.
Aston Martin didn’t announce pricing, but the ordinary DB12 starts at around $250,000, so you can expect the S version to likely approach $300,000, if not more. Aston said the DB12 S will come in both coupe and volante, or convertible, forms. Deliveries to customers will begin in the first three months of 2026.
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Erik Shilling is digital auto editor at Robb Report. Before joining the magazine, he was an editor at Jalopnik, Atlas Obscura, and the New York Post, and a staff writer at several newspapers before…
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