Three-stage Adaptive Damping System (Normal/Sport/Track), introduced for the 2013 model year.
Standard across this generation. The GT wears black-anodized calipers as a styling detail; no rotor-size change vs. the base car was confirmed.
The DB9 Volante (VH2) is the convertible companion to the facelifted DB9 coupe, sharing its VH-platform underpinnings, naturally aspirated 5.9-liter V12 driving through a ZF Touchtronic II automatic, and the October 2012 styling and interior update. It replaced the earlier DB9 Volante (VH1) as Aston Martin's convertible V12 grand tourer.
Output and driving-mode hardware mirror the coupe: 510 hp (517 PS) and 457 lb-ft (620 Nm), with the same three-mode Adaptive Damping System (Normal, Sport, Track). It was replaced by the DB11 V8 Volante when the DB9 nameplate ended in July 2016.
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No. Like the coupe, the 2013-2016 DB9 Volante is automatic-only with the ZF Touchtronic II — the manual gearbox from the earlier DB9 generation was dropped with this facelift.
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