Since we last met I have driven the new Aston Martin DB12 in the south of France but because it’s such an important car to the company, it will take six weeks to get the world’s mainstream, automotive and lifestyle press (plus, doubtless, a smattering of the influencers you get these days who’ll say whatever you damn well like about a new car so long as you pay them enough) through its elegant doors. Which means I can’t write about it until the last has been in it – allowing us all to publish at the
