It snowed on the Cote d’Azure last week. Lots. At the top of a mountain pass, where the road mercifully flattened, three Aston Martin DB11 Volantes pulled gingerly into a lay-by covered in snow for an emergency discussion. Continue along the pass and hope we had reached the peak, or turn back to the hotel, and face the descent back through icy hairpins with a vertiginous drop on one side.
First Drive: Aston Martin DB11 Volante
A former Motoring Editor at the Telegraph, Erin Baker combines a bike licence and race licence with a love of high-speed cars and penchant for embarrassingly low-speed crashes. Now she has two sons, she’s largely put her leathers to one side, preferring the cut and thrust of automotive industry debates and wondering which cars have Isofix…
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