[DeTomaso] NPC: Dan Neil review of the Aston Martin DB11 Volante

Julian Kift julian_kift at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 29 12:39:35 EDT 2018


Of course what girl doesn't drool over a great package out of England........


But alas in reality, like my aging the DB11 seems a tad overweight and can't match the performance of it's more youthful competition, yet it does have a semblance of that teenager remaining seemingly trying to break out from the middle aged body where the heart and mind isn't quite ready to accept the body's groans and complaints. But as I sit and imagine the more youthful vision escaping from within much like one of those morphing CGI commercials it is that of a slightly smaller more nimble and quicker Brit, it is that of a Jaguar F Type!


The wise man would take a highly optioned F Type at half the price, still get the girl and keep a bloated wallet to accessorize that middle aged spread.

Julian
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From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2018 7:23 PM
To: 'List DeTomaso Forum'
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: Dan Neil review of the Aston Martin DB11 Volante

It is a quiet evening for those of us not in Vegas, so now for something
completely different, but it is about cars and he does write well..

                                                  NPC:   "Aston Martin DB11
Volante: A Beautiful Beast"  by Dan Neil

28 April Wall Street Journal excerpts:

"I too am deeply skeptical of the so-called luxury lifestyle but, like
Seneca, I do not consider it beneath me.  So I was pleased to be received at
Aston Martin's headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, and handed the key-fob
to a new DB11 Volante ($233,071, as tested), the drop-top version of the
company's grand touring scimitar.

Readers sometimes express common-sense exasperation at a six-figure price
tag.  "It's just a car!" goes this refrain, "It gets you from A to B."  I
agree, especially when it comes to exotic cars whose performance is utterly
inaccessible on the street.  In these cases dollars are inches in a sad game
of "mine's bigger."

But truly beautiful street-legal cars are rare.  As evidence I give you the
Aston's competitive set, including the Mercedes-AMG S63 Cabriolet, Ferrari
California T, Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet and Bentley Continental GT Speed.
These are all highly accomplished, desirable automobiles, and I reckon each
would be a step quicker than the Aston as getaway car in any theoretical
heist of the Crown Jewels.

But parked next to the Aston, they look like Soviet farm equipment.  You
want to impress friends and neighbors?  Beauty is performance you can use.

Not wanting to collect cycling pensioners in the car's catfish grille, I
drove pretty responsibly withal.  The Volante's driving character is much
the same as the coupe:  big and broad-as in broadsword-authoritative,
effortless, unstressed, even a bit lazy at low speed, like Achilles in his
tent.  Around town the exhaust note is a thick drumming like an old boat.
But the sound hardens and sharpens with rpm to a bright, full-throated wail.

The DB11 is a stunner, a slayer, an aluminized drop of British masculinity.
Making it into a convertible didn't hurt the looks one little bit.  But
driving the Volante in the open air is not for the shy, because rest
assured, everybody is looking."

                               Warmest regards, Chuck Engles





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   Of course what girl doesn't drool over a great package out of
   England........

   But alas in reality, like my aging the DB11 seems a tad overweight and
   can't match the performance of it's more youthful competition, yet it
   does have a semblance of that teenager remaining seemingly trying to
   break out from the middle aged body where the heart and mind isn't
   quite ready to accept the body's groans and complaints. But as I sit
   and imagine the more youthful vision escaping from within much like one
   of those morphing CGI commercials it is that of a slightly smaller more
   nimble and quicker Brit, it is that of a Jaguar F Type!

   The wise man would take a highly optioned F Type at half the price,
   still get the girl and keep a bloated wallet to accessorize that middle
   aged spread.
   Julian
     __________________________________________________________________

   From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of
   Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
   Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2018 7:23 PM
   To: 'List DeTomaso Forum'
   Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: Dan Neil review of the Aston Martin DB11
   Volante

   It is a quiet evening for those of us not in Vegas, so now for
   something
   completely different, but it is about cars and he does write well..
                                                     NPC:   "Aston Martin
   DB11
   Volante: A Beautiful Beast"  by Dan Neil

   28 April Wall Street Journal excerpts:
   "I too am deeply skeptical of the so-called luxury lifestyle but, like
   Seneca, I do not consider it beneath me.  So I was pleased to be
   received at
   Aston Martin's headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, and handed the
   key-fob
   to a new DB11 Volante ($233,071, as tested), the drop-top version of
   the
   company's grand touring scimitar.
   Readers sometimes express common-sense exasperation at a six-figure
   price
   tag.  "It's just a car!" goes this refrain, "It gets you from A to B."
   I
   agree, especially when it comes to exotic cars whose performance is
   utterly
   inaccessible on the street.  In these cases dollars are inches in a sad
   game
   of "mine's bigger."
   But truly beautiful street-legal cars are rare.  As evidence I give you
   the
   Aston's competitive set, including the Mercedes-AMG S63 Cabriolet,
   Ferrari
   California T, Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet and Bentley Continental GT
   Speed.
   These are all highly accomplished, desirable automobiles, and I reckon
   each
   would be a step quicker than the Aston as getaway car in any
   theoretical
   heist of the Crown Jewels.
   But parked next to the Aston, they look like Soviet farm equipment.
   You
   want to impress friends and neighbors?  Beauty is performance you can
   use.
   Not wanting to collect cycling pensioners in the car's catfish grille,
   I
   drove pretty responsibly withal.  The Volante's driving character is
   much
   the same as the coupe:  big and broad-as in broadsword-authoritative,
   effortless, unstressed, even a bit lazy at low speed, like Achilles in
   his
   tent.  Around town the exhaust note is a thick drumming like an old
   boat.
   But the sound hardens and sharpens with rpm to a bright, full-throated
   wail.
   The DB11 is a stunner, a slayer, an aluminized drop of British
   masculinity.
   Making it into a convertible didn't hurt the looks one little bit.  But
   driving the Volante in the open air is not for the shy, because rest
   assured, everybody is looking."
                                  Warmest regards, Chuck Engles


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