All our cars are Bond cars.
21.05.12

There is, as I write, a new James Bond film in the works. Called Skyfall, it features Daniel Craig in his third outing as Ian Fleming’s iconic assassin, that “blunt instrument, wielded by a government department.” Sorry to appear somewhat old fashioned, or even passé, but this is a source of rich excitement to me. I’ve been a Bond fan practically since I was first allowed into a cinema or to watch anything on the television that didn’t feature Bugs Bunny. The glamour, the action, the excitement, the gadgets, suits and cars and, yes, the good old sex and violence. Scratch even the most modern and feminist of men and you’ll probably find an unreconstructed Bond fan dwelling just below the dermis.
Of course, for a car nut, the gorgeous vehicles driven by our screen and literary hero are like a gateway drug to the wider world of Bond. Whether it’s the book Bond and his pre-war Bentley in its battleship grey paint, its Amherst-Villiers supercharger huffing away. Or the screen Bond and his Aston Martin DB5 (with modifications, natch) the secret service wheels are an irresistible pull to the impressionable car nut.
Source: Irish Times (blog)