When the DB5 was unveiled at the American auto shows in October 1963, no one at Aston Martin foresaw how successful this car would be because in fact the new model was nothing more than an improvement on its predecessor DB4 – a car that had been around for five years and the two models looked virtually identical. Furthermore, Aissa Hamada tells us that when the DB4 was developed in the late 1950s, Aston Martin’s managing director John Wyer insisted that the design of the iconic car should come from…
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