When your Jaguar scheduled maintenance appointment is with Q, your name must be Bond, James Bond. The man with a license to kill also had a license to drive some of the most beautiful European cars ever to grace the pavement. The mechanics at our auto repair shop in Cincinnati are still in awe. In fact, Bond movies are one of the reasons many of us decided to take up import car maintenance in the first place. Although Bond was known to drive the occasional Ford Mustang from time to time, most of his wheels of choice were imports, predominantly European.
Aston Martin, BMW and More: Only the Best for James Bond
Check out this extensive list of some of the best James Bond spy cars of all time. Quite a few on the list are BMWs, including the BMW Z8, The BMW 750iL, and the BMW Z3. Though all of BMWs were already pretty incredible when they left the factory, the Z3 was made extra special after Q was finished with it because of its parachute braking system. We’ve heard of great BMW brakes, but parachute brakes? Yeah, our BMW technicians are kinda jealous.
Some other stand out cars on the list include a handful of Aston Martins, of course. One of the most iconic Bond vehicles is the V12 Vanquish, though maybe not in the best way. In Die Another Day the Vanquish somehow got the incredible ability to turn invisible, which was (and still is) cited as one of the silliest Bond gadgets of all time. The Aston Martin DBS V12 and DB5 also showed up in some of the newer Bond movies with some more reasonable (and less fun) gadgets like hidden weapons and the essential ejector seat.
Who knows what Bond will be driving in the next film? Our money is on another incredible import auto.
