The hands
The people behind the car
The people whose work shaped the Aston Martin DB5.
No free period portrait on record
Tadek Marek
Engine designer
Designed the twin-cam straight-six that Aston Martin enlarged to 3'995 cc for the DB5.
DB5
The Bond-era grand tourer
The DB5 put a four-litre straight-six, five-speed ZF gearbox and Touring's aluminium body into a four-seat GT. Matching numbers, original specification and factory body style set the hierarchy. Production totals vary by source.
Market value · road
$539K–$935K
Typical $760K · 77 sales · -22% vs ’19–’20
$347K$6.6M
Market value · road
$539K–$935K
Typical $760K · 77 sales · -22% vs ’19–’20
$347K$6.6M
’04’26
Market history · in the terminal
- Top speed
- 229 km/h (142 mph · factory)
- Power
- 282 bhp (standard engine)
- 0 to 60
- 7.1 s (factory)
- Transmission
- 5-speed (ZF manual)
- Weight
- 1'468 kg
- Engine
- 3'995 cc (DOHC straight-six)
Market & Price
The price and the proof
A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it.
Records: 184 documented road sales on file · 2004–2026; estimate band $539K–$935K · good road cars. recorded sale prices · mixed hammer and premium-inclusive basis.
HCN:DB5Live model
$759'97525.6% · 12M
Model curve · anchored to 184 documented sales · benchmarks rebased at window startmodel v1 · seed astonmartin-db5 · not investment advice
The readouts · model figures against the benchmarks184 documented anchors · last sale this month
Compound annual growth
| Window | This car* | S&P 500 | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Y | +25.6% | +18.8% | +21.9% |
| 5Y | +6.7% | +11.4% | +17.6% |
| 10Y | +0.8% | +13.3% | +11.8% |
*Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends
Deepest drawdown · model window
This car*-83.1%Aug 2022 → May 2024 · not recovered
S&P 500-50.8%Oct 2007 → Mar 2009 · recovered Mar 2013
Gold-39.3%Sep 2011 → Dec 2015 · recovered Jul 2020
Forecast ladder · model quantiles
| Horizon | P10 | P50 | P90 |
|---|---|---|---|
| +6M | $621K | $754K | $915K |
| +12M | $573K | $748K | $977K |
| +24M | $505K | $736K | $1.1M |
Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice
Transaction ledger · documented salesMixed price basis · not estimates
184 of 184 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record
The 2025 result shows the cost of non-factory configuration, not a clean model-wide fall.
Price range · road · openConfidence · lowPublic saloon results are sparse and specification-sensitive. A matching-number factory-LHD car sold for $819'000 in 2021; a 2025 car converted to LHD and upgraded to 4.2 litres with a modern gearbox sold for $478'000. Vantage, convertible, shooting-brake and Bond-associated cars sit in separate strata.
Floor
$539K
Typical
$760K
Ceiling
$935K
Estimate band for good road cars. 77 documented sales since 2019 plotted below.
$340K$539K$760K$935K$6.6M
Hover the spectrum to read a value, or a dot for the sale behind it.
Band and axis shown in USD. Sale positions use indicative fixed-rate conversion to USD; sale readouts retain recorded currencies. USD; standard saloons with sound history. Exceptional factory specifications can exceed the range.
The wider market · Aston Martin at auction · median per year · modeled between anchors1,805 lots · 2003–2026 · exact yearly anchors · modeled line
Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly.
Amounts are reported auction results. Condition, restoration authorship and factory build record require car-by-car review.
Overview
An engine revision followed by a camera
The DB5 made its public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1963. It retained the late DB4's Touring form but brought a 3'995 cc engine, Girling brakes, electric windows and a full-synchromesh ZF five-speed gearbox.
EON Productions placed a gadget-equipped Silver Birch DB5 in Goldfinger in 1964. The films turned one specification into shorthand for the model, while saloons, convertibles, Vantage cars and Radford shooting brakes remained mechanically and commercially distinct.
Aston Martin's 60th-anniversary retrospective lists 887 saloons, 123 convertibles and 12 coach-built shooting brakes, totalling 1'022. Other Aston Martin and auction sources quote saloon counts from 886 to 898; any claim of rarity should identify the body style and source.
- Power
- 282 bhp
- Built
- 1'022 factory-listed
- Body
- Touring Superleggera
- Launch
- Frankfurt 1963
- Price new
- £4'175 saloon
- Gearbox
- ZF 5-speed manual
Reference
Technical specifications
Powertrain
- Engine
- 3'995 cc DOHC straight-sixTadek Marek design, enlarged from the DB4's 3.7 litres
- Induction
- Three SU carburettorsstandard engine
- Power
- 282 bhp at 5'500 rpmfactory figure
- Torque
- 280 lb-ft at 4'500 rpmfactory figure
- Gearbox
- 5-speed ZF manualBorg-Warner 3-speed automatic optional
- Vantage engine
- Three Weber carburettorswith different camshafts
Chassis and body
- Coachwork
- Touring Superleggera aluminium bodybuilt at Newport Pagnell
- Brakes
- Four-wheel Girling solid discstwin servo assistance
- Wheels
- 15-inch wire wheels
- Front suspension
- Independent wishbones and coil springs
- Rear suspension
- Live axletrailing links, Watt's linkage and coil springs
- Factory-listed weight
- 1'468 kg
- Top speed
- 142 mphcurrent factory past-model sheet; period Aston Martin material claimed more than 150 mph
The records
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Engine capacity
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Factory-retrospective total
887 saloons, 123 convertibles and 12 shooting brakes; other tallies differ
HICON BID
Buying interest, silently.
A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the Aston Martin DB5 file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds.
Sign in
HICON Bids are a member instrument. Sign in to place one.
The vault
Open a file on yours.
You keep one? The record starts in your garage — identity, papers, photography, and the market evidence this file already carries, bound to your chassis.
The value drivers
What moves the price
Two F40s can be indistinguishable in a photograph and a million apart at the hammer: the difference is never in the paint. Build the file below and watch the band move.
Indicative band · the base car
$539K–$935K
a good, honest road car — before its file is read
$298K$2.7M
Spans are indicative, drawn from the documented sales cited beside each attribute. The calibrated multipliers — and how they compound for one specific chassis — are member instruments.
The cars
The DB5 register
Documented individual cars — chassis, colour, ownership and sale history. Open one for its full provenance. Public records only; members see the complete registry.
35 documented · public records
24 of 35 shown