Question - DB9 The Early Years

[Jon39]

As the DB11 is the DB9 successor, I wondered how the initial UK sales of the two cars compare.

Quarterly new registration figures are available, but the figures reveal quite a low volume of sales for the DB9, during the first two quarters (Q1 2004 and Q2 2004) of the model life.

I know the DB9 was the first model to be built at the newly constructed Gaydon factory, so perhaps there might have been a planned gradual increase in production to begin with. I have not even been able to find, when the first customer deliveries actually began.

For an acclaimed model, which presumably had strong initial orders, the figures for the DB9 during the first two quarterly periods, seem lower that might be expected.

Does anyone have knowledge about the initial production of the DB9 ?


UK SALES

	QUARTER			1	2	3	4				1	2	3	4				1	2	3	4				1	2	3	4
DB9		(2004)		7	45	170	108		(2005)		378	429	331	117		(2006)		248	222	220	100		(2007)		293	236	169	146
DB11		(2016)					109		(2017)		352	186	124			(2018)							(2019)

( source DVLA )

Edited by Jon39 on Tuesday 9th January 20:27

[Jon39]

Figures are now available for 2017 quarter 4, and 2018 quarter 1.
I have therefore added that information to the comparison table below.

It has occurred to me, that as the new Vantage retains the previous model name, there could be some confusion with the DVLA data, when we compare sales. There has been a gap in production which helps, but hopefully the V600 will be distinguished by being registered as V600.



UK SALES

	QUARTER			1	2	3	4				1	2	3	4				1	2	3	4				1	2	3	4
DB9		(2004)		7	45	170	108		(2005)		378	429	331	117		(2006)		248	222	220	100		(2007)		293	236	169	146
DB11		(2016)					109		(2017)		352	186	124	93		(2018)		187					(2019)

( source DVLA )