UK VERDICTS
ASTON MARTIN DBX S
Supercar turbos and copious carbon make for a faster, lighter super-SUV
TESTED 11.11.25, CUMBRIA DELIVERIES NOW
This latest halo version of Aston Martin’s DBX, the S, seeks to redistribute a few bragging rights among the owners of top-ranking super-SUVs – and we would be naive to imagine those were unimportant.
Using new enlarged twin-scroll turbochargers taken from Aston’s Valhalla hypercar, the Mercedes-AMG-sourced V8 in this car now tiptoes beyond the 715bhp headline power output of the Ferrari Purosangue’s atmospheric V12. The V8-engined plug-in hybrid Lamborghini Urus SE offers more still (789bhp) but is also 0.1sec slower-accelerating to 62mph than this new Aston.
One way or another, then, this S version gives DBX devotees fresh objective justification to back up the subjective sense that their everyday-use, any-occasion supercar on stilts must surely be the best luxury car in the world – and worth every penny of its £210,000 departure price.