Monday 16 September 2013

Top ten James Bonds cars of all time

James Bond, the MI6 character created by Ian Fleming is known for different things, the character is made to portray a man of great physical fitness, mental alertness, charm, poise and cold logic, there's hardly any James Bond character that isn't a charmer, unless it's Daniel Craig- the recent James Bond character, who seems to be more of a macho man than a gentleman...
No matter the style of the character, there's something that remains central to the James Bond movies--- their taste in exotic high performance cars.
Starting from the bottom, and going all the way to the top, presented below are the top ten James Bond cars.

Sunbean Alpine (10)

The Sunbean Alpine was James bond's first car, the car was featured in the Bond 1962 movie Dr No, considering its lack of gadgets, its position at the bottom of the ladder is understandable...

Lotus espirit turbo (9)




The lotus espirit is a car produced by the Lotus company in the United kingdom, it was first released as a concept car in 1972.
James bond drove the car in for your eyes only, while in the north of Italy, as beautiful as it looks, it holds the nineth position.

Aston martin DBS (8)


The Aston martin brand has been known as James bond car, its the brand that comes to mind each time you think of James bond, The aston martin DBS was featured in the James bond movie On her majesty's secret service, where George Lazenby played James Bond.

Citreon 2CV (7)


I really dont know why this car was voted number 7 ahead of the lotus espirit, but for what its worth, the citreon 2CV did a great job of helping James Bond dodge his enemies in the 1981 movie For your eyes only.

Toyota 2000GT (6)

Sean Connery drove this Japanese sports car in You only live twice, only 300 models of this car were produced, and only two of them had their roofs removed, specially for the movie because Sean Connery couldn't fit into the small car.

Aston martin V8 Vantage (5)

Aston martin featured her beauty V8 vantage in the 1987 James bond movie The living daylights, this car featured alot of gadgets-- lasers, missiles, guns etc that made the movie and the car truly classic.

Aston martin DBS V12 (4)

This beauty featured in Daniel Craigs Casino royale and Quantum of Solace.

Ford mustang Mach 1 (3)

The american muscle car made its most significant appearance in James bonds' 1971 Diamonds are forever, James bond evaded the cops in Las Vegas with the mach 1, the ford mustang had made a earlier appearance in Goldfinger.
The mustang is no newcomer when it comes to movies, however it was this movie that brought the car into limelight.

Lotus espirit (2)


Believe it or not, this car actually doubles as a submarine---- in real life and also in the movie  James bond movie thunderball, this beauty was auctioned off on the 11th of Sept 2013 at a staggering £550,000.... Small price to pay for such an iconic car....

Aston martin DB5 (1)

This is one of my favourite James bond cars, the aston martin DB5, the 1964 James bond movie-- Goldfinger made the aston martin brand what it is today, the DB5 was showcased in the 1964 New york world fair and was announced as the world's famous car, two DB5s were produced for the movie-- one with the weapons and the other without the weapons, one of the cars was stolen and is still at large to this day.
The DB5 appeared in thunderball, Casino royale, and even in the 23rd James bond movie skyfall, where it met its demise in Scotland Skyfall when the enemies came looking for M and Daniel Craig at his hide-out.
This car sold for £2,600,000 and is undoubtedly the greatest bond car of all time.....

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