“The DB12 is a car that puts you in mind not so much of the financial potency on display in Monaco, but the eternal beauty of its most famous matriarch, Grace Kelly.”
Driving a sparkling, “iridescent emerald” Aston Martin along the bronzed coastline of the French Riviera is a significant moment, up there with hot-air ballooning at dawn over the Maasai Mara or arriving in black tie at La Scala. It’s a “Yesss!” event. When the Aston in question is the best-looking Bond car to date , and you’re speeding towards, the new glass and steel eyrie that casts its considerable views over Monte Carlo from the golden cliff into which it’s built, it’s heaven.
We flew into Nice for two days with the DB12, Aston’s latest super-luxury Grand Tourer , built to slay continents in a matter of days through a sweet combo of dazzling speed and agility, but with enough space and comfort inside to fully relax.
Then you climb northwards, twisting and turning, the DB12 growling, along the Route Napoleon , which is the most perfect road for a luxury GT in the whole of southern France. The long, graceful bonnet picked up the scent of freedom and shot from hairpin bend to hairpin bend, blatting automatically through endless unseen gears, visceral in its pursuit of the rocky, parched horizon.
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