dirtybenny wrote:Kristatos wrote:I had to Google Tesla Cars to see what everyone was talking about. Most of them were fairly undistinguished looking, but I could see this one as a villain's car:
That's the older model which is essentially a lotus re-powered with batteries. The new one is a sedan, I drove one once, a neat bit of kit but personally I was a bit underwhelmed.
Pictures don't do it justice, in person they look a bit more Maserati.
the sedan looks a lot more impressive, over all the cars are a joke. Well that's too harsh but electric cars are lame because it of the battery technology, electric motors are impressive as hell. Tesla a probably packages them the best.
There is a old Chevy S10 someone converted to a electric drag racer that gives the best and newest V8 or better a run for their money.
But electric cars are not green their power comes from somewhere, a far dirtier power plant. Modern cars burn very clean really. Hybrids are not a bad idea but hydrogen powered cars really could be the future.
I liked when bond drove what was available not bring out the db5 every time to prove this is a bond movie. GE was probably the best use of it in modern times. The vantage in TLD was epic with out having to be a modern clone of the DB5 or the DB5 itself.
Lotus is another good example , people instantly think bond when they see a esprit
BMW z3 is another good example although the car was gutless. But it looked cool and was very bondian .
The later bwms were forgettable . As was the T-bird in dad. It was only a wow factor in 2002.
I did like the dad vanquish but it doesn't have the it factor to make it a iconic car.
The later Aston martins in Craig movies are too generic super car. They sell a few in the year the movie is released but that all they are a car ad in the middle of a movie.
I'd say today's Bond ought to have something like a Bentley continental. The new Nissan GTR, but it's not British . Subaru BRZ would be a great budget bond car, it a drivers car but very low power, modders crank up the power enough to give 440 hp , 0-60 in under 4 seconds.
That the real world kind of sports car that fit the Fleming 1950s world .
I remember there was one book there bond was basically in a fast n furious race with a bad guy , some guy in a supedup car tried to race them and the bad guy drove the people off the road killing them. Pissing bond off big time.
If it weren't about selling new cars I'd love to see bond in a older db7 tuned to hell or another in assuming car like that that older almost a classic but affordable to modify
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