Road Test of Aston Martin DB9 2013

You might be speculating why we're bothering to test a car that's been around since 2004 - duration in the motoring world. But today's Aston Martin DB9 bears scant similarity to the anxious original, apart from its corporeal, external design. Spot the dissimilarity? They're there, all right, and put this obsession next to one of the early cars and you'll see how the 9's look has been efficient over the course of almost a decade.

But although it looks very comparable to the original model, beneath its sculptural flanks beats the heart of an approximately completely different car. This thing is fundamentally dissimilar and enhanced in every way. Its engine, in meticulous, is a modern masterpiece - six litres of full fat V12 integrity that, when ignited and soundly defeated, release the premium automotive music you've ever heard.

For anyone fascinated in the oily bits, this engine features a new block, a new eccentric, new strangle bodies, a new intake various design, new hollow camshafts, machined ignition cavity, bigger ingestion valves and new dual changeable valve timing heads. Or, in laymen's terms, it's what is recognized as a "new engine". In fact, it's probably best analysis as a somewhat less powerful version of the one at present carrying out active service in the new defeat, which has replaced the DBS.

When you first take to the road, however, primarily it feels like the DB9 is all mouth and no trousers because all is totally serene. The navigation feels meaty and particular and the auto box shifts approximately effortlessly, but hit the Sport button and mashes that throttle and the DB9's Jekyll and Hyde individuality makes itself known in an immediate.

Once you're really on it, the depth and width of the new DB9's individuality instigate to disclose it. The clever adaptive moist has enough scope for most position - even in the normal ride mode - but in Sport, the car's tranquility increases without any perception that the ride excellence has suffered. Even severe road deficiency are heard rather than felt and, if the outside gets actually bad, the DB9 still handle to smother away any severity.