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The Stroll effect is kicking in

Mark my words, this may look like a merely thoroughly face-lifted DB11, but the new DB12 is likely to be considered one of the more important cars in the history of Aston Martin. These come along every so often, vehicles that are meant to reset the direction of the company and return to the course from which it has wavered. This is perhaps not a car of DB2, DB7 or DB9 significance, but as the first new Aston produced entirely under the watchful eye of Canadian billionaire, largest shareholder and executive chairman Lawrence Stroll, it is surely not far away.

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