How much is too much power? how much power can you really handle? these are questions usually associated with a known neo-Nazi supporting, racist and sexist animal otherwise known as the current president of the US of A, Donald J Trump. The same questions can also be applied to modern-day supercars, 500bhp was the norm back in its day, such an amount was considered eye-water-inducing powerful.
In 2018, 700bhp+ supercars are now the new norm and this is a serious amount of power for the average investment banker to have at his or her disposal. A serious amount when you consider the average city banker is loaded up with cocaine and alcohol, and that’s during day trading hours.
And after work hours the average investment banker is lost for many more hours on a massive cocaine and alcohol-fueled, all-night bender of supreme proportions. And how does that investment banker drive home to his or her luxury flat over-looking the Thames?
No, they don’t use public transport, too common. And no they don’t use Uber or traditional black cabs. They rely on their own sense of irresponsibility and use their own transport for their highly intoxicated drug and alcohol-fueled drive home to the luxury riverside penthouse apartment where a fresh batch of cocaine, heroin, opium, and cannabis are waiting to be snorted, before the serious business of returning to work in about an hours time.
The investment banker is the least deserving of individuals to own an Aston Martin DBS Superleggera because to them it is a mere trophy to be flaunted not appreciated. Throw in the 715bhp mixed with an indivdual tanked up on cocaine, heroin and sleeping pills and you have a dangerous and very lethal weapon.
It was never meant to be this way but it is what it is.
The investment banker won’t realize that the 2019 DBS Superleggera, based on the DB11, is lighter due to the use of carbon-fiber body panels. He or she won’t realize that underneath the elegant bodywork resides a 5.2-litre, Twin Turbo V12 with that 715bhp and 900Nm of torque.
They will not realize that this power allows the DBS Superleggera to deliver a devastating 0-62mph of 3.4 seconds and reach a claimed top speed of 211mph. They also won’t realize the mechanical limited slip differential nor the torque vectoring going on underneath.
Nor will they, the extremely intoxicated investment banker, appreciate the DBS Superleggera’s revised aero-package able to deliver 180-kg of extra downforce at high speed.
The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is still very much a GT, the suspension is fitted with Mercedes sourced adaptive dampers that compliment the forged double wishbone front suspension and multilink rear suspension.
The investment banker is a selfish individual, typically his or her education was bought by mama and papa, who also bought their way into Cambridge or Oxford and by association allowed their children easy access into the highly lucrative and drug-fueled world of investment banking.
They won’t appreciate the styling, they won’t appreciate the engineering because the average investment banker only has one thing on his or her mind, getting totally wrecked by massive drugs and alcohol binges, on a daily basis.
That’s why we are here, to remind you, the average person that the DBS is a £225,000 work of art.
So is a 715bhp supercar too much power? yes, it’s a ridiculous amount, but when you had it and then suddenly don’t have it, you will miss end up missing it.