This shrunk-down Aston Martin DB5 features working James Bond gadgets

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If you’re a James Bond super-fan but don’t have quite enough space in your garage (or enough funds in your wallet) for one of Aston Martin’s new gadget-laden Goldfinger DB5 Continuation cars , there’s still hope for your spy-car dreams—if you don’t mind scaling them down by about 33 per cent.

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U.K.-based The Little Car Company announced late September that, in conjunction with Aston Martin and EON Productions, it will be launching a No Time to Die edition of its DB5 Vantage Junior model, just in time for the debut of the 25th James Bond film on September 30.

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Like the full-size continuation cars, this special edition comes painted in Silver Birch and fitted with Smiths instruments, plus a numbered chassis plate and authentic Aston Martin badging. Like its Vantage Junior contemporary, it is, however, two-thirds the size of the real thing, available roofless only, and comes powered by an electric motor.

This spec does boast better power and range than the standard Junior, though — the batteries should be good for about 80 miles (128 km) of driving, in fact. Oh, and did we mention the working gadgets?

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Yes, despite being shrunken down, the mini-me DB5 still comes fitted with simulated Gatling guns behind the headlights; a skid mode; a number-swapping digital licence plate; and a safe-to-breathe smoke-screen exhaust, fed from a tank that offers about an hour’s worth of, uh, smoke-screening. All the features are activated by a hidden switch panel in the passenger’s side door.

Don’t write the Aston Martin DB5 Junior No Time To Die edition off as a kiddie toy: the car comes fitted with Bilstein coilovers, Brembo discs, and regenerative braking; earns you automatic membership in the official Aston Martin Owners Club; and, most importantly, features seating wide enough to fit a child and an adult side by side.

We don’t want to over-state just how realistic this miniaturized Aston is either. Please note that despite all of the above, the car is not street-legal. But if that doesn’t bother you, go ahead and place an order.

And you better do so quickly — The Little Car Company is only building 125 examples, first-come, first-served. Pricing is £90,000 (roughly CDN$157,000, before taxes) which, if we had to guess, is probably quite a lot less than two-thirds the cost of one of Aston Martin’s DB5 Goldfinger Continuation cars.