2005 Aston Martin DB9

Aston Martin first announced their first grand touring car to be built at their Gaydon facility at the 2003 Frankfurt Auto Show. It was the Aston Martin DB9 model which was placed into full production with the 2004 model year and commenced through 2016. The DB9 was the vehicle that succeeded the DB7. It was made available in a coupe model and in a convertible example which was called the Volante. The new grand touring car was the design of Henrik Fisker and Market Reichman. It was designed and engineered to be lighter with a large part of the components featuring strong and high quality aluminum as the main material. The curb weight of the DB9 was 3,770 pounds with a chassis that was based upon the VH platform. The engine for the DB9 was taken from the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. It was a 5.9-liter that gave the driver plenty of power resource along with excellent acceleration and a feeling of sportiness with all the comforts afforded by its touring classification. There are some who may wonder why Aston Martin skipped from the DB7 to the DB9. The rationale was quite simple. The new model was not an evolution, but more of a revolution in the development of the vehicle. It wasn’t a gradual change, but rather the closing of one chapter and the opening of another within the story of the DB family of automobiles. The jump from a V8 to a V12 engine didn’t justify following the chronology and wouldn’t have paid proper respects to the new DB9.