EDO Competition Turns Aston DB9 Into DBS

Coachbuilders often aim to take existing cars and make them into something different, just for difference sake. Exclusivity is the greatest luxury - or something like that. The other method is taking a lower end car and making it into something better, but unique.

Kit cars, on the other hand, mostly aim to look like the real thing but for a whole lot less. EDO Competition is straddling that line with its new effort, turning the five-year old DBS into a DB9.

Interestingly, the car was commissioned by its owner. How about just buying a new DBS for is almost certainly a whole lot less money? Beats us.

This obviously isn't your standard conversion job. EDO Competition replaced the metal body panels of the DB9 into the carbon fiber panels that are used on the actual DB9.

The interior was also upgraded as well, with different materials like leather, alcantara, carbon fiber and metal to make it look exactly like the real thing. All this money spent and it isn't even real though. We are left scratching our heads on this one.

The DB9's 5.9-liter V12 has also been upgraded from 470 horsepower to 550 hp, taking it beyond the 510 hp output of the factory-built DBS. A car that goes faster needs to be able to stop as well, so the binders have been enlarged, though Edo oddly stuck with steel brakes instead of upgrading them to carbon.

No cost has been disclosed for the conversion, but we can't help but wonder whether the net expenditure was greater than the cost of a new car minus the trade-in.