Aston Martin’s first SUV, the DBX, is set to be revealed early December with the luxury British brand teasing with newly released images of the vehicle.
The DBX joins the likes of Lamborghin’s Urus, Bentley’s Bentayga and the Rolls-Royce Cullinan in the luxury sports SUV segment.
Aston Martin has confirmed the DBX will be powered by its AMG-sourced twin-turbocharged V8 that also appears in the Vantage and DB11 V8.
Aston Martin’s CEO, Andy Palmer, has also confirmed a hybrid DBX will eventually be produced, in line with the British brand’s plan to electrify its entire line-up, with hybrid and pure variants of every model planned by 2025.
DBX is scheduled to be unveiled in the last quarter of 2019 and will be built at Aston Martin Lagonda’s St Athan facility; a state-of-the-art luxury manufacturing plant that will become the ‘Home of Electrification’ when the marque’s fully-EV models enter production.
After simulation of the DBX in early development phase, initial testing in Wales signified the start of ‘real world’ testing, the SUV was subjected to the world’s harshest environments, from the frozen Arctic and scorching deserts of the Middle East to high Alpine passes and the high-speed demands of the German autobahnen and Nürburgring Nordschleife.
