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Driver's license: The cars of James Bond
By Daniel Collins
The personification of suave and sophisticated, James Bond is perhaps as well known for his love of cars as he is for his love of women. In fact, many of its cars to live in the memory of fans long after those of the Bond girls are blurred.
The cars most associated with James Bond has never been your average family run, after all, it would be difficult to imagine the super-spy driving a Ford Escort equipped with machine guns and rocket launchers! However, while James Bond does not make use of more mundane vehicles when the need arises throughout his adventures, he is perhaps best known though for his use of these cars loaded gadget that presented many in movies.
However, the first car of James Bond was a vehicle altogether more modest - a mustard-colored Sunbeam Alpine, contained in the first James Bond film "Dr. No" and, unfortunately, was not equipped with machine guns or oil sprays. It was also far from James Bond's preferred choice of vehicle, the British-made Bentley.
The cars in "From Russia With Love" was slightly more upmarket, although Bond had not led. On the contrary, it has been a driver in a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith and a family Ford Fairlane station. Again, it there were no gadgets in "Goldfinger", however, they emerged with a vengeance and has fired the imagination of car lovers everywhere. In "Goldfinger," Bond led a typical British car - the Aston Martin DB5, which featured machine guns, revolving license plates, rocket launchers and even an ejection seat! The same style of car also made a brief appearance in "Thunderball."
For the upcoming movie "You Only Live Twice, Bond is Japanese with his choice of car with a Toyota 2000GT. At the time, the 2000GT is a very rare and expensive car, even in Japan. Bond version had no Gadgets seen in "Goldfinger" Save to a television screen built into the dashboard. Other means of transport in the Bond movie - a gyrocopter named "Little Nellie" - is more than offset the lack of gadgets, however, with machine guns, rocket launchers, flamethrowers and even the air of mines attached to parachutes!
A new Bond marks a new car, and the representation of James Bond George Lazenby featured a return to British-made vehicles and a new Aston Martin DBS car this time, although glimpses of the car were mainly limited to the first scenes, with Bond often seen in cars of other characters, rather than his own.
One of the greatest car chases in the history of modern cinema, also has one of the most famous cars of Bond - the Mustang Mach 1. Mustangs appeared frequently in the James Bond films, and in the tracking sequence where Bond is pursued through the streets of Las Vegas police also has one of the most famous film blunders when the car James Bond between in an alley on a pair of wheels to escape the police, the car appears on the opposite side on the shelf in front of wheels! Impressive, even by the standards of James Bond!
Perhaps the favorite of schoolchildren everywhere, the image of the white Lotus Esprit rising from the sea on a crowded beach in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' is the idea of many people in the car definitive link. Equipped with gadgets at will, the Lotus Esprit was not just a car, but a submarine. A similar version appeared in "For Your Eyes Only", but this time around the supercar had to play second fiddle to a Citroen 2CV and boosted!
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Posted on May 26, 2011.
