Lot Ended
Description
Rare 6-speed manual version; only 13,360 miles from new; five service
stamps; three owners; 450bhp; magnificent example
Launched
in 2004 to replace the DB7, the sensational DB9 was in a completely different
league to its ageing forebear and was the first model to be built at Aston
Martin’s high tech Gaydon facility.
Designed
by Henrik Fisker, it was constructed mainly of bonded aluminium and lightweight
composites, including the chassis, which made it over twice as stiff as the DB7
but with a 25% reduction in weight.
Luxuriously
trimmed in leather, aluminium and walnut, it had 2+2 seating and a 6.0 V12
producing 450bhp and 420lb/ft. Driving through a six-speed ZF automatic gearbox
it could accelerate from 0-60 in just 4.8 seconds with a top speed of 186mph. A
six-speed manual version was also available which shaved two-tenths off the dash
to 60mph with added driver involvement.
Rapturously
received by press and public alike, the DB9 was famously declared “too cool” for
Top Gear’s ‘Cool Wall’ and was given its own ‘sub zero’ category. Costing
between £130k and £140k depending on spec, it remained in production for 12
years before being finally replaced by the turbocharged DB11 in
2016.
This
gorgeous DB9 Coupe is a rare manual version – of the c.16,500 made, fewer than
5% were specced with this option. It was supplied new by PJ Evans of Birmingham
in June 2005 and has had just three owners to date, our vendor acquiring the car
in May 2022 (for considerably more than the guide price suggested here). It has
covered only 13,360 miles with five service stamps, the last at 11,819 miles in
May 2022, plus supporting invoices.
Finished
in Titanium Silver with a light blue leather interior, it is packed with all the
usual DB9 luxuries plus the options of cruise control, reversing sensors, heated
front screen, mahogany facia trim and bright grille finish. It also has a
Tracker theft-recovery system fitted.
Supplied
with its original handbooks, service invoices, two old MOTs and two sets of
keys, it is said to drive as well as it looks with an MOT until April 2025 with
no advisories recorded. Driven some 70 miles to the sale, it has been starting
instantly and running beautifully as we have moved it around on site, with a
slick gearchange and an intoxicating V12 bark from the twin exhausts.
Pop a
private plate on and no one will know that it is now almost 20 years old – not
that it makes much difference as any DB9 immediately confers celebrity status on
anyone privileged enough to drive one. Go on, you only live
once…
For
more information contact James on 07970 309907 or email
james.dennison@brightwells.com
* All charges are subject to VAT