Back in the '80s, spoilers on performance cars were the thing. But now they look kind of crass and they spoil, for lack of a better word, the visual lines of the car.
Aston Martin's design team has thus designed their DB11 with an "aeroblade" feature: Air gets sucked into vents aft of the rear passenger windows, then shoots out of a vent in the deck lid, providing downforce without requiring that absurd whale tail.
The rest of the car doesn't look—nor sound—too shabby either!
If I knew anybody who had this car, I would wait until they left it unattended, then I'd totally load that air chamber up with glitter.
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The tech on that Aeroblade is fantastic. I just wish they kept the design cleaner. It seems like the entire point of something like the Aeroblade is to simplify the design, yet there is a lot of extra surfacing on this design that the previous Aston's seemed so careful to avoid.
That whale tail on the 911 is absurd. Absurdly awesome! I love the clean execution on the Aston, it's a perfect solution for a clean elegantly designed luxury GT car. That said, a more dedicated performance car like the Porsche 911 GT3 looks perfectly purposeful with it's race-inspired park bench on the rear end.