![]() He unleashes a hail of bullets while spinning the car in a 360-degree circle. Bond and Madeleine are protected by bullet-proof panels and glass, and when it seems that the glass might shatter, Bond flicks a switch on the car’s centre console, which drops the front headlamps to reveal a brace of mini-guns. Villains surround the car and pepper the DB5 with machine gun fire. Just as he thinks he may have shaken his pursuers, an SUV smashes into his side, spinning the car into the middle of a piazza. ![]() With assassins still clinging to their tail, Bond then powers the DB5 down a flight of steps before grazing it on a wall as he slips through a narrow alley. Bond guides the DB5 through the ancient city’s winding streets, unloading a batch of cluster of mini mines from the car’s rear. A short while later, the car takes to the streets of Matera and comes under attack. Bond and Madeleine drive along the Italian coast in his DB5, with the number plate A 4289 00. The DB5 enjoys a starring role in 2021’s No Time To Die where it has its biggest action sequence since its 1964 debut. The DB5 is shot to pieces by Silva’s helicopter but is recovered and restored in Q’s lab in 2015’s Spectre, before Bond and Madeleine Swann exit London in the car at the film’s conclusion. It’s back in full-throated action during the final showdown in Scotland, where the front-mounted machine guns are used to lethal effect. In 2012’s Skyfall, 007 recovers his classic DB5 – with number plate BMT 216A – from his London lock-up and drives up to his ancestral home with M, his finger at one point hovering over the ejector seat button. Here Bond wins a left-hand drive 1964 DB5 – complete with Bahamian number plates 56526 – from Alex Dimitrios in a poker match at the beach club. ![]() The car re-emerges as a series regular from Casino Royale (2006). ![]() 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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