The cultural weight that a single film appearance in 1964 deposited on the Aston Martin DB5 has complicated its assessment as an automobile. The DB5 is a beautiful, capable, mechanically sophisticated grand tourer that would command serious collector attention based on its own merits. It is also the car that Sean Connery drove in Goldfinger, and that association has inflated its market value, attracted buyers who are purchasing cinematic mythology rather than automotive excellence, and made it difficult to discuss the car as an object rather than as an icon.