{"id":8074,"date":"2017-11-17T07:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=8074"},"modified":"2020-06-20T00:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:35:02","slug":"which-bond-car-was-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/makes-models\/which-bond-car-was-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Bond Car Was The Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of the fun things about the James Bond movies (and the books) are the spy gadgets.\u00a0 This is especially apt, given that the author, Ian Fleming, and his brother Peter were both British intelligence agents and probably had plenty of their own real encounters with all kinds of cunning stuff. However, the gadget in the films that sticks out the most would have to be the cars.\u00a0 Even the James Bond rip-offs like the Johnny English films feature at least one car with plenty of bells and whistles.<\/p>\n

The car marque that springs to mind first in a discussion of Bond cars is, naturally, Aston Martin, with various incarnations of the DB5 and DBS being used in the films. This product placement has been the making of the luxury marque, as it\u2019s hard to think of Aston Martin without thinking of James Bond and vice versa.<\/p>\n

However, the Aston Martin DB5 is by no means the only type of car ever driven by Agent 007 and Aston Martin isn\u2019t the only marque that ever won the honour of product placement in the shape of being a Bond car.\u00a0 The very first Bond car was a Sunbeam Alpine (in Dr No), and over the many decades of Bond, the super-spy has driven a Bentley (From Russia With Love), a Toyota 2000 GT (You Only Live Twice \u2013 they had to modify this to an open-top version so tall Scotsman Sean Connery could fit into this little Japanese supercar), a Ford Mustang (Diamonds Are Forever), a handful of Lotuses, a Rolls-Royce (A View To A Kill) and several BMWs.<\/p>\n

OK, so out of all the Bond cars, which one was the coolest and most fun?\u00a0 We\u2019ll rule out the rather tame Sunbeam right away.\u00a0 Here\u2019s my pick for the top contenders in roughly chronological order.<\/p>\n

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  1. 1963 Aston Martin DB5: Goldfinger and Thunderball. This was the first Bond car to get cool gadgets as well as being the debut of the Aston Martin. It featured an ejector seat, a smoke screen, guns and tyre slashers.<\/li>\n
  2. Lotus Esprit: The Spy Who Loved Me. Nicknamed \u201cWet Nellie\u201d, this one could famously go underwater like a submarine as well as being able to dish out torpedoes and cover its escape by squirting out ink like a squid.\u00a0 Trivia time: the original that\u2019s used in the movie is owned by Elon Musk of Tesla (and PayPal and SpaceX and\u2026)<\/li>\n
  3. 1985 Aston Martin V8: The Living Daylights: Missiles with a heads-up guidance display system, a rocket propulsion system, tyre spikes and the ability to listen in to all police radio frequencies.<\/li>\n
  4. 1963 Aston Martin DB5: Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies: Outruns a Ferrari Spider 355 and has a chiller compartment for champagne.<\/li>\n
  5. BMW Z3: Goldeneye: Although it\u2019s got a parachute braking system, missile launchers, radar and an ejector seat, plus hints of other gadgetry, we don\u2019t get to see them in operation in the movie. You don\u2019t get them in real BMW Z3s either.<\/li>\n
  6. BMW 750iL<\/a>: Tomorrow Never Dies. This one can be driven by remote control operated by Bond\u2019s mobile phone and also dispenses tear gas by remote control. Door handles that deliver electric shocks, wire cutters, caltrop dispensers, reinflating tyres and, of course, missile launchers complete the package.\u00a0 Again, don\u2019t look for these in your standard 7-series BMW<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. BMW Z8: The World Is Not Enough: Another remote-controlled BMW for Bond. This one has the missile guidance system housed in the steering wheel. As well as all the usual guns and missiles, this one can also generate an EMP shock that wipes out any electronics in its vicinity.<\/li>\n
  8. Aston Martin V12 Vanquish: Die Another Day. This one\u2019s nicknamed the Vanish thanks to its invisibility cloak.\u00a0 It\u2019s also got old favourites like ejector seats and guns galore.\u00a0 It goes head-to-head with the villain\u2019s equally tricked-out Jag that has a thermal imaging display.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    OK, people, it\u2019s voting time.\u00a0 Which of these Bond Cars was the best?\u00a0 Are there any other hot contenders?\u00a0 And what gadgets would you like to see on a Bond car if they ever make another movie in the series?\u00a0 Leave a comment and let us know! http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymyi-next.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some of the fun things about the James Bond movies (and the books) are the spy gadgets.\u00a0 This is especially apt, given that the author, Ian Fleming, and his brother Peter were both British intelligence agents and probably had plenty of their own real encounters with all kinds of cunning stuff. However, the gadget in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11315,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions\/11315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}