Aston Martin DBX S

Lavishing more of everything onto their SUV worked before, so guess what Gaydon’s gone and done now…

This latest halo version of the DBX – the Aston Martin DBX-S – seeks to redistribute a few bragging rights among the owners of top-ranking super SUVs. And we’d be naive to imagine those were unimportant.Using new enlarged twin-scroll turbochargers taken from the Valhalla hypercar, the Mercedes-AMG-sourced V8 in this car now tiptoes beyond the 715bhp headline power output of the Ferrari Purosangue’s atmo V12. A plug-in hybrid Lamborghini Urus SE offers more still (789bhp) – but is also a tenth-of-a-second slower-accelerating to 62mph than this Aston Martin is. One way or another, then, this S version gives DBX devotees fresh objective justification to back up the subjective sense that their everyday-use, any-occasion supercar-on-stilts must surely be the best luxury car in the world – and worth every penny of its £210,000 departure price.When Aston Martin introduced the 707 version of