RE: 2.75m Aston Martin DB5 'Goldfinger' launched

[W111AAM]

If they aren't road legal, I really don't see the point.

[Mr-B]

W111AAM said:

If they aren't road legal, I really don't see the point.

Think of it as a full size Corgi model that you can drive (on a private road) now that appeals to my inner child!

[RushDom]

This has to be the ultimate mid-life crisis car.

Absolutely the first thing Alan Partridge would buy if he won the lottery.

[thegreenhell]

Very expensive garage ornaments. If they make a healthy profit for Aston then why not, but utterly pointless otherwise.

For a mere £2m you could have bought an original, road-legal DB5 with genuine 007 provenance, when the Goldeneye car was sold at GFoS last month.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24876/lot/370/

[Jader1973]

IIRC the gadget car used in Goldfinger was a prototype DB5, which was a modified DB4. Hence the DP216/1 chassis number.

And it was originally red, and appeared in The Saint with the same BMT216A reg number before it was painted silver and modified for the Bond films.

[WCZ]

thegreenhell said:

Very expensive garage ornaments. If they make a healthy profit for Aston then why not, but utterly pointless otherwise.

For a mere £2m you could have bought an original, road-legal DB5 with genuine 007 provenance, when the Goldeneye car was sold at GFoS last month.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24876/lot/370/

yep, insanely expensive.

wouldn't buy one unless I knew it could be made road legal with modifications

[OLDBENZ]

Interesting that these are almost double the price of the DB4 GT continuations. They will not of course be exact replicas because, if they are built like the GT replicas, the panels will be pre-formed (like the NP Vanquish) and hand finished rather than hand beaten over a wooden form work like the originals.

[The Hypno-Toad]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

The Full Size Corgi toy is idiocy IMHO

Could not agree more.

Without coming over all Corbynesque as they are never going to be road legal so what is the point? They are just something one rich idiot who has too much money to show off to another rich idiot who has too much money when they come over for dinner. If you were buying a real Bond DB5 or just a proper continuation I have absolutely no problem with that but this is just a shiny trinket for someone to prove that they have "considerably more money than you!"

Having said that if £90 euromillions comes in for the Toad tomorrow night, I will be straight on the plane to Monterrey where at the end of the week one of the original three Ferris Bueller replica Ferrari's is going through auction. Replica of a GT California it might well be but it was actually in the movie so I can certainly see the point of that but this is just a tacky cash in for people who have too much damn money.

[Todd Bonzalez]

RushDom said:

Absolutely the first thing Alan Partridge would buy if he won the lottery.

Haha perfect!

[Agent57]

Todd Bonzalez said:

Haha perfect!

Ah-haa! - Perfect.

[BelfastBoy]

wab172uk said:

If you were to find yourself in the position to spunk £2.7m on this car, you'd want it without the reproduction silly gadgets, surely?

Exactly, you'd be better off buying a fully restored original DB5 that from a purist point of view, is properly period and authentic. It could certainly be made to look as close to the Bond version as you wanted, and I imagine would be an awful lot less than £2.7m.

I just think this entire project is utterly bizarre. Are rich people going to re-enact 60s-esque car chases on their private estates? Clearly Aston are well clued into the fact that rich people will literally buy anything if it's marketed as suitably exclusive. They could charge £5m, £7m, £10m, and I've no doubt people would still be queuing up to buy them.

[Nerdherder]

gforceg said:

Vantagefan said:

"007 films - to create a short run of 'Goldfinder' DB5s that mimic the iconic 1964 film model."

Goldfinder...

....Gold...Finder....

Seriously guys, this is important automotive news and you can't be arsed to run a spell check?

They could've called it the Golddigger DB5 I suppose.

Golddigger

[Ursicles]

£2.75m.... and its not road legal??

[Mackofthejungle]

So utterly tacky.

"Want a fake DB5? Only 2.5 million". fk off.

[corozin]

Surely this shameless barrel scraping can't be doing the AM brand any good at all?

[cookie1600]

Not sure why I had to read another online publication to get the answer, but here it is:

"Regardless, you won't be able to deploy any of the gadgets on public roads, as Aston Martin explicitly states the cars won't be street legal."

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/08/20/aston-martin-g...

Perhaps it wasn't on the Press Release PH received?

[Raudus42]

£2.75m? Ridiculous.

25 is too many to be selling for that much. 5 feels like a better number. Not that I'd ever consider one...and I love Astons. I'd rather have the original DBS from The Saint, one of one. For now.

[Raudus42]

£2.75m? Ridiculous.

25 is too many to be selling for that much. 5 feels like a better number. Not that I'd ever consider one...and I love Astons. I'd rather have the original DBS from The Saint, one of one. For now.

[dandare]

I don't think Goldfinder is a misprint.

[edinph]

"not road legal" ............. well, that's a bust!