Our favourite here at ‘James Bond Cars‘ is definitely the Aston Martin Vanquish.
In our view, the Vanquish was basically the best Aston ever produced. We much prefer its looks over the newer DBS. The Vanquish was also the fastest production car Aston Martin had EVER made. The original Vanquish produced a 190mph top speed, with the revised Vanquish ‘S’ managing an eye watering 208mph. Now that, is Bond.
The Vanquish is also very symbolic in Bond world as it marked the return to the British marque in Die Another Day. After 3 movies with Pierce Brosnan sitting behind the wheel of some very well equipped German BMWs.
Aston Martin ‘Vanish’
James Bonds Quartermaster liked to call the car, the ‘Vanish’ due it’s extremely futuristic capability of dissapearing, or more technically put, ‘Adaptive Camouflage Cloaking System’, which incorporated cameras on each side of the car, which then displayed what they viewed on the opposite side of the car using a special coating. Very much like turning the whole car into a video screen almost.
Weapons which we saw on the Vanish included, two .50 Caliber Auto-Cannons, 5 Rocket Propelled Grenades behind the front Grille. Target Tracking shotguns which are on retractable mounts that come out of the Aston Martins bonnet vents, Infra-Red Search and Tracking system and spike tyres.
Also included, was a passenger ejector seat which was a call back to the DB5 of Sean Connerys Days. In Die Another Day however, the seat was ejected whilst the car was upside down sliding on its roof, to propel and twist the car back onto it’s wheels so that Bond could carry on whooping the Lime Green Jaguar XK of ‘Zao’.
Aston MArtin Vanquish, 'The Vanish;