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Aston Martin V12 Vanquish driven by James Bond
Owned by MI6
Featured In Die Another Day (2002)
film information
For the 20th James Bond film James Bond once again drives an Aston Martin. Not since The Living Daylights has the main Bond car been an Aston Martin. In Die Another Day Bond uses an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish.
He is introduced to the Aston during the scene with R in the underground station. Bond is impressed when R demonstrates the cars Adaptive Camouflage – tiny cameras on all sides project the image they see onto a light emitting polymer skin on the opposite side – making the car almost invisible to the naked eye.
In an exciting chase across the frozen wastes of Iceland, Bond and Zao battle it out in perhaps one of the best car chases seen in a Bond film. Armed with an array of other gadgets; missiles behind the front-grille, machine guns, spiked tyres and target-seeking shotguns, like Zao’s Jaguar XKR, the Aston Martin V12 is a mammoth machine. Bond uses the customary ejector seat in a way perhaps not thought of by Q. The Aston Martin is flipped over when it is hit by one of the Jaguar’s mini-missiles. Just as Zao fires the decisive missile, Bond uses the ejector seat to right the Aston with the missile missing its target.
The chase continues into Gustav Graves’ flooding ice palace, where it appears Bond is beaten when he is trapped high above in the palace. Using another feature of the Jaguar, Zao activates a metal ramming device, in a hope to send Bond’s Aston Martin flying into the lake below. However, Bond manages to activate the now restored Adaptive Camouflage, engage spikes in the Aston’s tyres for more traction and drives up the wall, sending Zao driving straight into the lake below. §
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