In the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, the gadget-equipped car is an Aston Martin DB5.
Q Branch equips Bond’s silver DB5 with fictional devices including machine guns, an ejector seat, a bulletproof shield and tracking equipment. The car’s combination of elegant design and spy technology made it one of cinema’s best-known vehicles.
The DB5 was derived from the DB4 and introduced in 1963. Its six-cylinder engine and grand-touring body represented Aston Martin’s performance image during the period.
The DB5 is sometimes mistakenly called a DBS or DB6 because those models also appear in Bond-related discussions. Goldfinger established the DB5 as Bond’s signature car, and later films repeatedly returned to the model or referenced its legacy.