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Throughout the James Bond series of films Q Branch has given Bond a wide variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. Among the most noteworthy gadgets Bond has been equipped with have been various vehicles that have numerous modifications to include weapons systems, anti-pursuit systems, alternate transportation modes and various other functions.

Contrary to the films, James Bond's official car in the Ian Fleming novels was a Bentley, which in the films was only seen briefly in From Russia with Love and mentioned in passing in Goldfinger.

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Automobiles

Bentley

  • The very first Bond vehicle seen in the movie series was a Bentley shown very briefly during Bond's first scene in From Russia with Love. The only gadget known to come with this vehicle was a car phone, which in 1963 was very uncommon.

Aston Martin

  • Aston Martin DB5 - Featured primarily in Goldfinger. The most famous Bond car of all, it came with all the usual Q refinements that have been copied from movie to movie including bulletproof front and rear panels, oil slick, smoke screen, machine guns, rotating licence plates, and most famously the passenger ejector seat. The ejector seat would be used again the film Die Another Day in an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. While being the most recognized Bond car, it's actually only been featured in four films (Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, and a small appearance in Tomorrow Never Dies. In the novelization of GoldenEye it is stated that Bond purchased the DB5 as his own personal vehicle. An Aston Martin DB3 was the only gadget-laden vehicle to be mentioned in the original Bond novels; it is mentioned in Goldfinger though Fleming generally avoided gadgetry in his books.
  • Aston Martin DBS - Featured in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The car was only briefly seen in the movie, once in the beginning of the movie and once at the end of the movie after the wedding. Nothing is known on what kind of gadgets were installed, except that it had a hiding place for a sniper rifle.
  • Aston Martin Volante - Featured in the movie The Living Daylights. Came with all the usual refinements including side skis, spiked tires, missiles, lasers, rocket propulsion and could self-destruct when armed.
  • Aston Martin Vanquish V12 - Featured in the movie Die Another Day. The car is equipped with all the usual refinements including front-firing rockets, hood mounted guns, and passenger ejector seat that was a homage to original Aston Martin DB5 that Bond drove in. The car was also equipped with an adaptive camouflage device, that allowed it to become invisible at the push of a button.

Lotus Esprit

  • Lotus Esprit S2 - Featured in The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only. Including all of the usual Q refinements, this car was equipped with surface to air missiles. The main feature of the car however was the ability to transform into a submarine. Once transformed it could unleash depth charges and smoke screens. The car was nicknamed Wet Nellie. It also exploded if anyone tried to break into it.
  • Lotus Esprit Turbo - Featured in For Your Eyes Only as Bond's second car after the S2 was destroyed.

BMW

  • BMW Z3 - Featured in GoldenEye. A convertible, it comes fully loaded with all the usual Q refinements including a self-destruct system and stinger missiles located behind the headlights. Unfortunately, the car, in the film is never really used. Bond ends up trading it for Jack Wade's plane.
  • BMW 750i - Featured in Tomorrow Never Dies. Used in Germany, the car came equipped with a security system that wouldn't allow anyone access without being disarmed by Bond's mobile phone. Also had a security system on his glove box that wouldn't allow anyone access without Bond's fingerprint. The 750i could be controlled remotely via Bond's mobile phone.
  • BMW R1200 motocycle - Featured in Tomorrow Never Dies. Stolen in Saigon it was used in a chase sequence ridden by both James Bond and Wai Lin of the Peoples Republic of China.
  • BMW Z8 - Featured in The World is Not Enough. Loaded with all the usual Q refinements including ground to air missles and a key chain that can control the car remotely.

Other automobiles

Aircraft

  • Rocket pack - Featured in Thunderball. A rocket pack based on the Bell rocket belt.
  • Little Nellie - Featured in You Only Live Twice. A heavily armed gyrocopter that could be transported in several cases that could be quickly assembled in the field.
  • Acrostar Jet - Featured in Octopussy. The Acrostar was used to escape from a mission in the opening sequence. The wings of this plane fold up vertically while not in use allowing it to be stored in small compartments. During this mission, Bond hid the plane in a horse trailer. While it had no armaments, the plane was maneuverable enough to avoid a missile long enough to do a dangerous passage through a hangar although the enemy was closing the doors to prevent him. By accomplishing this feat Bond was able to destroy a prototype fighter plane that he had been sent to destroy when the missile was blocked from exiting by the closing doors. Due to a small gas tank, Bond was forced to land at a gas station close to the border to refill; Bond managed to cross the border while airborne. (Based on the Bede Acrostar.)
  • Car Plane - Featured in The Man With the Golden Gun. During a car chase, Scaramanga's car disappears in a shed for some time. When the car emerges it has a pair of wings attached, which let it fly away.

Marine vehicles

  • Wet Nellie - Featured in The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only. An automobile, the Lotus Esprit that could transform into a submarine.
  • Jetski - Featured in The Spy Who Loved Me. Used by Bond the travel from the US Submarine to Stromberg's Atlantis to save Triple X.
  • Alligator Boat - Featured in Octopussy. Bond travels to Octopussy's island inside a boat designed to look like an alligator.
  • Q Boat - Featured in The World is Not Enough. Was created by Q for his retirement. Came with missiles and a GPS tracking system. It could also submerge although the pilot either needed to have his own breathing apparatus or surface quickly before he drowned. However, this feature wasn't exactly finished when Bond took it which could account for why the pilot was exposed to the water using that function.
  • Gondola - Featured in Moonraker. While attacked on the canals of Venice, Bond escapes his assailants by using his gondola's hidden self-propulsion system which also included a hovercraft function to leave the water.
  • Q's Hydrofoil Boat - Featured in Moonraker. Bond uses this boat to escape from Jaws while searching for the spacecraft launching facility. Comes with all the usual Q refinements such as tracking torpedoes and a hang-glider when an immediate ditching of the boat was required.
  • Iceberg - Featured in A View To A Kill. Bond escapes from a mission in Iceland by getting into a boat/submarine built to look like an iceberg.

Novel vehicles

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