James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 from GoldenEye tipped to make £1.6m at auction

The Aston Martin DB5 driven by Pierce Brosnan in James Bond movie GoldenEye is heading to auction this summer with a predicted price tag of between £1.2m to £1.6m.

The classic car, built in 1965, will be up for sale at the Bonhams car auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on 13 July.

Fans of the 007 film will recognise the silver DB5 from the opening high-speed chase, when Bond races Ferrari F355-driving villainess Xenia Onatopp, played by Famke Janssen, through the winding roads of Monaco.

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Following the movie’s release, in 1995, the car was kept by Eon Productions to promote GoldenEye, before being sold to a private collector in 2001 for £157,000 - making it the most expensive piece of Bond memorabilia sold at the time, The Sunday Times reports.

It was the first DB5 to feature in a 007 movie since Sean Connery drove one in Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

Unlike Connery’s version, which was kitted out with gadgets including an ejector seat and bumper-mounted machine guns, the DB5 headed to auction this July is completely original.

That means it still features the 282bhp 4.0-litre straight-six engine that can achieve 0-62mph in 6.5 seconds, The Sun says.

The car will be on show at the Bonhams Aston Martin sale in Berkshire on 1 and 2 June, says The Daily Telegraph.