Aston Martin DB5 Junior is an electric scale model for 007 fans
It’s the electric Aston Martin that can’t be driven on public roads and will set you back (gulp) up to £45,000 ($82,000).
Oh, and it’s one-third smaller than the real Aston Martin DB5 made famous by super spy 007.
Meet the Aston Martin DB5 Junior, surely the perfect car if James Bond were ever to have a child.
Powered purely by electricity, the Aston Martin DB5 Junior was created by The Little Car Company in the UK in collaboration with Aston Martin.
Created as a 66 percent scale model of the original, the DB5 Junior was designed by taking a 3D digital scan of a 1963 Aston Martin DB5.
It is engineered to fit one child – the recommendation is they’re at least 14 years old – and one adult.
The DB5 Junior can be had as a base model priced from £35,000 ($63,500) or the more powerful Vantage for £45,000.
The DB5 Junior gets a 5kW motor powered by a 1.8kWh battery pack and can top 48km/h. Perfect for a few hot laps of the back yard…
The more expensive DB5 Vantage Junior gets two electric motors and two battery packs, doubling those figures to 10kW and 3.6kWh. Its body is also made of carbon fibre, lowering the weight to boost performance.
The range is estimated at up to 64km over two-and-a-half hours of driving.
The Junior even has functional instruments modelled off those in the original DB5, part of the meticulous attention to detail.
Just 1059 DB5 Juniors will be produced, the same number of the original DB5 that is these days one of the most recognisable Aston Martins ever created – largely thanks to James Bond.
Aston Martin design chief Marek Reichman is impressed with the “meticulous detail to truly replicate the stunning form of the original DB5”.
“I’m thrilled to see this new, exquisite interpretation of what is, perhaps, our most iconic model join the Aston Martin family.”
The CEO of The Little Car Company, Ben Hedley, says the electric Aston Martin toy appeals to a younger generation of car enthusiasts.
“It is fantastic that we have made this iconic car accessible in a new way to a new generation of Aston Martin fans,” says Ben Hedley, CEO of The Little Car Company.
To be fair it’s a generation of fans who will need extremely wealthy parents and a suitable estate or private road to drive the car on, considering it cannot be registered.
“As a child I would not have imagined any better way to learn to drive than in ‘The Most Famous Car in the World’”.
For proof some people live in a different world, orders for the Aston Martin Juniors are limited to three per person.
The Little Car Company also arranges drive events and has engineered a Race mode that ensures the DB5 Junior is limited to the same performance as other models the company has sold previously.
They include the Bugatti Baby II that is a replica of the Bugatti Type 35.
It was priced from £30,000 ($54,500) and sold out as soon as it was unveiled.
