List of James Bond vehicles


Throughout the James Bond series of films and novels, Q Branch has given Bond a variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. Among the most noteworthy gadgets, Bond has been equipped with various vehicles that have numerous modifications to include elaborate weapons and anti-pursuit systems, alternative transportation modes, and various other functions. One car in particular that has been linked to Mr. Bond's collection is the Aston Martin DB5.
This is a list of the most noteworthy vehicles seen in James Bond, used by either Bond himself, his allies or his enemies.

Road vehicles

Alfa Romeo

AMC

Aston Martin

; Bamford & Martin 1.5 litre Side Valve
The Bamford & Martin 1.5 litre Side Valve Short Chassis Tourer was James Bond's first car. He inherited it around Easter 1933 in the first Young Bond novel SilverFin from his uncle Max at the age of thirteen. Bond regularly drove the car, although he was underage, and stored it in a nearby garage while he attended Eton. The car was destroyed in the third Young Bond novel, Double or Die, in December 1933 leading Bond to replace it by purchasing the Bentley Mark IV shortly thereafter in the same novel.
; Aston Martin DB Mark III
Bond drives an Aston Martin DB Mark III, which is referred to as a "DB III" in the novel Goldfinger. The "DB3" was a car designed specifically for racing and is unlikely that Bond would drive one. The DB Mark III is often called the DB III and is more comparable to its description in Fleming's novel. This car was the only gadget-laden vehicle to be mentioned in the original Bond novels, though Fleming generally avoided gadgetry in his books. It included switches to alter the type of color of the front and rear lights, reinforced steel bumpers, a Colt.45 pistol in a trick compartment under the driver's seat, and a homing device receiver similar to the DB5 in the film.

Audi

AvtoVAZ

Bentley

; Bentley Mark IV
There has never been a Bentley model known as the "Mark IV": neither from the "old" W.O. Bentley firm, nor from Rolls-Royce after the takeover of Bentley Motors in 1931. The "Mark IV" appellation seems to have been created by Ian Fleming, and erroneously perpetuated since. In contradistinction to the films, James Bond's official car in the Ian Fleming novels was a grey 1933 Bentley convertible. The car featured a 4.5-litre engine with the Amherst Villiers supercharger. In the novels, no gadgets were installed; this was Bond's personal vehicle that is mentioned in Casino Royale as being a hobby that Bond enjoys working on. Its only armament, in the novels, is a.45 Colt Army Special revolver Bond keeps in the glove compartment. The novel version of the Bentley Mark IV was destroyed during a chase sequence in Moonraker. The Bentley is also the very first Bond vehicle seen in the film series, although it was shown very briefly during Bond's first scene in From Russia with Love and mentioned only in passing in Goldfinger. In From Russia with Love, the only gadget known to be included was a car phone, which in 1963 was very uncommon. The film version of Goldfinger strongly implies that the Bentley was issued to Bond by Q-Branch, since he asks Q about the vehicle, only to be told that it had "had its day". He is given the Aston Martin instead.
In Casino Royale, Fleming writes that Bond bought the car "almost new" in 1933 and had it stored during the war, which is mentioned in the Young Bond novel Double or Die. In Live and Let Die Fleming states the automobile's year as 1933, however in Moonraker Fleming states it is from 1930. This earlier date is the correct one, as the Bentley 4½ Litre ceased production in 1930.
; Bentley Mark VI
Made in 1953, Bond purchases his second Bentley towards the end of the novel, Moonraker. Like his previous Bentley, the Mark VI is grey with dark blue leather upholstery. After Moonraker this model is never mentioned again.
; Bentley Mark II Continental
A Bentley Mark II Continental was featured in the novel Thunderball and is Bond's final Bentley. Bond, having purchased the car in a wrecked state, upgrades the engine from a 4.5 L engine to a 4.9 L and has a custom drophead body from Mulliners. The Mark II was also grey; however, the interior was black leather. The Mark II Continental is last seen in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service where Bond upgrades the vehicles once again with an Arnott supercharger controlled by a magnetic clutch, causing Rolls-Royce, worried about potential damage to the engine, to disown the car. He uses the car in a race with the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo in her Lancia Flaminia Spyder towards the beginning of the book. Bond dubs the car "the locomotive".

BMW

British Leyland/Rover/MG

Citroën

Ford Motor Company

General Motors

Jaguar Cars

Land Rover

Lotus

Mercedes-Benz

Rolls-Royce

Saab

Other passenger cars

Miscellaneous land vehicles

Military land vehicles

Trains

Aircraft

Marine vehicles

Spacecraft and space weapons

Novels

Films

FilmVehicleOwnerNotes
Dr. NoMercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle and lunar Mercury capsuleNASALikely operated by an unknown NASA astronaut for a lunar orbit spaceflight. Dr. No's goal is to sabotage the launch, causing the mission's failure and eventually the death of the astronaut, assuming there was one.
Actually, the rocket sequence was the video of a Titan ICBM test, not a Mercury launch.
You Only Live TwiceGemini Jupiter 16 capsuleNASA/McDonnell AircraftDuring its fourth orbit's spacewalk by the astronaut Chris, is captured by SPECTRE's Bird One. Chris is killed and the other astronaut is imprisoned in SPECTRE's Japanese base.
You Only Live TwiceBird OneSPECTRE/Ernst Stavro BlofeldUsed by SPECTRE cosmonauts to capture NASA and Soviet capsules after launches in a crater in Japan. It is probably inspired by the Augmented Target Docking Adapter, nicknamed "the angry alligator".
You Only Live TwiceSoviet capsuleSoviet space programAlso captured by Bird One, is a fictional Soviet spacecraft. Its launch sequence is really the launch of a Project Mercury mission.
You Only Live TwiceGemini Jupiter ? capsuleNASA/McDonnell AircraftAnother Gemini capsule, used in a mission during an attempt of capture by the Bird One. After the Bird One explodes as Bond used the SPECTRE computing devices, the capsule successfully reenters in Earth's atmosphere.
Diamonds Are ForeverWillard Whyte's rocket and Blofeld's satelliteWillard Whyte and SPECTRE/Ernst Stavro BlofeldUsed after a large diamond smuggling, the satellite is built with diamonds and it can project a powerful laser on nuclear submarines, nuclear missiles silos.
MoonrakerMoonraker 1, Moonraker 2, Moonraker 3, Moonraker 4, Moonraker 6Drax Industries/Sir Hugo DraxSpace Shuttle orbiter-like spacecraft originally built by Drax Industries for the World's space agencies, but used to transport Drax's "perfect" humans to his personal space station. One orbiter is stolen from an SCA-like Boeing 747 while en route to the United Kingdom, destroying the airplane, to replace another one which had problems, leading MI6 to investigate.
MoonrakerMoonraker 5Drax Industries/Sir Hugo DraxDrax's own laser-equipped spacecraft. It is stolen by Bond and Goodhead to destroy nerve gas globes.
MoonrakerDrax's space stationDrax Industries/Sir Hugo DraxHuge stealth spacecraft used by Drax in his plan. It is full of nerve gas globes that should kill "unperfect" humans.
MoonrakerMarines's shuttlesUSMCUsed during the Marines's attack to the station, they transport soldiers with laser rifles.
GoldenEyePetya and MishaSoviet Armed Forces/Russian Space ForcesTwo Cold War GoldenEye satellite nuclear weapons stolen by Russian General Ouromov and the Janus syndacate.
Tomorrow Never DiesCMGN satelliteCarver Media Group NetworkSatellite used by CMGN programmers to launch their new specifically defective software and used by Henri Gupta to hack for Elliot Carver.
Die Another DayIcarusColonel Tan-Sun Moon/Gustav Graves and some Korean People's Army GeneralsAvowedly a mirror to reflect sunlight, it is actually a huge and powerful sun gun-like satellite which can be programmed to individuate and follow heat sources.
Graves plans to use Icarus for a Korean invasion of East Asia.

Exhibitions

In 2012 the National Motor Museum hosted Bond in Motion, an exhibition of 50 Bond cars to celebrate fifty years of Bond on film. In 2014, the exhibition moved to the London Film Museum, cars from Spectre were added in 2015.