Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £162,500 to £162,500
Sounds magnificent, goes like it sounds, corners with verve, looks menacing, beautifully made.
Feels big, handling too floaty or ride too rigid with no half-measures.
Britain's answer to the Ferrari 599.
The big problem is the ride. Drive the DBS as intended and you're forever switching between the damper modes to protect your backbone from the jarring low-speed progress in the firm setting or to tie the suspension down when you're fed up with the tail's floating antics in the soft setting. Such shallow tyre sidewalls - 245/35 on the front, 295/30 on the back, mounted on 20" wheels - are never going to be much good at absorbing sharp-edged bumps, but other cars in this class do it better. Most notable among these are the Ferrari rivals, the 430 Scuderia in its soft setting, and the 599 Fiorano with its Delphi Magneride electromagnetic dampers.
The air conditioning takes a while to settle after a start, too, blowing warm air when you want cool. Otherwise the DBS is a very habitable car, with great seats (especially the lightweight ones) and decent luggage space. The rear seats aren't meant for people in the DBS, however small; there are no belts and no cushions, and vertical aluminium 'walls' convert the seats instead into luggage receptacles.
One comfort snag concerns the gear lever, which is mounted too far back, so your elbow collides with the lid of the central storage box. It's an insoluble problem because the engine's position forces the centre console far into the cabin.
