Market Watch: These 12-Cylinder Heavyweights Are Perfect For Our Christmas Wish List

If your spare time involves browsing used car classifieds, you might be no stranger to eye-popping figures only Singapore’s car market can assemble. New six-figure supercars sold in Europe provide heart-in-your-mouth moments, sure, but the grass isn't always greener on our side when million dollar price tags appear more frequently than we imagine in Singapore - that’s before digging into their options list.

Blame varied Additional Registration Fees (ARF) tiers. Although the tax-the-rich movement is already in full swing, the top 1 percent might not even bat an eyelid splashing the cash on the best, most rare items in the business. Electrification could have chartered paths previously less explored, but there’s still no denying the appeal of a Big 12 . After all, there’s no harm dreaming about them with Christmas approaching. Those with the dough, prepare your blank cheque books!

2017 Aston Martin DB11

Depreciation: S$110,000 per year

“Purists” might make a fuss about the DB11’s V12 that adopted fuel injection rather than direct injection (due to emission concerns), but we’d like to view it from a glass half full perspective - this is still a manic, fire-in-your-belly V12. 600hp and 700Nm without electric assistance was quite a feat in the mid-2010s.

This was produced in-house - bonus points for that. An “entry-level” twin turbo V8 sat alongside the DB11 lineup from 2017 onwards. But let’s face it - for that sense of occasion, a dozen cylinders will always triumph.

2012 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4

Depreciation: S$68,000 per year

235kg - that’s the weight of the Aventador LP700-4’s 6.5-litre V12. We’d never thought the day would come to label this as “featherweight”, but battery packs nowadays (Model 3’s batteries start from around 400kg) are so hefty that scales need to be recalibrated. Well, safe to say that Lambo has perfected the craft of making engines - it’s their 5th in-house engine.

All in, it weighs less than 1,600kg - on par with a mainstream EV hatch. Modern, electrified supercars have to fight physics, while the Aventador’s recipe was much simpler - go with the flow and its driving dynamics will naturally shine.

2012 Ferrari FF

Depreciation: S$65,000 per year

If you want your V12-powered rocket equipped with 4 proper seats, look no further than the Ferrari FF. It was the world’s fastest 4-seater car when launched in 2011, thanks to a stonking 6.3-litre V12 unleashing 651hp and 683Nm.

It didn't arrive without criticism - some questioned its looks and wondered if it was really a true successor to the more sensible-looking 612 Scaglietti. Well, shooting brake form factors are few and far between now, let alone one backed up by V12 muscle.

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