Aston Martin DBSIn one of Casino Royale’s heart-stopping moments, 007 reaches under the dashboard of his Aston Martin DBS for the defibrillator that can save his life after he’s been poisoned by a digitalis-spiked cocktail.

Unfortunately, neither the defibrillator nor, even more unfortunately Daniel Craig, come as standard on Aston Martin’s latest release, but the V12 engine, carbon-ceramic brakes and a body almost as sexy as Craig’s, do.

This month Living Tenerife test drives the new Aston Martin DBS and decides whether it’s a sports car or a GT – that’s Gran Turismo, not gin & tonic, which incidentally, should not be the preferred tipple of a DBS driver. Clearly it should be vodka Martini, as you’re unlikely to be shaken, but most definitely stirred.