When I was a kid, Aston Martin was known for big, beautiful grand-tourers with striking looks and silky smooth naturally aspirated V12 engines. Whether we’re talking about the Vanquish, the DB9, the DBS, the Vantage, the short-lived Virage, or the four-door Rapide, all came available with a V12 engine free of forced induction.
That all changed in 2017 when Aston Martin revealed its replacement for the long-running DB9, the DB11. It wasn’t called the DB10 because that name went to a concept vehicle used in the James Bond movie Spectre, though I’ve always wondered whether Aston skipped the name to avoid putting the number “10” on the back of the car, which might’ve convinced onlookers the car used a V10, and not a V12. This is why the company went from DB7 to DB9, after all, according to Top Gear. It couldn’t have people thinking the DB9 had a measly V8.
The DB11 was an important car for Aston because it was the first turbocharged production vehicle introduced by the brand. It was also supremely expensive, starting at over $214,000 when new. Now, though, thanks to the miracle of depreciation, you can pick up used examples for cheaper than a brand-new Chevy Corvette.
Big Power, Delivered
This era of Aston Martin marked the beginning of its partnership with Mercedes-Benz, which took a minority stake in the brand starting in 2013 to work together on engine development (that stake was upped to 20% back in 2020). The DB11 was the first vehicle to appear under this partnership, getting a Mercedes-based infotainment system update that the brand desperately needed to keep up with the competition.
Mercedes helped with the engine, too. Aston’s aging, Ford-based V12 wasn’t going to cut it any longer; it needed something with headlight-grabbing power and gobs of torque. And the company found both in its new 5.2-liter twin-turbo V12. Rated at 600 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque, it was more powerful than the twin-turbo flat-six in the Porsche 911 Turbo, the twin-turbo V8 in the Ferrari California T, and the twin-turbo W12 found in the Bentley Continental GT.
The DB11 also ushered in a new design era for the brand. Gone were the simplistic, perfectly proportioned lines of the DB9 and DBS, replaced by something more bulky and muscular. Just as important were the upgrades to the interior, which came as a major upgrade from the over-decade-old layout found in the old cars.
Performance from that V12 was mighty. Car and Driver managed to squeeze a 0-60 time of 3.6 seconds from the car in testing, while Aston claimed a top speed of no less than 200 mph. Curb weight is a not-insignficant 4,222 pounds, but the car was still a nice thing to wheel, at least according to C/D’s first drive:
The DB11 is built on Aston Martin’s new bonded and riveted aluminum structure that will eventually supplant the company’s aging VH architecture. Bolted to that aluminum structure is an elastic suspension that never abuses the driver, even if he or she selects the firmest of the suspension’s three modes. Quick-ratio steering offers real feel, with minute, tactile tugs pulsing through the wheel.
Unlike cars from brands like Ferrari and Lamborghini, which seem to be mostly immune to huge depreciation hits, Aston Martins are not. And in 2026, that means deals aplenty.
We’re Talking Base Corvette Money, Here
The 2017 Aston Martin DB11 carried a starting price of $214,820, including destination. Accounting for inflation, that’s about $282,000 in today’s money. Now, though? You can find used examples for under $70,000.
Truthfully, I could only find one example listed for under the $70,000 mark at the time of this writing, listed in California with 50,000 miles on the clock. The Cars.com listing says there’s no history of accidents, and that the dealer has lowered the price by $17,000 since first listing it for sale back in September.
If you don’t mind spending a few more bucks, there are a handful of used options in the mid-$70,000 range, including this beautiful blue example with 38,000 miles on the clock, listed in Chicago, and this all-white model in California with 34,000 miles. As with any car, cooler colors demand a price premium.
If you’d rather have the Mercedes-sourced twin-turbo V8 offered later in the DB11’s life, those are pretty cheap, too–but not as cheap. On average, you’re looking at about a $10,000-$15,000 delta between the cheapest V12- and V8-powered cars. The cheapest one without any accidents disclosed in the listing is this silver example with 32,000 miles, yours for just under $85,000.
Why are the V8-powered DB11s more expensive? Well, in addition to being newer and lighter, most people think they’re better to drive than the V12 cars. From Top Gear’s 2018 review:
It’s a much crisper, more confidence inspiring car to drive. The steering is more positive on turn in and you get a much better sense of what the tyres are doing. It doesn’t lurch into roll as abruptly, so carves a smoother line; and when you come out the other side of the corner, you can actually use the torque without the back axle getting jumpy. The V8 is a much more together, tauter and rewarding car to drive. I don’t think it’s any slower, either.
MotorTrend echoed a similar sentiment in its first drive:
The V-12 DB11 is a good grand tourer, but aspects of its on-road personality don’t always feel settled. Its 600-horsepower twin-turbo V-12 is hugely impressive in a straight line, but the chassis doesn’t feel neutral or confidence inspiring to me. Meanwhile, the transmission felt incongruous with the level of refinement Aston sought to deliver; shifts felt like an old-school single-clutch gearbox, and the paddle-shift actuation itself felt like it took too long. The V-8 model solves those issues, and then some. It’s a great grand tourer for a long road trip, and it can also stop at a racetrack along the way and hold its own in terms of performance.
Having driven neither, I’m not in any place to recommend one car over the other. But like any aging, fast-depreciating exotic, you have to go into owning a used DB11 expecting to spend big bucks on maintenance and repairs, no matter the engine under the hood.
While there haven’t been any major reports of drivetrain issues, Car Magazine reported interior quality and software issues in its 10-month-long-term test of a DB11 back in 2021. These problems, as well as other software- and interior-related issues, have been documented on the AstonMartinLife.com forum. Stuff like leather separating from the dashboard, transmission malfunctions, and blind spot monitoring faults. Nothing crazy, but stuff that’s probably pretty pricey to fix at an Aston dealer now that these cars are out of warranty.
So while yes, you can get a hand-built British grand touring car with supercar performance from a twin-turbocharged V12 for less than the price of a new Corvette, you have to maintain realistic expectations about upkeep costs and reliability. Even considering that, I know I’d still take the Aston every time.
Top graphic image: Aston Martin; DepositPhotos.com
Someone on my mail route just bought one of these last month. It’s street parked on one of my walking portions so I walk by it every day from each angle as I go up, then down the street, forcing me to look at it. It’s the v8 and I was thinking those would be “cheaper” as it’s also in a rather mundane, middle class area. Kind of surprised it’s the opposite on pricing.
It’s surprising how huge it is in person and it’s simply gorgeous.
Someone alluded to what has been on my mind for some time now: Since modern cars have fully integrated digital tech, what will the used market look like in 15, 20, 30 years from now? We just dragged a 1995 Subaru (manual, wagon, AWD) out of a yard for $400. With a working battery and some gas it fired right up and we got it running as a winter beater for another $300. There is no way you could do that with dead and obsolete tech. If you took a flip phone out of someone’s drawer, you’d have to source a proper charge cable, and when powered up, it would not be able to connect or do anything of interest. Tech stuff gets outdated so fast and is disposable. Look at the marketplace for cheap used cars, and you’ll see that there are some old reliable cars that are more “analog” out there. But they are getting fewer and fewer. I shudder to think about fixing or restoring something that was built in 2017+ when it’s 2039.
I’m pretty sure this post could be about that newfangled fuel injection. The line for “cars were much simpler/longer lived/better” seems to be about 15 years ago. It’s not a fixed date, it’s always 15 years from today.
Soon someone will jump in about how you could regap your points at the side of the road with a matchbook…
It’s not exactly the same. Fuel injection can be bypassed with a carburetor if it fails, and just about any competent mechanic can make physical repairs to a fuel injection system, including rebuilding the fuel pump.
Modern cars are computers on wheels. There isn’t an easy way to bypass programming and digital screens without redesigning how the vehicle operates.
You don’t remember all the hysteria about how EFI was going to make cars obsolete after 5 years because black boxes and electronics etc? It existed. Now we have Megasquirts we can solder up at home.
Your example of replacing EFI with a carb means you’re willing to accept a loss of capability and a certain amount of bodging to keep the car running. As someone who has converted a modern Miata from electric power steering to hydraulic (involving systems ranging from lane departure to the headlights to TPMS to dynamic stability control), it’s possible. You don’t need the digital screens to make the vehicle operate. You might have to make it THINK the screen is still there, but you have to do the same sort of thing with the EFI/carb conversion.
It may require a different skillset than maintaining a beater does today, just like the conversion from EFI to carb did back in the day.
Meh, depreciation smapreciation , those Tadek Marek engined DB6s must be really cheap, right?
Real Aston Martin DBs have Polish engineers designing them.
His V8 isn’t bad either.
This interior is way too busy and distracting.
Sort of off topic, but a business of removing infotainment crap from cars and replacing all the soft touch plastic that turns to snot seems like a viable business at the high end.
I look at these not even ten year old cars and see the aging infotainment tech front and center. It’s not something I’d want in a 70k car. Then I think about today’s ’Software Designed Vehicles’ and wonder how bad and broken a ten year old one would feel. All this tech is just a ticking time bomb to the entire car market.
In 20 years, some of the cars from now may not even work due to all the OTA crap. For a long time I bought into all the tech in cars, but now, gimme a car from the early 2k or before.
Plus I worked in tech for over 20 years, I saw the janky ass code that barely worked was pushed to prod in the name of deadlines. Who knows what horrors lie in them, cough, Caridad.
I think I’d take an LC 500 at these prices.
Same.
I stumbled upon to older guys walking into a restaurant last year. One had a McLaren I want to say 570 one had a C8. They saw me looking and we started talking. They were friends and had bought them both a few months prior used McLaren new c8. They said most people didn’t no the difference just say nice cars. Or why does the one look so funny from the back. I asked if they had a bet to see who spends more and retained the most value they said no but they talked about it. They just drive around and talk to people. The used exotics are tempting but you have to be a bit crazy or stupid I think. Maybe if you get an absolute smoking deal at the bottom of depreciation and can work on them yourself plus are good at sourcing non oem branded parts.
“The used exotics are tempting but you have to be a bit crazy or stupid I think”
Or you have to be able to afford the cost/payment of a new one.. which means you would be able to afford the repairs on a used one.
Perhaps but I’ve seen a lot of them abused like you see the older bmws, mercs and rovers. People get them because they can “make the payment” then don’t realize the maintenance cost especially if they are taking it somewhere that doesn’t cross reference parts. I’ve heard stories where they don’t factor in the property tax as well. Even if you bought one for $15k and take it to the dealer every year for $3k or whatever you would still probably be better with something else. Like the guy that added up all the money he spent over a few years on a 10 year old 7 series.
So it doesnt have an 11 cylinder?
It is when a coil pack dies.
COTD
Honest question about used cars like this: who buys them, and how? Do banks really underwrite loans on rapidly depreciating assets like these? I should think the market of buyers who have the liquidity to maintain one of these but not enough to finance a brand-new one has to be pretty small. Newly-signed pro athletes, perhaps?
Exactly why they depreciate so quickly. The market of buyers willing to spend 70k on a car that will be so difficult and expensive to maintain is very small. Those with the means to maintain it will almost always spend more for the newest/best.
You have to be a certain kind of person to want a used Aston, and another kind entirely to deal with the maintenance requirements and quirks.
The vinwiki former used car salesman Ed is always hocking some kind of lease for them. It seems like financing but structured in a lease somehow for tax reasons I guess but apparently there are some other advantages. Credit unions will also finance just about anything if they like you. The maintenance that’s another question.
My brother in law bought a DB11 V8 for 110 in 2021 and he struggled to get 60k for it when he sold it 2 weeks ago. He had a V8 Vantage before that and it too lost 50% of it’s value in 5 years. You have to really want an Aston is all, they depreciate down to 40k pretty much all of them and they maintain like a 250k car. You have to want it and if you have the credit, the bank will make it happen.
The cost of maintenance is a factor many do not pay attention to. Most of the time, these type of cars are usually difficult to service for the mechanics = requires more time to do the same work, on top of already expensive part cost.
Or, job can be simple (brake, tire) but these use stupid expensive rotor and tire
I wonder how many can write them off as business expenses? Or do they borrow against their “not income” stock gains?
“Do banks really underwrite loans on rapidly depreciating assets like these?”
Banks offer loans on stuff you buy at Temu. They are called credit cards. Same principle at play here.
That’s true, but credit card debt is not backed by an asset the way car loans are( which is why the interest rates are so high on credit cards). If I’m a bank and I see that the asset behind a loan is likely to lose half its value year over a year, I might think twice about underwriting that loan-it’s pretty risky in the case of default.
The risk will simply be reflected in the interest rate.
Not exotics by any means, but just look at the bargain basement prices of XK series Jaguars.
100%. Those cars, in my opinion, are one of the most slept on used car bargains right now.
Damn, I shouldn’t have looked. You can get a 510hp 2014 XKR with 32,000 miles for $33,000. That’s Honda Civic prices. Or a CRV that is used with similar miles. Wow. I guess I should look at service and reliability and then sleep better knowing I dodged a financial boat anchor.
This is the value curve of these kinds of cars. A few years old aren’t current enough for people who like to throw money around and show off, are too expensive for almost anyone else to run, and not interesting enough for most collectors. They go on to bang around collecting clueless dreamers who can barely scrape up the payments, much less maintain them properly, one owner to the next until they end up at specialist BHPH lots to land in the hands of people who make their money in cash, but can’t prove where they got it. Skipping that last step or following it, many languish in driveways, garages, or barns of the final boss of delusion—the hoarder/saver—or go to the breakers as deferred maintenance and shoddy build quality have made them far too expensive to repair. If a particular model is lucky, decades have gone by and now the kids who dreamed about these when they were new have money and they are “rediscovered” to be appreciated by old car mags (traditionally) or (usually obnoxious) influencers today. Values go way up for the few left in mint condition and they start getting invited to uppity car events where they’re given prime viewing spots. Now speculator richies notice and get in on it, scouring the countryside for those leftovers in barns as full restoration costs drop below rising market value. For the less lucky models, the few that survive do so with those who are true enthusiasts who loved the car and kept it since new or bought them without care that market value is below running and restoration costs because they just actually like it and don’t care if it impresses or not. Eventually, even those go up, but mainly because the whole market has and the models collector/speculators really want have gotten out of reach.
I’m seriously thinking about an early Gallardo, or one of these. I have a number of investment properties, a few are paid off. I can get a HELOC on one of them. I will have a much lower interest rate on that loan and be able to write off the interest. Being as the car is already heavily depreciated, it shouldn’t lose too much value. It’ll be a toy, so I probably won’t put more than a few miles on it, so im less likely to have to do any major repairs. It ticks a bucket list item and all in shouldn’t actually cost that much. Probably much less than the average transaction on a new average car, all in.
Interesting, I didn’t know you can write off HELOC interest? When I bought my last car HELOC rates were higher than car loans.
The differentiator is that the HELOC won’t be on my primary residence. It is investment priperty. While rates are up all around, i won’t be at a very high loan to value ratio on the property, and ill have a shorter term, so that helps keep the rate down. Also, if im to understand it right, loan rates on older exotic cars are higher than, say, a new RAV4.
I hope you get that Gallardo in an awesome color
It’s hard, but not impossible to get a loan on an old exotic car. Most banks won’t do loans for cars over 10 years old. Much easier to get a loan on new 70k BMW than it is to get a loan on a 2015 70k Aston Martin. (Though I suspect the new BMW will loose more value over the length of the loan)
Is this engine bespoke to this car?
Stuff like leather separating from the dashboard, transmission malfunctions, and blind spot monitoring faults. Nothing crazy, but
stuff that’s probably pretty pricey to fix at an Aston dealerstuff that you wouldn’t accept out of a 5 year old Honda, but continue to pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars new for.…y’know, stuff like that.
No problem you can fix the leather seperation with a decent staple gun
Yawn. The part about the V8 vs V12 is interesting, otherwise the depreciation isn’t news. And I care about as much as I care about them changing the touch sceen controls on a new S-class, or that I can get a new McMansion for the same price as a used mansion. Something more like, you can get a 2015 GTI for the price of a new Vespa 310 is probably more relevant for my demographic.
With the economy crashing, there are going to be so many deals during America’s downfall…. if you have the money, anyway
Maybe worth it if I can source replacement parts on Temu or NAPA. I can only imagine that an oil change at an AM dealer would be a grand or more.
I know there are a lot of “always buy used” people but here, hunting down a used Aston, buying, titling, transporting, insuring, and then repairing and maintaining it, Vs. Going to the local Chevy dealership and getting a new warrantied Corvette, and pay Chevy repair prices. I would take the much uglier Corvette.
Honestly, it’s probably the more exciting of the two to drive. Corvette does give you tons of car for the money.
While the newest corvette is a killer car at a great price, I’d never buy one, new or used. It does nothing for me. But an Aston Martin or Lexus LC500? Where do I sign?
As with all Aston conversations, I expect some level of negative commentary. “Ohh, they’re going to be unreliable and expensive” “My best friends, brothers, friends, dad had one and it was sooooo problematic” “Its going to depreciate sooooo much”
Then buy a darn Camry…
Yes, its going to have some quirks, but its 2026 now and we have the technology.
Yes, its going to depreciate, but why do cars need to be an investment?
Yes, its going to have expensive maintenance if you rely on the dealer. I’m not trying to spend $1800 on an oil change either.
I paid a bit more for a cooler spec USED AM6 Vantage, and its been a phenomenal car. Plenty of the people in the local AM club have the VH chassis cars and they’re rock solid too.
Maybe stop being so scared and live a little. I cross shopped a 17+ R8 and 991.1 Turbo and the Vantage was less boring.
Maybe it’s not fear, but lack of apparent value. Expensive maintenance for an overweight automatic car of the same basic design they’ve done forever with outdated electronics and mediocre build quality. It doesn’t have vintage charm or the rose tint of nostalgia and it isn’t new enough or fast enough on paper for the people who need to impress others and “overweight auto exotic/near-exotic GT” is a crowded market with entries with better reputations. Then there’s just that a lot of people don’t want impractical cars anymore, especially if they have to stretch just to buy one and, if they can readily afford to buy one of these and keep on top of the maintenance, they can likely afford new with a warranty instead.
> if they can readily afford to buy one of these and keep on top of the maintenance, they can likely afford new with a warranty instead.
A $214k Aston Martin bought used for $75k used Aston Martin will not cost you $139k in maintenance. I’d never have the cash or qualify for financing on a new one, but I could conceivably buy the used one and eat the maintenance costs. There’s a lot more people like me than people who can buy a $214k new car.
Yeah, but for most people, if they can only afford to pay $70k or not much more, the maintenance will be too much of a percentage of spending money to be worth it, not to mention the aggravation most people don’t want to deal with. Maybe they have other toys taking chunks of money and time or even just the general BS upkeep demands of a house or have to explain to their SO why they can’t go on a trip somewhere because they have to pay for an expensive service (that can’t be ignored, unlike the Lexus in the driveway) on a car that spends most of its time sitting in the garage not wanting to have in-between service miles wasted in traffic or in bad weather, that needs these services to maintain the performance that is too much to use on the street. That alone is enough to push people away, but at least they can be planned for. It’s the unscheduled stuff that kills, things someone might not even guess would be a problem. Maybe they find a good one where that doesn’t happen, but that’s a dice roll most would not see the benefit in taking. Then, do they have a good specialist a convenient distance away? How busy are they? And many of these kinds of cars aren’t built to last and obnoxious little things are always popping up, even stuff that doesn’t affect function, like delaminating interiors or dissolving rubber on switch gear, but these kinds of things detract from the experience in an outsized way and make you wonder if this is just a pig carcass dressed up in designer wear, why the hell you’re bothering, and how long you have before it deteriorates to the point where, from any closer than 20 feet away, you look like a lower end drug dealer who picked it up in cash from a BHPH lot to ball on a budget. A large chunk of the rich people who bought them dumped them at big loss from depreciation to avoid these kinds of things. For anyone willing to place this bet or who find charm in the small issues because they truly just love the car and don’t care if it impresses others or not, that’s great and someone has to save them for the future, but they are a very small minority, which is why the demand is so low.
That isn’t how I would look at the math. I would think the person who bought new would have spent roughly $139k to drive it for 3 years under warranty (after selling it for $75k). If I bought it for $75k used, I would only have $64k to spend on repairs before it would exceed the cost of buying new (when factoring in resale). IF you can sell it for say $30k to the 3rd owner, then you could adjust your buffer by that amount as well.
That being said, I stick to the $2k used car market and it has yet to cause a loss in excess of $2k.
I’ve always loved the way Astons look, and the V12’s are like a more refined 69 Big Block Corvette. I dunno, at $70k, there’s a lot of options, though I’d probably just get a C6 Z06 – it’s done depreciating, and you can daily it.
I’ll never not swoon over an Aston, but for my $70,000+ I’d just get the C8 or the nicest LC500 I could afford. Yeah, another Corvette is boring, but I could get it serviced at a Chevy dealer and any friendly neighborhood mechanic can work on a GM small block. An LC500 isn’t as prestigious, but it’s just as striking and I’d be able to drive it for the rest of my life.
It pains me to say it, but I really don’t think I’d mess with an Aston unless it was brand new…and even then I’d lease it. There’s just so much bespoke, needlessly complex, quintessentially British engineering that goes into these. Didn’t this very site run an article about a cheap DB9 a few years ago and how much of pain in the ass it was even for an owner that’s a skilled wrencher?
I’d assume the Mercedes bits are a little bit more solid…but even then, how much would you really want to fuck around with 10 year old forced induction AMG mill? Honestly if for god knows what reason I simply HAD to have something exotic for this much money I’d probably just get a Lotus. If any of the bodywork goes wrong so help you god…but at least the powertrain is right out of a Toyota.
Or just be like every other dentist or whatever and get a Porsche. Sometimes the popular stuff is popular for a reason….
The way I see it (and maybe if I could actually afford one I’d see it differently) an Aston isn’t a splurge. A corvette or a lower tier 911 is a “you know what, I can afford this and I deserve it” kind of purchase. In my mind, and Aston is a “my Ferrari isn’t comfortable enough to daily” or “my Lambo stays at the beach house” kind of car.
I just can’t see a scenario where I’d spend my money on one. Not because they aren’t desirable, but because I can get an objectively better sports car for less money – I just will probably never have enough extra dough for it to be an option.
The LC500 is the answer here. A truly beautiful grand tourer with Lexus reliability baked in? Yes please!
I posted the same before reading the thread.
I definitely remember an article about cheap DB9s a while ago, and there were parts of the engine that were shared with the Duratec V6, but I would be worried about everything else that can go wrong. Unfortunately I think my Boxster is as exotic as my cars ever get. Mid-engined is pretty cool, it’s fun to drive, and more power wouldn’t hurt but I am also too chicken to go to a track day. When I was younger I thought the Elise would depreciate to reasonable prices by the time I was shopping for a second car, but unfortunately other priorities have left them out of reach.
Most tracks have casual track days that are super structured. The one I go to calls it “track attack” day and you don’t even need a helmet or anything…they just take groups of people out at a time and have them follow an instructor who sets the pace and never really goes over 75% or so.
Maybe give one of those a try! It’s a fun thing to cross off your bucket list. I had a great time at one at Dominion Raceway in VA. I then did a high performance driver education day after that, which is a lot less casual and I honestly didn’t have a great time…but I’ll do another one sooner or later. Let that flat 6 rip!
That’s a good idea, a few years ago I did one of those super car “driving experiences” 3 laps of a track in an Aventador. It was exciting but you have no time to adjust to the vehicle or think about the track. Afterwards I tried to find something for the Boxster but since it is a convertible it seems like you had to install a roll cage. I should check again!
Now, you too can be Freddy Tavarish.
Would have to have been on fire first.
Or flooded 🙂
Soon it’ll be both, just not at the same time…
$75-85k for these has to be close to the bottom of the depreciation curve, right?
Of course there’s going to be some substantial maintenance costs (even if things don’t break) and insurance costs, but it seems like to you could drive one of these for a couple years without losing much value.
I’d be skeptical of that; it’s not like older Astons stopped depreciating here, or at $50K, or even at $30K for rough ones.
https://www.cars.com/shopping/results/?stock_type=used&makes%5B%5D=aston_martin&models%5B%5D=aston_martin-db7&maximum_distance=all&zip=46384
https://www.cars.com/shopping/results/?stock_type=used&makes%5B%5D=aston_martin&models%5B%5D=aston_martin-db9&zip=46384&maximum_distance=9999&sort=best_match_desc&page=2
Interesting – I was thinking the v8s dropped a little quicker but the v12s held their value a bit better. Surprised to see some of those cheaper DB9s. Also interesting to see all the variation – it seems like the spec of the car makes a big difference in the long haul.I wouldn’t mind driving one of those DB9 Volantes….
This one has 177k miles on it!
https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/5c8b803c-b9a3-480b-90f1-0d64ca8175f5/
I wouldn’t be so sure. Astons can dip pretty damn low. It’s not that hard to find them in the 30s or 40s. They are so much of a pain in the ass to keep running that tend to keep going down and bottom out in the 30s.
I wonder if the Mercedes bits will help value (because of reliability) or hurt it in the long run (because not “real” Aston).
You can even find them as low as $23K…
HOW DOES A DB9 HAVE 177,000 MILES?!?! Surely that’s an error….
The low LOOOW price suggests the mileage just MIGHT be accurate.
And that the car MIGHT be a basketcase…
At least we know it’s capable of 177k miles. The others with 20-50k miles will probably not make it that long. I’d test drive that one for sure.
I see the high mileage as a plus, for vehicles that have a… ahem… less than stellar reliability record.
If it made 177k, its got more in it!