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Are there any potential rally cars with movie cool?
There is a wide array of car on the market in the shitbox pricing category.
Many are fairly run of the mill vehicles – middle aged Falcons, Magnas, Commodores,
Camrys, Avalons, Pulsars, Astras, Tiidas…
In this category, any fast versions of cars are too valuable for their engines, gearboxes or whatever. You don’t find many if any v8’s, turbo 6 falcons or hot 4’s in this price range.
However every so often something unusual comes up, but the question is, can it be put back on the road keeping under the $1500 limit.
A question that piques the interest though, are there any to be found with a hint of cool to them. Like movie star cool. James Bond movies have a level of cool so we’ll start there.
Using the previously mentioned search criteria we can ignore anything newer than 15 years old. So I’ve included the list of James bond movies from 1980 to 2010 – (source Wikipedia)
Looking through the list, some of the cars aren’t available in Australia (short of private import) so they are obviously hard no.
None of the very exotic cars make in into the range of possibility. Even when they are broken or rough Rolls Royces, Aston Martins, Lotus’s they are worth too much. Plus who wants to trash an exotic.
Some were sold here under different names, or made here using basically the same base collection of parts – Vauxhall Omegas are very similar to Holden Commodores. A few driveline differences aside, arguably close enough.
There are cars in previous decades or two ago that were possible to snag – such as the Renault Fuegos and Alfa GTVs. But these are hard to find nowadays as most of the cheap ones have gone to the wreckers a long time ago for uneconomical at the time mechanical repairs.
Have a look in the table below, you can click on the columns to sort them as desired.
| Model Year | Vehicle | Also Known as / Substitute | Film | Available in Australia | Any for sale | Sometimes available In SB Price range? | Notes | wdt_ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Citroën 2CV | For Your Eyes Only (1981) | Yes | Yes | No | Used in a major car chase, after Bond’s own car – Lotus Esprit Turbo – explodes. Bond and love interest Melina Havelock are pursued by evil henchmen in Peugeot 504s. The chase includes a hairpin road, an olive orchard, and a village. At one point the 2CV | 1 | |
| 1980 | Ford Consul | Ford Cortina | For Your Eyes Only (1981) | Yes | No | No | The trio uses a stolen car to get from Havelock’s estate to Port Antonio | 2 |
| 1980 | Lotus Esprit Turbo | For Your Eyes Only (1981) | Yes | No | No | Two Esprits are featured in this film. The first, a white model driven by Bond in Spain, is destroyed when a thug trips its self-destruct system by breaking the driver’s side window (with a sticker labeled “burglar protected”). The second one is a bronze | 3 | |
| 1980 | Mercedes 450 SEL | For Your Eyes Only (1981) | Yes | Yes | No | After the raid on Kristatos’s base in Albania, Locque attempts to escape Bond in the car by driving along a cliffside road. While driving, he is shot by Bond and loses control, resulting in the car hanging perilously off the edge. Bond kicks the car off t | 4 | |
| 1980 | Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II | Silver Shadow | For Your Eyes Only (1981) | No | No | No | 5 | |
| 1980 | Peugeot 504 | For Your Eyes Only (1981) | Yes | yes | Yes | Two Peugeot 504s featured in For Your Eyes Only, used by Hector Gonzales’s henchmen to chase Bond and Melina driving with Citroën 2CV. | 6 | |
| 1983 | Alfa Romeo GTV6 | Octopussy (1983) | Yes | yes | Yes | Bond steals the parked car while its owner uses a pay phone booth and makes haste towards Octopussy’s Circus, pursued by two Bavarian BMW police cars.[29] | 7 | |
| 1983 | BMW 518i | E28 | Octopussy (1983) | Yes | Yes | no | Two of these cars are seen in a short chase scene when Bond commandeers an Alfa Romeo GTV6 and makes haste towards Octopussy’s circus. These two cars are in pursuit. | 8 |
| Austin FX4 taxi | Octopussy (1983) | No | No | Used by Smithers to follow Kamal Khan from Sotheby’s | 9 | |||
| 1965 | Mercedes-Benz 600 | W100 | Octopussy (1983) | No | No | Kamal Khan leaves Sotheby’s in a 600. | 10 | |
| 1970 | Mercedes 250SE | W108 | Octopussy (1983) | Yes | Yes | Yes | After the tires get torn off by a stinger device, Bond drives the car on the railway tracks in pursuit of the circus train. It was subsequently hit by a train coming down the opposite line and thrown into a river. It is later seen being recovered via cran | 11 |
| 1971 | Volkswagen Beetle | Octopussy (1983) | Yes | Yes | No | Bond hitchhikes a ride in this car to the US air base after the train chase. | 12 | |
| 1936 | Rolls-Royce Phantom III | Octopussy (1983) | No | No | 13 | |||
| 1977 | Ford LTD | Australian Ford LTD | A View to a Kill (1985) | yes | yes | Yes | Bond uses this car to pursue Stacy to Oakland. | 14 |
| 1984 | Chevrolet Corvette C4 | A View to a Kill (1985) | Yes | No | 15 | |||
| Cadillac Fleetwood 75 limousine | A View to a Kill (1985) | No | No | 16 | ||||
| Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II | A View to a Kill (1985) | No | yes | No | After Tibbet’s murder, his corpse and an unconscious Bond are pushed into a lake in the car by May Day and Max Zorin. (The car in the film was owned by producer Cubby Broccoli) | 17 | ||
| Dodge Diplomat | A View to a Kill (1985) | No | No | Featured in A View to a Kill as a San Francisco Police Department patrol car. A few late 1970s Dodge Monacos were seen, along with a Plymouth Volaré seen outside San Francisco City Hall. Late 1980s Diplomats were also featured in Licence to Kill as the sq | 18 | |||
| 1984 | Renault 11 | A View to a Kill (1985) | No | No | Featured in A View to a Kill, Bond commandeers this car and takes it on a pursuit through Paris. He drives the car on stairs, under barriers, and on top of buses. During the pursuit, the car has its roof chopped off and Bond continues to drive even after | 19 | ||
| 1984 | Renault Fuego | A View to a Kill (1985) | Yes | No | No | Used in A View to a Kill to transport the Bond Girl. | 20 | |
| 1987 | Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante | The Living Daylights (1987) | No | No | A convertible, it is later “winterised” with a hardtop. It comes with all the usual refinements, including extending side outriggers, spike-producing tires, missiles, lasers (an update of the DB5’s tire-slashers), signal-intercepting smart radio, head-up | 21 | ||
| VAZ-2106 | The Living Daylights (1987) | No | Several are engaged in the pursuit and are destroyed at the hands of Bond’s Aston Martin, the first is cut in half by the Aston’s laser tyre shredder, the second is sunk into a frozen lake after the Aston cuts a hole in the ice, while another plummets fro | 22 | ||||
| VAZ-2105 | The Living Daylights (1987) | No | Used by a KGB agent to tail Kara Milovy. | 23 | ||||
| 1987 | Rover 800 | The Living Daylights (1987) | No | Appears outside the Blayden Safe House, and in the emergency response convoy shortly after Necros’s attack. | 24 | |||
| GMC Vandura Ambulance | The Living Daylights (1987) | No | Driven by Necros, this ambulance is only featured for a short time. During the short scene, Necros drives the ambulance from the airport terminal in Tangier across the tarmac to Koskov’s plane, with the drugged Bond in the back. | 25 | ||||
| 1974 | Mercedes-Benz W114 | The Living Daylights (1987) | Yes | Yes | Yes | 26 | ||
| ZIL-41047 | The Living Daylights (1987) | No | Featured briefly in the film The Living Daylights, two of these cars are seen driving across Tangier, with Bond in pursuit. One of the cars is carrying the Soviet General Pushkin. | 27 | ||||
| Mercury Grand Marquis stretched limousine | Licence to Kill (1989) | No | 28 | |||||
| 1988 | Lincoln Mark VII LSC | Licence to Kill (1989) | No | 29 | ||||
| 1990 | Chevrolet Caprice | Holden Caprice | Licence to Kill (1989) | yes | Yes | Yes | 30 | |
| Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow | Licence to Kill (1989) | Yes | No | 31 | ||||
| Maserati Biturbo | Licence to Kill (1989) | Yes | No | 32 | ||||
| Aston Martin DB5 | GoldenEye (1995) | Yes | No | Driven in the opening scenes by Bond, whilst racing a Ferrari. | 33 | |||
| Ferrari F355 GTS | GoldenEye (1995) | Yes | Hell No | Xenia Onatopp playfully races James Bond in his Aston Martin DB5 by chance on the mountain roads behind Monte Carlo in this vehicle, which is later revealed to have false French registration plates, hinting that it may be stolen. Another 355 appears twice | 34 | |||
| VAZ-2106 | GoldenEye (1995) | No | Several go in pursuit of Bond in the stolen tank, but all are destroyed in various collisions. | 35 | ||||
| 1995 | BMW Z3[32] | GoldenEye (1995) | Yes | Yes | No | Supposedly equipped with ‘Stinger’ missiles and other armaments, which are never seen or used except for a deployable parachute and auto-HUD. Car is left-hand drive. Total screen time less than two minutes. | 36 | |
| 1995 | Mercedes W140 | GoldenEye (1995) | Yes | Yes | Yes | 37 | ||
| GAZ-31029 | GoldenEye (1995) | No | This car was used in the movie during the car/tank chase in St. Petersburg when Bond was pursuing this car in a Russian T-95 tank. | 38 | ||||
| VAZ-2106 | GoldenEye (1995) | No | Used by the police during the car/tank chase scene. | 39 | ||||
| ZAZ-965 | GoldenEye (1995) | No | Used by CIA agent Jack Wade to drive Bond from St Petersburg International Airport to Valentin Zukovsky’s building complex. | 40 | ||||
| 1964 | Aston Martin DB5 | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) | Yes | No | No | Seen parked in front of the University of Oxford and driven by Bond in a transitional scene of Bond arriving at the Ministry of Defence. | 41 | |
| 1997 | BMW 750iL[34] | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) | Yes | Yes | No | Loaned to Bond by Q at an Avis rental station in Germany, this car is equipped with missile launchers, caltrops, self-inflating tires, and a near-impenetrable body. The BMW can be remotely controlled via a special Ericsson cell phone. During a chase insid | 42 | |
| 1988 | Daimler Limousine | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) | No | 43 | ||||
| Ford Scorpio | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) | No | 44 | |||||
| 1988 | Vauxhall Omega | Holden commodore | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Are seen as part of the motorcade carrying M and Bond from the Ministry of Defence | 45 |
| 1996 | Opel Senator | Holden Calais | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) | No | Is destroyed by a rocket fired from Bond’s BMW 750i in the chase through the multi-storey parking lot. | 46 | ||
| 1985 | Mercedes W126s | Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) | yes | yes | yes | 47 | ||
| 1964 | Aston Martin DB5 | The World Is Not Enough (1999) | yes | No | Seen parked at the funeral of Sir Robert King. A thermal image of the DB5 is briefly shown towards the end of the movie. | 48 | ||
| VAZ-2121 | The World Is Not Enough (1999) | No | After killing Davidov, Bond uses the car whilst infiltrating Renard’s operation. | 49 | ||||
| 1999 | BMW Z8 | The World Is Not Enough (1999) | No | Cut in half by chopper after firing one shot from a surface-to-air missile (SAM). Other gadgets involve a key that can summon the vehicle and a hidden remote control within the steering wheel. | 50 | |||
| 1970 | Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow | The World Is Not Enough (1999) | Yes | No | 51 | |||
| 2002 | Aston Martin V12 Vanquish[35] | Die Another Day (2002) | Yes | No | The car is equipped with all the usual refinements, including front-firing rockets between two machine guns, hood-mounted target-seeking shotguns, spike-producing tires, again and a passenger ejector seat in homage to the original Aston Martin DB5, but us | 52 | ||
| 2002 | Ferrari F355 Berlinetta | Die Another Day (2002) | Yes | No | Part of Colonel Moon’s car collection. Later fallen off Gustav Graves’s plane and landed on a farm paddy in Korea. | 53 | ||
| 2002 | Ford Thunderbird | Die Another Day (2002) | No | No | 54 | |||
| 1957 | Ford Fairlane | Die Another Day (2002) | Yes | No | Ford Fairlane is briefly driven by Bond during his visit to Cuba in Die Another Day. A homage to Thunderball where villain Count Lippe drives a 1957 Ford Fairlane Skyliner. | 55 | ||
| 2002 | Ford GT40 | Die Another Day (2002) | yes | No | Part of Colonel Moon’s car collection. Shown parked at the North Korean military base near the DMZ. Later shown inside Graves’s plane where it falls off and is presumably destroyed. | 56 | ||
| 1992 | Lamborghini Diablo | Die Another Day (2002) | Yes | No | Part of Colonel Moon’s car collection. Fallen off Graves’s plane and landed on a farm paddy in Korea. | 57 | ||
| 2002 | Mercedes-Benz SL | Die Another Day (2002) | Yes | No | Part of Colonel Moon’s car collection. | 58 | ||
| 2002 | Jaguar XKR | Die Another Day (2002) | Yes | No | Equipped with front grille machine guns, door panel missiles, rear mounted gattling gun and boot mounted mortars. This vehicle is on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.[36] | 59 | ||
| 1964 | Aston Martin DB5 | Casino Royale (2006) | Yes | No | The DB5 is owned by a gambling villain in the Bahamas, which Bond acquires in a poker game. It has no special modifications. | 60 | ||
| 2005 | Aston Martin DBS V12 | Casino Royale (2006) | Yes | No | Featured in the third Casino Royale.[37] No special gadget was visible on the DBS other than the secret compartments which housed Bond’s Walther P99, and an emergency medkit which includes components of an emergency medical link to MI6 HQ, antidotes to va | 61 | ||
| Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor | Casino Royale (2006) | No | 62 | |||||
| 2007 | Ford Mondeo | Casino Royale (2006) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Driven by Bond during his arrival in the Bahamas. This car was later on display in the James Bond Experience at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu | 63 | |
| 2006 | Jaguar XJ8 | Casino Royale (2006) | Yes | Yes | No | Used to kidnap Vesper Lynd and drop her off the road so she could be used as bait to lure Bond into a trap. | 64 | |
| 2006 | Jaguar XJ | Casino Royale (2006) | Yes | Yes | No | A similar Jaguar XJ driven by Mr. White is shown at the end where he goes back to his estate at Lake Como before being captured by Bond. | 65 | |
| 2008 | Alfa Romeo 159 | Quantum of Solace (2008) | Yes | Yes | Shortly after capturing Mr. White, Bond is chased by two Alfas from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy. Despite sustaining heavy damage, Bond’s Aston Martin DBS V12 manages to escape while both Alfas are destroyed. | 66 | ||
| 2002 | Alfa Romeo 156 | Quantum of Solace (2008) | Yes | Yes | A police vehicle that honked at pedestrians to clear the way after Bond shot Mitchell. | 67 | ||
| 2008 | Aston Martin DBS V12 | Quantum of Solace (2008) | No | A slightly darker-coloured vehicle to that featured in Casino Royale is heavily damaged after a chase at the beginning of the film in Siena, Italy. The vehicle does not have any gadgets. It transports Mr. White. | 68 | |||
| Ford Ka (Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model) | Quantum of Solace (2008) | No | Used by Camille when she picks up Bond from the hotel | 69 | ||||
| Ford Edge (Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model) | Quantum of Solace (2008) | No | 70 | |||||
| 1998 | Daimler Super V8 | x308 | Quantum of Solace (2008) | Yes | Yes | No | Domonic Greene is chauffeured from the airport to the Spectre meeting in this car. The government agent Bond chases off the roof falls on the bonnet of the car, before being shot by one of Domonic Greene’s henchmen. | 71 |
| 1994 | Volkswagen Beetle | Quantum of Solace (2008) | Yes | Yes | No | Used to pick up Bond at Bolivia | 72 | |
| 2007 | Volvo S40 | Quantum of Solace (2008) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hire car used in Austria | 73 |
Surprisingly, there are actually a few James Bond film car models, that occasionally fall into the price range – especially going on the model rather than specific spec.
There is still obviously a little bit (or a lot) of luck required by being at the right place at the right time to snag one of the other models. We could get lucky…
Let us know in the comments what you think we should look for. Either a JB car or some car from another movie
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