RE: First Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger completed

RE: First Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger completed

Monday 6th July 2020

First Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger completed

Newport Pagnell's hand-crafted Bond replica gets its full suite of working Q additions



Given that each Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation takes 4,500 hours to hand-make, we always expected the build quality to be sky-high, but now, with the release of new images following the completion of Job 1, we’ve the hard evidence. The first of 25 customer cars looks immaculate - the way that Aston probably dreamt it could produce cars back in 1963. In 2020 it is using the same traditions, albeit supplemented by modern technology. The result, somewhat predictably, is the best of both worlds. 

Aston Martin’s Newport Pagnell Heritage Division revealed the full list of Q-inspired additions these DB5 Continuation cars – each of which is priced at £3.3 million – in May, and now we can see how the features look on the actual car. The smoke screen deploys actual smoke, the nose-mounted machine guns pulsate and glow as if they’re firing real rounds, and the oil slick delivery system spurts out fluid from a moving taillight. It’s all looks authentically Bond.

Same goes for the parts fitted inside, where Aston’s inline six-powered DB5 Goldfinger cars get a gear lever actuator, accessed by flipping the knob’s top open, a corded phone and remote control to activate those gadgets and more. Combined, it makes for quite possibly the world’s coolest toy – and rest assured this is a toy, because none of the 25 examples will be road legal. Not surprising; imagine trying to explain a revolving numberplate system to the DVLA. 


Aston’s chief creative officer, Marek Reichman, said: “The DB5 is, without question, the most famous car in the world by virtue of its 50-plus year association with James Bond. To see the first customer car finished, and realise that this is the first new DB5 we have built in more than half a century, really is quite a moment.  It is a genuine privilege, and significant responsibility, to have been involved in the shaping of this new DB5 and to be helping to lead the creation of new versions of this automotive icon.”

Although Job 1’s been completed, Aston Martin says it will open deliveries of the DB5 Goldfinger cars through the second half of this year – which, you’ve probably already noticed, is now. Suffice it to say anyone who has placed an order can look forward to receiving their car soon. It’s not yet clear whether the cars will be delivered in traditional means or whether they’ll be flown in via helicopter, Bond style. We’d like ours secured to a Union Jack parachute as we welcomed it down with a Vesper Martini.


 















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MountainsofSussex

Original Poster:

281 posts

185 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Surely it's not Job 1, it's Oddjob 1?

Chubbyross

4,537 posts

84 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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It’s so naff it makes me cringe. I’ll have an original please.

icekay

221 posts

131 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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The car you must make space in the living room for, superb detail and mega cool!

Osinjak

5,453 posts

120 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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What's that all about then?

bakes

50 posts

227 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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So not road legal and not something for a track...where can you ever use this? It seems such a waste of beautiful craftsmanship to be a static object.

hu8742

232 posts

124 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Am I right in thinking that these multi-million pound cars can't be driven on the road? If so, I'm staggered that they've sold any.

ate one too

2,902 posts

145 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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I guess that most of the buyers of these will have plenty of private roads to pootle around on ... pretending to be Bond.

ReformedPistonhead

965 posts

136 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Well if you have the money what would you rather have, a Monet on the wall or this in a glass box in one of your many rooms in your large country house?

Simple choice for me.....

bobo79

293 posts

148 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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This seems a bit tragic to me.

Chubbyross

4,537 posts

84 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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bakes said:
So not road legal and not something for a track...where can you ever use this? It seems such a waste of beautiful craftsmanship to be a static object.
This is my issue as well. The original was and is such a thing of beauty. It’s like sticking a comedy moustache on the Mona Lisa.

romac

594 posts

145 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Beautiful car and one of my all-time favourites, but...
TBQH this leaves me shaken, not stirred.

Dale487

1,334 posts

122 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Osinjak said:


What's that all about then?
I'd rather have this one, plus wouldn't/couldn't it be road legal?

BigChiefmuffinAgain

1,054 posts

97 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Staggeringly stupid and cool in equal measures.

Actually, more stupid than cool.

But Aston are desperate for money, so will stoop to any measure....

AJB88

12,267 posts

170 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Hoping to get a glimpse of one as I live round the corner from AMW, they finished a DB4 GT the other day as well.

sdiggle

182 posts

89 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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A fool and his money......

leglessAlex

5,384 posts

140 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Is it cool? Yes.

Is it beautiful? Also yes.

But why oh why would anyone pay money for something that isn't road legal?! I genuinely don't understand, why not just buy a really good/restored DB5, one that you can drive? I understand that it would have the 'Q enhancements' but jeeze, are those really worth that much money?

SidewaysSi

10,742 posts

233 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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It's just a full size toy for millionaire Bond wannabes. Really sad but Aston is a brand with little kudos other than Bond so may as well milk it for all it's worth.

And they need every penny to stop them becoming another automotive failure.

jhoneyball

1,764 posts

275 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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I have a model one on my shelf.

I guess this is the big-boys-toys version for billionaires who have larger toy rooms.

Its no use as a car.

housen

2,366 posts

191 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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bakes said:
So not road legal and not something for a track...where can you ever use this? It seems such a waste of beautiful craftsmanship to be a static object.
dont balme aston

blame eu regs


AJB88

12,267 posts

170 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Just a thought but reckon most of these will be bought by million/billionaires abroad, chances are they could be "legal" in other countries?