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Well I don't him switching to Bentley or a Lotus again but never non British brand like BMW
Also, Bond driving a brand new Lotus Esprit would be a nice nod to TSWLM and FYEO.
Nice, nice car.
And the Esprit was never made. Personally I think the Emira is looking really cool, but it's perhaps not top-of-the-line enough for Bond
Apart from the fact that those sports cars really don't make for a very convincing business vehicle for a secret agent (Brosnan's Bond should have had an off-roader both in Azerbaidjan and Iceland), my take on this is that they should re-start the franchise as a period piece true to the novels...and give Bond his original Bentley. If they keep trying to adjust Bond to modern times, he'll end up with a cargo bike instead in no time.
Valhalla
Vulcan
Victor
Depends on the setting and tone of course.
They could obviously be made more sleek, however the DBs have looked awfully similar over the last years, and look more like everyday cars as other brands like Tesla sell similar looking models. There is also something to be said about Aston Martin being increasingly overlooked by luxury car enthusiasts outside of the uk.
I think the Victor would have suited Craig in Skyfall, the Valhalla in Spectre and the Vulcan in NTTD.
And the moment in SF where Bond opens the garage and you see BMT216A, with all the original gadgets, drew active applause (something I never experienced in any other movie theater for any film whatever) both times I saw SF in late October/November 2012, in London and Hamburg. Everybody left the cinemal happy, not least due to this moment. People love nostalgia, so the film makers knew how to give it to them. The DB5 was never more successfully placed than there.
Though I also do agree they needn't have continued with this until NTTD. But still better than putting Bond in any other car that makes no sense to the story, such as the BMW Z3 in GE or the Z8 in TWINE, or the later DB-somethings only destined for destruction, or any of the non-descript aesthetic atrocities that you are suggesting just because they claim to be Aston Martins. Just my two cents.
The Valhalla WAS in NTTD. Driven by the then-007.
Personally, I miss the proper GT cars. Aston are on their way to become just one more hypercar factory. They used to build proper GT's with the addition of style and class, hence fitting Bond perfectly. Alas, they're going the wrong way.
I love that Victor though, but it's a one-off sold to a rich Belgian.
The only brand that I can think off that now suits the bill is Alfa Romeo, but the Giulia is too old, the Tonale too cheap.
Let's get a film where he doesn't drive a car at all, like in YOLT.
Any of those could work for me when packed full of gadgets.
Where it favors a Ford Mustang, I note with the Victor they're recalling the 80s V8 Volante.
You can still achieve classy without futuristic spaceships or iconic classics.
And if the rest of the vehicles are older or more down to Earth, the db11/dbs (or any other hero car) becomes more poignant.
Do you recall which one was that @QBranch?
My memory stops at the DC Batman: White Knight #2 crossover with the Aston Martin V8 Volante.
Edit: Actually the mines were in the DB10 from Black Box, but still predates NTTD by 2 years.
Interesting to me I will search out that media at long last.