Unsurprisingly, Aston has gone with a fabric roof for the DB11
Volante in an attempt to save weight, though it'll probably still weigh over 4000 lb.
Well, at least one of them, the Aston Martin DB9
Volante in particular, good for 517 hp courtesy of its big 6 - litre V12.
We have just added to our extensive exotic car inventory a beautiful 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish
Volante in Onyx Black over Obsidian Black with only 3,800 miles.
The Vanquish Volante is the first fully carbon fiber - skinned
Volante in the brand's 100 - year history, while also being the stiffest Volante body structure yet created by the engineering team at Aston Martin's global HQ in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England.
That's how I'd describe the Vanquish
Volante in so many words.
It looks like Aston Martin is done testing the upcoming Vanquish
Volante in cold - weather conditions and has decided to take it to the Nürburgring to see how it handles on the famed raceway.
Aston Martin Certified Pre-Owned 2014 Aston Martin DB9
Volante in Jet Black with Chancellor Red interior and Red top.
We have just added to our extensive exotic car inventory a beautiful 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish
Volante in Seychelles Blue over Obsidian Black with only 5,906 miles.
Aston Martin also released some photos of the Vanquish Zagato
Volante in production form, and well, just look at it.
We have just added to our extensive exotic car inventory a beautiful 2011 Aston Martin DBS
Volante in Jet Black over Obsidian Black leather interior with just 11,200 miles.
Here is a GLAMOROUS 2008 Aston Martin DB9
Volante in Jet Black Metallic with Obsidian Black Leather Interior, BRAND NEW Black Dash, Black Convertible Soft Top, Black Piano Wood Trim with Smoked Quartz Secondary Interior Trim, as well as Custom Carbon Fiber Wrapped Upper Console Trim.
Deliver an 8C and Touring Superleggera will give you back a Disco
Volante in six months.
This convertible is the first fully carbon - fiber - skinned
Volante in the brand's history, and also has the stiffest body structure.
We have just added to our extensive exotic car inventory a beautiful 2008 Aston Martin DB9
Volante in Jet Black over Obsidian Black leather interior and only 9,500 miles.
We have just added to our extensive exotic car inventory a beautiful 2011 Aston Martin DB9
Volante in Midnight Blue over Kestrel Tan leather interior and only 18,500 miles.
Not exact matches
OK, so it wasn't a proper, full - on race, as Verstappen was
in a beefier Vanquish S
Volante compared to Ricciardo's standard Vanquish
Volante (603bhp vs 576bhp) but it was still good fun.
I recall at the time wondering why as Cesc had trained as a
Volante (DM) and he could have been the ideal deep lying playmaker for us, he shown enough fight
in my opinion to trust him
in that deeper role.
From the late»70s to the early»80s, the Dardennes made such films as Le Chant du Rossignol (1978), about the Nazi Resistance
in Belgium's southern Walloon region, and Leçons d'une Université
Volante (1981), about emigration from Poland, for Belgian television.
Certainly not for everyone, the DBS
Volante is a stately, open - air grand tourer
in the exclusive segment where elegant lines meet excessive horsepower.
The Virage comes
in a coupe and a soft - top convertible, called the
Volante.
Yet the
Volante has been a staple for Aston Martin since it was invented
in 1965.
Aston Martin has yet to confirm performance estimates for the topless
Volante model, but the coupe is estimated to hit 62 mph
in 3.5 seconds and has a top speed of 201 mph.
Purveyor of dubious taste, Kahn Design, will introduce its latest work at the Geneva show,
in the form of the Vengeance
Volante.
The
Volante weighs 110 kg more than the DB11 V8 Coupe (making it exactly the same weight as the V12 Coupe) so it's not just as rapid
in a straight line.
Second
in Aston's lineup only to the $ 2 million One - 77, the DBS
Volante is the feeling man's convertible, a sensual but muscular specimen for those who consider the Turbo cabriolet too brutish and the Ferrari F430 Spider too brash.
We've got used to seeing 0 - 60mph times
in the three - second range
in the supercar world, but it's still mildly surprising to see the
Volante's figure quoted as 3.7 sec.
Predictably, the
Volante's wide range of dynamic personalities are best enjoyed with the hood down, when wind noise is impressively well suppressed, at least up to three figures, although you need the wind deflector
in place much above 50mph.
The rear chairs, for instance, are spacious enough to feature ISOFIX attachments for the first time ever
in a
Volante.
Already shipshape
in their knee - weakening style and luxury, updates to the $ 210,645 Rapide S; $ 290,645 Vanquish coupe; and $ 308,645 Vanquish
Volante convertible focus on what's below deck.
British ex-racing driver Tiff Needell took the 2012 Aston Martin DBS
Volante up against the 2012 Mercedes - Benz SLS AMG Roadster on EVO «s test track...
in the rain.
The sculptural roof culminates
in a powered tailgate that opens onto a luxuriously trimmed rear cabin area... and is a fitting complement to the Coupe,
Volante, and Speedster.»
The Aston Martin DB9 comes
in coupe and convertible (
Volante) forms and is powered by a 6.0 - liter V - 12 engine that generates 470 horsepower.
Does this mean the next DBS
Volante will be a bridge between those two models, or is Aston Martin holding the rear styling of the new DBS
Volante close to its chest until the DBS hard - top is revealed
in full?
Aston Martin Vanquish
Volante prices start at # 199,995
in the UK — up around # 9000 compared to the Vanquish coupe, and the most expensive series production Aston — with first deliveries starting later
in 2013.
In these latest spy pictures, although it seems that the development of the car is progressing at a rapid pace, the side of the DB11
Volante mule still bears the same «Opening Spring 2018» decal.
This does not affect boot space, which measures 279 litres, a 50 per cent increase
in capacity over the Vanquish cabrio's predecessor, the Aston DBS
Volante.
Like Touring's other creations since its rebirth as a serious concern
in the mid-Noughties, most notably the Bentley Continental Flying Star of 2010, and 2013's Alfa 8C - derived Disco
Volante, the Berlinetta Lusso will offer customers extensive latitude
in colours, materials and detail execution, as per the great Italian coachbuilder's tradition.
The
Volante uses a triple - skin lightweight fabric roof, instead of the folding metal item of some rivals, such as the Ferrari 458 and McLaren 12C Spiders, and it retracts
in 14sec at speeds up to 30mph.
As with all convertibles, the abbreviated roofline has resulted
in a longer deck and the
Volante has lost the rear - end flow that makes the current Astons so beguiling to look at.
Further Exterior Detailing Came
In The Form Of The Polished 18» Deep Dish Bolted OZ Alloy Wheels, Chromed Body Embellishments, Enlarged Air Dams, Colour Coded Sill Covers, Blackened
Volante Boot Badge And Of Course The Raised Colour Coded Rear Boot Spoiler.
Vehicle History: The Aston Martin Virage
Volante Was First Introduced To The World At The Geneva Motor Show
In 1991 And On The Styling Looked More Like A Lagonda Rather Than The V8 It Replaced.
Variant name: Convertible
Volante, Derivative:
Volante, Variant: V12 2dr
Volante Touchtronic Auto NATIONWIDE DELIVERY INCLUDED - Aston Martin Edinburgh presents this beautiful DBS
Volante finished
in Lightening Silver with Obsidian Black leather interior.
That means it's a bit bigger
in all directions than the Porsche 911 Turbo which is 4,507 mm x 1,880 mm x 1,294 mm, and smaller than the Aston Martin Vanquish
Volante which is 4,728 mm x 1,912 mm x 1,294 mm.
Aston Martin Edinburgh presents this full Aston Martin approved 2007 DB9
Volante finished
in Onyx black with a stunning Sandstorm leather interior.
More photos and details on the Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera Disco
Volante can be found
in our earlier post.
The new car was based on a shortened DB7 Vantage
Volante platform (60 mm shorter wheelbase, 24 mm from the front overhang and 127 mm from the rear), the lighter - weight car (1740 kg, 60 kg lighter than standard car), was estimated to be capable of around 190 mph and able to reach 60 mph
in comfortably under 5 seconds.
The 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish
Volante puts V12 power
in a gorgeous convertible package.
The modified DB7 Vantage
Volante chassis was built
in the UK, then shipped out to Milan for Zagato to hand fit the body panels, mostly of aluminium.
They were
in the country on a grand tour with an Aston Martin DBS V12
Volante, Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 - 4 Spyder.
•
Volante body style • 5 - spoke Silver wheels • 5 - spoke Gloss Black Diamond Turned wheels • 10 - spoke Gloss Black Diamond Turned wheels • Alternative brake caliper finish — black, red, grey and yellow • Carbon fibre splitter and diffuser • Carbon fibre side strakes • Carbon fibre rear lamp infills • Carbon fibre door handles • Carbon fibre mirror caps and arms • Exterior Carbon Fibre Pack (comprising mirror caps and mirror arms, side strakes, and rear lamp infills) • Black DLO • AM Wings headrest embroidery • Duotone leather pack — including seat inserts, door inserts and headlining • Heated front seats • Auto - dimming interior rear - view mirror1 • Boot - mounted umbrella • Optional facia trims - Ashburl Light, Piano Ice Mocha, Carbon Fibre, Cuprum Carbon Fibre • Optional trim packs — Piano Black, Piano Ice Mocha, Carbon Fibre • Colour keyed leather steering wheel or One - 77 steering wheel • Matching wood door trim (not available with B&O BeoSound audio system options) • Personalised sill plaques • 16 GB USB drive • 1000 - watt Bang & Olufsen BeoSound audio system with ICEpower technology (including USB drive) • Auto - dimming interior rear - view mirror with garage door opener 1 • Alarm upgrade (volumetric and tilt sensor) • Satellite radio system (Canada only)(excludes subscription) 1 • Tracking device (UK category five) 1,3 • First - aid kit • Trinket tray • Satellite radio system1 • Second Glass ECU • Fluted, micro perforated Leather headlining • Leather ECU pouch 1 Not available
in all markets 2 Includes Traffic Messaging Channel (TMC)
in Continental Europe 3 Complies with UK Thatcham Category 5 requirements.