However, the car’s outline can be seen at the closing of the film, as Q uses a thermal-imaging satellite to locate Bond from their Scottish HQ in Castle Thane. For The World Is Not Enough (1999), the Aston Martin was part of a scene deleted from the final edit. Bond is behind the wheel of the DB5 in 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies as he drives through the streets on his return to London.

Bond turns a leisurely drive in the DB5 with Caroline, MI6’s psychological assessor, into a road battle with Xenia Onatopp’s Ferrari F355 GTS, as they head to Monte Carlo. After a 30-year hiatus, the DB5 returns in 1995’s GoldenEye. The jets are used again when Count Lippe gives pursuit and Fiona Volpe intervenes on her BSA Lightning motorcycle. Here Bond makes a getaway from a SPECTRE château via jetpack, jumps into the DB5 and fires high-pressure water jets at his adversaries from the car’s rear. In 1965’s Thunderball, the car appears in the opening sequence. Once captured by Goldfinger’s goons, Bond escapes by utilising the ejector seat, and then unloads with the twin front-mounted Browning machine guns that emerge from behind the forward indicator lights, and also engages the extending front bumpers. The bullet-proof rear shield, meanwhile, saves him when he’s trapped in a crossfire. Later on, bidding to escape Auric Enterprises, 007 employs the car’s smoke screen and oil slick. Using a control panel in the centre console, 007 next engages the tyre slashers to disable Tilly Masterson’s Ford Mustang after she’s taken a pot shot with her sniper’s rifle. The first gadget deployed is the tracking device, which Bond attaches to Goldfinger’s Rolls-Royce Phantom III.

Q then introduces him to most, but not all, of the added extras (the filmmakers wanting the car to surprise people when its full array of armaments came into effect). Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Spectre, No Time To Die On FilmĪrguably the most iconic car in the world, the Aston Martin DB5 debuts in the film series when 007 visits Q’s laboratory in Goldfinger, where he’s informed that his Bentley is to be replaced by a Silver Birch Aston Martin DB5 with the number plate BMT 216A (which it will wear for all its appearances, except two (see below)).

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