Raise your budget to nearer £55k and you will get much-improved 2009-model-year DB9s. In this price bracket are Aston-approved 2005-model-year cars that are going to give you the most peace of mind. Open and closed cars were sold in fairly even numbers, so both should be readily available.ĭB9s with lower miles and from independent dealers are around £40k. One in private hands will start at around £40k. The drop-top DB9 Volante first arrived six months after its coupé sibling, in the autumn of 2004. That will bag you a 2005 example with a solid 60k mileage and it will be an automatic. Your starting price is just over £32k for immaculate private cars. So stick to blue/cream, silver/black, black/grey, black/black, green/black colour combinations rather than the powder blues, yellows and reds enjoyed by the blingtastic customers. Some choices will make an Aston cheaper, but if you are thinking of having a resaleable car in a few years’ time, it needs to be conventional. The springs and front anti-roll bar were modified and the ride height lowered to appeal to the more enthusiastic driver.įrom the moment the fixed-head DB9 went on sale in the spring of 2004, customers were able to order what they wanted. The Sport Pack was offered as a factory-fitted option from the middle of 2006 and combined revised suspension characteristics with a new alloy wheel design.
ASTON MARTIN DB9 VOLANTE FULL
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ASTON MARTIN DB9 VOLANTE MANUAL
Also in line with the DB9 Coupe, the DB9 Volante was available with a six-speed paddle shift automatic ( Touchtronic 2) or rarely, the six-speed manual transmission. Like the DB9 Coupe, power for the Volante was supplied by Aston Martin’s low emissions, all-alloy, 48-valve, 5.9-litre, V12 engine, manufactured by skilled Aston Martin technicians at the company’s dedicated engine plant in Germany. Further safety protection was offered by the windscreen A-pillars, which were able to withstand more than twice the total weight of the car. If the roof was erected at the time – the hoops were designed to ‘punch’ through the rear window glass. In the event of a potential roll-over, special tilt sensors detected the danger and hoops could be rapidly deployed from the rear head restraints. But unlike all previous Volantes, the roof folded fully in 17 seconds and stored neatly under a hard tonneau cover. Indeed the packaging of the roof allowed the Volante almost as much boot space as the coupe and a useful increase over the pervious DB7 Volante. The electrically folding roof of the DB9 Volante was of the standard mohair fabric type – the fashion for a folding steel roof wasn’t followed as it would have eaten greatly into the boot space and increased weight. The 0-60 time was a claimed to be an impressive 4.9 seconds but the top speed of the Volante was electronically limited to 165mph until the introduction of the 2006.5MY car when this was increased to 186mph. The DB9 Volante shared the same mechanical specification as the coupe but was regarded as a cruiser rather than and out-and-out sportscar and thus the suspension was made softer than its coupe counterpart.Performance was very close to that of the coupe as the open car weighed in at only about 100kg more at 1815kg for the manual and 1855kg for the Touchtronic 2.
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