Love it. My brother and I were glued to this video, and only just finished talking about it. I think we're going to have a race to see who can buy a DBX first. Best, Nick
Seems like a pointless vehicle. Lots of totally unusuable power. A bit ugly on thr outside. And a dog's brealfast of a dash and centre console. A vulgar display of power.
I had to rewatch three times to get to the Ferrari comparison, cos harry actually drove it and ive been wanting to hear where the Ferrari ranks up in this "luxurysuv" class of cars
Absolutely stunning vehicle, I’d buy two if I had the cash. One as a replacement for the inevitable 💥💥 I’ve read they are doing an updated 707 with a newer infotainment system..
Great review as usual Harry. 100% of the controls on a touch screen is one of my Bete Noir's too. I drive lots of different cars regularly and once I had a car with the heating controls on the touch screen. It froze overnight to about minus 9 and the touch screen stopped working so I couldn't turn the heater on. After about 30 mins the ambient temp got up a bit and the touch screen started working again. The other, probably bigger, issue is that its inherently dangerous having to concentrate on the touch screen whilst driving.
I don't disagree that the giant all-in-one screens aren't a pain, but many cars have a workaround via voice control. Not something you'd want to learn in an unfamiliar car (especially at -9, either F or C), but it's better than no heat.
Great video, as always Mr. Metcalfe. Here's hoping this depreciates enough within the next 10 years that one can purchase and run it without having to sell one's offspring. 😅
It is just amazing how capable performance cars are these days. No overheating, no lack of comfort, can go 250 kph on the autobahn as well as just drive around doing errants and towing stuff.
Amazing... will be worth 10% of its original purchase price in 10 years, and probably become a mechanical write-off shortly after that when something too expensive to be worth fixing breaks - then all those plastics etc will sit in landfills for the next fifty thousand years... amazing.
Now this, to me, is one of the more tasteful looking high end SUVs from a traditional sports car manufacturer, and it's impressive to see that it can hold its own off road as well.
Of course SAAB introduced that wraparound lower door-edge design in the 70’s, and I’ve never understood why it was not immediately universally adopted. Brilliant!
If you had to have one car - amazing - but anyone with the money to buy one of these can afford to have a proper family car and a proper sports car .... still rather have a Range Rover, and a sports car ... driving modes can't do that ..
Imo it's a fecking hateful car and that's not just cos most the people that drive them are compensating for something just one of those it's the only car on the road complex. And just buy a rapide
Yup. I’ve always thought the Puma was prettier. Same same just smaller. After the OTT Urus why have Aston gone so lame styling no idea. The Puma is good looking. The DBX looks very generic SUV styling and about 60k car. Oh no it’s prob best part 200k. Leave them with the footy players around Cheshire. Zero horn here.
Purosangue you can’t buy unless invited by Ferrari. Lot of competition now - Cayenne, Urus, Bentayga, Range Rover, Cullinan, Maserati, V8 Defender, G-Wagon. Matt Farah got one of these to 173mph on the Vegas strip.
Of all the Super suv's , this is the one ! The looks , chassis & handling , straight line performance ( 0-100 ~ 7 sec ) in a 2.3t car !! When the interior gets the DB12 interface update , its all over !.......9/10
@@horatiotimewaster5755 I mean "real world" in this context means - "what the average owner of this car might do" - and I think that's absolutely spot on, at least in the UK a lot of rich people have horses and they do tow them around, so "horse towing" is very high on the list of priorities when buying a car. I wouldn't call that as out of touch - just aimed at the target market of this car. It would be out of touch if Harry was saying how this car is great for going to asda to buy your weekly groceries.
It is the real world drive in the motorway during school breaks and you will see a lot of high end SUVs being used for towing. People in the country side actually are some biggest buyers of these fancy cars. Not just soccer moms and footballers.
A hugely enjoyable review as always. I've seen it all now; a DBX towing a horse box around Harry's farm. Very gratifying that it's so 'real world' useable too.
Megalomaniac bully's car. They're too wide and heavy for English country roads. Oncoming cars have to get out of the way, step into the adjacent field or stop because large SUVs simply cannot. Is that a good thing? Not in my book.
Wish I could un-invent all this touchscreen nonsense we have in cars these days. Just give me proper old school car controls I can operate by feel without taking my eyes off the road to use them. Staring at a screen and cycling through multiple menus and sub menus to control the car's basic functions is just plain daft. Not to mention, extremely dangerous.
SVR is an excellent choice for a fast, characterful SUV but ride might be too harsh for some, especially if used regularly as the family car. It's the excellent ride quality, together with the dynamics where the DBX really scores but at, admittedly, nearly 3x the price of the SVR..
I'm a big fan of Harry's Garage, so this will sound petty .... Why is "agressive" such a ubiquitous term now in car styling? Surely "prominent", "pronounced" "enlarged" etc are more descriptive? Pet peeve, sorry!
Yet another SUV deluting a sports car builder‘s DNA. If you can’t afford a Range Rover aside to your sports car, you should consider not buying one in the first place instead of making a fool of yourself. Any way buying this - and you will get pitied, even if you are a millionaire. Anyway.
Could it cope with life on the farm! What utter nonsense, it wouldn't last 1 minute on our farm, I'm afraid Harry is whats known in the country as a Gentleman Farmer! Pulling an empty trailer across a flat grass field with an incline could be done by virtually any 2 wheel rear drive car let alone a Chelsea Tractor with 23 inch wheels. If Aston Martin want a proper review through 2 ft of slurry, mud up to your axles, dead sheep slung in the back, fully loaded cattle trailer etc. get in touch.
I try to watch these, I really do... but I'd rather do just about anything else than hear about another performance SUV. They're ridiculous in an obnoxious way and will always remain so. Comment for the engagement as I quit the video.
Harry seems impressed and so am. As usual a very good review of what seems like the best SUV out there. Better than the Germans (Bentayga included), some proper driving feel in the steering, and more practical than the Purosangue. Pity about the laggy engine but you just can't have everything.
Rear doors dont open 90 degrees no rear wiper, with a Merc running gear..an AMG G Wagon is cheaper deal and more reliable bigger hauls more people and towing
I love it 🙂 I love the MB derived engine, the dirty snarl from that V8 and the quality finish - but at the price, I would hope so ! However, my big issue is, to my mind, it’s not an Aston…….. any more than the Lambo Uranus is a Lamborghini……. or for that matter the Ferrari Perineum. The Bentayga is a Bentley, the Cullinan is a Rolls Royce - both marques conquered the far reaches of empire with rough tough durable monsters for the well healed. Aston, Ferrari and Lamborghini make GT’s, sports cars and supercars……. The Rapide was almost too far, the FF and GTC4 were nearing sensibility……. but these SUV’s are all wrong. You could say the same about the SVR Range Rovers……. making a bungalow accelerate like a stabbed rat or stick to corners like chewing gum to a wig…… 🤔 I realise it is purely a marketing ploy to capture and keep your buyers……. Owning a DB11 and needing a family car for the school run and gymkhana ? - another Aston 🥳 Owning a classic Diablo - buy a nice practical Urus 😳 I suppose Porsche are the worst culprit with the Panamera, Macan, Cayenne etc……. but for some reason, they align more with Mercedes, who make one for everyone. Porsche, to my mind have done it successfully, who knows how or why, but they still make GT3RS without any parallel to their diesel Cayenne. Clever 🙂🇬🇧
Interesting. Is that really a thing? Music always sounds a bit flat in my Lotus Emira and that doesn’t need a cable for CarPlay to work. Maybe I should try one, to see if it makes a difference
Imagine that with a big V8 diesel 😍 Would prefer to have same size wheels all-round on a 4x4 so swapping to even up wear possible. Cant think when I spotted one on the road, are they selling?
Hahaha, we might have a very bad rep over there, due to some scumbags which have nothing to do with our nation, but i can't help feeling proud that a conational has signed off that engine ! Congrats Vatafu Ion Catalin ! Hopefully you'll sign off my DB12 in a few years while when i shall be able to buy a Db12 or a 707.
As content, typical high quality you'd expert from Harry's Garage but as for the vehicle in question, I just can't get the word "irrelevant" out of my head? What is the point of a 700BHP SUV? It's not going to be brought and used to tow horseboxes or take bails of hay into a muddy field. It's an excess built for one purpose - showing off. You'll see them in the carpark at Royal Ascot and you can bet the first orders are to Saudi princes and premiership footballers. God, I sound like a lefty socialist, decrying the evils of capitalism but, sometimes, you do wonder if we've gone to far?
Not specific to this car, but the more I look at new cars and all the buttons and doo-dads anb widgets and gadgets, I really, Really would like a nice, big, comfortable car, with nothing more than the utter basics of electronics. And I mean engine management and a stereo. End of list. As far as I am concerned, the electronics and all the fancy buttons, electric servos and displays are just massive workshop bills waiting to happen. The more complexity you add, the higher the chance is that something will break, and the feature I like more than any other is reliability. I expect any customers who can afford the DBX won't mind chucking even MORE money after it when it breaks though. If I were to come in to Aston Martin kind of money, I'd probably pay them well to REMOVE as much electronics as possible...
great video , , had the jaguar Fsvr for 3 month now, for the life of me I can't think why you would want to buy this car over the JAGUAR, mine sounds amazing drives great dont see much difference on inside but iam up 100k with the JAGUAR
I really really want Aston Martin to do well and this is clearly a very good car. I love that there are some extremely well thought out details and it certainly sounds like it is the best SUV on the market dynamically, but….with that outdated interior, I cannot conceive buying one of these over a Bentayga or top of the line Range Rover. The DB12 looks to be a big improvement on that front so hopefully those updates come to DBX soon.
Very interesting review Harry, one has to wonder does a car with this amount of power and torque really need nine gears? Does it have "Horse box mode" lol ?
The massive number of gears are mostly an attempt to reduce fuel consumption and therefore emissions - this is pretty much why we've seen automatics go from 4 to 6,7,8,9 and even 10 gears in the last 20 years.
@@Beer_Dad1975 Cheers! Yeah I get that but it must be negated slightly by such a massively powerful car! Top speed achievable in was it the highest three gears, bizarre.
@@antonoat Yup only so much efficiency to be gained with a guzzler for sure, but they have to try everything due to various penalty laws they face for not hitting targets. Often the case the top few gears are "overdrive" gears instead of in the old days where it was usually just the top gear (meaning the output RPM to the wheels exceeds the input speed from the engine) - my Lexus has an 8 speed box and I believe both 7 & 8 are overdrive.
14mpg!?! I don't think we should let manufacturers off the hook so easily if they produce a car today with such abysmal fuel consumption. Often we hear people extol the brilliance of the engineering but forgive the thirsty car. We should be pushing for both performance and economy. It's not just about being careful with fossil fuels, its also about range. A bigger fuel tank isn't the solution for fuel economy in the 12-22mpg range. Manufacturers need to address this.
I’m in the middle of a small European road trip, brand new one of these parked next to me outside our hotel in Reims, attracting quite the crowd, car spotters taking pics etc. when the owner went to start it the battery was totally dead, breakdown guy jump started it but it ended up being towed. Ironically I’m in a defender which I’ve never had any I issues with in 3 years of hard everyday use.
Sounds great, goes well. But that back end is ugly. I don’t have £200k for a car. But my £50k SQ7 Vorsprung (500 BHP 1000Nm) v8 is close enough. Harry’s comments echoed mine when l first drove the Audi. But at 37mpg average and a slow run 50mpg, it makes for low cost ownership. The Aston is lovely, but l wouldn’t trade it. Nice review Harry.
Love it. My brother and I were glued to this video, and only just finished talking about it. I think we're going to have a race to see who can buy a DBX first. Best, Nick
lol
Why would you buy this instead of a luxury coupe Aston Martin?
@@bartoszmiki6774You want to tell someone how to spend their own money?
Seems like a pointless vehicle. Lots of totally unusuable power. A bit ugly on thr outside. And a dog's brealfast of a dash and centre console. A vulgar display of power.
Perfect for bellends to rag it between traffic lights in central London
That spec looks amazing. The rear shot while driving was beautiful.
Nice to see a car you really appreciate
That's going to be one car sick horse.
Bonnet hinges are from a 90s Renault Laguna
I had to rewatch three times to get to the Ferrari comparison, cos harry actually drove it and ive been wanting to hear where the Ferrari ranks up in this "luxurysuv" class of cars
Absolutely stunning vehicle, I’d buy two if I had the cash. One as a replacement for the inevitable 💥💥 I’ve read they are doing an updated 707 with a newer infotainment system..
Its Fuggly and resembles the vast majority of today’s SUVs
It definitely seems way more quieter than the Ferrari SUV through the camera audio
I bet that horse was sweating when Harry unloaded it
Great review as usual Harry. 100% of the controls on a touch screen is one of my Bete Noir's too. I drive lots of different cars regularly and once I had a car with the heating controls on the touch screen. It froze overnight to about minus 9 and the touch screen stopped working so I couldn't turn the heater on. After about 30 mins the ambient temp got up a bit and the touch screen started working again. The other, probably bigger, issue is that its inherently dangerous having to concentrate on the touch screen whilst driving.
I don't disagree that the giant all-in-one screens aren't a pain, but many cars have a workaround via voice control. Not something you'd want to learn in an unfamiliar car (especially at -9, either F or C), but it's better than no heat.
Is anyone as bored as I am with these overpriced monstrosities?
Great video, as always Mr. Metcalfe.
Here's hoping this depreciates enough within the next 10 years that one can purchase and run it without having to sell one's offspring. 😅
You might not need to sell him to buy it but to keep it running for another 2-3 years how knows. maybe it's maybelline ;)
I’m in the market for an off side spring for a Defender, what you got ?
I’m hoping there’s a GMA T.50 roadtrip video on the horizon
We need this...as soon as possible, waiting for that almost 5years 🤪
I’m waiting to see Harry take it around the farm 😅
It is just amazing how capable performance cars are these days.
No overheating, no lack of comfort, can go 250 kph on the autobahn as well as just drive around doing errants and towing stuff.
It's people who are "amazed" by this sort of ode to excess who make this world a hell for millions of others.
It's amazing how naff it looks and how people spend this kind of money on a ford kuga with leather seats.
@@johnsmith1474Well said.
And yet totally fail as a fun driving machine on the roads like 99.5% of all new cars!
Amazing... will be worth 10% of its original purchase price in 10 years, and probably become a mechanical write-off shortly after that when something too expensive to be worth fixing breaks - then all those plastics etc will sit in landfills for the next fifty thousand years... amazing.
I don't imagine many potential owners would take it off road or tow anything with it either
I drive my 707 off road. Hell I drove it to Ukraine from the UK.
I bought it because its a practical supercar
@@louKushh insurane is a thing bro, that's why gap insurance exist as well
We have sold one to a client who runs a horse stables and tows with it!
I’m happy that Harry did take it off-road though!
@@mental720s, yes of course you did.
My first thoughts before watching was how much of Harry's life is 'Real world'?!
I guess the horse is still suffering from a little dizziness after the ride in the field😂😂
Made me laugh !!!!!
Neigh...
Now this, to me, is one of the more tasteful looking high end SUVs from a traditional sports car manufacturer, and it's impressive to see that it can hold its own off road as well.
Yes as long as the off road is as flat as a golf course. LOL A great interior.
All these SUV's look the same. Can't wait for this era of design to end. Cookie cutter cars.
its really ugly and those racer boy seats are hilarious
If I were in the market - then I think it would be my choice. I think they're quite colour sensitive you need to choose wisely.
I was in the market but went with a 2010 polo instead.
Just pathetic. A complete waste of materials and the idea hat these go off-road is crass. 4 seater egowagon.
2,3 tons and 32g/km of co2🙄Better please.
Of course SAAB introduced that wraparound lower door-edge design in the 70’s, and I’ve never understood why it was not immediately universally adopted. Brilliant!
Good point. In fairness, my 900i erased the lower door wrap around all by itself!
If you had to have one car - amazing - but anyone with the money to buy one of these can afford to have a proper family car and a proper sports car .... still rather have a Range Rover, and a sports car ... driving modes can't do that ..
Imo it's a fecking hateful car and that's not just cos most the people that drive them are compensating for something just one of those it's the only car on the road complex. And just buy a rapide
I thought it was a Ford puma 😮 😂😂
It’s no looker is it
Yup. I’ve always thought the Puma was prettier. Same same just smaller. After the OTT Urus why have Aston gone so lame styling no idea. The Puma is good looking. The DBX looks very generic SUV styling and about 60k car. Oh no it’s prob best part 200k. Leave them with the footy players around Cheshire. Zero horn here.
So did I 😂….imagine my surprise!
@@madeofoak hence the chrome grill on Vinalle models. Yup.
@@madeofoakyes from some angles my modest little Focus looks like an Aston.
such an overpriced, excessively heavy vehicle considering 80% of the time it'll be carrying one occupant
I genuinely don't see the point of this car and anyone who buys it must just be a blinkered Aston fan, otherwise it makes no sense to me.
F pace SVR at half the price
RIP Harry's horse 🐴
Nice Ford Puma!
Purosangue you can’t buy unless invited by Ferrari. Lot of competition now - Cayenne, Urus, Bentayga, Range Rover, Cullinan, Maserati, V8 Defender, G-Wagon. Matt Farah got one of these to 173mph on the Vegas strip.
Of all the Super suv's , this is the one ! The looks , chassis & handling , straight line performance ( 0-100 ~ 7 sec ) in a 2.3t car !! When the interior gets the DB12 interface update , its all over !.......9/10
For me it's the porusangue, v12 in a practical suv. It would be I teresting which one is faster around a tracker or the quatermile.
The looks eh?
Perfect for the wilds of Kensington and Chelsea.
I'm enjoying the use of 'real world' to describe towing horses with an Aston Martin 😂 Great video as ever though!
Harry is great but just a little out of touch.
It is real world for the kind of person that buys a £200,000 SUV.....probably.
@@horatiotimewaster5755 I mean "real world" in this context means - "what the average owner of this car might do" - and I think that's absolutely spot on, at least in the UK a lot of rich people have horses and they do tow them around, so "horse towing" is very high on the list of priorities when buying a car. I wouldn't call that as out of touch - just aimed at the target market of this car. It would be out of touch if Harry was saying how this car is great for going to asda to buy your weekly groceries.
It is the real world drive in the motorway during school breaks and you will see a lot of high end SUVs being used for towing. People in the country side actually are some biggest buyers of these fancy cars. Not just soccer moms and footballers.
When it gets the refreshed cabin it'll go to the top of my wish list.
Not really interested in this silly car , Harry’s great but this car is silly
A hugely enjoyable review as always. I've seen it all now; a DBX towing a horse box around Harry's farm. Very gratifying that it's so 'real world' useable too.
Megalomaniac bully's car. They're too wide and heavy for English country roads. Oncoming cars have to get out of the way, step into the adjacent field or stop because large SUVs simply cannot. Is that a good thing? Not in my book.
Wish I could un-invent all this touchscreen nonsense we have in cars these days. Just give me proper old school car controls I can operate by feel without taking my eyes off the road to use them. Staring at a screen and cycling through multiple menus and sub menus to control the car's basic functions is just plain daft. Not to mention, extremely dangerous.
Great another ugly SUV gimmick car for 70+ year old wealthy women. Forget it it, they just buy Range Rovers.
They've kept the Ford Mondeo grill?
ooo shit MERC = NO THANKS THE END FOR ME. +++++ BYE
I‘d rather choose an F-Pace SVR for half the money?! And way better interior and exterior styling imho!
SVR is an excellent choice for a fast, characterful SUV but ride might be too harsh for some, especially if used regularly as the family car. It's the excellent ride quality, together with the dynamics where the DBX really scores but at, admittedly, nearly 3x the price of the SVR..
Ford has the Dearborn track, Chrysler the Wixom proving grounds, the (Formerly) British car industry has Harry's Farm.
Hahahaha great comment
My horse would rather shoot me than get in the trailer to go home.
I'm a big fan of Harry's Garage, so this will sound petty .... Why is "agressive" such a ubiquitous term now in car styling? Surely "prominent", "pronounced" "enlarged" etc are more descriptive? Pet peeve, sorry!
£30k more than the standard DBX sounds like a good deal.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Absolutely gash 'superman' colour scheme on this thing, hideous.
Yet another SUV deluting a sports car builder‘s DNA. If you can’t afford a Range Rover aside to your sports car, you should consider not buying one in the first place instead of making a fool of yourself. Any way buying this - and you will get pitied, even if you are a millionaire. Anyway.
Could it cope with life on the farm! What utter nonsense, it wouldn't last 1 minute on our farm, I'm afraid Harry is whats known in the country as a Gentleman Farmer! Pulling an empty trailer across a flat grass field with an incline could be done by virtually any 2 wheel rear drive car let alone a Chelsea Tractor with 23 inch wheels. If Aston Martin want a proper review through 2 ft of slurry, mud up to your axles, dead sheep slung in the back, fully loaded cattle trailer etc. get in touch.
I try to watch these, I really do... but I'd rather do just about anything else than hear about another performance SUV. They're ridiculous in an obnoxious way and will always remain so. Comment for the engagement as I quit the video.
The horse was impressed no doubt?!
Harry seems impressed and so am. As usual a very good review of what seems like the best SUV out there. Better than the Germans (Bentayga included), some proper driving feel in the steering, and more practical than the Purosangue.
Pity about the laggy engine but you just can't have everything.
All the sheep in California driving Urus.
This is a class above, faster, better handling and more comfort and more space.
Rear doors dont open 90 degrees no rear wiper, with a Merc running gear..an AMG G Wagon is cheaper deal and more reliable bigger hauls more people and towing
How was the horse?
That grill is hideous.
My problem with these high-end SUV’s is that they all look ridiculous and hideous.
Not sure how this is relevant....
I love it 🙂
I love the MB derived engine, the dirty snarl from that V8 and the quality finish - but at the price, I would hope so !
However, my big issue is, to my mind, it’s not an Aston…….. any more than the Lambo Uranus is a Lamborghini……. or for that matter the Ferrari Perineum.
The Bentayga is a Bentley, the Cullinan is a Rolls Royce - both marques conquered the far reaches of empire with rough tough durable monsters for the well healed.
Aston, Ferrari and Lamborghini make GT’s, sports cars and supercars…….
The Rapide was almost too far, the FF and GTC4 were nearing sensibility……. but these SUV’s are all wrong. You could say the same about the SVR Range Rovers……. making a bungalow accelerate like a stabbed rat or stick to corners like chewing gum to a wig…… 🤔
I realise it is purely a marketing ploy to capture and keep your buyers……. Owning a DB11 and needing a family car for the school run and gymkhana ? - another Aston 🥳
Owning a classic Diablo - buy a nice practical Urus 😳
I suppose Porsche are the worst culprit with the Panamera, Macan, Cayenne etc……. but for some reason, they align more with Mercedes, who make one for everyone. Porsche, to my mind have done it successfully, who knows how or why, but they still make GT3RS without any parallel to their diesel Cayenne. Clever 🙂🇬🇧
I couldn't afford to run a car that does 14mpg so I'll pass on this one.
What an ugly car 🤢 or ford!! You could lose another DB 707 in those wheel arches 😂😂
I thought it was a Nissan Duke 🤔
Got to feel sorry for the horse….
interesting way to use such a car!!!! Greetings from Lviv
As the British would say, the design and execution of this car is a bit crap, isn't it?
Excellent review
Terrible car on the inside and out
There is only negatives on the interior design and user experience
It would be nice if they did a 707 "PoW" style, i.e. with the looks of the regular car and without the tacky bits...
Harry: Bluetooth does not have the capability to deliver the quality of sound itunes produces. Be GLAD there is a USB cable connection.
Interesting. Is that really a thing? Music always sounds a bit flat in my Lotus Emira and that doesn’t need a cable for CarPlay to work. Maybe I should try one, to see if it makes a difference
@@harrysgarageit will be a noticeable difference
always wired audio, Bluetooth is not good.
Imagine that with a big V8 diesel 😍 Would prefer to have same size wheels all-round on a 4x4 so swapping to even up wear possible. Cant think when I spotted one on the road, are they selling?
Now that would be quite something. DBX 707 has 2700kg tow capacity, which isn't too shabby but I suspect mpg might be horrific when towing..
@@harrysgarage Cayenne v8 diesel, 1100 mile trip around France 3 up inc crossing Paris 30mpg
Great car. The only SUV that would tempt me out of a Range Rover and no hybrid nonsense! Well done Aston
Hahaha, we might have a very bad rep over there, due to some scumbags which have nothing to do with our nation, but i can't help feeling proud that a conational has signed off that engine ! Congrats Vatafu Ion Catalin ! Hopefully you'll sign off my DB12 in a few years while when i shall be able to buy a Db12 or a 707.
Is that the same Vatafu Ion Catalin I went to primary school with in Hackney, East London. You done well mate.
My first car, a Saab 99 had that door design covering the sills....such a good design feature
What a fantastic first car.
As content, typical high quality you'd expert from Harry's Garage but as for the vehicle in question, I just can't get the word "irrelevant" out of my head? What is the point of a 700BHP SUV? It's not going to be brought and used to tow horseboxes or take bails of hay into a muddy field. It's an excess built for one purpose - showing off. You'll see them in the carpark at Royal Ascot and you can bet the first orders are to Saudi princes and premiership footballers. God, I sound like a lefty socialist, decrying the evils of capitalism but, sometimes, you do wonder if we've gone to far?
No.
Aston aren’t the best strategists but they are trying to compete with the Urus, Cayenne GTs of the world.
Looks cheap and nasty from the front with way to much black plastic, it's the inside that's impressive.
Looks cheap and nasty from the back as well.
The colour makes this specific dbx 707 ugly 💀
Not specific to this car, but the more I look at new cars and all the buttons and doo-dads anb widgets and gadgets, I really, Really would like a nice, big, comfortable car, with nothing more than the utter basics of electronics. And I mean engine management and a stereo. End of list. As far as I am concerned, the electronics and all the fancy buttons, electric servos and displays are just massive workshop bills waiting to happen. The more complexity you add, the higher the chance is that something will break, and the feature I like more than any other is reliability. I expect any customers who can afford the DBX won't mind chucking even MORE money after it when it breaks though. If I were to come in to Aston Martin kind of money, I'd probably pay them well to REMOVE as much electronics as possible...
Funny to see a fellow Romanians name on that engine 😂
I've seen a few of these. Two stand out: one had a wardrobe hanging out the back and another was towing a shabby looking trailer with logs.
The question should be can the horse box do 192 mph?
Never seen one do more than 30 😂😂
The dashboard resembles Emperor Palpatine's face.
ludicrous car Harry obscene in a time of EV's....
Love Aston but this one just doesn’t do it for me .. I want to like it …
great video , , had the jaguar Fsvr for 3 month now, for the life of me I can't think why you would want to buy this car over the JAGUAR, mine sounds amazing drives great dont see much difference on inside but iam up 100k with the JAGUAR
No boost threshold either, Jaguar Lister stealth is peak SUV
I really really want Aston Martin to do well and this is clearly a very good car. I love that there are some extremely well thought out details and it certainly sounds like it is the best SUV on the market dynamically, but….with that outdated interior, I cannot conceive buying one of these over a Bentayga or top of the line Range Rover. The DB12 looks to be a big improvement on that front so hopefully those updates come to DBX soon.
Very interesting review Harry, one has to wonder does a car with this amount of power and torque really need nine gears? Does it have "Horse box mode" lol ?
The massive number of gears are mostly an attempt to reduce fuel consumption and therefore emissions - this is pretty much why we've seen automatics go from 4 to 6,7,8,9 and even 10 gears in the last 20 years.
@@Beer_Dad1975 Cheers! Yeah I get that but it must be negated slightly by such a massively powerful car! Top speed achievable in was it the highest three gears, bizarre.
@@antonoat Yup only so much efficiency to be gained with a guzzler for sure, but they have to try everything due to various penalty laws they face for not hitting targets. Often the case the top few gears are "overdrive" gears instead of in the old days where it was usually just the top gear (meaning the output RPM to the wheels exceeds the input speed from the engine) - my Lexus has an 8 speed box and I believe both 7 & 8 are overdrive.
F50 real world review ? : )
Harry's horses, still recovering from motion sickness...
I have seen several of these on the roads now. They are an exercise in extraordinary engineering and incredible levels of bland.
14mpg!?! I don't think we should let manufacturers off the hook so easily if they produce a car today with such abysmal fuel consumption. Often we hear people extol the brilliance of the engineering but forgive the thirsty car. We should be pushing for both performance and economy. It's not just about being careful with fossil fuels, its also about range. A bigger fuel tank isn't the solution for fuel economy in the 12-22mpg range. Manufacturers need to address this.
Well that does it. The 1971 International Scout that has served us well on the old dairy farm is getting traded in. In my dreams...
I just keep looking at that F50 in the background lol
Yes a Cayenne would also tow and offroad but this one is much more pretty and unique :) Getting tech from Mercedes was the right decision for Aston.
Don’t really get it, but it wouldn’t be Sunday without Harry.
I’m in the middle of a small European road trip, brand new one of these parked next to me outside our hotel in Reims, attracting quite the crowd, car spotters taking pics etc. when the owner went to start it the battery was totally dead, breakdown guy jump started it but it ended up being towed. Ironically I’m in a defender which I’ve never had any I issues with in 3 years of hard everyday use.
Odd, considering it probably also did many miles before Reims.
@@Spenny909 yeah, exactly what I thought (it was on uk plates) unless they left something on in it?
Sounds great, goes well. But that back end is ugly. I don’t have £200k for a car. But my £50k SQ7 Vorsprung (500 BHP 1000Nm) v8 is close enough. Harry’s comments echoed mine when l first drove the Audi. But at 37mpg average and a slow run 50mpg, it makes for low cost ownership. The Aston is lovely, but l wouldn’t trade it. Nice review Harry.
Harry, Beautiful SUV. Have you driven the Dodge Durango Hellcat?