A licence to drive: the cars of James Bond - The New Daily
Cars, guns and beautiful women (not necessarily in that order) have been intrinsic to the success of a cinematic franchise that has been with us since 1962. The chisel-chinned actors who played James Bond actors have changed on several occasions,... News broke recently that Bond in the soon-to-debut film Spectre will be driving an Aston so special it hasn’t even entered production yet. The most famous car in the world This is the car that people who have never even seen a James Bond film can recognise. After retiring, Bond’s DB5 should have spent its declining years in a warm, dry corner of Q’s development lab, but lookalikes have continued to make cameo appearances in a range of Bond adventures. The fate of the original ‘gadget car’ is, however, more mysterious than even Bond creator Ian Fleming could have contemplated. A year later it was back for a less prominent role in Thunderball and similar cars have been seen in more recent 007 flicks. They had wanted to see Bond at the wheel of an E-Type but Jaguar wasn’t interested in giving away cars for which they already had more than enough buyers. Aston Martin then came up with a developmental DB5 which would be used for stunt and special effects filming and an identical. Source: thenewdaily.com.au
