猩式车评：阿斯顿马丁Vanquish

The Clarkson review: Aston Martin Vanquish

猩式车评：阿斯顿马丁Vanquish

Even Cheerful Charlie was impressed

英国俊男 人见人爱

Saturday October 11 2025, 10.00pm BST, The Sunday Times

发布于2025年10月11日，泰晤士报

Aston Martin has a bit of a problem. It’s this: almost all the cars it has made for the past 30 years have looked quite similar. I’m not saying that picking the best is like choosing your favourite milk bottle. But it is like going into the maternity ward at your local hospital and choosing a favourite baby. I know new mothers will disagree with this quite strongly, but to me all babies really do look the same. Seriously, I’m surprised, given how hopeless the NHS can be at paperwork, that mix-ups don’t happen more often. Perhaps they do.

阿斯顿马丁这两年有点小问题：他们近30年来制造的所有车型看起来都非常相似。如果要选一台最喜欢的阿斯顿马丁，倒也没有难到像选一个最喜欢的牛奶瓶一样纠结，但这就跟我去妇科产房挑一个最喜欢的宝宝一样。我知道各位新上任的母亲们会强烈反对我的观点，但对我来说所有新生儿长得都一个样。说真的，鉴于NHS(英国国家医疗服务体系)离谱的文书系统，我很惊讶抱错孩子的事情居然没怎么发生；也可能已经发生了，只是我们不知道而已。

I wonder if they happen at Aston Martin service centres as well. You drop off your DB11 for a bit of routine maintenance and in the evening you accidentally go home in an old DBS. My bet is that you probably wouldn’t notice until you looked in the glovebox and found that the boiled sweets in there were blackcurrant flavour.

我在想阿斯顿马丁的维修中心是否也出现过类似的情况。你把自己的DB11送去做日常保养，结果当晚不小心把别人的DBS开走了。我敢打赌你不会马上发现，直到你尝出手套箱里的糖果是黑加仑味时才发现不对劲。

It’s easy to see what’s happened, because back in 1994 the great designer Ian Callum came up with a whole new type of Aston, the DB7. And it was pretty much perfect. Long bonnet. Muscly haunches. Low. And just the right blend of prettiness and aggression. So when Aston launched the DB9 a decade later it was more of the same. And so was the DB11 and so was the DB12 and so was the DBS and so was the Vanquish and so was the Vantage. Aston Martin had become the automotive equivalent of Hawkwind. They opened the show with Silver Machine, and the last time I saw them they played it as an encore as well.

阿斯顿马丁的设计问题其实很好理解。回到1995年，伟大的汽车设计师Ian Callum为马丁设计了全新的旗舰跑车：DB7。她的外形几乎完美：修长的前机盖，力量感十足的腰线，低矮的车身，将优雅与侵略感完美融合。10年后阿斯顿马丁推出了全新的DB9，几乎是一样的设计语言，这种风格延续到DB11、DBS、Vanquish以及最新的Vantage。马丁已经成为了汽车界的Hawkwind乐队了（英国摇滚乐队），每次他们都以代表作《Silver Machine》开场，上次我看他们返场唱的也是这首歌。

Ferrari had options. It could put the engine in the middle or at the front. It could, and did, make four-seaters. It could change its styling, but on its mainstream road cars Aston couldn’t. Because it had worked out what these cars should look like and that was that.

反观之下，法拉利还有得选，他们可以把引擎前置或者中置，也可以推出4座车型，设计风格也一直在变。但在阿斯顿马丁的主力车型上，他们可不敢肆意妄为，因为马丁的设计基调早已尘埃落定。

This is good news for you and me, though, because — and I mean this — you could spend £15,000 on an old DB7, and if you polished the paintwork to make it gleam, and you burnished its alloys to make them look like new, almost everyone would assume you were driving a £185,000 DB12.

不过，这对于你我来说是个好消息。因为——我是认真的——你可以花15000英镑（约合人民币14万）买一台陈年DB7，把漆面擦得闪闪发亮，铝合金轮毂也洗得跟新的一样，所有人都会以为你开的是价值185,000英镑（约合人民币174万）的新款DB12。

So what about the new Vanquish, the car you see in the pictures this morning? Ah well, with this one they had an extra problem, because the recent DBS Ultimate comes with 759 brake horsepower. So if the Vanquish is to justify its truly colossal price tag of £361,000, it has to look different somehow and offer even more grunt.

那么，新款的Vanquish看起来如何呢？对于这台马丁的最新作品，它有一个额外的问题：最近的DBS Ultimate拥有770匹马力。如果Vanquish要证明自己贵出天际的361,000英镑（约合人民币340万）起售价是合理的话，它必须要显得与众不同，甚至要提供更高的马力。

Incredibly it does look different. It’s the first Aston I’ve seen in decades that you wouldn’t muddle up with all the others. Partly this is down to the fact that it’s long. Really long. So long that it wouldn’t fit in any of the bays outside my local pub. And it has a completely new sort of back end. But my God it works. In profile especially, this is a sensational-looking car. So sensational that my land agent, Charlie Ireland — a man who is so uninterested in cars he doesn’t even know what he drives — paused momentarily in my yard to pass comment. “That is very pretty,” he said.

难得的是，新Vanquish看起来确实与之前的老马丁不一样，它应该是我几十年来第一次不会认错的阿斯顿马丁。部分原因是它太长了（4.85米），长到我家那片的任何一个酒吧停车场都容不下它，而且它的车尾也有了全新的设计。但新Vanquish看起来真的很惊艳，尤其是从侧面看去，令人过目不忘。它是如此地帅气，以至于我的农场经理人Charlie Ireland——一个对车没有任何兴趣，甚至不知道自己在开什么车的家伙——在我家院子里看到它的第一眼都会特意停下来跟我说：“这台车真漂亮。”

So it has pulled off the looks but what about the engine? I honestly thought that the V12 as a species was a goner, that there’d be no way to squeak such a thing past the legislation of today. But Aston’s done it. And it’s not like this is the old V12 with some mapping changes. It has gone to the trouble — even though it knows it is developing the equivalent of a coal-fired power station — of fitting a new block, new heads, new ports, new camshafts, new connecting rods, new turbochargers and new fuel injectors. It has even relocated the spark plugs. And the result is 824 completely hybridless brake horsepowers and 738 torques. This is one hell of an engine. Ferrybridge with an Aston badge.

所以新Vanquish在外观上无疑是成功的。引擎又如何呢？如果以物种来区分，我真心觉得V12引擎即将消亡，以现在交通法规的严苛程度，很难让它们通过测试标准。但阿斯顿马丁做到了，他们可不是拿20年前的那台老旧V12修修补补。马丁的工程师陷入了麻烦——不过他们也知道自己捣鼓的东西跟燃煤发电站一样复杂且强大——他们要设计新引擎的缸体、缸盖、接口、凸轮轴、连杆、涡轮增压器与燃油喷射系统，他们甚至重新调整了火花塞的位置，一切的努力换来了纯净的835匹马力和1000牛米扭矩。这可是一具了不起的引擎，带着阿斯顿马丁标志的移动发电站。

Naturally the Vanquish is consequently very fast. I’m told the convertible is the fastest front-engined drophead in the world. Which is a bit like saying you’re the loudest town crier. There’s not much competition these days. But the funny thing is that it doesn’t feel scary. If I’m honest, half the time it doesn’t even feel fast. But then you look down at the speedometer and, holy cow, really? This is one of those cars that is usually doing 50mph more than you would ordinarily deem to be sensible.

因此，新Vanquish的速度奇快无比。我听说新Vanquish的敞篷版车型是世界上最快的前置引擎敞篷跑车，这就有点像是在说“你是镇子里嗓门最大的小贩”一样，在这个电车当道的年代，搭载内燃机的敞篷超跑可不多见。有趣的是，新Vanquish开起来的感觉并不吓人，说实在的，在我开着它的半数时间里都没觉得它有多快，直到我低头一看速度表，卧槽？这么快？新Vanquish是能麻痹速度感的车，开着它的速度感要比开其他车少80迈以上。

You need to be very careful on a motorway, that’s for sure, because it really does make 120mph feel like 70mph. I have to put this down to some clever electronic trickery and how all this laptoppery is handled by the Bilstein DTX dampers. Aston itself says it has been set up to “breathe the road”, and it has hit the nail on the head with that, because it does.

开着新Vanquish上高速的话，你需要非常小心，因为把它开到200码跟普通车跑到120的感觉差不多。我觉得这个“魔法”跟一些精妙的电子系统与新Vanquish使用的倍适登DTX悬挂有关。阿斯顿马丁说他们已经把悬挂调教成“随路面呼吸”模式，这个名字精准地表达了我坐在新Vanquish里的感受，它开起来非常平稳。

This is one of those long-legged cars, a Kenyan marathon star, a mile muncher. And as the suspension works with the road, it is sublimely comfortable. Of course, if you want you can make it uncomfortable by engaging some kind of sport mode, but I can’t see the point. It would be like wearing your new suit inside out. Yes, you could probably go round a corner 1mph faster, but that’s not the point, surely, in a car this big. If you want lap records, buy a Porsche.

新Vanquish是一台适合长途旅行的GT跑车，肯尼亚马拉松健将，公路吞噬者。随着悬挂与公路的完美配合，它的舒适度也是极佳。当然，如果你要给自己找点不舒服，开启所谓的运动模式也可以，但我看不出这么做的意义，这就像把新西装反过来当运动服穿一样浪费。你也能开着新Vanquish在赛道里不断刷圈，只为在每个弯里再快一点，但这并不是它设计的初衷，毕竟它的尺寸摆在这里。如果你想要刷个好圈速，买台保时捷不香吗？

Inside it all looks beautiful but it’s not that easy to use. As is the case in the DB12, it’s too easy to turn on the lava-hot seat heaters when you operate the touchscreen, though at least the Vanquish comes with a “torpedo inbound” klaxon to let you know you’ve done it.

新Vanquish的内饰看起来很精致，但用起来不太方便。跟DB12一样，当你操作新Vanquish的中控触摸屏时，经常会误触座椅加热按钮，让我的屁股感受到熔岩一般的火热。不过新Vanquish做了升级，搞了个“鱼雷装填完毕”的哔哔声提醒我座椅加热又打开了。

Also it’s very hard to read the font on the buttons if you use human eyes, especially if it’s sunny and the roof is down. And how to describe cruising around the Cotswolds at what felt like 60mph (but probably wasn’t) in an Aston Martin, with autumn starting to paint all the leaves orange and with droplets of dew in the cobweb that always forms overnight between the door mirror and the door? Wonderful is the right word.

而且，各个按键上的字体也很难用人眼看清楚，尤其是在敞篷打开、天气晴朗的时候，更是啥也看不见。如何形容开着新Vanquish以100码的速度（估计实际速度不止）在Cotswolds（英国小镇，大猩猩家乡）巡航的感觉呢？随着秋风把所有的绿叶涂黄，后视镜和车门之间挂起的蜘蛛网在一夜之间凝结着几滴清晨的露珠，美妙是最恰当的词汇。

This is not a Ferrari. It’s not a Bentley. And it definitely isn’t a Porsche. It feels different to all of them. I’d like to say it really is the perfect car for James Bond. He can drive all the way to the south of France and not be so stiff that he can’t have a fight when he gets there. And yet it’s fast enough to be able to pull away from whatever is chasing him over an Alp later in the day.

新Vanquish给人的感觉不像法拉利，也不是宾利，与保时捷更是相差甚远，它带给你的感受与众不同。我想说新Vanquish绝对是詹姆士·邦德的不二之选，他能开着新Vanquish一路咆哮到法国南部，也不会因为糟糕的乘坐体验让身体过于僵硬，无法与敌人战斗；而且在后续的阿尔卑斯山脉上，新Vanquish有充足的速度让他拉开与所有追兵的距离。

The only real problem is that James Bond is dead. Aston isn’t, though, and if it continues to mine the seam between outright sportiness and puddingy comfort this well, it won’t be any time soon.

唯一的问题是，丹尼尔·克雷格饰演的詹姆士·邦德已经死了，但阿斯顿马丁还活着。如果他们能继续坚持在邦邦硬的运动感和软乎乎的舒适感中找到那份绝佳的平衡，我相信马丁还能一直坚持下去。

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