Tanya Gold

When will James Bond drive an SUV?

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Daniel Craig, No Time to Die (Shutterstock)

I once read that after watching a James Bond film men speed in their Honda Civics: they might do 35 mph in a built-up area. If this is so, it is due to the Aston Martin Bond has driven since 1964 (the DB5 in Goldfinger, a man with ‘a cold finger’). The DB5 has appeared in six Bond films so far; and some kind of Aston Martin has appeared in twelve Bond films. Is it, I wonder, contemplating Bond’s internal wasteland of sex addiction, murder and laundry, the only real home he ever had? Is it his wife? When the DB5 was revealed in Skyfall, waiting calmly in a garage, it seemed it was. The face of Bond – he is named after an ornithologist – may change. You may remember that his creator Ian Fleming was a foreign editor who liked to spank his wife; and who gets that sexually excited in a Sunday broadsheet office? You may guess that civil servants don’t live like that.

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