BBC - Bond's Ten Best Cars
18 March 2014
Bond in Motion: 007’s 10 best cars
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- Aston Martin DB5
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James Bond a car is not just a tool for Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
It’s an expression of personal style. Whatever he drives is as important
as his crisply tailored suits and shaken-not-stirred martinis in
projecting his sense of sophistication. And for the producers of the
52-year-old film franchise, 007’s automobiles are markers of cool that
inspire aspirational fantasies everywhere. To honour their place in
movie history, the London Film Museum
will open the exhibition Bond in Motion on 21 March, which first ran
successfully for two years at the UK's National Motor Museum. It is the
largest official collection of original 007 vehicles ever assembled.
Though he has driven many cars in 23 films, Bond’s most famous
automobile is undoubtedly the Aston Martin DB5. With a polished
silver-birch finish gleaming over a sleek magnesium alloy body, the car
was an instant sensation when it debuted in 1964’s Goldfinger, as much
for its classic-meets-futuristic design as for its complement of gadgets
– including, most famously, an ejector seat. A DB5 has appeared in five
subsequent Bond films, though one of the original models that included
the gadgets sold for £2.9m ($4.6m) to the car collector Harry Yeaggy.
(Alamy)
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