Desirable Cars
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Desirable Aston Martins

An original Bond-gadget DB5 sold for a record $6.4 million at auction — and Aston Martin itself later built 25 brand-new continuation replicas, complete with working gadgets, at $3.5 million each.

One Badge, Two Very Different Eras

Few manufacturers span "cinema icon" and "genuine driver's tool" quite this comfortably under one badge. The DB5's role in Goldfinger cemented it as arguably the most famous movie car ever built, a reputation borne out by the market: a surviving Bond-specification example with working machine guns and a smokescreen sold for $6.4 million in 2019, and Aston Martin later capitalised on the same demand by building 25 brand-new continuation models to the original gadget specification, priced at £2.75 million apiece. That's a genuinely rare situation where a car's cultural weight has outgrown even its considerable original value.

The current range carries a very different, more contemporary kind of desirability — the DB12 and Vantage are built to be driven hard rather than admired from a distance, a genuine driver's tool rather than a static icon. Below are the models we've covered so far, spanning both the classic and current lineup.