I thought he drove the moon buggy in Diamonds are Forever and it was a space
shuttle in Moonraker.
Mark Hooper
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From: Freeman, Noah [mailto:nfreeman@baincapital.com]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:45 AM
To: Triumph (E-mail); Roy, Avik
Subject: Bond's Cars- lots of LBC, but sadly non-triumph
For those of you, who, like me, were horrified to to see Bond driving a
german
car in recent movies (like MI6 would EVER give a german car to their
agents...its like imagining the germans driving around in Citroens), here is
a
list of what Bond has driven in all the movies (and yes, that blue car in Dr
No is a sunbeam, not a stag, as I had once thought)
DR. NO (1962) Sean Connery drives an unassuming blue Sunbeam Alpine.
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) As in most of the original Ian Fleming novels,
007 shows up in a black Bentley.
GOLDFINGER (1964) Aston Martin makes its Bond-movie debut. The "silver
birch"
DB5 has an ejection seat ("Don't touch that button!") as well as devices
that
create smokescreens and oil slicks. Goldfinger prefers a Rolls-Royce Phantom
III, and his sidekick, Odd Job, shows up in a Ford Ranchero.
THUNDERBALL (1965) The Aston Martin DB5.
CASINO ROYALE (1967) A vintage Bentley, black and supercharged.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967) Bond gets a rare Toyota 2000GT, a limited-edition
supercar converted to a convertible for this film.
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969) George Lazenby and Diana Rigg leave
their wedding in an Aston Martin DBS. They also traverse Swiss ski slopes in
a
Mercury Cougar. (The Cougar was an offbeat choice, as was Mr. Lazenby;
neither
made an encore.)
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971) Bond's DB5 is in the repair shop, so he rents a
Mustang Mach I to screech through Las Vegas.
LIVE AND LET DIE (1973) Roger Moore's debut. He drives a London
double-decker
bus.
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974) To chase villains in an American Motors
Matador
- which turns into an airplane - Bond grabs an A.M.C. Hornet. It makes a
360-degree corkscrew leap across a ruined bridge.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977) A Lotus Esprit got the role after an executive
pointedly parked one in front of the producer, Albert Broccoli. The car also
becomes a submarine.
MOONRAKER (1979) A moon buggy.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981) Lotus Esprit Turbo. In one sequence, Bond drives a
Citrokn 2CV that takes a lot of abuse but keeps on ticking.
OCTOPUSSY (1983) Bond is chased in a stolen Alfa Romeo GTV by police on the
Avus speedway in Berlin. He also shows up in a VW Beetle.
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983) Sean Connery makes his curtain call with a
black
Bentley and a Yamaha XJ 650 Turbo motorcycle.
A VIEW TO A KILL (1985) Roger Moore again, this time in a Renault 11 taxi.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987) Timothy Dalton, in the first of two Bond
appearances, drives an Aston Martin V-8 Vantage and a V-8 Volante. The
latter
car has rockets and a stash of spikes that puncture pursuers' tires.
LICENCE TO KILL (1989) Bond is mostly chauffeured in a blue Rolls, but ends
up
driving a Kenworth tractor-trailer full of gasoline and drugs.
GOLDENEYE (1995) The BMW Z3 roadster makes a brief appearance, upstaged by
Bond (now Pierce Brosnan) in the Aston Martin DB5 revived from earlier
films.
It races a Ferrari 355 GTS down the Corniche highway above Monte Carlo.
TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997) The BMW 750iL can be driven remotely by an
Ericsson
cellphone.
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) Bond's BMW Z8 is sawed in half.
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Noah Freeman
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