Aston Martin does not build many cars like the Aston Martin DB2: a 2-seat coupe / coupé / 2-seat drophead coupé with 2.6 , built from 1950 to 1953 at the height of the post-war boom. Its designer of record is Frank Feeley. Production ran to 411 cars.
The story
The Aston Martin DB2 is a grand tourer that was sold by Aston Martin from May 1950 until April 1953. The successor to the 2-Litre Sports model (retroactively referred to as the DB1), it had a comparatively advanced dual overhead cam 2.6 L Lagonda straight-six engine in place of the previous pushrod four-cylinder.
It was available as a closed, 2-seater coupé which Aston Martin called a sports saloon, and later also as a drophead coupé, which accounted for a quarter of the model's total sales. The closed version had some success in racing.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits 2.6 . Kerb weight is 1118 kg. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 99 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Aston Martin's history is not in doubt: the 2-Litre Sports "DB1" came before it; the Aston Martin DB2/4 followed it. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Chevrolet Bel Air, the Cadillac Eldorado. Nearby in the Aston Martin catalogue sit the Aston Martin Mark II and the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.
The money
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Aston Martin DB2 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.