Aston Martin’s new DB12 Volante convertible has the power and the looks
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“Don’t think of the Aston Martin DB12 Volante as the softer, squishier option,” says Alan Taylor-Jones for Car magazine, because the drop-top is every bit the equal of the hard-top DB12 coupe that was launched last year. They were developed side by side and share the same design, engineering and technology advances. That makes this “the most dynamic” Volante since the first was introduced in 1965 and “possibly one of the best sports cars out there”. Aston Martin calls it “the ultimate open-top super tourer” and “it lives up to the billing”, says Ray Massey on This is Money. It’s “a delight to drive with the added bonus of wind-in-the-hair motoring”.
Under the bonnet there is a “feisty” 680-horsepower, four-litre V8 twin turbo petrol engine linked to an eight-speed automatic gearbox. The Volante “accelerates with gusto” from standstill to 62mph in 3.7 seconds, which makes overtaking “effortless”. “But what I really enjoyed was the chance to chill – just because the power may be there in spades, it doesn’t mean you have to use it… This is a super-hot super cruiser in which to be super cool.”
Looking the part
“Indeed… the Volante [looks] so arresting that you might buy it on that basis alone,” says Tim Pitt in City AM. It resembles its predecessor, the DB11 – only “bulked up on
