James Bond cars: every 007 car from Dr. No to No Time to Die

James Bond cars are the vehicles the British secret agent James Bond drives in the 25 EON Productions films, from the hired blue Sunbeam Alpine in Dr. No (1962) to the Aston Martin DB5 and V8 of No Time to Die (2021). James Bond drives an Aston Martin in 12 of the 25 films, and the Aston Martin DB5 he first drove in Goldfinger (1964) has appeared in eight of them. The rest of the list runs from a Bentley and a Toyota to an AMC Hornet, two Lotus Esprits, a Citroën 2CV and three BMWs.

Every James Bond car in order, film by film

The table lists the car James Bond drives in each EON film in order of UK release, with the cars in the same film that belong to someone else. Dates and vehicles come from each film's page on 007.com, EON Productions' official site; a film where 007 has no car of his own says so.

Two Bond films were made outside EON's series, Casino Royale (Columbia, 1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983), and they sit outside the table.

What was James Bond's first car?

On screen it was a Sunbeam Alpine Series II sports tourer, which Bond hires in Kingston in Dr. No and drives up the Blue Mountains to Miss Taro's house while the Three Blind Mice try to run him off the cliffside road in their hearse. 007.com's page on the Alpine says the car was finished in Lake Blue with wire wheels and whitewall tyres, wore the Jamaican plate Z 8301, had a 1.6-litre, 80bhp engine, and belonged to a local woman, Jennifer Jackson, who was paid £10 a day for it. Stuntman Bob Simmons drove it under the arm of a roadside excavator at 45mph.

James Bond's cars in Ian Fleming's novels

In the books Fleming's spy drove Bentleys first. Fleming gave him a battleship-grey Bentley coupé with a supercharger built by Amherst Villiers, and in the novel Goldfinger (1959) 007 takes an Aston Martin DB III from the MI6 car pool because it has reinforced bumpers, a Colt .45 under the driver's seat and a radio that follows a tracking device, according to 007.com's DB5 page. In the novel he had the choice of the Aston Martin or a Jaguar 3.4, as the 1999 BMW press history of the Bond cars quotes Fleming's text.

James Bond cars by actor

Each actor who played James Bond has his own set of cars, and only Roger Moore drove no Aston Martin in any of his films.

Sean Connery: the Alpine, the Bentley and the DB5

Connery's six EON films gave James Bond his first three cars. After the Alpine came the Bentley tourer with a car phone in From Russia with Love; its model is disputed (007.com calls it a "Bentley MK IV (circa 1936)", the 1999 BMW history a "4 1/2 Liter Bentley Sports Tourer"). In Goldfinger Q replaces the Bentley with the Aston Martin DB5, which returns in Thunderball. In You Only Live Twice Connery rides as a passenger in the white Toyota 2000GT of the Japanese agent Aki, one of two coupés Toyota turned into open cars in two weeks because he was too tall for the standard roof, and in Diamonds Are Forever he drives Tiffany Case's red Ford Mustang Mach 1 through Las Vegas, the 007.com pages on the Toyota and Mustang say. Three Mustangs with the 7.0-litre 429 Cobra Jet V8 were used; downtown Las Vegas was closed for five nights in April 1971 to film the car chase, lit only by the Strip's neon, and Bond leaves seven police patrol cars wrecked in a car park before making his escape down a narrow alley with the Mustang tipped onto two wheels.

George Lazenby: the Aston Martin DBS

Lazenby's one film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, gave Bond the new Aston Martin DBS, with a folding rifle in the glovebox. The olive green coupé used for every exterior shot was bought in 1978 by a Melbourne chemical engineer, Sigi Zidziunas, for A$14,200, and Aston Martin confirmed from its chassis number that it was the film car, ABC News reported in 2021; a second car was used for the interior scenes. The red Mercury Cougar in the film is Tracy's car, not James Bond's.

Roger Moore: the Hornet, two Esprits and a 2CV

In seven films Moore's James Bond drove an AMC Hornet, the Lotus Esprit submarine car, two Lotus Esprit Turbos, a Citroën 2CV, a Mercedes-Benz 250 SE and a stolen Alfa Romeo, and in three of the seven he has no car of his own. The Hornet X in The Man with the Golden Gun came from a Bangkok showroom, with Sheriff Pepper still in the passenger seat; it had a 5.9-litre V8 of 175bhp, and American Motors also supplied the production with several Matador police cars, according to 007.com's Hornet page. In For Your Eyes Only the white Esprit Turbo blows itself up when a thug breaks a window, and 007 escapes in Melina Havelock's yellow 2CV, chased by Hector Gonzalez's men in two Peugeot 504s, 007.com's 2CV page says. 007.com says the hero 2CV had a 1.1-litre engine from the Citroën GS in place of the standard 602cc twin, and that four of the chase cars survived filming; the 1999 BMW history says Citroën's British arm at Slough prepared four identical cars. In Octopussy Mercedes-Benz supplied the black 250 SE that Bond drives along the railway line, and in Berlin he drives a stolen Alfa Romeo chased by BMW police cars, the BMW history says.

Timothy Dalton: the Aston Martin V8 returns

Dalton's James Bond brought back Aston Martin after 18 years. The V8 Volante seen early in The Living Daylights was the personal car of Victor Gauntlett, then chairman of Aston Martin Lagonda, lent to the production; the hardtop V8 that Q "winterises" carries lasers in the hubcaps, missiles behind the fog lamps, outrigger skis and a rocket booster, according to 007.com's V8 page. The production used three V8 road cars and seven replicas: six glassfibre shells and one aluminium. 007.com's page on the vehicles of Dalton's Bond calls the car an Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante. The film opens with Bond clinging to the roof of a Land Rover Series III as an assassin drives it through Gibraltar; the vehicle goes over a cliff, a fall filmed at Beachy Head in Sussex, and Bond parachutes clear. In Licence to Kill 007 has no car; he takes over a Kenworth W900 tanker in the drug-convoy chase after throwing its driver out of the cab.

Pierce Brosnan: the BMW years

As James Bond, Brosnan drove a BMW in all three of his first films. The Z3 roadster in GoldenEye put Bond in a German car for the first time, and BMW lent two hand-built pre-production cars, says the 1999 BMW press kit. In Tomorrow Never Dies he rents an Aspen silver 750iL at Hamburg airport and drives it from the back seat with a mobile phone, and in The World Is Not Enough he has a silver Z8, of which BMW supplied three hand-made prototypes worth about DM 700,000. BMW built 5,700 production Z8s, according to BMW Group Classic. Brosnan also drove the DB5 in his first two films, and for Die Another Day he moved back to Aston Martin and the V12 Vanquish.

Daniel Craig: the DBS, the DB10 and the DB5 again

Every one of Craig's five films has an Aston Martin. He drives the DBS in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, wins a left-hand-drive 1964 DB5 at poker in the Bahamas, takes the Goldfinger-plated DB5 out of a London lock-up in Skyfall, "borrows" 009's DB10 in Spectre, and in No Time to Die uses the DB5 in Italy, the V8 from The Living Daylights in London and Norway, a blue 1977 Land Rover Series III in Jamaica and a Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE he takes from the henchman Primo in Matera. The No Time to Die film page notes it was "the first time four models of Aston Martin and Land Rover have appeared in a Bond film".

Every Aston Martin James Bond has driven

James Bond drives an Aston Martin in 12 EON films, in six models: the DB5, the DBS of 1969, the V8, the V12 Vanquish, the DBS of 2006 and the DB10. Two more, the DBS Superleggera and the Valhalla, appear in No Time to Die. In Diamonds Are Forever a DBS can be glimpsed in Q's workshop being fitted with rockets, but it is never used, the 1999 BMW history notes.

The Aston Martin DB5

The DB5 is the car most people mean by "the James Bond car". It appears in eight films: Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die, and its outline shows on Q's thermal-imaging screen at the end of The World Is Not Enough, whose DB5 scene was cut. Aston Martin lent its first prototype, DP/216/1, for Goldfinger, and a second car, FMP 7B, when the production went to the Alps. Its history, the four Goldfinger-specification cars and what became of each are on the Aston Martin DB5 page.

Aston Martin DBS (1969)

The DBS was new when Lazenby drove it in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and according to the Aston Martin Owners Club, as the 1999 BMW history reports, its only special was an engine fitted by Aston Martin's development department.

Aston Martin V8 and V8 Volante

The V8 has the longest gap between appearances of any Bond car: it drove in The Living Daylights in 1987 and again, wearing the same B549 WUU plate, in No Time to Die in 2021. The 1987 cars had the 5.3-litre V8. Three were used for No Time to Die: one sold for £630,000 at Christie's in 2022 and the other two are in the archives of EON Productions and Aston Martin, 007.com says.

Aston Martin V12 Vanquish

Seven V12 Vanquishes in Tungsten Silver went to Die Another Day, according to 007.com's Vanquish page. Three standard cars, with the 6.0-litre, 450bhp V12, did the close-ups. The factory cars could not do handbrake turns because of their ABS and anti-skid systems, so special effects supervisor Chris Corbould rebuilt four under Aston bodies with four-wheel drive and 300bhp V8s set well back to leave room for the weapons. Two were destroyed on the ice at Jökulsárlón in Iceland: one hit an iceberg, the other was written off after the ejector-seat roll.

Aston Martin DBS V12 (Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace)

The second DBS was Bond's car in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, with a 510bhp V12, and it was on screen before it was on sale: Aston Martin's own history says the production DBS was unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2007, the year after Casino Royale opened. Its glovebox held a medical kit. Seven were used in Quantum of Solace, says Christie's 2012 catalogue, which sold one of them, left-hand drive with the 5,935cc V12 and a six-speed manual gearbox.

Aston Martin DB10

The DB10 was the first car built for a Bond film. Aston Martin made ten for Spectre on a lengthened V8 Vantage chassis with a 4.7-litre V8 and carbon-fibre panels, eight for filming and two for promotion, according to 007.com's DB10 page. The modifications Q Branch made to it include a rear machine gun, twin flamethrowers and an ejector seat with a parachute. Aston Martin asked the director, Sam Mendes, for his input on the design, and he asked for "something classic where it is almost impossible to place its year of birth". The chase scene through Rome took three weeks in March 2015, with the stunt driver Mark Higgins at the wheel, and the stunt team used a pair of tyres every ten minutes in testing.

The Lotus Esprit submarine car from The Spy Who Loved Me

The Lotus Esprit submarine car was real: one Esprit body shell was built into a working "wet" submarine and driven underwater by a diver for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). RM Auctions' 2013 catalogue calls the Giugiaro-designed Esprit "indisputably Britain's most advanced sports car" at its launch, and says Lotus PR manager Don McLauchlan parked an unbadged pre-production Esprit outside Cubby Broccoli's office at Pinewood, and Lotus then supplied two road cars and seven glassfibre shells; 007.com says Lotus lent one road car and chairman Colin Chapman lent his own as the second.

On screen James Bond and the KGB agent Anya Amasova drive the Esprit off a pier in Sardinia to escape a helicopter, and under water it fires torpedoes, mines and a surface-to-air missile, says 007.com's Esprit page. Perry Oceanographics of Riviera Beach, Florida, built the submarine with four battery-driven propellers, ballast tanks and a platform seat in place of a cabin; it was said to have cost over $100,000, and Don Griffin, a retired US Navy SEAL, drove it in the Bahamas. The other shells each did one job: one was cut in half for Roger Moore and Barbara Bach's in-car shots, one was fired off a pier in Sardinia by an air cannon, and one showed the fins and periscope coming out. The submarine was later put in a storage unit in Holbrook, Long Island, which was sold unopened at auction in 1989 with the car inside.

RM sold it in London in 2013 for £616,000. The buyer was Elon Musk, who told CNBC he had been "disappointed to learn that it can't actually transform" and planned to fit a Tesla electric powertrain. In 2026 a second shell, which RM Sotheby's believed was used in filming, with dive planes, fins and a periscope, sold for €852,000 at RM Sotheby's Monaco sale, after almost two decades on show at the PowerPark amusement park in Finland.

The Lotus Esprit Turbo in For Your Eyes Only

Two white Esprit Turbos went to Corfu so the two camera crews could use one each, and a spare body was blown up for the self-destruct scene, says the 1999 BMW history. The same two cars were repainted copper metallic for Cortina d'Ampezzo in January 1981, given a ski rack, and had their brake lights disconnected.

James Bond car gadgets: which were real?

Most James Bond car gadgets were props fitted to the car for a single shot: the Goldfinger DB5's machine guns fired ignited gas, and the invisible Vanquish of Die Another Day existed only on screen.

The Goldfinger DB5's gadgets

Q shows James Bond the car in his lab at the start of the film. Production designer Ken Adam drew the DB5's extras and effects man John Stears fitted them in six weeks, finishing in mid-February 1964, according to 007.com: machine guns behind the front indicators, extending over-riders front and rear, a tyre slasher, a radar tracker, a bulletproof rear screen, revolving plates for England, France and Switzerland, an oil jet, a smoke screen and an ejector seat worked by a button in the gear knob. A caltrop dispenser worked on the Pinewood backlot but was left out of the film for fear drivers would copy it. The 1999 BMW history adds how: the machine guns fired ignited acetylene, the smoke came from army smoke canisters, the tyre slasher was welded to the hub and could not extend, and the ejector seat was a fighter-plane seat fitted only for that scene, throwing a dummy about ten metres.

Was the Hornet's corkscrew jump real?

Yes. Stuntman Loren "Bumps" Willert jumped the AMC Hornet over a Thai river with a full 360-degree roll in one take on 1 June 1974, sitting in the middle of the car between two dummies, according to 007.com; the car had a chassis widened by two inches and centred steering. The stunt came from the stunt show of a New Yorker, Jay Milligan, and the BMW history says a computer at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory worked out the ramps, the 15.86-metre gap and a take-off speed of 64.36km/h. Roger Moore handed Willert a glass of champagne afterwards. In RM's 2017 catalogue, the Hornet sold that year was described as the stunt car "in as-jumped condition".

Was the invisible Aston Martin real?

No. The Die Another Day Vanquish's "adaptive camouflage", cameras on each side projecting the view onto a light-emitting skin on the other, is a Q Branch gadget in the story; the cars built for the film were the seven Vanquishes described above, four of them rebuilt with four-wheel drive. Zao's green Jaguar XKR came from nine cars the production bought, four of which Corbould modified for the driving sequence on the ice, according to 007.com.

The Casino Royale DBS roll

The crash in which the DBS swerves round Vesper Lynd and rolls was a world record. Stuntman Adam Kirley rolled it seven times with a cannon at Millbrook Proving Ground, says the Casino Royale film page, and it held the Guinness record for the most cannon rolls in a car until Logan Holladay's eight and a half for The Fall Guy in 2024, Guinness World Records reported.

Spectre's C-X75 and the No Time to Die DB5s

Hinx chases James Bond through Rome in a Jaguar C-X75, a supercar with a hybrid drive that Jaguar never put into full production. The supercar's prototypes were too valuable to crash, so seven replicas were built on tubular space frames with a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 and the gearbox from the McLaren 650S GT3 racing car, says 007.com's C-X75 page. For No Time to Die Aston Martin built eight DB5 replicas: two gadget cars with mini-guns behind the headlights, a smoke screen and a mine dispenser, two with roof pods so a stunt driver could steer from on top while the actors sat inside, and four plain cars for the chase through Matera. The replicas have a space frame, carbon-fibre panels and a modern 3.2-litre six, Christie's catalogue for one of them says.

How carmakers got their cars into Bond films

James Bond's cars were lent, given or traded for publicity far more often than bought. Aston Martin lent its DB5 prototype for Goldfinger after "much negotiation", 007.com says; Lotus's PR man parked an Esprit outside Broccoli's office; and BMW's deal for GoldenEye was a cross-promotion in which BMW advertised the Z3 with the film worldwide from November 1995 to March 1996. "No money was paid; we never do that," the BMW head of public relations, Richard Gaul, said of the cars, in the BMW account.

David Arnold, who scored five Bond films from Tomorrow Never Dies, told SkiddMark in 2010 that the BMW shaped his music. In the Hamburg chase "you had the BMW voice assistant saying 'the warranty will be void if you machine gun the rear window'", he said; "it was kind of technically driven scenario that he was in and we were also in Germany so it seemed a good point to go down a slightly techno route for it."

James Bond went back to Aston Martin, then owned by Ford, for Die Another Day. EON's David Wilson told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2002 that "nobody pays to have their product in the film", then admitted "a couple of partners paid product placement fees"; Ford also supplied Jaguars and Thunderbirds. The BBC reported that 20 companies had paid $70m between them to appear in the film.

When the Ford contract came up for renewal in 2008, Tata Motors, owner of Jaguar Land Rover, signed a multi-film deal, a 2012 SkiddMark report recorded. For Skyfall, JLR provided more than 70 cars: a Range Rover Vogue TDV8 SE for MI6 duties, a long-wheelbase Jaguar XJ for M, Defenders for the chase scenes and an Evoque. In the same piece Julian Jenkins, Aston Martin's vice-president for the Americas, told Variety that the association had "enabled us to achieve greater brand awareness globally, particularly in areas and nations where our brand is perhaps otherwise not as well known." Land Rover dates its partnership with EON to the Range Rover convertible in Octopussy in 1983, according to its 2019 release for No Time to Die, whose Defenders were the first built at its plant in Nitra, Slovakia. For Spectre, the C-X75 came from JLR Special Vehicle Operations with Williams Advanced Engineering, JLR said in 2015.

James Bond cars sold at auction

The dearest James Bond car sold so far is DB5/2008/R, a DB5 that EON bought to publicise Thunderball and that never appeared on screen: it made $6,385,000 at RM Sotheby's in Monterey in August 2019. Second is a No Time to Die stunt replica, built on a space frame, which raised £2,922,000 for charity at Christie's in September 2022, £10,000 more in nominal terms than the screen-used Goldfinger road car made in 2010. Prices include the buyer's premium.

Who owns the James Bond cars now?

Some have named owners. DB5/1486/R went to Harry Yeaggy, an American collector with a small private museum in Ohio, the Associated Press reported; DB5/1885/R went to SPYSCAPE, a company built around espionage and secret intelligence, said Bonhams' 2018 results; and Wet Nellie went to Musk. The DB10 raised £2,434,500 for Médecins Sans Frontières, The Week reported, and it was displayed at the Spectre premiere at the Royal Albert Hall with a plaque signed by Daniel Craig, Christie's lot notes say. One of the two You Only Live Twice Toyotas was found in Hawaii in 1977 and is in the Toyota museum in Japan; 007.com says the fate of the other is unclear. The original Goldfinger gadget car, DP/216/1, was stolen from a hangar in Florida in 1997; its story is on the DB5 page.

Questions

What car does James Bond drive?

Usually an Aston Martin: Bond drives one in 12 of the 25 EON films, and the DB5 from Goldfinger appears in eight. In No Time to Die (2021) he drives the DB5, an Aston Martin V8, a Land Rover Series III and a Triumph Scrambler.

Which James Bond actor never drove an Aston Martin?

Roger Moore. In his seven films Bond drove an AMC Hornet, Lotus Esprits, a Citroën 2CV and a Mercedes-Benz, but no Aston Martin; Aston Martin returned with Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights (1987).

What Aston Martin is in Casino Royale?

The Aston Martin DBS, which Bond rolls seven times in a record-breaking crash, and a left-hand-drive 1964 DB5 with the Bahamian plate 56526 that he wins at poker.

What car does Bond drive in Skyfall?

The Aston Martin DB5 with the Goldfinger plate BMT 216A, which he takes from a London lock-up. It is shot to pieces at Skyfall and rebuilt by Q in Spectre.

Did James Bond drive a Bentley?

Yes. Fleming gave Bond Bentleys in the novels, and on screen he drives a Bentley open tourer with a car phone in From Russia with Love (1963) until Q replaces it with the DB5 in Goldfinger.

What is the most expensive James Bond car ever sold?

The Aston Martin DB5 chassis DB5/2008/R, a Thunderball publicity car, sold for $6,385,000 at RM Sotheby's Monterey in 2019.

How many BMWs did James Bond drive?

Three cars and a motorcycle, all with Pierce Brosnan: the Z3 in GoldenEye, the 750iL and R 1200 C motorcycle in Tomorrow Never Dies and the Z8 in The World Is Not Enough.

Sources

• EON Productions, 007.com film pages: the films, including Casino Royale (the seven cannon rolls) and No Time to Die (four Aston Martin models): the vehicles and UK release dates in the film table. Read 22 October 2026.
• EON Productions, 007.com vehicle pages: Sunbeam Alpine, Aston Martin DB5 (gadgets, the novels, the No Time to Die replicas), Toyota 2000GT, Ford Mustang Mach 1, AMC Hornet, Lotus Esprit, Citroën 2CV, Aston Martin V8, V12 Vanquish, Jaguar XKR, DB10, Jaguar C-X75, Land Rover Series III and Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE; and The Vehicles of Timothy Dalton's 007. Read 22 October 2026.
• BMW AG, press kit for The World Is Not Enough (1999), reprinted by Car Enthusiast: "A Chronological History of the James Bond Film Vehicles" (the Bentley, the DB5's effects, the Hornet jump's calculations, the Esprits, the 2CVs, the 250 SE, the Z3 deal) and "BMW and 007" (Z3, 750iL and Z8 supply).
• BMW Group Classic, "BMW Z8 (E52)": production total.
• Aston Martin, "DBS", 25 July 2018: Bond's DBS, 510bhp, Pebble Beach unveiling in 2007; and "Aston Martin DB5 stunt car raises £2.9 million", 29 September 2022.
• ABC News (Australia), the 1969 Bond DBS owned in Melbourne, 21 September 2021.
• RM Auctions and RM Sotheby's lot pages: DB5/2008/R, Monterey 2019; DB5/1486/R, London 2010; Lotus Esprit "Wet Nellie", London 2013 (supply, Perry, Holbrook, the shells); Esprit shell, Monaco 2026; AMC Hornet, Auburn Fall 2017; Defender SVX, London 2017; Octopussy tuk-tuk, London 2018. Read 27–28 October 2026.
• Christie's lot pages: No Time to Die DB5 stunt car and No Time to Die Aston Martin V8, 2022; Aston Martin DB10, 2016; Quantum of Solace DBS, 2012.
• Bonhams lot pages: GoldenEye DB5, DB5/1885/R and Spectre Defender SVX, 13 July 2018; OHMSS Mercury Cougar, 16 December 2020; and the Goodwood Festival of Speed results release, July 2018 (SPYSCAPE).
• CNBC, "Tesla's Elon Musk buys 007's Lotus sub car", 18 October 2013.
• Associated Press via NBC News, the Goldfinger DB5 sale, October 2010: the buyer.
• The Week, "James Bond's Aston Martin DB10 sells for £2.4m", February 2016: the charity.
• Guinness World Records, "The Fall Guy breaks world record with heart-stopping blockbuster cannon car roll", March 2024.
• Jaguar Land Rover, "New Defender faces toughest test in James Bond movie No Time To Die", 12 November 2019; and via PR Newswire, "Global unveiling of Jaguar Land Rover Bond cars", September 2015.
• Sydney Morning Herald, "Secret agent 007 open to any appropriate offers", 29 October 2002; BBC News, "New Bond film 'a giant advert'", 18 November 2002.
• SkiddMark, "Shaken & Stirred: James Bond composer David Arnold", August 2010; "Bond #23 SkyFall trailer is out, but where are the cars?", 21 May 2012.