2010 Aston Martin DBS V12 Volante

“ With a fresh Aston Martin service and an MoT until March 2027, this beauty is ready to enjoy the summer. ”
It’s easy to be sniffy about Bond cars but few enthusiasts would turn down the chance to have one in their garage – and when it’s a DBS Volante that been so comprehensively and recently refurbished, the case becomes irresistible.

Background
The Aston Martin DBS is much more than a DB9 with a fancy body kit and a bad attitude. Sure, it’s got massively flared wheelarches, a carbonfibre front splitter, bonnet scoops, deep side skirts and an utterly divine rear carbonfibre diffuser: if the DB9 is achingly pretty, the DBS is brutally handsome.

But the carbonfibre bits aren’t just there for show because the doors, bonnet, boot and front wings are made of the same stuff - and while the total weight saving might be only 65kgs, the cumulative effect is huge; while the DB9 is a luxurious grand touring car, the DBS is a proper sportscar capable of humbling almost anything in its class thanks to adaptable dampers that allow you to optimize the car’s dynamic setup depending on your mood alongside carbon ceramic brakes that let you stop on a metric sixpence.

Power, at 510bhp, is 60bhp up on the DB9’s too thanks to bigger inlet ports and a higher compression ratio for the V12 engine, changes that shave almost half-a-second off the DB9’s 0-62mph time, a speed you can expect to see in a smidgeon over 4 seconds. The top speed rises to 191mph, which would be an indicated 200mph, which is enough, isn’t it?

Oh, and it’s a proper James Bond car, which is kind of the whole point.

Overview
The DBS made its Bond debut alongside Daniel Craig in Casino Royale in 2006, reappearing in Quantum of Solace in 2008. Hugely popular, it was inevitable that Aston Martin would offer a Volante, which arrived a year later.

Appropriately enough, ‘LN60 DWY’ is finished in Quantum Silver Metallic. It also benefits from being fitted with a red leather interior and having spent the first seven years of its life in the benign Jersey climate.

It’s been in the seller’s care since 2024 and is still showing just 13,000 miles on the odometer. It’s got a comprehensive service history too, including invoices for £20,000 within the last eighteen months for servicing and tidying up the bodywork.