James Bond's Quantum of Solace movie was rather good, typical James Bond lah. The storyline is actually continuing from the previous James Bond movie "Casino Royale". Therefore, which makes many of us get confused with the storyline. Anyways, I'll give it a personal rating of 8.5/10.
Anyways, moving on to the main part of why I blogged..... You guessed it! The Aston Matin DBS V12!!
The latest DBS is a beautiful creation of Aston Martin. G'job Aston Martin! Although, I'm more of a fan of Italian and German Sports Cars, but the DBS is something worth blogging about eh?
The two seater coupe has a bonded aluminium chassis made of lightweight magnesium alloy, carbon fibre composite and aluminium. Which makes the typical British car, unusually light! Nice one! The power of the engine that made partially made Aston Martin an infamous make, comes from the heavily revised handmade 6.0 litre V12 engine. WOW. Never forget, this refined beast's engine is actually hand-made, which gives the car an extra flavour to it, you can't really trust technology completely eh?
This hand-made engine delivers up to 510 bhp (380 kW/517 PS) at 6500 rpm and 420 lb·ft (569 N·m) of torque at 5750 rpm. That's fast. This beautifully made engine allows the car to accelerate 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.3 seconds and reach a top speed of 307km/h. 307km/h, don't play play play ah.
The DBS is fitted with new vented carbon ceramic brakes discs – a first for a road-going Aston Martin, it reduces unsprung weight by 12.5 kg (28 lb). The front wheels are fitted with 398 mm (15.7 in) diameter carbon ceramic brakes with six-piston calipers. The rear wheels have 360 mm (14.2 in) diameter brakes with four-piston calipers. The double wishbone alloy suspension features an adaptive damper controlled suspension which uses two separate valves to set the dampers to five different positions, allowing instant adjustment of the car’s ride and handling characteristics. In other words, this car prevents unnesesary skidding.
Unfortunately, for those automatic transmission car drivers out there, the DBS only comes with an 6 speed Manual transmission. But to racers, its an advantage, it allows you to control your car's speed better. For example, if you want to cut into a sharp bend of the road/track, lets say you're at 5th speed in the DBS so maybe you're going about 275km/h in the car? for automatic it takes sometime for the transmission to shift from 5th gear, to 4th, to 3rd and vise versa. Then actually limits how you can control you're car's speed. As for manual you can just go from 5th straight to 3rd, if you're cutting to a sharp bend of the road, if you do, that's when the well designed brakes kicks it, and will, reduce the speed of you're car's speed much faster, than using automatic transmission. But, its rather dangerous to do that, because if the braking pressure is too much, then you're tyres will lose traction, therefore if you're planning to do that, get better quality tyres, but i don't think you have to worry about that. Haha.
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And this wraps up the Aston Martin DBS posts!!! Once again, I thank the Aston Martin engineers and designers for, yet again, creating such a fantastic car. Unfortunately, cars like these are only affordable to the upper echelon of the human population, but maybe, just maybe, when 2011 comes and the promised reduction does really happen..... Well yeah, you can say I have a sense of humour. :)
Dedicated to Hon Wye,
Thanks for reminding me. :)
Leon Lim Jake-Li,
Signing off.
~Cheers
Thanks for reminding me. :)
Leon Lim Jake-Li,
Signing off.
~Cheers
For a little more excitement to satisfy you, I recommend watching a Fifth Gear series video on youtube of the Aston Martin DBS.
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