Dream Of Divinity

The DB11 Does What It Always Should Have, And It Does It Really Well

- Raunak Ajinkya

A beautiful slab of door swings outwards to welcome me in. This is it. This is where I get to experience Aston Martin’s first of seven new cars in the upcoming seven years, and it’s one distinctly gorgeous place to start, I’d say: this is the Aston Martin DB11.

The new DB11 is tremendously important to its maker. It’s the first new DB in more than a decade and there’s a significant amount of work that’s gone in to making it what it is. From the outside, you can almost sense just how intricately and carefully its designers have treated it. Now, I’m not one to flatter a car unnecessarily; far from it, if you’d believe me, but the DB11 just takes the cake, and then proceeds to make a mockery of most other cakes in production in the swiftest, most decisive manner possible. I’m not suggesting the DB11 is the most gorgeous coupe ever made, but I’m certainly suggesting the Alfa 33 Stradale no longer holds the top spot in my head. Okay, maybe that’s a bit of a stretch. Or is it? Even the fact that the DB11 is being considered in such rarified luxury is an enormous deal, if you ask me. I understand that this is a deeply personal comparison, but heck, the credit line allows me that luxury.