Aston Martin DB9

This is the catalogue record of the Aston Martin DB9, one of 106 models Aston Martin has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Aston Martin DB9 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson, the Ford Ford Mustang, the Chrysler Chrysler 300 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Aston Martin DB9 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 5.9 L Aston Martin V12; kerb weight is recorded at 1710 -; drive goes through 6-speed ZF 6HP transmission#6HP 26 / ZF 6HP 26 (Touchtronic) automatic transmission / automatic / 6-speed Graziano Trasmissioni / Graziano manual transmission / manual; the layout is Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Aston Martin story

Within Aston Martin's own catalogue the Aston Martin DB9 sits alongside the Aston Martin Mark II (1934), the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, the Aston Martin Vanquish II (2012), the Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3. The record names the Aston Martin DB7 as its predecessor and the Aston Martin DB11 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Unbulleted list |Ian Callum and Henrik Fisker (2001; initial design) |Marek Reichman (facelifts). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Gaydon, Warwickshire.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Aston Martin DB9 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.