The particular car made available to CarAdvice had one extra thing going for it. It just so happened to be a TV star.
You might recognise it from the Top Gear Australia road trip in episode eight. In that episode it was up against a Porsche Turbo, and a Lamborghini Superleggera, through the roads of Tasmania. In my mind at least, the DB9 was not exactly a competing car. The other two are hard edged sports cars. The DBS would have been a better fit for that story.