New Aston Martin DB9 revealed..

British sports car maker Aston Martin announces major enhancements to the iconic sports and luxury GT, the DB9.

Barely a week after dropping the bomb on the awesome Vanquish Super GT, Aston Martin has once again set the motoring industry alight with another enhanced model, the 13 Model Year DB9.

The new DB9 13MY – its codename, continues Aston’s heritage of luxurious and elegant performance vehicles, much unlike the smaller and more aggressive Vanquish.

Setting itself apart from the old DB9, the new model takes a couple of exterior styling tips from Aston’s already sold-out One-77 hypercar.

Not to be mistaken for your average supercar on the inside, the interior of the new DB9 is – as always, purely Aston. By which we mean a masterclass for all car interior designers to follow.

The DB9 13MY will be the first car to showcase a new generation AM11 V12 engine from Aston Martin. The engine boasts 620Nm of torque and peak power of 517 PS.

Key features of the AM11 unit include a revised block and new head including dual variable valve timing, enlarged throttle bodies, uprated fuel pump, revised intake manifold and machined combustion chambers.

Meanwhile, DB9 13MY achieves compliance with the latest European pedestrian protection regulations and does so in a new way that is without any compromise to the exterior design of the car and does without the need for otherwise surplus deployable systems.

To accomplish this, Aston Martin’s designers and engineers have worked together to make significant changes to the underbody structure of the car including a lowered engine, new bonnet, front bumper construction and grille surround moulding.

Their resulting design is the subject of patent pending applications and enables the grille to move rearwards on impact, whilst the central and outboard chin stiffeners give rigidity to the lower structure and support achievement of the leg impact regulations. Cut-outs on the front wing catwalks contribute to the achievement of the headform regulation.

This means Aston Martin is able to avoid conventional solutions such as the use of plastic grilles and straightforward nose cone bumpers that stretch up in front of the bonnet. Instead, it has created a clever new and bespoke solution that preserves the unmistakable visual appeal of the VH architecture leading edge bonnet and its extruded aluminium grille.