Thursday, April 3, 2008

James Bond drives a what?

Throughout his decades of crime fighting, James Bond has seldom strayed from the flashy and gas-hogging Aston Martin. In Casino Royale, Bond began his assignment driving the notably less cool more economical Ford Mondeo. In the next installment -- Quantum of Solace -- AutoBlogGreen is reporting that James will be slumming it even harder in the 45mpg Ford Ka.

I don't how the writers are justifying 007's fascination with the Ford Motor Company -- since their vehicles don't exactly fall in line with his taste for the finer things in life -- but apparently Ford paid about $35 million to get the 45mpg Ka in the picture. So, I guess they'll figure it out. So what's the deal? Is James Bond turning over a new leaf?

In my opinion, if Bond is going green, he definitely wouldn't be driving a Ford economy car. I could maybe, maybe see him driving a Prius or a Mercedes Bluetec, but ideally he'd be driving a Tesla Roadster like Iron Man. I guess Tesla didn't have the ad budget.

[via Autobloggreen]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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