Ranking: 11
Year of release: 2006.
The car: Aston Martin DBS.
Why it’s special: Casino Royale relaunched the 007 franchise, going back to the beginning of Bond’s licence to kill career.
Best bit: Not Daniel Craig frolicking in the ocean! We prefer Bond’s parkour-inspired chase sequence through a building site that ends in the Liberian embassy.
Pub fact: Initially the DBS stunt car (actually a DB9 in drag) refused to roll on Millbrook’s Hill Route – even raising the ramp to four times its original height didn’t work. In the end an air cannon was used to force the car to roll. Which it did, seven and a half times, inadvertently setting a new world record.
Plot overview: Newly promoted to the 00 section, James Bond (Daniel Craig) thwarts a scheme of shady financier LeChiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). LeChiffre stages a high-stakes poker tournament in Montenegro, hoping to recoup his lost money, and M (Judi Dench) has Bond enter the game, intent on bankrupting his opponent. He is teamed with Vesper Lynd (Green), a treasury official who holds the purse-strings on Bond’s table stakes.
For: An Aston Martin for the Playstation generation, with on-board gun and defibrillator.
Against: There’s no proper 007 car chase and we still wince at the thought of the destroyed DBS.
CAR verdict: A beautiful car, but one that will always play second fiddle to the DB5. But at least it gets used in the 12-minute car chase that opens Quantum of Solace.
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