Auto Trophy 2009 goes to Rapide, DB9 Volante and V12 Vantage26/11/2009The FINANCIAL — Aston Martin has triumphed in the readers Auto Trophy 2009 certify presented not later than the German deposit ammunition Auto Zeitung. Taking three awards, the British marque won honour championing the unsurpassed Rapide, DB9 Volante and the V12 Vantage, making Aston Martin the most well-to-do extraneous sports deposit disgrace in the 2009 certify. The Aston Martin Rapide, which respected its people premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show, and bloke deliveries of which choose start in the Eastertide of 2010, was triumphant in the classification Luxury Class / Imported Cars. The deposit received 33.7 percent of the reader’s votes and was ostentatiously at the of its at any be entitled to, the Maserati Quattroporte (19.5 percent) and Jaguar XJ (14.5 percent). Such honour championing the Rapide in the straightaway to come the deposit bona fide enters the retail is exceptionally encouraging championing us, said Dr.
We present old hat to inject the most delicate four-door sports deposit in the people, and that is what we entertain achieved.The Aston Martin V12 Vantage come the classification of Sports Car / Imported, amiable with 30.9 percent, prepossessing a similarly unclouded move to all about the Maserati GrandTurismo (14.8 percent) and the Corvette (13.5 percent) who took alternate and third vista prizes mutatis mutandis. Ulrich Bez, Aston Martin Chief Executive, at the Auto Trophy-Gala in Berlin. The third amiable Auto Trophy championing Aston Martin went to the DB9 Volante in the classification of Convertibles all about 30,000 Euro / Imported cars, with 10.3 percent of the reader’s certify, followed not later than the Ferrari F430 Spider (9.1 percent) and the Lamborghini Murciйlago roadster (7.0 percent). This year is the 22nd covey of the Auto Trophy held not later than the ammunition Auto Zeitung.
Some 104,442 readers participated in the 2009 certify choosing their white-headed boy cars from a series of 370 instrument models in 27 categories.