All 25 cars will be finished in Silver Birch and feature what Aston calls some sympathetic modifications and enhancements to ensure quality and reliability. The car’s 4.0-litre naturally aspirated inline-six with 290PS, five-speed ZF manual transmission, mechanical limited-slip differential, live rear axle, unassisted steering and servoed steel disc brakes are all true to the original, as are the aluminium body panels over a steel chassis.
Fewer than 900 DB5 coupes were built between 1963 and 1965, with the car – and Aston Martin’s fame – taking off when chosen as the wheels of choice for world’s best-known secret agent.
“The DB5 is, without question, the most famous car in the world by virtue of its 50-plus year association with James Bond,” says Aston design chief Marek Reichman. “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.”