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[dbam]

Ford of course- why else do you think there were so many Range Rovers in the Ice Palace car park in DAD? (Along with the Volvos, Jags and Fords).

Nah, like I said before Land Rovers have appeared in almost every James Bond Film with some very significant roles.

One could look at it this way: He's BOND, he can drive whatever the hell he wants

Exactly! And he does.

[Jim]

Ford of course- why else do you think there were so many Range Rovers in the Ice Palace car park in DAD? (Along with the Volvos, Jags and Fords).

Nah, like I said before Land Rovers have appeared in almost every James Bond Film with some very significant roles.

I forgot to say welcome to this James Bond website.

Extending the welcome further, I think it would be very helpful to all members if you could expand on these "very significant roles" because that could be worth reading. And, to be frank, a bit more about James Bond than about Land Rovers.

There's that revolting beige thing in Octopussy - Roger Moore aside, there appears to be some sort of Range Rover thing also. The one shot off a cliff in TLD. The Range Rovers (or are they Toyotas? I might be mistaken) hurling themselves around in Tomorrow Never Dies. Any more that are "very significant"?

[quiller]

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hair dressers car. then again so are those bloody bmw roadsters

[Jim]

Yes, well, it is ever so slightly camp, isn't it? Some sort of homosexual tractor. Perhaps it's metrosexual. Perhaps I'm writing rubbish.

[Brix Bond]

Nah, like I said before Land Rovers have appeared in almost every James Bond Film with some very significant roles.

Yeh I think Goldfinger was played by a Land Rover or at the very least it acted as his double in a few scenes.

[marktmurphy]

Ford of course- why else do you think there were so many Range Rovers in the Ice Palace car park in DAD? (Along with the Volvos, Jags and Fords).

Nah, like I said before Land Rovers have appeared in almost every James Bond Film with some very significant roles.

Eh? What do you mean 'nah'? Are you denying that they were there? And that the only reason that they were there (and in other scenes in the film) is because Land Rover is owned by Ford, along with all the other car brands used in Die Another Day (Aston Martin, Jaguar, Volvo, Ford-badged cars etc.)? If you can spot any car in DAD which doesn't have Ford as a parent company I'll buy you an ice cream.

Of course Land Rovers have featured in Bond films before; they are very important cars here and have been made since the 40's- it's a fairly safe bet that they would have popped up sooner or later in a series of films about a guy in the British military. Doesn't actually indicate that they are cool or anything, just that they exist and there's no other car that could play its role- as with the Range Rover in Octopussy- no other car could have played that role as there was no other luxury off-roader.

[Blofeld's Cat]

I guess if Bond can drive a moon buggy that looses its wheels, he can drive anything. Even this ugly looking thing.

[Jim]

If you can spot any car in DAD which doesn't have Ford as a parent company I'll buy you an ice cream.

There's a silver Porsche in the pre-credits and a Ferrari and Lamborghini fall out of the 'plane at the end.

Ice-cream's terribly expensive, so you can get out of this by suggesting the offer was only open to the Land Rover PR guy.

[marktmurphy]

Nope, I'll stand by it. There's a vienetta on its way from Carshalton Beeches to Oxford on the red-eye.

[Jim]

Nope, I'll stand by it. There's a vienetta on its way from Carshalton Beeches to Oxford on the red-eye.

Warm day today, so I don't fancy its chances of survival!

[dbam]

Eh? What do you mean 'nah'? Are you denying that they were there? And that the only reason that they were there (and in other scenes in the film) is because Land Rover is owned by Ford, along with all the other car brands used in Die Another Day (Aston Martin, Jaguar, Volvo, Ford-badged cars etc.)? If you can spot any car in DAD which doesn't have Ford as a parent company I'll buy you an ice cream.

By "Nah" I mean no - Just a casual way of saying no. Ford has only owned Land Rover for a few years. Land Rovers have appeared in many other Bond films. I might have been wrong to say "very significant roles". I should have said appeared in many James Bond films.
Maybe Bond should drive the new G4 Land Rover LR3. His Aston does not climb mountains ya know.

[Triton]

Whatever happened to Land Rover's project to re-design the Defender 90 and 110? I would rather see a new Defender in Bond XXI, or later, than a Range Stormer.

The Range Stormer doesn't look like Bond's cup of coffee at all, since of course he would rather drink a cup of mud rather than tea. Looks like a vehicle that would be driven by urban gangsta, not the traditional image of the Range Rover being driven by the urban class to their country estates. The Range Stormer seriously is lacking in snob appeal.

There doesn't seem to be much hint of the Land Rover off-road pedigree to the Range Stormer.

[Brix Bond]

It's perfect for the pre-title sequence where Bond has a smashing picnic on the beach then afterwards packs up his surfboard - first folding down the back seats - into the boot then trundles off back to his country farm where he goes around milking cows and such wearing a Barbour raincoat. For the remainder of the film he turns into a Mountain Rescuer and saves stranded hillwalkers in his new car, occasionally popping to the supermarket to pick up the week's groceries before heading back to the glamourous and exotic world of helping stupid people.

Fleming would have wanted it this way.

Oh yes.

[Four Aces]

Actually, I would like to see a decrease in the use of cars as a focal point for these films. Same goes for the special effects. The series needs to get more real a la Bourne Supremacy or the Fleming novels.

4A

[Jim]

It's perfect for the pre-title sequence where Bond has a smashing picnic on the beach then afterwards packs up his surfboard - first folding down the back seats - into the boot then trundles off back to his country farm where he goes around milking cows and such wearing a Barbour raincoat. For the remainder of the film he turns into a Mountain Rescuer and saves stranded hillwalkers in his new car, occasionally popping to the supermarket to pick up the week's groceries before heading back to the glamourous and exotic world of helping stupid people.

Fleming would have wanted it this way.

Oh yes.

Well, he did surf twice in the last sorry excuse for a film, so what you suggest here is not entirely unlikely.

[marktmurphy]

And of course Aston Martins are all driven by international super agents. Not ugly fat board directors in their 60's. Oh no; not at all.

[Jim]

And of course Aston Martins are all driven by international super agents. Not ugly fat board directors in their 60's. Oh no; not at all.

Whatever his status at Irish Dreamtime, I thought that Mr Brosnan was in his 50s. Live and learn, eh?

Apologies to those who seek to be offended by that.

[Loomis]

Actually, I would like to see a decrease in the use of cars as a focal point for these films. Same goes for the special effects. The series needs to get more real a la Bourne Supremacy or the Fleming novels.

Right. Pesonally, I don't give a toss what Bond drives in BOND 21 as long as it gets him from A to B.

Apologies to car enthusiasts who seek to be offended by that.

[marktmurphy]

Apologies to people who try to provoke a response by imagining they are saying something controversial.

And Brix, point is Range Rovers are driven by much the same people as Astons. They are never driven off road or indeed for any other purpose than to get very rich people from meeting to meeting. If James Bond were to drive one it is very likely that people's impression of the brand would change. The very act of him owning one really does make the car feel different. I've found that before (I even looked twice at a BMW after he had them), perhaps you would too. And Land Rovers and Range Rovers have very different characters.

[Brix Bond]

I foresee that Bond is dying on the side of a mountain, much in the same vein as his parents, only they died because they didn't take their RANGE ROVER STORMER up the mountain with them. Cue flashback scenes and all that crap about how James never got to say good bye to mom n pop with some reconciliation before he drives off the moutainside in his RANGE ROVER STORMER.

YES! YES! I CAN SEE IT NOW! BRING CHAMPERS AND QUICK!

[Jim]

I foresee that Bond is dying on the side of a mountain, much in the same vein as his parents, only they died because they didn't take their RANGE ROVER STORMER up the mountain with them. Cue flashback scenes and all that crap about how James never got to say good bye to mom n pop with some reconciliation before he drives off the moutainside in his RANGE ROVER STORMER.

YES! YES! I CAN SEE IT NOW! BRING CHAMPERS AND QUICK!

Oh God, they're making High Time to Kill. Run!

[Athena007]

Oh God, they're making High Time to Kill. Run!

Apologies to those who like that book. *silly*

[Brix Bond]

Oh dear, I didn't realise it had been done before. Perhaps I should read the Gardner and Benson novels if only to know what everyone complains about.

[Glor (009)]

I am also looking forward to seeing the DB9 in Bond21 and at the moment I just can't picture any other Bond than Brosnan. Although I wonder if the sale of MGM to Sony will have Connery coming out of retirement. There were rumours several years ago that Sony was going to do a remake of Thunderball with Sean Connery.

Do you mean [/I]another [/I] remake of Thunderball? There already was one...Never Say Never Again. It would be nice to have Spectre back for some films though.

[Qwerty]

I am also looking forward to seeing the DB9 in Bond21 and at the moment I just can't picture any other Bond than Brosnan. Although I wonder if the sale of MGM to Sony will have Connery coming out of retirement. There were rumours several years ago that Sony was going to do a remake of Thunderball with Sean Connery.

Do you mean [/I]another [/I] remake of Thunderball? There already was one...Never Say Never Again. It would be nice to have Spectre back for some films though.

The late 90's had some "issues" with McClory.

[dbam]

Do you mean [/I]another [/I] remake of Thunderball? There already was one...Never Say Never Again. It would be nice to have Spectre back for some films though.

No, actually several years ago (1995 I think) I heard rumours that Sony was going to bring Connery in as James Bond and remake Thunderball? Not sure though, at the time I thought how can they redo an already done Bond film under the same title. Could have been just rumours though.

[Qwerty]

No rumor, there were the ideas with Sony.

[Glor (009)]

I'm glad they didn't do it. It would be Absurd to remake Thunderball in the 90s as then they would also be re-making Never Say Never. What were they going to do... start a franchise by re-making the same movie over and over forever? That only works with horror films.

It was my understanding that the legal battle ended with McClory holding the rights to remake TB as many times as he wanted and no other rights to 007.

[Qwerty]

I'm glad they didn't do it. It would be Absurd to remake Thunderball in the 90s as then they would also be re-making Never Say Never. What were they going to do... start a franchise by re-making the same movie over and over forever? That only works with horror films.

It was my understanding that the legal battle ended with McClory holding the rights to remake TB as many times as he wanted and no other rights to 007.

I think all the rights are firmly with EON.

Although nothing seems to stop McClory.