{"id":430,"date":"2024-10-01T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/classic-cars\/?p=430"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:48:16","slug":"bond-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/classic-cars\/2024\/10\/01\/bond-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-main-header&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_font=&#8221;Open Sans|800|||||||&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;36px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||5px||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1>&#8220;No, Mr Bond, I expect you to drive\u2026&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-intro&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Open Sans|300|||||||&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sixty years ago this month Goldfinger introduced James Bond to Aston Martin we look at all the cars driven by 007 in this canon of films<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-byline&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Open Sans|600|||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.3em&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Words RICHARD GUNN<br \/>Photography <span>BAUER ARCHIVE<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/LOTUS-ESPRIT-S1.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;The Spy Who Loved Me&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-lead-img&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Bond and cars have always made a very good pairing. Fast and exciting vehicles have been an integral part of one of the cinema\u2019s most successful and longest-running franchises since 1962, but it was with Goldfinger, released this week back in 1964, that the 007 movies truly found their groove. The film also made an automotive icon out of the Aston Martin DB5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the perception might be that Bond has expensive motoring tastes, not all the cars he\u2019s driven have been only for the mega-rich or secretive government organisations. Yes, there have been Astons and Lotuses. But there have also been Audis, Renaults, Fords and, of course, a Citro\u00ebn 2CV. Here, we look at the full spectrum of cars that James Bond has driven over 60 years in the EON Productions films, starting from less than \u00a31000 pounds through to\u2026 well, beyond the means of mere mortals.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/AUDI-200-scaled.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;AUDI 200&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; min_height=&#8221;21px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>AUDI 200 \u2013 The Living Daylights<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a rare example of James Bond driving the sort of car that a real secret agent probably would have favoured, because of its competence as well as European ubiquity and almost anonymity, Timothy Dalton got behind the wheel of an Audi 200 in <em>The Living Daylights<\/em>. Well, actually, he used two. The Cold War was in its final years in 1987 (the Berlin Wall would fall just two years later) and, needing to smuggle a \u2018defecting\u2019 Soviet general to the West, the initial plan was to drive him over the Bratislavan border in the capacious boot of an Audi 200 quattro provided by Station V in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Audi provided its most expensive and plushest model \u2013 the Exclusiv, with permanent four-wheel drive \u2013 for the short sequence, where the escape scheme was abandoned in favour of a pipeline and a Harrier jet instead. Later, when in Morocco, Dalton can be seen in a 200 Avant quattro estate during a surveillance mission. Audi has retained the 200 saloon for its collection and it can occasionally be seen on display. Did the bit-part boost sales of Audi\u2019s big executive saloon? Possibly \u2013 but the 200 was rather overshadowed by 007\u2019s main Aston Martin V8.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a32000-8000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Renault-11-scaled.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Renault 11&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; min_height=&#8221;21px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>RENAULT 11 TXE TAXI \u2013 A View To A Kill<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The films were becoming more parodies than serious spy thrillers by the close of Roger Moore\u2019s tenure as 007, and 1985\u2019s <em>A View To A Kill<\/em> was a case in point. Forced to chase May Day (Grace Jones) up the Eiffel Tower in Paris \u2013 which looks like it genuinely exhausted the then-56-year-old Roger Moore \u2013 he promptly has to get back down and steal the first available vehicle after she parachutes off the top of it. That happened to be a Renault 11 TXE taxi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The resulting car chase alongside the River Seine saw the Renault comprehensively sliced and diced. First it loses its roof, then it gets split in half. Its front-wheel-drive keeps it going though how, given that its fuel tank would have disappeared with its rear end, is one of Bond\u2019s great mysteries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three Renault 11s were used for the sequence, one being a \u2018cut-and-shut\u2019 job to ensure a clean break when the taxi was hit by a BMW 323i that suddenly and mysteriously transformed into a Renault 20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">French stunt supremo Remy Julienne did the driving honours \u2013 which is rather noticeable once the roof has vanished. A subsequent Renault marketing campaign linked to the film helped increase R11 sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a3750-4000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Mercedes-Benz-S-Class.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Mercedes-Benz S-Class&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>MERCEDES-BENZ S300 (W221) \u2013 Skyfall<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bond tails an adversary in Shanghai while posing as a chauffeur driving a 2011 Mercedes-Benz S300 (W221 generation) in a brief scene in <em>Skyfall<\/em>. Daniel Craig wasn\u2019t present for the January 2012 filming in Shanghai but did film some continuity shots inside the S-Class in London shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a32500-15,500<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/BMW-Z3.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;BMW Z3&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; min_height=&#8221;21px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>BMW Z3 \u2013 GoldenEye<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some controversy was provoked by another deal that was inked at the same time as Pierce Brosnan was signed up to play Bond in the mid-Nineties \u2013 the use of BMWs as the main 007 cars for three movies. But the affluent German marque had simply made EON Productions a generous offer that it couldn\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>GoldenEye<\/em> was used to launch the Z3 model, as the first examples wouldn\u2019t go on sale until after the movie\u2019s release. Despite having all of Q\u2019s \u2018usual refinements\u2019 such as missiles, radar, self-destruct and a rather pointless parachute (given the 138bhp 1.9-litre engine), the Z3 had little to do in the movie save to decorate Q\u2019s laboratory and briefly turn up in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMW launched tongue-in-cheek TV adverts to publicise the link between its new roadster and 007, and when the 1996 model-year run of over 15,000 cars did go on sale, all had sold out in advance. In the USA, it teamed up with the retailer Neiman Marcus to offer the Z3 007 James Bond, a limited edition of 100 cars finished in the same Atlanta Blue and Taupe leather scheme of the movie machine with 007-monogrammed floor mats and a numbered dash plaque.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a32500-20,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Sunbeam-Alpine.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Sunbeam Alpine&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>SUNBEAM ALPINE SERIES II \u2013 Dr No<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rootes was no doubt delighted to find one of its products featuring prominently in the surprise British hit movie of 1962, even though it had nothing to do with its placement. <em>Dr No<\/em> included a Lake Blue 1961 Sunbeam Alpine Series II in the franchise\u2019s first proper car chase, with Sean Connery at the wheel \u2013 at least in the back projection scenes shot at Pinewood Studios; stuntman Bob Simmons was brought in for the more demanding action stuff on dirt roads in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On assignment in the Caribbean, 007 finds himself being tailed by a sombre-looking LaSalle hearse and attempts to lose it in the Alpine. He manages to do so by driving under the lowered arm of a Warner-Swasey excavator; the more substantial LaSalle can\u2019t fit beneath and swerves into a ravine (changing into a Humber Super Snipe as it does, something that Rootes was probably less happy about). The excavator\u2019s presence was happenstance; it wasn\u2019t scripted but when the film crew turned up at the location and discovered it blocking the road, it was decided to make use of it. The Sunbeam itself was simply hired from a local woman for \u00a310 a day. Did she realise quite what was being done with it?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a33700-19,200<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Ford-Mondeo.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Ford Mondeo&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>FORD MONDEO MKIV ST 2.5\u2013 Casino Royale<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ford\u2019s product placement deal with EON Productions had begun with 2002\u2019s <em>Die Another Day<\/em>, when the company\u2019s Premier Automotive Group included Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover. It extended into the Daniel Craig era and in <em>Casino Royale<\/em>, the lucky new 007 got to try a new Ford Mondeo in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Granted, it was the sporty ST and also the fourth-generation incarnation, which hadn\u2019t actually been launched when <em>Casino Royale<\/em> was being made. But Ford was mindful of the great publicity of having the fresh James Bond drive its freshest model. The car was only on-screen for a minute but Ford flew out a hand-built Tonic Blue pre-production prototype from its Cologne design studio. The car\u2019s presence was kept a closely-guarded secret, even on a set that was used to keeping things undercover.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a33000-16,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Range-Rover-Sport.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Range Rover Sport&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>RANGE ROVER SPORT HSE\u2013 Casino Royale<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mistaken for a valet at an exclusive Bahamas country club by an arrogant 2006 Range Rover Sport HSE owner, 007 uses the SUV to create a distraction by reversing it into a fence and setting off the alarms of the adjacent vehicles. He then tosses the keys away with the same casual disregard as they were thrown to him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a33500-15,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/AMC-Hornet.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;AMC Hornet&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>AMC HORNET X HATCHBACK \u2013 The Man With The Golden Gun<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generally regarded as one of the poorer 007 entries (so much so that there were some doubts as to whether the franchise would continue after it), 1974\u2019s <em>The Man with the Golden Gun<\/em> nevertheless stands out for having Christopher Lee playing a villain (Francisco Scaramanga) who was the equal if rather darker counterpoint to Bond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While in Bangkok, Roger Moore\u2019s 007 pursues Scaramanga\u2019s AMC Matador with an AMC Hornet X Hatchback purloined from a conveniently-adjacent dealership. It was quite a scoop for AMC to score such prominent product placement in a new Bond film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chase is notable for its 360-degree astro spiral bridge jump that was first calculated and simulated by computers at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York. Of the several Hornets taken to Thailand, one was modified with a two-inch wider chassis, central steering wheel and automatic transmission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incredibly, driver Bumps Willert achieved the corkscrew feat in one take \u2013 and refused to do another. The Bond producers later patented the stunt so it couldn\u2019t be performed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As impressive as the sequence was, its impact was somewhat diminished by the pennywhistle sound effect \u2013 a move that composer John Barry later regretted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a34000-20,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Land-Rover-90.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Land Rover 90&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>LAND ROVER NINETY \u2013 The Living Daylights<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there\u2019s the very obvious Land Rover that James Bond drives (sort of) at the start of <em>The Living Daylights<\/em>, there\u2019s also a more subtle one. Towards the end of the film Kara Milovy (Maryam d\u2019Abo) effects an unconventional entry onto a Hercules transporter plane in Afghanistan by driving a UAZ-469 military 4&#215;4 up its loading ramp while it was taking off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Except it wasn\u2019t really the East European equivalent of the military Jeep. The vehicle was actually an Eighties Land Rover Ninety, with its bodywork heavily modified to look like a Soviet army 4&#215;4. Some of the interior shots of the dashboard and switchgear betray its true origins. Later, after the flight goes (inevitably) horribly wrong, Bond and Kara exit the Hercules using the UAZ \u2013 sorry Land Rover \u2013 just before it crashes, using a vehicle raft and parachute. After a brief excursion through a stone wall, the pair head off for \u2018a great restaurant in Karachi\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The scene where the Ninety entered the Hercules was made possible by mocking up a large box van to look like the tail of a plane, while the Land Rover unconventionally departing the aircraft was a scale model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a34000-21,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Land-Rover-Series-III.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Land Rover Series III&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>LAND ROVER SERIES III \u2013 The Living Daylights (and many others)<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Bond has a love\/hate relationship with Land Rover Series IIIs. One of them came very close to killing him at the start of 1987\u2019s <em>The Living Daylights<\/em> but when he \u2018retired\u2019 from active service in <em>No Time To Die<\/em>, his only companion was a patinated 1977 example. So, no hard feelings then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Timothy Dalton was introduced as 007 to cinema audiences with a high-adrenalin pre-title sequence that saw him tear along the top of the Rock of Gibraltar battling a KGB assassin both in and on top of a British army 1971 Land Rover 88in Series III. The scenes were among the first he shot as 007. He was eager to get stuck in, as second unit director Arthur Wooster remembered: \u2018I had a message from Cubby (Broccoli, the producer) saying \u201cDon\u2019t damage him\u201d. We got him on top of the Land Rover and I said, \u201cAll we want are some nice big close-ups of you.\u201d But he was keen and threw himself around. I couldn\u2019t get rid of him quick enough \u2013 I was terrified.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, we know that James Bond doesn\u2019t drive the Landie as such. But after he cuts through the canvas roof to get inside, he does do some desperate steering to try and keep it from crashing. Which is good enough for us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The part where the Land Rover smashes off the end of the Rock of Gibraltar into the sea was initially filmed over the Mojave desert in California, with the Land Rover dangled underneath a helicopter and dropped from 2000 feet. It didn\u2019t work when the parachute inside got wrapped around the vehicle; the six-foot five-inch Landie was \u2018reduced to about four inches. It had just flattened completely when it hit the ground,\u2019 recalled special effects supervisor John Richardson. The shot was eventually finished at Beachy Head in Sussex using an air cannon to launch the 90 into the air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bond\u2019s Land Rover in <em>No Time To Die<\/em> was also an 88in short-wheelbase example, albeit blue. It\u2019s the ideal vehicle for a former secret agent who just wants to live a simple life away from it all in Jamaica. MI6 agent Nomi, the current 007 sent out from London to make contact with the previous holder of that number, does so by fiddling under the bonnet to disable it. Hey, it\u2019s a 40-year-old Land Rover\u2026 chances are it wouldn\u2019t have started anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a34000-23,900<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Ford-Bronco-II.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Ford Bronco II&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>FORD BRONCO II XLT \u2013 Quantum Of Solace<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never leave a vehicle standing around with its driver\u2019s door open when James Bond is around, because he\u2019s only likely to steal it \u2013 which is what happened to the beat-up 1989 Ford Bronco II XLT handily left unattended in Haiti during 2008\u2019s <em>Quantum of Solace<\/em>. After following baddie Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) to the airport in it, Daniel Craig ditches the pre-Explorer Ford off-roader and is never seen again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a35000-25,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Citroen-2CV.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Citroen 2CV&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>CITRO\u00cbN 2CV \u2013 For Your Eyes Only<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The award for the most unlikely Bond car ever goes to the bright yellow Citro\u00ebn 2CV that stole the show in 1981\u2019s <em>For Your Eyes Only<\/em>. After his Lotus Esprit blows up, thanks to its rather over-the-top anti-theft system, the only mechanised means of escape was a 2CV belonging to heroine Meline Havelock (Carole Bouquet). Despite the Deux Chevaux being seriously out-horsepowered by the Peugeot 504s sent after it, the Citro\u00ebn survived its car chase \u2013 albeit very crumpled \u2013 in the Corfu countryside (doubling as Spain) while the Peugeots didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, the 2CV did have a little extra going for it besides Roger Moore at the wheel. Responsible for the stunt-work was the great French action driver Remy Julienne. Three 2CVs participated in the scene, two of which did the action shenanigans with one used for interior shots. The original 602cc two-cylinder engines were discarded in favour of more powerful Citro\u00ebn GS 1015cc four-cylinder units, which necessitated slightly lengthening the noses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To coincide with the film\u2019s release, a limited-edition run of a thousand 2CV 007s was launched, in yellow and emblazoned with \u2018007\u2019 logos and bullet hole stickers. No two cars had their \u2018gun damage\u2019 in the same place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a34500-17,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Merc-W108-1.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Merc W108 1&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>MERCEDES-BENZ 250 S (W108) \u2013 Octopussy<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having had a flying car and a submersible one in earlier Roger Moore movies, 1983\u2019s <em>Octopussy<\/em> tried something entirely different again \u2013 a car that ran on rails. The plot calls for 007 to pursue a train travelling from East to West Germany, which he attempts to do by purloining the 1968 Mercedes-Benz 280 S of General Orlov. When its tyres are shot out, he slides it onto the railway track at a level crossing and thus takes the more direct route after the train.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The scenes were filmed just a stone\u2019s throw from <em>CC<\/em>\u2019s offices, on the Nene Valley Railway running from Wansford to Peterborough. The Mercedes-Benz had to be modified for the sequence with special wheels that were the same gauge as the track. It ends its days after it is hit by an oncoming train \u2013 in reality, an air cannon firing it from a bridge at Wansford into the River Nene. This nearly went very wrong, as the vehicle came very close to hitting two stuntmen pretending to be anglers in a boat alongside the bridge. Take a look at the film to see just how narrowly they avoided nearly two tons of flying German luxury metal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a36500-24,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Chevrolet-Bel-Air.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Chevrolet Bel Air&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>CHEVROLET BEL AIR \u00a0\u2013 Dr No (and many others)<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first-ever car that James Bond drives in the first-ever Bond film, <em>Dr No<\/em>, is a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air when he is picked up from the airport in Jamaica by a chauffeur who isn\u2019t all he purports to be. After 007 has dealt with him, he continues to Government House with its now ex-driver in the back seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 1973 Bel Air collects Bond from the airport in Roger Moore\u2019s first film, <em>Live and Let Die <\/em>, too, and has to steer it from the back seat after killing the driver.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a38000-71,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Jaguar-XJ-L.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Jaguar XJ L&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>JAGUAR XJ L (X351) \u00a0\u2013 Skyfall<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 2011 Jaguar XJ L 3.0-litre V6 played a crucial role in 2012\u2019s <em>Skyfall<\/em>. And it wasn\u2019t just because it was the official company car of Secret Service boss M (Judi Dench). It was also the means of transport for 007 to retrieve his Aston Martin DB5 from storage, thus bringing the greatest Bond car, BMT 216A, back into the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The long-wheelbase Portfolio-spec luxury Jag is the location from which M sees MI6\u2019s Vauxhall Cross headquarters being blown up while stopped on Vauxhall Bridge in London. Later, after an assassination attempt on M, 007 spirits her away to collect the DB5 so they can head up to Scotland for a final showdown with cyberterrorist Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem). Note how, as Bond and M flee in the Jag, it clips a kerb thanks to its over-hasty departure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The XJ L was one of 77 vehicles supplied by Jaguar Land Rover for Skyfall and even though the car\u2019s time on-screen was quite brief, several were used for its scenes due to the need to remove seats to place cameras inside, mount ones on the bodywork, and also have one completely standard for general driving shots.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a37000-24,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/BMW-750iL.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;BMW 750iL&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>BMW 750IL \u2013 Tomorrow Never Dies<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perhaps because <em>GoldenEye<\/em>\u2019s BMW Z3 hadn\u2019t really done much except look pretty, there was a larger action role for the much larger executive saloon that Pierce Brosnan\u2019s Bond used in 1997\u2019s <em>Tomorrow Never Dies<\/em>. The \u2018L\u2019 in the designation of the E38 750iL issued by Q denoted that it was the long-wheelbase variant, and it needed the extra 5.5 inches to squeeze in all the secret equipment it packed. In a nod to the Brosnan-era Aston Martin DB5 (BMT 214A), the German registration number was BMT 2144.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among its tools were a hidden dashboard safe, electrified door handles, armour-plated bodywork, tear gas, rocket launcher, machine guns, rear spike dispenser, self-inflating tyres and a cable cutter under the front bonnet badge. It could be driven by remote control via 007\u2019s phone, and the car also had a female voice synthesis system to report on any problems \u2013 perhaps Q once owned a Vanden Plas Maestro?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seventeen cars were used for filming purposes\u2013 all V8 740iLs rather than actual V12 750iLs, presumably on cost grounds \u2013 including four converted with concealed back-seat controls and a video screen to give the appearance of being driven remotely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a38000-17,500<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/TOYOTA-LAND-CRUISER.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;TOYOTA LAND CRUISER&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>TOYOTA LAND CRUISER \u2013 No Time To Die<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given that <em>No Time To Die<\/em> was meant to be one of the big reveals for the new Land Rover Defender (had Covid not delayed the film\u2019s release from April 2020 to September 2021), it\u2019s quite surprising to find that model so comprehensively bested by a 1998 Toyota Land Cruiser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having to escape the baddies in Norway with Madeleine Swann (L\u00e9a Seydoux) and her young daughter, Bond inexplicably chooses the Swann family Toyota instead of the presumably weaponised Aston Martin V8 he used to get there. Actually, it turns out to be a good choice as the 20-something beige Japanese off-roader manages to fend off two modern Range Rover Sports and three new Land Rover Defender 110s with surprising ease.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toyota didn\u2019t actually provide the vehicle and was rather surprised to see it turn up in the movie. The early parts of the chase were shot around the Atlantic Highway in Norway before production switched to the Scottish Highlands for the later stages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So if a new Defender\u2019s beyond your finances just buy an old J90 series Toyota Land Cruiser instead.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a37000-29,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Alfa-Romeo-GTV6.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Alfa Romeo GTV6&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>ALFA ROMEO GTV6 \u2013 Octopussy<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roger Moore\u2019s penultimate James Bond outing sees 007 investigating a Russian general (Steven Berkoff overacting in epic Slavic style) stealing jewels and art from the Kremlin and uncovering a plot to explode a nuclear bomb at a US airbase in West Germany. Not having a main Q Branch-equipped vehicle, 007 is forced to mostly \u2018borrow\u2019 his cars (or accidentally take a train) including a 1981 Alfa Romeo GTV6. Having just endured a lift in a Volkswagen Beetle with some stereotypical wurst-eating comedy Germans, he wisely decides to take things into his own hands and nicks the Alfa from a middle-aged lady who doesn\u2019t look at all like the type who would usually be driving an Italian high performance car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ensuing car chase with police BMWs sees Bond rock up at the airbase just in time to avert a nuclear catastrophe while disarmingly dressed as a clown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Much of the filming was done in England (the road markings and a blue Austin Allegro briefly glimpsed in the background betray this) with RAF Upper Heyford doubling as USAF Feldstadt. The sequence was one of the more convincing and realistic Bond chases, even if Roger does don a red nose at the end of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a38100-36,500<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Triumph-Stag-scaled.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Triumph Stag&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>TRIUMPH STAG \u2013 Diamonds Are Forever<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">That James Bond is capable of incredible feats has been proved time and again in his 25 movies, but few of his accomplishments have equalled what he achieved in <em>Diamonds Are Forever<\/em>; managing to drive a brand-new early Triumph Stag from Dover to Amsterdam without it overheating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The car in question belonged to diamond smuggler Peter Franks, who Sean Connery\u2019s 007 was impersonating. In reality, the Saffron Yellow Stag, RVC 435H, was a pre-production model serving as one of BL\u2019s press fleet. It\u2019s commonly believed that it later went on to star in <em>Dracula AD 1972<\/em> a year later as well as<em>The Professionals<\/em>, but that was actually a near-identical car registered RVC 425H.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the strange things about the Stag is that it sounds like it has a four-cylinder engine. Urban legend that its own V8 broke during filming and was temporarily replaced by a Dolomite or Herald engine seems highly unlikely. Another story is that Aston Martin objected to the noise the Triumph made and requested overdubbing with a something a little less\u2026 meaty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a38200-34,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Ford-Mustang-Mach-I.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Ford Mustang Mach I&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>FORD MUSTANG MACH 1 \u2013 Diamonds Are Forever<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first Bond film of the Seventies, <em>Diamonds Are Forever<\/em>, brought Sean Connery back to the fold. Much of the adventure takes place in Las Vegas and for such a flamboyant city, an equally flamboyant car was required. Enter the bright red 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 of Tiffany Case (Jill St John).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wanted by the local police, Bond uses the Mustang to outrun and evade their patrol cars through the neon-lit city centre. The Ford\u2019s eventual escape is via two wheels down a narrow alleyway but in one of cinema\u2019s most infamous continuity errors, it departed the passage on its opposite side, thanks to the entrance and exit scenes being filmed in different locations weeks apart. Whoops.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a312,000-80,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/LOTUS-ESPRIT-TURBO.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;ROGER MOORE JAMES BOND: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981)&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>LOTUS ESPRIT TURBO \u2013 For Your Eyes Only<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unlike in <em>The Spy Who Loved Me<\/em>, the two Lotus Esprit Turbos of 1981\u2019s <em>For Your Eyes Only<\/em> had little to do compared to their normally-aspirated aquatic predecessor. One was used for a trip to Spain to spy on hitman Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha) while the other, equipped with custom ski racks over its rear louvred window and finished in distinctive Copper Fire Metallic, featured in Cortina, Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lotus supplied two Turbos: its original prototype and an early production version. Both were initially painted white with red stripes to match each other, but it was decided that a darker shade would look better amid the snow of Cortina, hence the switch to copper for the second car. The other car was later painted to match. In addition, Lotus provided a bodyshell; it was this that was blown up in Corfu (doubling as Spain) thanks to Q\u2019s rather extreme theft deterrent of four C4 explosive packs hidden in each corner. Both road cars survived and were subsequently used for promotional work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The re-appearance of Esprits, four years after <em>TSWLM<\/em>, cemented Lotus\u2019 link with the Roger Moore era of 007.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a312,300-42,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/LOTUS-ESPRIT-S1.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;The Spy Who Loved Me&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>LOTUS ESPRIT SERIES 1 \u2013 The Spy Who Loved Me<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the stand-out vehicle of 1977\u2019s <em>The Spy Who Loved Me<\/em> was, of course, the Leyland Sherpa van driven by Jaws, another vehicle from Roger Moore\u2019s third (and best) Bond runs it a very close second. The film\u2019s white Lotus Esprit S1 has become almost as much of a 007 legend as the DB5, thanks to its many gadgets and its ability to transform into a submersible.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lotus craftily brought its new sporty wedge to the attention of producer Cubby R Broccoli by parking it outside Pinewood Studios until it provoked so much attention that the Bond supremo asked for a meeting. Lotus supplied two road-going examples \u2013 including Colin Chapman\u2019s personal car \u2013 along with seven bodyshells. One of the road cars ended up being used as a camera car. A full-sized aquatic version was created by marine engineers Perry Oceangraphics and had an ex-Navy SEAL frogman inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The land Lotuses proved to be divas on set, often suffering from overheating and flat batteries. Lotus test-driver, Roger Becker, also had to be flown out to Sardinia to make the Esprit look more dramatic because it looked like it was hardly breaking a sweat against a Ford Taunus and helicopter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a314,800-64,900<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Chevrolet-C30.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Chevrolet C30&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>CHEVROLET APACHE C30 \u2013 From Russia With Love<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Bond returned just a year after <em>Dr No<\/em> in 1963\u2019s <em>From Russia with Love<\/em> \u2013 oh, those far-off heady days when you didn\u2019t have to wait four or more years between adventures. During his assignment to retrieve a Lektor cypher machine, Bond and Russian SMERSH clerk Tatiana Romanova flee the train they were on and hijack a Chevrolet C30 pick-up truck carrying flowers. In a scene reminiscent of <em>North by North West<\/em>, Bond manages to take down a pursuing helicopter dropping grenades with a sniper rifle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The intention had been to film the scene near Istanbul but unseasonably bad weather meant that filming was switched to the Scottish Highlands instead. Which must have made Sean Connery feel at home, at least.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a315,000-45,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Ford-Fairlane.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Ford Fairlane&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>FORD FAIRLANE \u2013 Die Another Day<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Die Another Day<\/em> was released in the same year that the Bond film franchise celebrated its 40th anniversary, so it was packed with references to past movies \u2013 not least when Brosnan and John Cleese are filmed surrounded by old gadgets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">But more oblique allusions were scattered elsewhere. One was the 1957 Ford Fairlane that Bond drives in Cuba after escaping MI6 custody and briefly going rogue. After asking a contact in Havana for a \u2018fast car\u2019, he finds himself cruising in the be-finned Blue Oval convertible, typical of the sort of cars that soldiered on after Fidel Castro banned American imports into the island nation after its 1959 revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fairlane is a nod to the \u201957 Fairlane that met an explosive end in <em>Thunderball<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a315,000-58,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Aston-Vanquish.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Aston Vanquish&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>ASTON MARTIN VANQUISH \u2013 Die Another Day<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Aston Martin call it the Vanquish, we call it the Vanish\u2019. So R \u2013 the successor to Q, that John Cleese portrayed with typical short-tempered exasperation \u2013 introduced Bond to his company car in Pierce Brosnan\u2019s final 007 adventure, <em>Die Another Day<\/em>. The Vanquish was the Aston Martin that went just a little too far in terms of gadgetry, even in the unreal world of Bond. The shotguns, machine guns, missiles, remote control, retractable tyre spikes and, naturally, an ejector seat were all fine; they\u2019d been seen before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">What hadn\u2019t been seen before (literally) was the Aston\u2019s ability to turn invisible. The technology behind it \u2013 small cameras on all sides that projected what they saw onto light-emitting polymer skin on the opposite side \u2013 was being developed at the time, but for audiences, it was about as believable as Roger Moore taking a <em>Moonraker<\/em> shuttle into space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seven Vanquishes were supplied to the production, four of them modified with 5.0-litre Ford V8 engines and Explorer SUV all-wheel-drive to cope with the ice lake chase against similarly customised Jaguar XKRs. After the BMWs of the previous films, it was good to see Bond back in a new Aston Martin though. Well, when you could see him, of course\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a335,600-117,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Aston-DBS-OHMSS.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Aston DBS OHMSS&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>ASTON MARTIN DBS \u2013 On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new Bond and a new Aston. When Sean Connery departed Bond (for the first time) his replacement was little-known Australian model, George Lazenby. The result was 1969\u2019s <em>On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service<\/em>. It was Lazenby\u2019s only official appearance as 007 and wasn\u2019t that well received at the time but has since become highly regarded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bond found himself up against his arch nemesis Blofeld planning to unleash global biological warfare, but also met the love of his life, Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) who he ends up marrying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lazenby\u2019s Aston was a 1968 Olive Green DBS devoid of tricks save for an Armalite rifle concealed in the glovebox and the bizarre ability to somehow squeal its tyres while driving on loose sand. It only appeared at the film\u2019s beginning \u2013 as a means of introducing the new 007 \u2013 and end. Two were employed during production, the hero machine (GKX 8G) and another (FBH 207G) with its boot lid and back window removed for easier interior shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The closing scenes in which Bond\u2019s new bride, Tracy, is killed in the DBS would have been its pre-title sequence had Lazenby returned for <em>Diamonds Are Forever<\/em>. Instead, it served as the most tragic finale to any James Bond<span>\u00a0 <\/span>film \u2013 until <em>No Time to Die<\/em>, of course.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a349,300-141,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Aston-DBS-V12.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Aston DBS V12&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>ASTON MARTIN DBS \u2013 Casino Royale (and more)<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just as the original Aston Martin DBS ushered in George Lazenby as James Bond, so its more modern counterpart did the same for Daniel Craig in his 007 debut, <em>Casino Royale<\/em> in 2006. The very first Bond novel by Ian Fleming also served as a re-boot for the film franchise, with Daniel showing the character earning his 00 status and then embarking on his first major mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To assist with his task, he\u2019s given a DBS V12 (the production version of which wouldn\u2019t be launched until 2007, so Aston Martin supplied two hand-built prototypes and three stunt cars, using the film to make the world aware of its new sports car). Like the DBS from <em>On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service<\/em>, the glovebox had a gun tray, plus a much-required defibrillator \u2013 isn\u2019t it amazing how Q always manages to fit exactly what 007 will need for his current job but has strangely never had any call for in the past?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DBS\u2019s most notable act was its barrel rolls, filmed at Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire. They were achieved by fitting a car with an air cannon under the driver\u2019s seat to trigger a ram. The original plan was for it to roll two or three times. In the event, it managed seven and secured itself a place in the Guinness Book of Records in the process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that car destroyed, <em>Quantum of Solace<\/em> opened with a new DBS mid-way through a very destructive car chase alongside Lake Garda in Italy. As with its predecessor, the Aston Martin isn\u2019t spared the rough treatment, being riddled with bullet holes and losing its driver\u2019s door courtesy of a DAF 95 truck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Four Aston Martins were used for the special effects, with a further six used for close-ups and promotional work. The chase was one of the highlights of a film that is otherwise regarded as something of a low-point in the franchise. There was some possibly unwelcome advance publicity for <em>Quantum of Solace<\/em> when an Aston Martin engineer delivering one of the \u00a3134,000 cars to the set managed to crash it into Lake Garda en route. He survived, the DBS didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A DBS Superleggera did appear in 2021\u2019s <em>No Time to Die<\/em> but was driven by \u2018new\u2019 007, Nomi. Bond merely hitches a lift in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a349,500-90,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Aston-V8.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Aston V8&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE\/VOLANTE \u2013 The Living Daylights (and more)<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Bond hadn\u2019t been behind the wheel of an Aston Martin since 1969 when Timothy Dalton replaced the Lotus-favouring Roger Moore for 1987\u2019s <em>The Living Daylights<\/em>. But Aston\u2019s charismatic chairman, Victor Gauntlett, fully appreciated the marketing value of Britain\u2019s finest secret agent driving one of Britain\u2019s finest sports cars. So much so that he offered to loan his personal V8 Volante, B549 WUU, to the production to help lure the 007 team back to the marque.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The expensive carrot worked, and Dalton got to drive that as well as a \u2018winterised\u2019 version \u2013 in other words, a hard-top coup\u00e9 variant \u2013 in his Cold War adventure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to Gauntlett\u2019s DHC there were three used V8s prepared by Aston Martin, plus one aluminium and seven glassfibre mock-ups \u2013 purported to be Vantages with standard engines. The optional extras were far from standard, though. Bond\u2019s new ride had wheel hub-mounted lasers, retractable ski outriggers, heat-seeking missiles, a head-up display, police band-scanning radio, bulletproof glass and a rocket engine hidden behind its rear numberplate. It also had a self-destruct button \u2013 which proved useful when 007 and Kara (Maryam d\u2019Abo) had to abandon the Aston in Bratislava (well, Austria actually, pretending to be somewhere behind the Iron Curtain) after a high-octane snow and ice chase, to prevent it from falling into the hands of Soviets, who were understandably a bit miffed about what Bond had just done to their Ladas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the V8 ended its days in very small, burnt pieces somewhere in the Eastern Bloc, which made what happened in 2021\u2019s <em>No Time to Die <\/em>a little bit difficult to explain. In a scene that would have prompted Alan Partridge to yell at the cinema screen \u2018Stop getting Bond wrong!\u2019 a retired James Bond \u2013 this time portrayed by Daniel Craig \u2013 returned to London from Cuba and visited a railway arch lock-up in Lambeth. There, surprise surprise, was a pristine B549 WUU under a cover. 007 drove the somehow resurrected Aston Martin to MI6 headquarters, and then to Norway. Of the three standard cars used in <em>No Time To Die<\/em>, one was sold at auction for \u00a3630,00 in 2022 at a charity auction. EON Productions and Aston Martin have the other two. The Russians must be very upset\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a384,300-278,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Aston-DB5.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Aston DB5&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>ASTON MARTIN DB5 \u2013 Goldfinger (and more)<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And so we reach the ultimate Bond car, the one that will forever be associated with 007 \u2013 the Aston Martin DB5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Silver Birch grand tourer made its debut in <em>Goldfinger<\/em> and since that memorable, ejector seat-introducing debut, it has featured in a further eight films alongside three Bonds \u2013 Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. Incidentally, both George Lazenby and Roger Moore drove silver DB5s in movies that spoofed their 007 roles; 1983\u2019s <em>The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E<\/em> and 1981\u2019s <em>The Cannonball Run<\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sean Connery\u2019s DB5, registered BMT 216A, had front-mounted machine guns, hydraulic bumper overrider rams, a bulletproof rear shield, revolving numberplates, a tyre slasher in the nearside rear wheel hub, tracking radar, oil, water and nail dispensers and, of course, an injector seat. Aside from the latter, all the gadgets were operational and fitted on Aston Martin\u2019s prototype DB5. Another standard car was used for regular driving sequences and two promotional cars were so-equipped with gizmos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Goldfinger<\/em> turned James Bond into a global phenomenon, with the tricked-out DB5 being a large part of the appeal. The glory also reflected on Aston Martin, especially when the car returned the following year for <em>Thunderball<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Pierce Brosnan took over as Bond for 1995\u2019s <em>GoldenEye<\/em> after a six-year hiatus since Timothy Dalton, his DB5 was registered BMT 214A, as a sister pool car to the original BMT 216A. It popped up again in <em>Tomorrow Never Dies<\/em> and <em>The World Is Not Enough<\/em>, although most of its scenes were cut, reputedly at the behest of main vehicle supplier BMW.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daniel Craig won his first Aston Martin DB5 in a card game in 2006\u2019s <em>Casino Royale<\/em> but then BMT 216A returned for <em>Skyfall<\/em>. Memorably destroyed in the climax of that film, it was re-built for <em>Spectre<\/em> and then got to have a full-on, gadget-deploying car chase again in <em>No Time to Die<\/em>, for which eight replica DB5s were used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a3290,000-795,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Aston-DB10.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Aston DB10&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>ASTON MARTIN DB10 \u2013 Spectre<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s the one that you definitely can\u2019t actually buy. The preceding <em>Skyfall<\/em> was the most successful Bond movie ever, so 2015\u2019s <em>Spectre<\/em> had big boots to fill. It didn\u2019t quite manage it but featured a bespoke Aston Martin built solely for James Bond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the ten DB10s built, three were \u2018hero\u2019 cars and seven special effects machines. It wasn\u2019t quite as munificent a gesture by Aston Martin as it sounded because it was based on the forthcoming V8 Vantage platform, which had very similar lines when that production model debuted two years after <em>Spectre<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The title of the movie refers to the evil organisation (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) headed up by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a staple of the Sixties adventures. A suspended 007 goes rogue and steals the DB10 assigned to agent 009, which he then drives to Rome (or was it Blenheim Palace?) The ensuing chase sees the DB10 deploy its rear flamethrowers and ejector seat against the pursuing Jaguar C-X75 \u2013 which you also can\u2019t buy, incidentally.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a3N\/A<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/BMW-Z8.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;BMW Z8&#8243; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>BMW Z8 \u2013 The World Is Not Enough<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMW\u2019s final major Bond appearance saw previous Z3 and 750iL upgraded to a Z8 for 1999\u2019s <em>The World is Not Enough<\/em>. The scene where Brosnan was given the car marked the final appearance of the original Q, the beloved Desmond Llewelyn, who had fulfilled the role in every 007 film since <em>From Russia with Love<\/em> in 1963 (save for <em>Live and Let Die<\/em> in 1973). He introduced his \u2018young\u2019 assistant, R, played by John Cleese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Beemer\u2019s tricks included surface-to-air missiles, steering wheel targeting display and remote control, all of which were used in the film. It also had titanium armour and a head-up display.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Z8, which was ultimately sliced in half by a helicopter carrying a giant timber saw., was only in nascent form when filming began so BMW could only supply three prototypes. The filmmakers had to build a further three almost from scratch with glassfibre bodywork, Chevrolet V8 engines and Jaguar suspension. The three prototypes were returned to BMW intact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>WHAT TO PAY:<\/strong> \u00a3150,000-275,000<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2024\/10\/Range-Rover-Convertible.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Range Rover Convertible&#8221; module_class=&#8221;fp-image&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=&#8221;fp-h4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Poppins|700|||||||&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||0px||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>RAPPORT HUNTSMAN RANGE ROVER CONVERTIBLE \u2013 Octopussy<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.20.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When James Bond arrives to infiltrate an enemy airbase in the pre-title sequence of 1983\u2019s <em>Octopussy<\/em>, his choice of transport (towing a horsebox in which there\u2019s a mini Acrostar jet aircraft) is a Russet Brown Rapport Huntsman. The London-based Rapport Engineering specialised in converting vehicles mainly for wealthy customers in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Huntsman\u2019s open rear platform later made it easier for a captured 007 to jump from a military GMC truck into the Rapport and then make good his escape using the Acrostar jet. 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