David Brown Automotive (DBA) is giving us a final
glimpse inside the new Speedback Silverstone Edition, before its official
presentation in Geneva, next week.
Named after the famous Silverstone airfield and
track, it’s basically a limited edition version of the already available
Speedback GT, which starts from £ 520,000 (equal to US$ 726,192), before taxes and
shipping.
Being limited to only 10 examples, all of them built
by hand at the firm’s Silverstone facilities, the upcoming limited edition
grand tourer will be more expensive, with pricing yet to be announced.
Other teasers released by DBA partially reveal its
headlights, LED tech and ‘Silverstone Edition’ badging. Now we also have these
sport seats wrapped in tan leather, and embroidered with the Silverstone
airfield map.
Nothing else is known about the car so far, except
that it will have in excess of 600 horsepower. By comparison, the current
Speedback GT is good for ‘only’ 510 PS and 625 Nm of torque,
produced by a 5.0-liter supercharged V8 engine.
The regular model shares its nuts and bolts with the
Jaguar XKR, pays tribute to the iconic Aston Martin DB5, and has a hand-crafted
aluminum body work. It also gets plenty of modern features, including an
infotainment system, USB charging ports, keyless go and push-button start, so
we expect the Silverstone Edition to be very similar.
