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No Time to Die - 2021

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Vehicle Bond drives

Notes

Goodlooking, powerful car heavily equipped with Q-branch devices - In my opinion very successful successor of the famous DB5 traditions. 

AM Vantage version debuted in 1977 and was in production to 1990 with a total of 458 Vi Vantage build. For the movie purposes 2 different models in the newest series 3 car (fuel injection instead carburetors) were used. First of all the Volante (convertible) model appeared - in origin preproduction model, owned by the AML chairman Victor Gauntlett. In further scenes, after  'Winterrization', as Q says, car received a rigid roof  - in reality a serial Vantage was applied for the action, receiving the number plates and all the badges of the Volante version to keep the continuity impression.

The actual Vantage car, fitted with skis etc. was once owned by the museum Cars of the Stars in UK.

A running Vantage replica with the Bond numberplates is owned by the factory and sometimes it appears on the classic cars events.

The Living Daylights
A total of 11 'cars' was used for the filming. 3 was real cars, 1 a look a like and then 7 shells.
The three real cars was used models bought by Eon at reasonable prices. They were found  in motor ads in local papers.
One car was the road car used for the driving shots with Timothy Dalton at the wheel. The second car was the stunt car. That's the one that flew over the russian troops. It hit a ram at 75 mph and landed on cardboard boxes. The third car was the special effects car, equipped with missiles front, rocket booster back and 'lasers' (lights) in the wheel hubs.
The look alike car had a real body, but only brakes and steering, nothing else. It was used for filming the knock off of the skis in the wood.
The seven shells was used for mock-ups and closeups of the different gadgets in operation. They were all handbuild by the special effects department at Pinewood.

No Time To Die
In No Time to Die the V8 Vantage is Bonds private car without any gadgets. The colour and number plate is the same as in The Living Daylights. We see Bond revealing the car from storage in London when he returns from Cuba. Later he drives it in Norway en route to Madelaines house. And in the final scenes of the film Madelaine is driving it.
 

Technical Data

• Manufacturer: Aston Martin (UK)
• Model: V8 Vantage/Volante
• Year: 1984
• Engine: DOHC 5.341cc front-mounted V8. Alloy construction
• Power: 380 bhp @ 6000 rpm
  
• Transmission: Rear-wheel drive. ZF 5-speed manual gearbox.
• Suspension: Front, independent, wishbones and coil springs. Rear De Dion axle with Watts linkage.
• Steering: Rack and pinion. Power assistance: standard
• Brakes : Girling, vented discs front and rear, servo-assisted.
• Unladen weight: 4.387 lb (1.990 kg)
• Performance: Max. speed 160 mph (257 kmh) 0-60 mph (100 kmh) 5,3 sec.
• Colour: Gunmetal
• Numberplate: B549 WUU

Gadgets

• Rocket boost motor.
• Steel spikes.
• Rockets behind the fog lamps.
• Snow-outriggers.
• Wheelmounted laser.
• Bulletproof glass.
• Police scanning radio.
• Selfdestruct.
• Tires with retractable spikes.

No Time To Die

• none

Sources and Links

The New Observer's Book of Automobiles, Stuart Bladon, Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., London, 1985, page 18
Dream Cars Past & Present, Ken Vose, The Image Bank, 1989, page 21.

• 007 & Aston Martin
• Aston Martin Heritage Vantage
• Aston Martin Lagonda Limited
• Autolist.com
• The Car That Came in from the Cold

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