Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

00:00:21 BOND THEME

00:03:01 and had to rent one locally for - and I quote - "a considerable sum".

00:05:23 He'd seen obviously, an ejector plane seat and that had impressed him.

00:07:55 In the film, the setting for the car chase is in the grounds of Goldfinger's factory

00:10:22 Why was it, above all others, chosen to be Bond's car?

00:12:54 I don't know. I love that little... Is it the Datsun in Japan

00:15:33 they found, with filming just about to start

00:18:07 and then suddenly had to fly back to England.

00:20:27 You don't think I was going to go driving under a bridge?

00:23:21 And this very brave fellow who'd never done it before

00:25:53 007 drove off before Q could give him the usual briefing

00:28:43 Sure enough, when the Bond big-wigs came outside at lunch time

00:31:06 I come round a left-hand corner with explosions going on all around me

00:33:49 Then propulsion. These thrusters underwater will be driven by electric motors.

00:36:33 so the car would have been a lot smaller and easier to steal

00:39:08 Time to leave.

00:41:50 I don't think so.

00:44:39 Oh. Very good.

00:47:10 Now, that's... She only pulled out on me because she couldn't see me.

00:49:31 On the storyboards, the plan was for Bond to give chase in the Aston

00:52:18 having doubled for Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace...

00:54:15 Totally. I totally bought that.

00:56:54 But it is the actual one used in Skyfall.

00:59:36 I'm in a James Bond-style submarine Lotus.