An inherent instability would end up providing Aston Martin with its longest running model up until that time in the company's history. While the Aston Martin DB5 model would help the company really take-off, it would be its tendency to takeoff at high speed that would give the world the DB6 grand tourer.

The DB series (so named honoring David Brown, the head of Aston Martin between 1947 and 1972) from Aston Martin was anything but new when it unveiled its DB4 in 1958. However, the DB4 would be different in so many ways from its predecessors. And yet, both the DB5 and the DB6 would bear a striking resemblance to its predecessor.

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