four years on from breaking ground at a new factory at St Athan in Wales, the very first showroom ready Aston Martin DBX SUV has rolled off the line at the firm’s latest UK manufacturing facility.
The DBX – of which 80 per cent will be built for export – is anticipated to become the brand’s best seller overnight, and up to 5,000 per year can be made at the multi-million pound St Athan factory, based on a converted 90-acre Ministry of defence site in south Wales.
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The DBX has been in development since 2015, and is designed to rival the Porsche Cayenne Turbo and Bentley Bentayga. It is, Aston Martin hopes, the model that will attract more female buyers to the brand, but also a automobile that the company expects will appeal to existing customers. more than 70 per cent of Aston’s sports automobile owners also have an SUV in their garage.
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The DBX is just over five metres long and 2.2 metres wide, including side mirrors. like all modern Astons, it’s based on an aluminium construction – although the new model gets a specific architecture that sets it apart from the rest of the line-up, as well as composite panels to help keep weight down to just over 2.2 tonnes.
