Surprisingly, the Aston Martin DB5 isn't as fast as one would assume a superspy's car to be, which is probably why Q upgraded Bond's ride to include machine guns, a bullet shield, and a smoke screen.

The Aston Martin DB5 has been featured in eight James Bond films. The first was Goldfinger in 1964. In the Q laboratory, Bond is informed that his Bentley is going to be replaced by the DB5. A ...

If you had $13,000 to spend on a new car for model year 1964 (that's about $133,650 in 2025 money), why would you have bought a new Aston Martin DB5? Not because James Bond drove one, because ...

The DB5 — DB for David Brown, who owned Aston in the 1940s and ’50s — was launched at the Frankfurt motor show only a few months before the movie debuted.

1964 Aston Martin DB5 Is Worth Every Penny of Its $13,000 Price Tag And James Bond’s DB5 hadn’t even appeared on movie screens yet! By Murilee Martin Published: Mar 11, 2025 Save Article ...

May 20, 2024 Car of the Week: This Rare, Restored ’65 Aston Martin DB5 Drop-Top Could Fetch $1.3 Million at Auction One of only 123 examples of the model variant built, the convertible will be ...

Technically, this isn’t one of the hero cars used in the movie, where Bond drives a gadget-laden V12 Vanquish equipped with cloaking tech, missile launchers, and other advanced weaponry.