German Car Zone

For a Fleeting, High-Speed Moment, We Become Agent 007


In profile, this looks like any other 2008 Aston Martin DBS. But then there's the Italian license plate, not to mention an ever-so-tiny badge on the door sill kickplate that gives the game away entirely. It says "Quantum of Solace," which makes this a very special Aston Martin indeed.

This really is James Bond's car.

Even as the Aston Martin executive hands us the chunky glass key that's known within the company as "the Emotional Control Unit" and the dash display lights up with the words, "Power, Beauty, Soul," we figure that we'd be prevented from driving out of the gate by a hail of gunfire from mysterious men on skis.

But all we had to do was hand over a yellow slip of paper to the man at the factory gate and we were gone, on our own in the 2008 Aston Martin DBS that belongs to James Bond. We didn't even have to kill a man with our bare hands.

If only we were being accompanied by a female sidekick with a suggestive name instead of this blasted photographer.





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Still for my money the best looking car in production today, on the road, in the known world.


M

This kind of marketing seems so lame for such a prestigious brand.

I dunno, I think it removes some of that stuffy, snobbishness and makes the brand and their cars seem more fun. A fun rich person if you will.

M

wish only if we could have those pics in high res

Hmm, yeah possibly -- but do you think Aston still has a "stuffy and snobbish" image (if it ever really did) of English nobility?

Modern-day Britain is so Politically Correct ...the traditional class system has largely been replaced with a social elite made up of TV celebrities and immigrant industrialists.

Well no, not like Bentley or Rolls-Royce.

M

I'm not convinced with that car one bit,pretty yes...but lame and huge let down IMO.

DBS James Bond, eh?

-Does it come with an ejector seat, machine guns and stinger missiles?