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We get behind the wheel of James Bond’s favourite ride

We get behind the wheel of James Bond’s favourite ride

The Aston Martin DB5 made its silver screen debut 61 years ago. It remains a surprisingly thrilling car to drive.

The Aston Martin DB5 is coming to this year’s Noosa Concours d’Elegance. Thomas Wielecki

Want to attract attention and/or defeat eccentric villains living in mountain lairs?

This would be your car then: Aston Martin’s DB5 coupe. It’s worth about twice as much as the broadly similar DB4 and DB6 models that bookend its production run, almost entirely because of the James Bond connection. A silver DB5 festooned with weapons and that famous ejector seat made its screen debut in Goldfinger in 1964. The car has crept into various Bond films ever since.

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