Bond, James Bond. Have my car waiting, I won’t be long…
Over the decades of James Bond movies we’ve seen numerous actors portray the charming Agent 007 while he drives fast cars (with the latest gadgets) and chases the damsel.
The fascination we have with Bond really is much the same as any action star; be the hero, get the girl, do it in style. Here we have a legacy of a super-agent. A role in Hollywood that is coveted and can make or break a career.
Here’s the cars James Bond drove through the series. We’ll update when the next installment is released.
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Dr. No
Year Released: 1962
Bond played by: Sean Connery
007 Car: Sunbeam Alpine
From his undersea base, *SPECTRE agent Doctor No uses his ‘Toppling
Beam’ to disrupt America’s space programme. (*SPecial Executive for
Counterintelligence Terrorism Revenge and Extortion.)
We came across this icon pack while searching for the Sunbeam Alpine driven in Dr. No by Sean Connery. hbielen couldn’t have done a better job capturing the essence of James Bond and Dr. No with these icons.
From Russia with Love
Year Released: 1963
Bond played by: Sean Connery
007 Car: 4.5 Litre Bentley Sports Tourer
Using the British Secret Service as its dupe, SPECTRE plans to steal the Lektor decoding machine and sell it back to its Russian owners, with the added refinement of the death of Double-O-Seven.
Goldfinger
Year Released: 1964
Bond played by: Sean Connery
007 Car: 1963 Aston Martin DB5
Using a nuclear device supplied by Red China, gold-smuggler and metallurgist Auric Goldfinger intends to increase the value of his gold bullion ten-fold by detonating the device inside Fort Knox, thereby making the 15 billion dollar gold supply of the United States radioactive for 58 years.
Thunderball
Year Released: 1965
Bond played by: Sean Connery
007 Car: 1963 Aston Martin DB5
The criminal organisation SPECTRE hijack an RAF Vulcan bomber and hold the Western World to ransom with its deadly cargo of atomic bombs.
Casino Royale
Year Released: 1967
Bond played by: David Niven
007 Car: Supercharged Bentley
The first unofficial Bond flick although laying plot for the Casino Royale feature in 2006. David Niven makes his only appearance as 007.
You Only Live Twice
Year Released: 1967
Bond played by: Sean Connery
007 Car: 1967 Toyota 2000GT Cabriolet
SPECTRE hijack American and Russian space capsules in a bid to start World War III for their clients, the Red Chinese.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Year Released: 1969
Bond played by: George Lazenby
007 Car: 1969 Aston Martin DBS
Ernst Stavro Blofeld plans to blackmail the Western World with the threat of bacteriological sabotage of the world food supply. His ransom? Recognition of his claim to the title of Count de Bleuchamp, and amnesty for all his past crimes.
Diamonds are Forever
Year Released: 1971
Bond played by: Sean Connery
007 Car: 1970 Triumph Stag / 1971 Ford Mustang Mach One
Blofeld holds the world to ransom with his diamond-powered laser satellite orbiting in space.
Live and Let Die
Year Released: 1973
Bond played by: Roger Moore
007 Car: Mini-Moke
Although Bond drives a Mini Moke and a ’73 Chevy in the movie, Live and Let Die had the most famous Bond Boat Chase, ever. That’s why we didn’t put up a car pic (plus they were mostly poor quality)
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big and his ‘voodoo’ henchmen plan to flood the US drugs market with free Heroin, thereby eliminating all competition and increasing the number of drugs users, from which they intend to reap a rich harvest.
The Man With The Golden Gun
Year Released: 1974
Bond played by: Roger Moore
007 Car: 1973 AMC Hornet Hatchback
Scaramanga, a KGB-trained freelance hitman who sometimes works for the Red Chinese, steals the Solex Agitator (the solution to the world’s energy shortage) and duels with James Bond for its ultimate possession.
The man with the Golden Gun also has one of the most memorable Car Stunts in Bond (and maybe 70′s) movies. If this was recreated today, might Bond have a Gold Car to match, like this Lambo?
The Spy Who Loved Me
Year Released: 1977
Bond played by: Roger Moore
007 Car: 1977 Lotus Esprit
Megalomaniac Karl Stromberg plans to obliterate mankind from the surface of the Earth and build a new undersea kingdom of which he will be supreme ruler. After destroying New York and Moscow with missiles from captured American and Russian submarines, Stromberg is assured global destruction will follow.
Moonraker
Year Released: 1979
Bond played by: Roger Moore
007 Car: MP Roadster / Hovercraft Gondola
Megalomaniac Hugo Drax plans to destroy all human life on the planet by launching nerve gas-filled spheres from his ‘cloaked’ space station orbiting the Earth, from where his chosen physical and mental elite will re-inhabit the planet.
For Your Eyes Only
Year Released: 1981
Bond played by: Roger Moore
007 Car: 1980 Lotus Esprit Turbo 2.2
When a British spy ship using the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator is sunk accidentally by a WWII mine off the coast of Albania, agent oo7 races against time to stop the ATAC falling into the hands of Russian agents.
Never Say Never Again
Year Released: 1983
Bond played by: Sean Connery
007 Car: Renault 5 Turbo 2
SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld infiltrate a US air force base situated in the UK and steal two Tomahawk cruise missiles. When NATO is held to ransom, the British reactive their “00″ agents and send James Bond to recapture the warheads and kill Blofeld.
Octopussy
Year Released: 1983
Bond played by: Roger Moore
007 Car: Alfa Romeo GTV6
Renegade Russian General Orlov, in order to countermand the soft line taken by his superiors in relation to the West plans, with the help of international smuggler Prince Kamal Khan, to detonate an atomic bomb on an American airbase in Germany
A View To Kill
Year Released: 1985
Bond played by: Roger Moore
007 Car: 1985 Renault 11 taxi / 1984 Chevrolet Corvette
Max Zorin, a prodigy of Nazi experimentation, plans to destroy Silicon Valley in California, thereby cornering the market in microchips.
The Living Daylights
Year Released: 1987
Bond played by: Timothy Dalton
007 Car: 1984 Aston Martin V8 Volante
Soviet General Georgi Koskov fakes his defection to the West in order he is able to continue his capitalist pursuits and have the British Secret Service eliminate his colleagues who are close to exposing his corruption.
License to Kill
Year Released: 1989
Bond played by: Timothy Dalton
007 Car: 1989 Lincoln Mark VII LSC
After James Bond’s best friend Felix Leiter is horribly maimed and his new bride murdered, agent oo7 sets out on a personal vendetta to bring violent retribution to all those responsible.
Golden Eye
Year Released: 1995
Bond played by: Pierce Brosnan
007 Car: 1996 BMW Z3 Roadster
The classic Bond car, Aston Martin DB5, also appears in this one. How odd that the best and worst Bond cars would be in the same film.
Former agent oo6, Alec Trevelyan, plans to use the Russian’s satellite weapon system ‘GoldenEye’ to steal millions via the London Banks’ computer systems in the final seconds prior to the satellite’s electromagnetic pulse destroys all the banks’ records.
Tomorrow Never Dies
Year Released: 1997
Bond played by: Pierce Brosnan
007 Car: BMW 750iL
Again, its like they just weren’t sold on having a BMW carry the entire film as the Aston Martin DB5 makes another appearance. However, it was pretty cool seeing Pierce Brosnan drive the BMW just using his cell phone.
British multimedia mogul Elliot Carver plans to achieve global domination by influencing the minds of people over the entire globe through his media empire, which after his plan to start a war between Britain and China, will enable him to have more people under his influence than anyone else has achieved in the history of the planet.
The World is Not Enough
Year Released: 1999
Bond played by: Pierce Brosnan
007 Car: BMW Z8
Her mind twisted to the border of insanity by the combination of her brutal kidnap by Renard, a notorious global anarchist, and the discovery that her father allowed the British Secret Service to use her as ‘bait’ to apprehend her captor, Elektra King plans to destroy Istanbul by exploding a nuclear submarine in the Bosphorus, which will force the world to use the oil from the King pipeline.
Die Another Day
Year Released: 2002
Bond played by: Pierce Brosnan
007 Car: Aston Martin Vanquish
After undergoing a painful gene therapy, which transforms his facial characteristics from Oriental to Caucasian, North Korean Colonel Tan-Gun Moon, as Sir Gustav Graves, plans to use ‘Icarus’, his secret satellite laser-emitting weapon orbiting in space, to destroy the minefield in the Korean Demilitarised Zone, enabling the takeover of South Korea, thereby uniting the country and Japan and China to form a new unstoppable superpower.
Casino Royale
Year Released: 2006
Bond played by: Daniel Craig
007 Car: Aston Martin DBS
Monsieur Le Chiffre, “the cipher”, is a Money Launderer for terrorists, running a poker game at a Madagascan casino to raise needed operational funds-namely, to recover the terrorists money that he lost in a failed attempt to establish a chain of brothels.
Quantum of Solace
Year Released: 2008
Bond played by: Daniel Craig
007 Car: Aston Martin DBS
Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined. Forensic intelligence links an MI6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (Olga Kurylenko), a woman who has her own vendetta….
Skyfall
Year Released: 2012
Bond played by: Daniel Craig
007 Car: Aston Martin DB5 (maybe more…)
This next installment surely won’t disappoint, especially with the variety of new Aston Martin’s that have come out since 2008 and that are on the way. Like some of the Pierce Brosnan era films, the Aston Martin DB5 makes and appearance, and that’s really all we can see until the movie is released later in 2012.
