I feel a little silly criticizing an interior as expensive and luxurious as the Aston Martin DBX. I can’t even afford to insure one, never mind buy one, what do I know about luxury car interiors? However, I never felt that the DBX’s interior had the same wow factor as its exterior. Until now, that is, as Aston Martin drastically updated the DBX707’s cabin and it’s finally as beautiful inside as it is outside.
Previously, the DBX707’s interior was nice to look at and made with sensationally rich materials. However, it never looked up to par with the brand’s prestige: its steering wheel looked kind of generic, its gauges looked a bit low-rent for the segment, and its center stack of radio and climate controls was made from mushy piano-black buttons. Now, though, the DBX707 looks just like the DB12 inside, which is to say that it’s gorgeous.
Its new steering wheel is chunky and sporty like an Aston’s should be (although, the gloss black touch buttons look like fingerprint magnets), the gauge screen is big, crisp, and features high-res graphics, and the center console now has more physical knobs, buttons, and switches. Aston Martin’s design director recently said that the brand’s metric for designing interiors is called the “piss-off factor,” making sure none of its controls piss the team off, and it looks like it’s working.
Aston Martin replaced the aging Mercedes infotainment with their own setup. This proved to be a major upgrade for the DB12 Volante. The screen itself is barely any bigger, at 10.25 inches, but the system behind it is entirely different and that’s what matters most. The digital gauge screen has grown by 1.5 inches to 12.3 inches. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto have now gone wireless after initially being only wired when the infotainment was first introduced in the DB12.
While the exterior is mostly unchanged—it was near-perfect already—Aston did make a few tweaks. The door handles are now powered when unlocked, and the side-mirrors feature a new flush glass design. The new mirrors also move in a different way. In almost all cars the glass mirror only moves within its housing when the driver adjusts it, but on the DBX707 the entire housing moves. Aston says that the new mirrors are designed to have a larger reflective surface and better accommodate the cameras of the surround-view system. Aston has also introduced a number of new paint colours, the majority of which are green. These include: Helios Yellow (the most popular), Epsilon Black (the second-most popular), Malachite Green (the third-most popular), Aura Green, Sprint Green and Podium Green if you choose the DBX707 AMR23 edition.
The Aston Martin DBX707 remains mechanically unchanged. The 4.0-liter twin turbo V8 still has 697 horsepower (707PS) and 663 pounds-feet of torque. It still has a nine speed wet-clutch automatic that handles the gear shifts. Power is still delivered to all four tires, so it still only takes 3.1 second for 0-60mph.
The Aston Martin DBX707 is a beautiful, fast and impressive SUV. The interior of the Aston Martin DBX707 has never matched its stunning exterior. It does now. And if you’re rich enough to own a DBX707 to trade in and want this new interior, you can do so when deliveries begin in Q2 of 2024.
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