Like its DB4 precursor , the DB5 was constitute after Sir David Brown , the owner of Aston Martin from 1947 to 1972 . InGoldfinger , Sean Connery ’s 007drives — and finally go down — the vehicle during a high - speeding chase , where it gets embrace in a hail of bullet train . But Bond manages to kill five citizenry before break the drive , making it the deadliest Aston Martin in Bond movie story ( so far ) .
The vehicle in the movie come in equipped with more than a dozen MI6 - suitable change , like rotate registration plates , a smoke cover , and dual automobile guns up front . In real aliveness , the Aston Martin boast all of those feature article plus vegetable oil slipperiness dispensers , an ouster posterior , and fastball - repellent glass .
On August 16 , 2019 , as Jalopnikreports , one of the three remaining “ Goldfingerspecified ” DBs — this one restored in 2012 — soldfor a whopping $ 6.38 million at RM Sotheby ’s auction bridge in Monterey , California , becoming the most expensive Aston Martin DB5 in the world . ( For comparison : anotherGoldfingerDB5soldfor $ 4.1 million in 2010 . )
For those who want to know more about Bond ’s Aston Martins — or the super - spy ’s various modes of transport in general — hold out the " Drive to a Kill " database below . The information , gathered and break down by UK - based leasing specialistsLeasing Options , painstakingly breaks down the use of Bond ’s cars , planes , and boat into kill , crashes , detonation , and air time .
time in at 10 hour and 21 second , theGoldfingercar had the most screen time of any of Bond ’s Aston Martins . Various models of the cars appeared in 10 bail bond movies , most recently in 2015’sSpectre(though that car did n’t go out a physical structure numeration in its backwash , which is part of what make theGoldfingermodel much more famous ) .
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