Aston Martin owes a lot to the James Bond franchise. If it weren’t for everyone’s favorite British spy, the brand as we know it today might not even exist.
When the first DB5 hit the big screen in 1964’s Goldfinger, Aston Martin was a struggling automaker on the brink of insolvency. Then-owner Sir David Brown was siphoning money from his lucrative tractor business just to keep the company afloat.