Aston Martin of Tysons Corner, VA sent out an invitation to view one of the hero cars from the latest James Bond movie, Spectre, at the dealership. I went over Saturday morning to snap a few pictures. The car was gorgeous! I can't wait to see how much of the design carries over to the DB11.

 

Your pics came out way better than my cell phone shots lol. Great seeing you again!

 

Haha mine too

 

Very nice! Is there a schedule this is on visiting dealers across the U.S?

 

Not sure if it will make it to Texas.

It will be 3 days late though because I just received an email from Aston Martin of Washington, DC that the DB10 will be in their showroom until Wednesday (it was supposed to only be there for the weekend.)

 

Side view , front view stunning ... Wheels mehhhh . Rear view WTF were they thinking it looks like a Honda Insight

 

See it in person. Enjoy the sensation of your negative opinion changing. (At least, that was my experience)

 

Chances of me seeing it in person are slim to none , nearest dealer is 2 1/2hrs drive away and just looked at the pics again and the rear view is .....
Well .......butt ugly .
The diffuser is too tall the trunk ledge is too short it's just all proportioned wrong in my eye ....

 

I like the side and rear view of the car quite a bit. Still don't care for the front end.

The fender vents are not functional (reach in and you'll feel the wheel well liner), which is a bit odd since they're functional on the V8V that it's based on.

They did a great job of making the car very sleek (except the headlights on the front, too many confused contours/lines). A lot of the styling is supposed to be carrying over to the DB11. Hopefully they fix the front, but I think it's a great design to help update the DB9's styling.

That front end is just not working, though. The lower section of the front air dam has no interest. It needs more detail to hide the one solid contour line of that shark 'nose', which is so dominating that it's the only thing I can look at on the front of the car. The current V8V has such a well-balanced design that you can't focus on any one thing, you keep looking at everything. The DB10... not so much. Just that one line. The notches in the headlights make them look fussy. Look at the way the lines of the headlights of a V8V are sculpted to follow all the lines around them - they're beautiful insets and they compliment the styling of the fenders, hood, etc. The DB10's headlights don't do any of that. The contour lines are a mess. They overlap, they have no rhyme or reason. Look at the difference between the DB10 and current Vantage:



You can tell by my mad MS Paint skills that I'm a design professional and know what I'm talking about.

 

I like the rear. In general it's a beautiful car, especially when you consider they only had 6 months to build it.

 

Man richard, you have no idea what you are talking about. This is what I think the actual design language had in mind:

 

 

finally got to see it at the Bond in Motion exhibit in London, along with one or two other Astons that had been modified, shot at, rolled lot of times, ski'd and ice'd. 😉

 

I thought this rear view made it look pretty good: