At 191mph, your head will be sucked backwards through the headrest like lasagne through a pasta maker. At motorway speeds the buffeting is ferocious without the rear seat cover in place. Since you’re going to tool around everywhere with the roof down, make sure you fit the wind baffle. The ride is stiff but compliant on the standard damper setting – so good, in fact, that I can’t imagine when you’d ever use the ‘Sports’ setting on real roads. Though the clutch and steering are weighty, there’s a nice linear response and enough feedback to know when you’re getting close to the limit.
For something so bloody big and front-engined and open-topped, the Volante is a genuinely focussed drive: hugely fast, impressively grippy and only a little bit scary. Yes, there’s a bit more flex than in the coupe, but you’d need to be pushing on at such a rate to find it that you’ll be in a big lot of danger if you get it wrong. Unless you’re planning on drifting all the way around Alderley Edge, the Volante is plenty stiff. and then chop the roof off to undo all your good work?ĭispel such worries. Top down, I reckon it’s an even better looking thing than the DBS coupe.īut isn’t 25 per cent quite a lot, especially in something as full-on as a DBS? Surely something 25 per cent less stiff than, say, Usain Bolt would be a slightly pointy jellyfish? Herein lies the worry with the DBS Volante: why go to all the effort of creating a super-stiff, ultra-focussed supercar. Look at those gorgeous ‘speed humps’ that hide the pop-up roll hoops on the rear deck. Some foolish people – perhaps the very same ones who dole out that daft windows-down advice – may tell you the DBS isn’t as beautiful as the DB9, that it’s a bit too bling, a bit too fussy. Then again, the DBS Volante is an awful lot of car. Actually, it’s an awful lot of money: £50,000 more than the DB9 Volante, £11,000 more than the DBS coupe. The Volante makes a racket so deeply, deeply awesome that you think, “£170k? That’s not so bad.”Īh.
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Some foolish people say you’ll get the same effect with the windows down in the DBS coupe (yes, that’s The Bond Car, let’s get it out the way now). Large pieces of finely woven carbon fibre pieces replace what was once swathed in leather and for the most exclusive specifications, tinted carbon fibre is also available for selection.If ever there was a sound to justify the sheer rightness of internal combustion, this is it: steely, hard-edged and, when the exhaust bypass valves flip open at 4,000rpm, gigantically loud. For the first time on an Aston Martin Volante model, the window screen surround is available with a 2x2 twill carbon fibre finish, with the option to continue that theme to the car’s tonneau cover and rear waterfall. The hood can be further personalised on the inside, with a further six Rokona headliners. Equipped with a quad exhaust system DBS Superleggera Volante delivers a pure, harmonic and authentic voice, unmatched by its rivals.ĭBS Superleggera Volante’s hood is available in eight distinct colours including Bordeaux Red, Atlantic Blue and Titan Grey. The authentic soundtrack delivered by the car’s powertrain is a critical hallmark of the Volante experience and typically, the DBS Superleggera Volante has been tuned to provide incredible sound quality synonymous with an Aston Martin Super GT. The new deeper side strake draws more air from the front wheel arch to reduce lift and aid high-speed stability. At the front, the car’s splitter and airdam work in unison, accelerating airflow underneath the front of the car to deliver true downforce and assist cooling by feeding air to the front brakes. While covering 0-62mph in just 3.6 seconds and 0-100mph in 6.7 seconds.ĭBS Superleggera Volante continues the aerodynamic masterpiece of the coupe model, commanding and exploiting the surface airflow to maximum effect. Powered by Aston Martin’s own 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12, producing 715BHP, 900Nm of torque, and with a top speed of 211mph, the DBS Superleggera Volante boasts ferocious acceleration.
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