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James Bond cars

James Bond cars

Wayne Cunningham Managing Editor / Roadshow
Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began covering technology and the Web in 1994 as an editor of The Net magazine.
Wayne Cunningham
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BMW sent me an interesting PDF recently that listed all the James Bond movies and their associated cars. I thought it would be fun to post the list here, although I culled the cars that weren't actually driven by Bond (except for the Toyota 2000 GT, which is too interesting of a car to leave out). It's mostly Aston Martins in the '60s, all over the map for the '70s and '80s, then BMWs kick in during the mid-1990s. You kind of wonder what Bond's doing in an AMC Hornet, but this car did a barrel roll while jumping a river in The Man with the Golden Gun. For more information on James Bond movies, try this official James Bond site.

YearMovieCar
1962Dr. NoSunbeam Alpine Series 5
1963From Russia with loveAston Martin DB5
Bentley Sports Tourer
1964GoldfingerAston Martin DB5
1965ThunderballAston Martin DB5
1967You Only Live Twice Toyota 2000 GT
1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service Aston Martin DBS
1971Diamonds are Forever Ford Mustang Mach 1
1974The Man with the Golden Gun AMC Hornet Hatchback
1977The Spy who Loved Me Lotus Esprit
1979MoonrakerMP Roadster
1981For Your Eyes Only Lotus Esprit Turbo
1983Octopussy Mercedes 250 SE
Alfa Romeo GTV
1987The Living Daylights Aston Martin DBS
Audi 200 Quattro
1995Golden Eye BMW Z3
Aston Martin DB5
1997Tomorrow Never Dies BMW 750iL
Aston Martin DB5
1999The World is Not Enough BMW Z8
2002Die Another Day Aston Martin V12 Vanquish