Aston Martin DBX 707 at autoX Awards: Best Cars of 2025 Ranked

The Aston Martin DBX is already a winner, having been crowned our Performance Car of the Year in 2021 – the first SUV to earn that accolade.

This one is a DBX on steroids. 707 steroids to be specific – that’s the number of horses under the hood. The AMG-sourced 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 that gulps air from that massive Aston Martin signature grille also produces 900 Nm of twisting force, all of which adds up to a 0-100 km/h acceleration time of 3.3 seconds and a top speed of 310km/h. But the numbers tell only part of the story.

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The real appeal of the DBX is the way it makes you feel, right from the way it makes you go a bit weak in the knees as you approach it – after all, those Aston Martin design cues have been executed to perfection in their SUV avatar – then there’s the cabin, which is appointed in hand-stitched leather from top to bottom, and, of course, the icing on the cake is how the DBX goes down the road. This is truly an Aston Martin that you can use on our roads. The ride on the road is quite compliant, making it a usable everyday machine – if you can pull off that James Bond look on a daily basis that is.

On the track, it feels like a proper sports car – not like a lumbering SUV. They’ve really done an amazing job with this chassis and the steering. It dives into corners, rotates around its axis and powers out like a machine that feels half its size. The only trouble is that it’ll make a dent in your pocket that’s well north of the four crore mark, which means that only the very select few will ever experience the combination of looks, quality and driving pleasure that the DBX delivers.

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Aston Martin has also done an amazing job over the years of improving the functionality and layout of its cabins, and I’m kicking myself for not trying out the Apple CarPlay Ultra, since the DBX is the first vehicle in the world that’s given Apple access not only to the infotainment screen but also the instrument cluster. I guess I’ll just have to drive the DBX again to try it – I better work on that Sean Connery accent in the meantime…