For the first round, I took these cars back to where the dueling began. The Eifel Sprint. It starts out on a downhill series of varying corners and the straightens out to a long sprint part, then a sharp turn approaches just before you power your car up two uphill straights. Both cars seemed easy enough to drive, but the DB9 has less understeer so I prefer to drive it over the Jaguar.
Times:
Aston 2:18,684
Jag 2:19,150
Gap: +0.446
Looks like the Aston just slightly beats out the Jaguar here.
I lined them both up on the 4,000m strip to test their acceleration and top speed. Oddly, neither of them seemed to top out on this course. The Aston was slow off the line, but the Jaguar has low top-end acceleration.
Times and Speed:
Aston: 50.758 seconds @ 301km/h
Jag: 49.431 seconds @ 311km/h
Looks like the Jaguar beats the Aston in raw speed and POWAAAAAH
For paint chips, I'm giving this round to the Jaguar, it has some very odd chips going by the names of Botanical Green and Spectrum Blue. some very strange effects, almost a matte-style finish on a solid chip. The Aston has 20 paint chips, but the two on the Jag just make me forget about all of those.
The Jaguar wins for chip quality, not quantity.
For aero parts and customisation, the Jaguar only has one aero option unique to it, and only has standard wheel sizes. The Aston has way more aero parts that somewhat make it look like a DBR9 or some sort of race car. It also has a nice addition to that in the form of two extra wheel sizes. The Aston wins easily here.
For tuning, these two are exactly the same, except for the fact that the Jaguar has the addition of supercharger tuning, so it produces wayyy more POWAAAAAAAAH.
The Jaguar wins for tuning.
For sound I'm going to pick the Jaguar, the Aston has almost racing-car sounds, but it doesn't compare to the Jaguar's jaguar purr of a soundtrack. The deep growling sounds like some gigantic cat's grumble all the way to the top of the revs.
The Jaguar wins for sound
For design and styling, I'm giving this to the Jaguar, it has a chisled face with amazing vents, and the taillights are nice to look at too. The roofline is neary perfect and the overhangs are just the right size. I like how the pre-facelifted version of the DB9 looks, but I liked the post-facelift version better.
Well, I can certainly say both cars never show up online outside of specific categories. They're too heavy for the most part to be competitive against any KTM or Rocket. So both are not practical for racing, but for drifiting, I'm giving the vote to the Jaguar, it seemed more excited to slide when I was driving it earlier, and it has a supercharger, so It has more potential to break free from the confines of traction.
So with the rounds counted and the total scores in, the
JAGUAR XKR takes this week's vote for me.
and the verdict is...
ASTON DBS and DBRS9 for GT SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND THE XKR GT3 and F-TYPE!!!!!!!!!!!