The 1963
Aston Martin DB5 was an improved
DB4. The DB series was named after
David Brown (the head of Aston Martin from 1947–1972).
The DB5 is famous for being the first and most recognised cinematic
James Bond car.
[4] It has been featured in several films, most notably
Goldfinger,
Thunderball,
GoldenEye,
Tomorrow Never Dies, and
Casino Royale.
The principal differences between the DB4 and DB5 are:
- The engine was enlarged from 3.7 L to 4.0 L,
- A new five-speed transmission
- Three SU carburettors, producing 282 bhp (210 kW), propelling the car to 145 mph (233 km/h): this engine, available on the Vantage (high powered) version of the DB4 since March 1962, became the standard Aston Martin power unit with the launch in September 1963 of the DB5.[3]
Standard equipment on the DB5 included reclining seats, pile carpets, electric windows and a fire extinguisher. All models had 4 seats and 2 doors. The UK recommended list price of the sports saloon (coupe) in December 1963 was £4,248 including Purchase Tax, the convertible was £4,562.
- Engine: 3,995 cc (243.8 cu in) Inline-6
- Power: 282 bhp (210 kW) at 5500 rpm
- Torque: 288 lb·ft (390 N·m) at 3850 rpm
- Weight: 1,502 kg (3,310 lb)
- Top Speed: 145 mph (233 km/h)
- 0–60 mph (97 km/h) Acceleration: 7.1 s
- Oil slick optional
When Autocar did a road test on the Aston Martin DB5
back in 1964, doing 100mph was considered deadly
dangerous for ordinary mortals — but as the magazine
explains, a short ride in this 3,995cc car could put
anyone’s mind at rest. It was a man’s car, said the writer.
The two-door saloon, with purchase tax, cost £4,248
17s 1d. It could do 100mph at 17.6mpg with a maximum
speed of 143mph, doing 0 to 60mph in eight seconds.
“Like the fourth dimension, subjects and experiences
beyond our personal comprehension are virtually
impossible to visualize with any degree of reality.
“One naturally relates all things to the fi xed values one
has for comparison, and other people’s claims seldom ring
true unless one knows for oneself.
“To be told 100mph (with certain qualifi cations) is a safe
speed would cause a large majority of everyday motorists
to throw up their hands in horror and launch forth on a
counter-attack on the dangers of high-speed driving. Yet
they could be silenced simply and for ever by a short trip
over ordinary trunk roads in an Aston Martin DB5.
“More and more cars today can reach the magical ‘ton’
but those which
can do it with the
ease and rapidity
of the Aston can
be counted on the
fi ngers of one hand.
“High-speed
stability and safety
is not cheap and
with few people
to pay the price,
production costs
are never reduced
by the quantity
of the work. The DB5 therefore fi lls a unique corner of the
market, a corner at the top end both in the way it performs
and the price one pays for the privilege.
“It is a car which cries out to be driven, to be driven
well, and to be driven far. It is a car requiring skill and
muscle — a man’s car — which challenges and satisfi es
and always excites.”
Variants
DB5 Vantage
The high-performance
DB5 Vantage was introduced in 1964 and featured three
Weber carburettors. This engine produced 314 bhp (234 kW). Only 65 DB5 Vantage coupes were built.
DB5 convertible
Just 123
convertible DB5s were produced, though they never used the typical "Volante" name. The convertible was offered from 1963 through to 1965. Only 19 of the 123 DB5 Convertibles made were
left-hand drive.
DB5 shooting brake
A very unusual DB5 was the
shooting brake estate car. The prototype was custom produced by the factory for
David Brown, and twelve more coupes were custom modified for Aston Martin by independent
coachbuilder, Harold Radford.
[2] A design flaw with the station wagon was that there was no change to the rear suspension. Drivers of the shooting brake would find this out when the load in the rear shifted at high speed in a corner with a resultant loss of control.
James Bond's DB5
The Aston Martin DB5 is the most famous Aston Martin car due to its use by
James Bond in
Goldfinger (1964). Although
Ian Fleming had placed Bond in a
DB Mark III in the novel, the DB5 was the company's newest model when the film was being made. The car used in the film was the original DB5 prototype, with another standard car used for stunts. Two more modified cars were built for publicity tours after the film's release. In January 2006, one of those cars was auctioned in
Arizona for US $2,090,000. The same car was originally bought in 1970 for £5,000 from the owner,
Sir Anthony Bamford, by a Tennessee museum owner.
[5] The other car is located in the Netherlands in the
Louwman Museum, and this car was mainly used for promoting the movie.
Within the universe of James Bond, the same car was used again in the following film,
Thunderball (registration BMT 216A), a year later. A different Aston Martin DB5 (registration BMT 214A) was used in the 1995 Bond film,
GoldenEye in which three different DB5s were used for filming. The BMT 214A also returned in
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and was set to make a cameo at Castle Thane in
The World Is Not Enough (1999), but the scene was cut. Yet another DB5 appeared in
Casino Royale (2006), this one with the steering wheel on the left side versus the previous British versions.
The first DB5 prototype used in
Goldfinger with the chassis number DP/216/1 was later stripped of its weaponry and gadgetry by Aston Martin and then resold. It was then retrofitted by subsequent owners with nonoriginal weaponry. The Chassis DP/216/1 DB5 was stolen in 1997 from its last owner in Florida and is currently still missing.
[6]
A highly detailed 1:24 scale die-cast model with many working features was produced as a limited edition by the
Danbury Mint. A highly detailed kit was also produced by Airfix between 1966 and 1970.
[7]
On the 14th April 2010 a 1/8th scale model released over 75 weekly parts,it builds into one of the biggest 007 scale models to date
[3]
On June 1, 2010,
RM Auctions announced the upcoming auction of a DB5 used in
Thunderball and
Goldfinger. The owner - Jerry Lee, President/Owner of WBEB Radio in Philadelphia, PA- originally bought the car from the Aston Martin company for $12,000 in 1969, and it was expected to reach a price of $5,000,000 (US).
[8] At the auction, the famous DB5 was eventually sold for 2,600,000 GBP ($4,103,000 (US)).
La
DB 5 è un'
autovettura prodotta dalla
casa automobilistica Aston Martin dal
1963 al
1965.
Si tratta di uno dei modelli senz'altro più famosi della casa inglese grazie alla partecipazione sul grande schermo come auto di
James Bond.
Bisogna precisare che nel film Goldfinger la macchina presentata al pubblico come DB 5 è in realtà una DB 4 V serie Vantage, la DB 5 fa la prima vera comparsa nel film Thunderball: Operazione tuono ed è anche protagonista di una corsa sulle strade sopra il Principato di Monaco nel film 007 - Goldeneye[senza fonte].
Rispetto al modello DB4 esteriormente ha piccoli particolari modificati per un utilizzo migliore; si nota subito ad esempio la cornice dei fari che risulta più larga per evitare l'infiltrazione d'acqua e la presenza, in alcuni modelli, degli
indicatori di direzione color arancione sul muso, questi due particolari distinguono subito una DB 5.
Costruita in 1.021 esemplari di cui 123 denominate "Volante", ossia in versione
Cabriolet, la produzione va dal numero di
telaio DB5C/1251 al DB5C/2275. Pur essendo la casa costruttrice inglese, la
carrozzeria (come tutte le vetture della serie "DB" fino alla DB6) è stata disegnata dall'italiana
Touring e costruita in
Inghilterra su licenza; infatti su ogni Aston Martin vi è la scritta "Superleggera" che identifica la Carrozzeria Touring.
Le dimensioni della DB 5 sono identiche a quella della DB 4, ma la nuova versione ha un peso più elevato. Il
motore è sempre di 6
cilindri in linea ma di
cilindrata superiore (3.995
cc e più potente con tre
carburatori SU che producono una
potenza di 282
cv (210
kW), portando l'auto ad una velocità massima di 238km/h (141mph).
Versioni particolari della DB 5 sono la
DB5 Vantage, modello ulteriormente potenziato e dotato di tre carburatori Weber che permettevano una potenza di 314cv (234kw), fabbricato nel
1964 in 65 esemplari; la seconda variante è rappresentata dalla versione
cabriolet conosciuta come
DB5 Volante prodotta in soli 123 esemplari.
アストンマーチン・DB5は、
アストンマーチン・ラゴンダ社が1963年7月-1965年9月に製造したスポーツカーであり、
DB4の後継車種である。
1964年秋から高性能版のヴァンテージ仕様も設定されたが、
DB4GTより少ない65台の製造にとどまった。また、ドロップヘッド・クーペは、123台が製造され、その他に12台がハロルド・ラドフォード社の架装により
シューティングブレークに改造された。
2年余りの間に1023台が製造された後、後継モデルの
DB6にバトンタッチした。
また、映画
007シリーズ『
ゴールドフィンガー』『
サンダーボール作戦』で
ボンドカーに使用され、また『
ゴールデンアイ』や『
カジノ・ロワイヤル』でも登場、アメリカ映画『
キャノンボール』ではボンドカーに準じた装備で
ロジャー・ムーアのマシンとして登場している。アメリカのTVドラマ『
スパイ大作戦』第1シリーズの「武器弾薬を渡すな Odds on Evil」では、左ハンドル仕様で赤い車体のものが、メンバーの逃走用自動車として登場する。
機構・スタイル [編集]
- エンジンは、ボアをDB4のものから4mm拡大した、96mm×92mmの3995cc水冷直列6気筒全軽合金製DOHCエンジンを搭載。標準型は3基のSUキャブレターから282bhpを、高性能版のヴァンテージ仕様は3基のウェーバーキャブレターから314bhpを出力する。
- ギアボックスは当初は親会社のデビッド・ブラウン社製のオーバードライブ付4速MT、後にはZF社製5速MTが標準であり、ボルグワーナー社製ATもオプション設定された。
- 外観はDB4Sr.5との差異は殆どないが、装備類の充実からか車重は116kg増の1470kgとなった。
Der 1963 vorgestellte
Aston Martin DB5 war eine überarbeitete Version des Vorgängermodells
DB4. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfuhr dieser Wagen durch seine zahlreichen Auftritte in
James-Bond-Filmen. Der DB5 ist das wohl bekannteste Bondauto und ist in den Filmen
Goldfinger,
Feuerball,
GoldenEye,
Der Morgen stirbt nie und
Casino Royale zu sehen.
Der Hauptunterschied zwischen dem DB4 und dem DB5 ist der Motor, dessen Hubraum auf 4 Liter (3995 cm³) vergrößert wurde. Eine weitere Neuerung stellte das 5-Gang-Getriebe dar. Der Standardmotor leistete im DB5 mit drei SU-Vergasern (
SU: Skinner Union) 210 kW (286 PS) und beschleunigte den Wagen auf 238 km/h.
Das Kürzel DB steht für David Brown, den langjährigen Eigner von Aston Martin.
- Gewicht: 1565 kg
- Motor: 3.995 cm³ Reihen-Sechszylinder
- Leistung: 210 kW (286 PS)
- Drehmoment: 390 Nm bei 3850 1/min
- Höchstgeschwindigkeit: 232 km/h
- Beschleunigung: 0-100 km/h in 8,1 Sekunden
- Listenpreis 1963: £4.175 (€ 5960)
Modellvarianten
Neben dem klassischen DB5 Saloon lieferte Aston Martin auch weitere Versionen des Fahrzeugs aus.
DB5 Vantage
Die bei Aston Martin traditionell
Vantage genannte leistungsstärkste Version
DB5 Vantage kam mit drei
Webervergasern und einer Leistung von 234 kW (318 PS). Insgesamt wurden nur 65 DB5 Vantage Coupés gebaut.
DB5 Convertible
In der zweijährigen Bauzeit wurden nur 123 Convertibles (
Cabriolets) produziert. Sie trugen jedoch nie den traditionellen Zusatz
Volante. Nur 19 Stück waren linksgelenkt.
DB5 Shooting Brake
Ein sehr ungewöhnlicher DB5 war die
Shooting Brake genannte Kombiversion, von der nur 12 Fahrzeuge bei dem freien Karosseriebauer Harold Radford gefertigt wurden. Ein Problem dieser Kombis war jedoch die unverändert übernommene Hinterachse, was im beladenen Zustand ein kritisches Fahrverhalten zur Folge hatte.
James Bonds DB5
Der Aston Martin DB5 ist das wohl bekannteste
Bondauto und trug mit seinem Auftritt in Goldfinger (1964) maßgeblich zur Bedeutung des jeweiligen Dienstwagens des Filmhelden bei. Obwohl
Ian Fleming in seiner Buchvorlage zu dem Film James Bond einen
Aston Martin DB Mark III beschrieb, wurde in dem Film das damals aktuelle Modell, der DB5, eingesetzt. Der bei den Dreharbeiten verwendete Wagen mit der Fahrgestellnummer 1486 war der Original-Prototyp des DB5, außerdem wurde ein weiteres Fahrzeug bei den Stunts eingesetzt. Zwei weitere Fahrzeuge mit der „Spezialausstattung“ wurden nach der Filmpremiere für
PR-Zwecke gebaut. Im Januar 2006 wurde eines dieser PR-Fahrzeuge in
Arizona für mehr als zwei Millionen US-Dollar versteigert. Als das Fahrzeug
1970 vom damaligen Besitzer Sir Anthony Bamford an ein Museum in
Tennessee verkauft worden war, betrug der Kaufpreis 5.000 britische Pfund.
Auch in späteren Filmen wurde der DB5 als Bondauto eingesetzt. Allerdings wurde nur bei
Thunderball auf das Originalfahrzeug zurückgegriffen.
Für Goldfinger wurden in dem DB5 von
„Q“ einige „optional extras“ eingebaut:
- Kaliber .30 Browning Maschinengewehre hinter den vorderen Blinkern
- Ausfahrbare Klingen in den Radmuttern
- Ausfahrbare schusssichere Rückwand
- Funktelefon
- Radaranlage mit Verfolgungsschirm („HOMER“-Signalgeber)
- Schleudersitz
- Ölspray hinter den Rücklichteinheiten
- Sternnägel, die aus der Rücklichteinheit geworfen werden können
- Rauchwand aus den Endrohren der Abgasanlage
- Wechselnummernschild vorn und hinten mit „BMT 216A“ (UK) „4711-EA-62“ (F) und „LU 6789“ (CH)
- Rammaufsätze vorne und hinten
- Waffenschrank unter dem Beifahrersitz
- schusssichere Verglasung
Für
Thunderball wurde hinten außerdem eine Wasserkanone installiert.
