New James Bond Means New James Bond Car - Meet 007's New Aston Martin
Aston Martins are truly special - they always have been and always will be."
"To celebrate the French première of the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, the star of the movie, Sean Connery, drove its most famous prop, a silver grey Aston Martin DB5, along the Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris accompanied by sixty women whose bodies were painted gold like that of the voluptuous woman in the title sequence.
Elegant on the outside, but armed with deadly weapons by Goldfinger’s designer Ken Adam, the Aston Martin DB5 reflected the stylish brutality of the early Bond films. In Ian Fleming’s original Goldfinger novel, Bond drove an earlier Aston Martin, a DB3 fitted with such modest ‘extras’ as reinforced bumpers and a Colt 45 pistol in a concealed compartment.
Ken Adam took it further by kitting out the DB5 with an ejector seat, machine guns, wheel scythe, revolving number plates and homing device. The producers vetoed his suggestion of twin flame throwers."
- DesignMuseum.org
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Hi! The name's Bond, James Bond. You may call me Macca. Could you please direct my new Aston Martin DBS to 7 Ridgey Didge Boulevard, Downunder. The cheque's in the mail!
No way , Macca. I'm the real James Bond but for some reason my wife keeps calling me double O zero.