For just £2.75million a mint condition James Bond Aston DB5 could be yours

Well, not on public roads anyway. Aston’s latest “continuation” model, taking over from the run of DB4 GTs hand-crafted at Newport Pagnell last year, will not be road-registerable. Banish all thoughts now of defeating ANPR with that spinning numberplate…

In other ways you’ll be as authentic a James Bond as it is possible to get, short of buying one of the original DB5s used first in Goldfinger and then in subsequent 007 movies. And these cars are notoriously difficult to come by – if not as expensive as the new one. Each of the new 25 being offered for sale comes with a stirring price tag of £2.75million (before tax). Aston boss Andy Palmer describes the new model as the ultimate collectors’ fantasy.

The 25 Goldfinger DB5s – plus one more for 007 film production company EON Productions, one for Aston and one for a charity auction – will be made at the original home of the DB5 in  Buckinghamshire as  “authentic reproductions” of the original, though with some modern-day mods to improve reliability.

Apart from the movie-correct Silver Birch paint, Aston is promising each car will include working gadgets developed by Oscar-winner Chris Corbould OBE, the special effects supervisor on eight previous James Bond films.

What gadgets will it have? Aston’s not saying other than confirming the revolving ‘plates (with one of them of course displaying  the correct BMT 216A). But ejector seat, machineguns behind the indicators, pop-up bulletproof screen, oil slick dispenser and tyre-destroying scythes on the wheels?

For £3.3m you’d hope so…