Aston Martin is joining the long list of automakers in testing their latest wares around the famed Nurburgring race track. Our spy photographers captured the British brand's DBS/DB9 successor running a few hot laps on the track and it looks quite good in its silver guise. Wearing a set of sticky Pirelli tires, it wears a sculpted front end reminiscent of the One-77 and also some redesigned headlights, while the rest of the design looks like an evolution of the current generation DBS.

The rear features some muscular arches along with a snazzy spoiler. The Aston's 6.0-liter V12 engine will remain, with power boosted into a range of 550-600hp. Lightweight materials and a lighter chassis should improve performance numbers to something like 0-62mph in just under four seconds and a top speed of roughly 200mph. The new Aston Martin DBS/DB9 should arrive later this year and it could carry a price tag upwards of £200,000.