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1. William Todman  1/23/04

I should have purchased 5 of these...I have my original Corgi and love the 007 DB5, this is the ULTIMATE of all!!!

2. Robert Scharf  8/1/04

Actually, it's "Bond, James Bond", Jay.  Aside from a few MINOR misses, this is a definite "MUST HAVE" in my book.  Awesome detail for it's time, and even now (2004) it is a tour de force of detail.  The most obvious problem to my eye, at first glance, is the rather large and out of scale chrome work around the windows.  While others may have a keener eye than mine, this detracts more thant anything else from being a stellar model.  Still this easily deserves a five star rating.  Detail abounds in things no one even knew existed from watching the movies, IE: the hidden weapons tray under the drivers seat, the radio telephone in the door, the bumper bashers that Q alluded to but we never saw in the moview.  Just AWESOOME!  Now discontinued, there is now telling how many were produced, so there is no telling how much this model will appreciate to in the future.  I'm not selling mine till there is no more food in the house!

3. F. L. Cabacungan  4/21/03

Usual movable stuff:
Hood, doors, trunk lid, suspensions, steering wheel/tires turn.

More movable stuff:
Sun visors pivot.
License plates rotate.
Driver's seat folds & unfolds.
Antenna, rear shield raise & lower.
Bumperettes, left rear tire slasher, weapons tray extend & retract.
Gas covers, phone compartment (in door), control console, tail light assemblies open & close.

More neat stuff:
Removable roof panel.
Ejector seat works.
Spare tire under trunk floor.
Removable phone.
Leather seats, faux carpeting, painted ceiling, interior details.

Disappointing:
Forward machine guns in fixed open position.
Front grill frame looks too fat.
Dark area in center of headlights where attached to model.
One headlight attached slightly skewed.
Slightly mismatched paint job on roof panel.

Opinion:
Overall, a most impressive achievement by DM. THE ultimate 007 collectible.

4. Philip Realmuto  7/22/02

YIPS!!!!!! I can't believe that there isn't a single review here aside from Jays'!  You MUST add one of these to your collection as its jam packed with nit little features and gadgets.  Great fit/finish and truely a precision model at its' best.  Working suspension, dual opening fuel doors, weapons tray, opening console, folding seats and visors, ejector seat, etc... Unfortunately its now discontinued, but find one 2nd hand and add it to your collection as its a MUST HAVE if your a James Bond fan or not.  It pleases me everytime I look at it! : )

5. jim sieff  2/6/03

I've had this car for years, and never really appreciated the details until the Auto Art version came out. For a 1:24 scale car, this car is unbelievable.  There are only a few very minor errors on the car.
1. The wire wheels on the Goldfinger car were silver, not chrome plated.
  Also, the wheels are a little out of scale.
2. The steering wheel is upside down (one spoke points up on a DB5)
3. The interior shade of gray is a little too dark.
4. British number plates had silver letters (not white).
5. Swiss number plates only have flags on the back plate.
6. DB5 sun visors are see-through blue plastic.
It took a long time to come up with these nitpicks.
This car is still the best 007 model, and the only one with the "correct" Goldfinger weapons.

6. Ralph Bluemke  3/29/07

Nobody does it better.  The nitpickers can flex their expertice at spotting the minor flaws all they want but this one is the creme de creme.  I would agree, however,  with the reviewer who bemoaned the machine guns fixed in the open position.  If DM couldn't have made them operational, I would have prefered to imagine them hidden behind the "closed" parking lights.

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