Gallery: James Bond's Coolest Rides, From Jet Packs to Spaceships
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Who wins when it's car vs. helicopter? Depends which one Bond is driving (from *The Spy Who Loved Me*).
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Aston Martin DB5, *Goldfinger*. The most famous Bond vehicle of them all. The DB5 would be featured in six more Bond flicks after this, most recently in *Spectre*.
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Jet pack, *Thunderball*. When you need to make a quick getaway from a European castle, best leave your aerial transportation where it’s most convenient.
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Lockheed L1329 JetStar, *You Only Live Twice*. Comes ready to assemble from just four giant suitcases. Seats only one, but there’s room for luggage.
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Moon buggy, *Diamonds are Forever*. If you don’t believe that a desert car chase featuring a lumbering lunar rover can outmaneuver a cadre of police, then check out Connery’s handling on the dunes outside Las Vegas.
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Hang glider, *Live and Let Die*. Perfect for evading detection when trying to infiltrate a Caribbean drug lord’s private compound.
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Glastron GT150 speedboat, *Live and Let Die*. While trying to evade capture from a heroin dealer’s goon (and the local Louisiana State Police), there’s only one way to get through the bayou in style.
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1974 Hornet X Hatchback, *The Man With the Golden Gun*. Even from this still, you can tell a wee bit of planning went into this Hornet’s flight across a collapsed bridgespan. And you’d be right! It was actually the first-ever car stunt modeled beforehand by computers.
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Lotus Esprit S1, *The Spy Who Loved Me*. A sports car that can go underwater and turn into a gliding submarine? This was definitely the show floor model. In 2013, Elon Musk bought this car at auction, with plans to make it drive underwater for real.
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Drax Moonraker 6, *Moonraker*. What better way to rendezvous with an evil engineer heading for his stealth space station than to hitch a ride on one of his own shuttles? It beats flying coach.
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Bede BD-5J Acrostar microjet, *Octopussy*. Has been known to help evade even the most pesky Cuban heat-seeking missiles in a pinch.
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Yamaha XJ650 Seca Turbo, *Never Say Never Again*. A Q-modified bike capable of rocket-boosting over any Bahaman marina with ease.
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US Navy XT-7B personal hovercraft, *Never Say Never Again*. It’s not technically a helicopter, but it gets you from Point A to Point B.
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Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante, *The Living Daylights*. Finally, the Aston Martin returns to the Bond films for the first time since 1969’s *On Her Majesty’s Secret Service*. Quibble all you want with Dalton’s casting, but he gets points for this.
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1996 BMW Z3, *GoldenEye*. This Bimmer (a somewhat controversial selection for Bond purists) could shoot missiles out the front and had a safety parachute equipped in the back. And unlike most every other Bond car, it actually survived to drive another day.
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Aero L-39 Albatros, *Tomorrow Never Dies*. When you need to make a quick exit from a terrorist flea market in the Russian mountains with some nuclear torpedoes in tow, hopefully you’ve already read this plane’s instruction manual. It’s right there in the glove compartment.
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Q’s personal watercraft, *The World Is Not Enough*. Q was looking to some post-retirement fishing in this custom rig until Bond jacked it to chase a sniper down the Thames. As one does.
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Aston Martin V12 Vanquish, *Die Another Day*. The real crime of this regrettable movie wasn’t in trying to pass off an invisible car as even remotely believable. It was in trying to pass off this beauty as something that shouldn’t be seen.
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Aston Martin DB5, *Casino Royale*. It’s back! The car made famous in *Goldfinger* makes a brief but important cameo in Daniel Craig’s first Bond installment, the result of a Texas Hold‘em game gone well for 007.
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Aston Martin DB5, *Skyfall*. OK, but seriously, this is the coolest car ever.
