Aston Martin DB11 Volante review

Spend a few happy minutes on the configurator and it's trivially easy to load a DB11 with £30k of trim options, and criminally hard to avoid it. So this is knocking on a £200,000 car. One that'll drop £50,000 if you sell at the first year.

The combined-cycle fuel figure is 28.3mpg, for 230g/km of CO2 emission. Despite the extra weight, those match the Coupé's figures. Suspicious. Still, you'll probably drive the Volante more gently than the hardtop and see better than 20mpg in real life.

Warranty is two years, servicing annually or every 10k miles.

So if you own it, how much would you use it? In cities, the width is an issue, though the parking cameras do help. Actually in its softer modes it's an easy car to tootle about in. The compliant suspension and easy controls soothe you, and the powertrain isn't too excitable unless you provoke it.