{"id":11696,"date":"2021-09-22T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T07:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:17:02","slug":"bond-bad-guys-bad-news-for-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/bond-bad-guys-bad-news-for-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Bad Guys – Bad News For Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a new James Bond film finally<\/em> about to hit the silver screen, we thought it would be a nice idea to dream up a cliched list of the cars he has driven over his cinematic history and then post links to where you can find them. We’re pretty sure this has never been done. We’ve certainly never done it<\/a>. Nope. No way. Okay, so it’s been done before, but there’s a good reason for that – Bond is known for his cars just as much as his spy-based shenanigans. Think Bond, you think Lotus<\/a> Esprit, Aston Martin<\/a> DB5, Lotus Esprit again, Aston Martin Vantage, erm, and 2CV<\/a>. This is why it’s so much fun to write articles about the cars he has driven. Who wouldn’t want to take to the B Roads feeling like Bond?<\/p>\n

\"Bond,<\/p>\n

This article, however, is not about Bond’s cars. Instead, we’re looking at some of the cars the bad guys drove. And ultimately, why being a bad guy car is bad in every sense of the word. For ever Aston Martin, for every speeding Esprit, there has been an unfortunate Mercedes-Benz<\/a> Ponton, ’57 Ford or… Lada, that has been on the receiving end of whatever Q Branch had dreamed up for that particular outing. And they weren’t all rubbish cars. The bad guys, it seems, had taste. To quote that collection of British actors in that Jaguar advert, it’s good to be bad. Unless you’re the car, in which case it’s bad. And normally involves exploding.<\/p>\n

Dr. No – 1962<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Bond,<\/p>\n

It was painful watching this 1939 LaSalle funeral coach get flung about, but not nearly as painful as it was watching it go over a cliff before exploding. Though there must have been some requirement to not destroy the LaSalle, as it actually turns into a 1949 Humber<\/a> before making that last, fiery leap to its doom.<\/p>\n

Goldfinger – 1964 <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n