Aston Martin DBS Superleggera

The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is one of 106 Aston Martin models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2018. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Porsche Porsche Taycan, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera reads like this: the record lists its engine as 5.2 L AE31 twin-turbo V12; quoted output is 725 PS (DBS) / 770 PS (DBS 770 Ultimate); kerb weight is recorded at 1693 kg (Coupe) / 1863 kg (Volante); drive goes through 8-speed ZF 8HP95 automatic; the layout is Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 428 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Aston Martin story

Within Aston Martin's own catalogue the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera sits alongside the Aston Martin Mark II (1934), the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, the Aston Martin Vanquish II (2012), the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3. The record names the Aston Martin Vanquish (Second generation) as its predecessor and the Aston Martin Vanquish (Third generation) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Marek Reichman. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Gaydon, Warwickshire.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

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