DB9 matched the emotion of a Ferrari but adds practicality and offers an experience unmatched for versatility and appeal
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Even so, the DB9 was not left undeveloped. It’s fitted with the AM10 version of the 5935cc V12C, which was tuned to provide 510bhp. That's not only 40bhp more than the previous DB9, but also 21bhp more than the Virage which it replaced. Visually, it’s remarkable how pure the car still looks given that its original Ian Callum design was modified pre-production by Henrik Fisker, and subsequently revised and made compliant with the latest pedestrian impact legislation by Marek Reichman.Form or function? There was never any doubt which one of those roads the Aston Martin DB9 would choose to ply.
The centre stack is more confusing still, with two displays providing information in such a bewildering and apparently haphazard fashion that you may end up electing to go uninformed. Buttons that were tiny and poorly labelled don’t help either. The Garmin-based navigation system is merely poor rather than unusable.
Bear in mind also that whichever version you bought, it came with rear seats that, for almost all people almost all of the time, will prove entirely useless, save as for additional non-secure luggage storage.Even with its 510bhp motor, the DB9 isn’t all that quick. It can hit 62mph in 4.6sec, about the same as an automatic base-levelwhich cost about half the money the Aston required. But the nature of that performance? Well, that remains something else again.
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