2020 Aston Martin DBX spy photographs and video
Aston Martin’s DBX SUV is on observe for a debut in late 2019 and as a part of the event a prototype has taken to Germany’s Nürburgring for some high-speed testing.
Judging from our spy photographs and video, the four-door DBX will probably be a small SUV with proportions just like these of the Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
The tester is closely camouflaged, nonetheless, so the ultimate form will not be as frumpy as what you see right here. Anticipate the DBX to resemble a stretched Vantage on stilts.
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Some readers will recall that Aston Martin additionally used the DBX title for a 2015 idea previewing the SUV’s design. There have been rumors the automaker would go together with a special title for manufacturing, with Varekai being one of many strategies. As a substitute, Aston Martin has chosen to stay with DBX, which hyperlinks the SUV with the automaker’s DB line of sports activities automobiles.
The DBX makes use of a brand new platform developed particularly for a high-riding automobile able to off-road circumstances, however the building is similar extruded and bonded aluminum course of Aston Martin makes use of for its sports activities automobiles. Distinctive to the DBX program is a concentrate on suspension expertise to handle the SUV’s elevated mass, measurement and objective.
Whereas Aston Martin first imagined the SUV as an electrical automobile, that has modified as a result of automaker’s revival of Lagonda as an EV model. The DBX is now anticipated to debut with a four.Zero-liter twin-turbocharged V-Eight sourced from Mercedes-AMG. A hybrid powertrain using a brand new V-6 developed in-house at Aston Martin can be a chance.
Pre-production of Aston Martin DBX at plant in St Athan, Wales
Manufacturing of the DBX will happen at Aston Martin’s new plant in St Athan, Wales, which later this yr will begin churning out the Rapide E electrical sport sedan. The DBX will begin manufacturing in mid-2020, and later two Lagonda fashions, an SUV and sedan, will probably be added.
The DBX is the fourth of seven automobiles promised beneath Aston Martin’s Second Century plan. The primary was the DB11 which has since been adopted by a redesigned Vantage and new DBS Superleggera.
After the DBX will probably be a mid-engine Vanquish supercar round 2021, a Lagonda SUV round 2022 and a Lagonda sedan round 2023. Aston Martin will then repeat the seven-car cycle with redesigned fashions. And alongside the way in which we’ll additionally see particular version fashions just like the Valkyrie and Valhalla hypercars.