Check out Aston Martin’s DB5 nod to Bond film

Aston Martin has unveilled a full-size replica DB5 in a Corgi box. Photo: Aston Martin

As the countdown begins for the new Bond movie, No Time to Die, to be released, Aston Martin has started its own campaign to showcase the iconic DB5.

To be released globally from September, the film features four iconic Aston Martin models from past, present, and future. For the first time four different models have appeared in a 007 film: the DB5, the classic Aston Martin V8, the brand’s super GT – DBS and the exceptional Aston Martin Valhalla – the forthcoming mid-engined hypercar.

To celebrate the return of 007’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 to the big screen, Aston Martin and diecast scale modelling company, Corgi, also unveiled a full-size replica of the original 1965 Corgi DB5 model. 

Located at The Coaling Jetty, outside Battersea Power Station, in London the life-size model which measures 5.66 metres long, 2.7 metres tall and 2.7 metres deep, replicates the original Corgi design and houses an Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation car. 

The DB5 is complete with a broad selection of working gadgets that fans will recognise from the classic James Bond film: rotating number plates, a retractable bulletproof rear shield, extending front over-riders and of course pop-out machine guns.