The 7 best cars James Bond villains drove - Driving
In the upcoming movie, Spectre , the bad guys get the Jaguar C-X75 concept to take on James Bond in his new Aston. Rolls-Royce Phantom III For the man with the Midas touch, nothing but the finest will do. Thus, Auric Goldfinger’s 1937 Rolls-Royce : hidden strength to carry illicit gold smuggled behind yellow-and-black coachwork. There’s actually some accuracy here as early Rolls-Royces were some of the first armoured cars to be used in wartime. Stout chassis capable of ferrying around plate steel and Vickers machine guns are easily capable of ferrying around a ton of smuggled gold. Goldeneye marked the beginning of the Pierce Brosnan Bond age, and despite being the first Bond movie to feature CGI, it showed plenty of promise. And then Xenia Onatopp shows up in her drop-top Ferrari F355 GTS. The Ferrari is the perfect foil to the Aston: vivacious, tricky to handle, very expensive, and deadly. Red cars seem to be a theme with Bond femme fatales, as next seen here with Fatima Blush’s stunning Renault R5 Turbo, unlikely star of Never Say Never Again. Somebody’s been stealing nuclear warheads again — hello SPECTRE — so it’s up to a slightly over-the-hill Bond to investigate. Source: driving.ca
