Bond. James Bond.
Top Five Bond Cars
We pick five awesome Bond cars in honor of "Skyfall."
Web2Carz Senior Writer
Published: October 13th, 2012
E
ven superspies need transportation. And when fictional MI6 agent James Bond isn't using a jetpack or some other rocket-propelled personal transportation device, he's getting from casino to casino behind the wheel of some sort of luxury car with dazzling—and deadly—features. After all, not every car on the market can go invisible or fire bullets from the headlights, much as we might wish that were the case.
Here is a list of our five favorite Bond cars, presented in a format that is shaken, not stirred.
 Aston Martin DB5Aston Martin DB5: As cool as its pop-up gun barrels are, the DB5 makes the list for its appearance in five Bond films: (Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Casino Royale). Our favorite scene with this car involves very little violence—it's the curvy-road duel with bad girl Xenia Onatopp and her Ferrari in GoldenEye that makes us wish we were as suave as 007. The original car in the Goldfinger novel was a DB Mark III, but the DB5 was brand-new and Aston Martin was eager to showcase it. |
 Aston Martin Vanquish Aston Martin V12 Vanguish: The main ride from Die Another Day features the usual accoutrements (front-firing rockets, hood-mounted guns, spiked tires, an ejection seat), but it's the cloaking device (which hides the car) that gets to us. Very useful when parking a six-figure car in the rough part of town. |
 Ford Fairlane Ford Fairlane: Also from Die Another Day, this car doesn’t see much action—we just get a shot of Pierce Brosnan's Bond cruising in Cuba. Yet the car makes the list because of the shout-out to villain Count Lippe's car in Thunderball (Lippe drove a Fairlane in that movie), and because cruising in Cuba in an relic of the '50s on a sun-splashed day is cool no matter who you are. |
 BMW 750 iL BMW 750iL: It may not be as sexy as some of the other Bond rides, but it's just as deadly. Thanks to its remote-control feature, Bond is able to bailout and fool his pursuers by driving it off the roof of a parking garage in Tomorrow Never Dies. |
 BMW Z8BMW Z8: Because corporate sponsorships of movies net movie studios big bucks, BMW became the brand of choice for Bond during the Pierce Brosnan era. The Z8 from The World is Not Enough manages to get just one shot off before being chopped in half by a chainsaw hanging from a helicopter in what is undoubtedly one of the coolest automobile deaths ever filmed. |
