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The Aston Martin DB11 Volante is here – and it’s V8 powered. Only.
Since the DB9 the ‘DBs’ have been V12-powered, unless you count Bond’s DB10, but the DB11 changed that when a twin-turbo V8 became an option.
Now, with the Volante drop-top, the V8 is it.
“The challenge of creating a convertible car is retaining structural and dynamic integrity,” says Szwaj.
“To protect the former you need strength and rigidity, but to preserve the latter you need to keep weight to a minimum.
Its hood, which Aston Martin says is “available in a choice of bordeaux red, black silver or grey silver,” has also undergone 100,000 cycles in special weather chambers which imitate approximately one decade worth of wear.
This quality control matches up to the words of Aston boss Andy Palmer, who this year told MOTOR that he “wanted to give a guarantee and a sense of confidence to the first 1000 [DB11 coupe] buyers.”
“The new DB11 Volante captures those qualities perfectly and promises the kind of pleasure and enjoyment that can only come from driving an open-top Aston Martin”.
MOTOR awaits confirmation for Australian delivery and pricing information for the DB11 Volante.
