Paul Newman and Steve McQueen have plenty of inspiring car movie scenes. But neither has anything on the actors who played James Bond the cars the characters drove โ€” Aston Martin to the Lotus Turbo Espirit.

In one website description, the TurboEsprit is described:

“As it took every single teenage and pre-pubescent boyโ€™s inspiration and gave it a good shake. It spawned school-ground talk, made young men believe underwater driving was possible and let a new generation discover just how good the Bond films were.”James Bond and his cars: Aston Martin to Turbo Espirit 1

But it was Sean Connery, the original James Bond in film, who started the coolness โ€” weaponry, inventions, smoothness with women โ€” and he drove a 1964 Aston Martin D85

One auto web site wrote of the Aston Martin:

“The DB5 just exuded cool. It took Aston Martin into a whole new era of ice cold GT cars made for tuxedo-wearing, cigar-smoking, womanizing rich 30-somethings who knew what they wanted and how to get it.”

The automotive site AutoBlog.com has an extensive piece in the history of James Bond cars. Visit: James Bond Cars.

Article Last Updated: August 30, 2011.

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