Instead, they're the result of a six-month engineering project between Aston Martin's Q Advanced Operations division (yes, really) and the filmmakers. Not the $3.5 million continuation cars that Aston Martin is making, though, although no doubt that project did prove useful. The DB5s you'll see on-screen are real Aston Martins, too. When last we saw 007 in Spectre, he was driving away in BMT 216A, and we've known since the first trailer for No Time to Die that the DB5-and its headlamp miniguns-plays an important role in the newest entry to the franchise. However, when it shows up again in Skyfall six years later, the steering wheel has switched sides, and Q Branch has had some fun with it. After Goldfinger it returned in Thunderball, then sat out the Lazenby and Moore years before returning in GoldenEye and then Tomorrow Never Dies, despite a marketing deal that meant Q had to issue the secret agent BMWs instead.Ĭasino Royale offered a new origin story for the DB5, with Bond winning the car in a game of poker. We first saw the ionic coupé in 1964's Goldfinger, where it almost stole the show with its battering ram, ejector seat, smoke screen, and the rest of the gadgets that introduced the world to the Bond car. But one car stands out above all the others-the Aston Martin DB5. The move to motion pictures meant driving something a bit more current than a 1931 Le Mans racer, and over the course of 25 films, there's been plenty of four-wheel action.
At the start, long before James Bond went from page to screen, he drove a Blower Bentley, the equivalent in 1953 of tooling about today in a Toyota GT-One.
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In the film's landmark stunt, Bond spots an old collapsed bridge and does a 360 degree barrel roll over the river.The sports car is as intrinsic to 007's character as a vodka martini or that license to kill. Bond immediately executes an impressive backwards-forward manoeuvre to absolute perfection, but soon finds himself on the opposite side of a river to Scaramanga, and miles away from a bridge. With some creative driving, Scaramanga manages to double back on Bond and heads in the opposite direction. Bond swerves in and out of the busy Bangkok traffic to make up for the lost distance. The pair chase Scaramanga, with Pepper adding some comic relief to the tense action scene. Pepper returns as a Bangkok tourist, who just so happened to be sitting in the passenger seat of the Hornet. With Scaramanga almost out of sight, Bond spots a car dealership, and steals an AMC Hornet, driving it right out through the showroom window. Bond runs to his car to make chase, only to realize that Ms. In The Man with the Golden Gun, Mary Goodnight gets herself kidnapped by Francisco Scaramanga. That's because Ford offered to supply as many cars as the producers wanted, if Bond drove a Mustang. Another point of interest is that virtually all the cars destroyed during filming were Fords. The producers hoped that the chase would be so exciting that the audience wouldn't notice. Interestingly, the Vegas strip was so busy that for most of the chase scene, large crowds of tourists could be seen on the sidewalks, watching the action. He tells Tiffany Case to lean over and uses a loading ramp to put the car on two wheels and escape through the narrow pedestrian walkway to safety.
Before long, the only undamaged police car left in the vicinity takes chase, and Bond takes a wrong turn down a dead end alley. There are some excellently choreographed manoeuvres, but the action soon moves to a parking lot, where Bond tricks half a dozen police cars into crashing into each other, before escaping over a ramp. While at the wheel of Tiffany Case's Ford Mustang, Bond finds himself on the Sheriff's radar, resulting in a high tension chase along the Las Vegas strip. While Diamonds Are Forever wasn't the most well received Sean Connery Bond film, it did have one of the best car chases of the early series.
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