RE: First Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger completed

[KS1959]

Q- " I never joke about my work 007"

[kevinon]

A modern replica + beautiful car + cult film + playful gadgets + tiny production = easy money I guess.

If I was rich I'd be embarrassed to have this. But if it was part of a 50 unit car 'collection' in one of my homes I suppose I'd lose the embarrassment factor, and play it for kitsch.

I may be wrong, but have a recollection that the average buyers for a certain car (Koennsigg?) have on average 40 cars already, 2 aircraft and 2.5 water craft.

Someone here on PH will put me right.

[Car_Nut]

ReformedPistonhead said:

I do not understand the hate for this, not one bit.

It is one of the most recognisable cars on the planet, for fun they go and build a few more to movie spec and sell them to the super-wealthy. I had a chat to the guys building them a year ago and they thought it was brilliant and really were looking forward to it (the engineers, not the super-wealthy).

Probably made Aston £1m a piece profit too.

And yet the forum is full of people knocking them for building the cars and knocking those who buy them?

I thought we were all car guys here.....

I think that the issue is that James Bond cars are a Marmite thing - think that if it was a straight DB5 replica the views would have been far more positive. There are those of us who think that James Bond cars are a puerile travesty that debases the wonderful cars on which they are based - it offends our love of cars. The submarine Esprit is the worst of the bunch of course, but the DB5 is not far behind In my view. Of course many others have entirely contrary view - which of course they are entitled to. But I tend to regard it as a litmus test of how much one really loves cars, or just sees them as a male bonding tool...

[Mr.Tremlini]

You`d have to be haemorrhaging cash, surely, to buy one of these. As much as the DB5 is an icon and a beautiful and competent vehicle, what purpose is one of these other than a display piece or `investment` - otherwise you are just driving it up and down the driveway of the estate, tanked up on G&T`s and and chortling out the window while spraying weed killer on the bitumen.

[DonkeyApple]

leglessAlex said:

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?

Do you honestly think the owners won’t be driving these wherever they want to?

You’ve paid 3.3 for a new toy, who or what is going to stop you driving it on the road? No one. You just take the plates off your original one, stick it on this one and off you go. And if for any bizarre chance an actual policemen happens to not be busy trapped as a social worker and also happens to exactly know one car from the other then the worst that happens is a tax deductible charitable donation.

Such are the joys of electronic policing that all these recreations can be driven pretty freely. If your average south London moody minicab driver can work this out then someone with the smarts to have 3.3 to throw away on a toy certainly can and statistically they tend to be more bent.

[hairykrishna]

threespires said:

I wonder if we will see GTO's being built for £3.5 million or more now that they have lost their legal battle?

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-8...

I very much doubt it. We'll probably see some at the 200k mark, with modern Ferrari V12's in them, from 3rd party companies.

Ferrari already make a massive chunk of money from the classic market I can't see them getting into reproductions.

[DonkeyApple]

Would it be awfully bad manners for me to suggest that the GTO might not actually be a nice looking car at all? You can see that there ought to be great beauty but it’s all just a little off as if it’s had a stroke.

[tiggyzak]

Because we can't afford one ,why does that mean it has to be ridiculed. It's a wonderful piece of British engineering and ,lets face it ,it's a bit of fun and that can't be bad nowadays.

PS ...I CAN'T afford one !

[Roger_G]

What about the ejector seat? I must confess that for 3,3M I would want to drive it.

[marknotatking]

So at £50 per hour and AM's declared 4500 hours work and adding a generous £100k for material, thats a healthy profit based on rarity.

[soxboy]

For my £3.3m I'd be going to Lotus to see if they'd build me an Esprit that went underwater. I'm sure they'll have the old moulds round the back of the factory.