James Bond's Aston Martin DB10 sells for £2.4m

An ultra-rare Aston Martin DB10 from the latest James Bond film, Spectre, has raised almost £2.5m in a charity auction.

The car, one of the film's two remaining DB10s from the ten that were made, went under the hammer at Christie's in London, with an estimate of £1.5m.

However, it quickly smashed the reserve price and, once buyers' fees are taken into account, raised £2,434,500 for the international doctors' charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

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Bond's iconic vehicle was the star lot of ten items from the film, says Autocar. Other items sold included Daniel Craig's Day of the Dead costume, which went for £98,500, and a signed copy of the sheet music together with a seven-inch vinyl single of Sam Smith's Writing on the Wall theme song, which raised £9,375, says the BBC. A watch worn by Craig as Bond sold for £92,500.

Built on a Vantage platform, the DB10 is an all carbon fibre-bodied coupe with a 4.7-litre V8 mated to a manual gearbox driving the rear wheels. Top speed should be around 190mph and Top Gear says it is arguably "one of the finest Aston Martin designs" in the company's 103-year history. They had previously said the car represents "pretty decent value", considering how rare the DB10 is.

Aston Martin never intended to put the DB10 into production, saying it would be purely a car for the big screen. The next instalment is the DB11 – soon to be with us at the Geneva Motor Show.