In which Bond film does his car convert to a submarine to enable him to escape?
"Musk stated that he plans to use Tesla Motors' electric drive train in making his conversion a reality. Wet Nellie Wet Nellie is a custom-built submarine, created for the 1977 James Bond film ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" in the shape of a Lotus Esprit S1 sports car. The Esprit was chosen to give James Bond a glamorous car to drive. ""Wet Nellie"" is named in reference to Little Nellie, an autogyro featured in the James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"". Little Nellie was named after Nellie Wallace. The submarine does not maintain a dry interior, and thus is"
"they leave the base, a henchman on a motorcycle featuring a rocket sidecar, Jaws in a car, and Naomi, an assistant/pilot of Stromberg in an attack helicopter, chase them, but Bond and Amasova escape underwater when his car – a Lotus Esprit from Q Branch – converts into a submarine. Jaws survives a car crash and Naomi is killed when Bond fires a sea-air missile from his car which destroys her helicopter. While examining Stromberg's underwater ""Atlantis"" base, the pair confirm that he is operating the stolen tracking system and encounter a fleet of Stromberg's minisubs which Amasova obliterates by"
"and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action and prolonged length. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the novel under the title ""Never Say Never Again"", with McClory as executive producer. James Bond attends the funeral of Colonel Jacques Bouvar, a SPECTRE operative connected with the previous murders of two MI6 agents. Bouvar is alive and disguised as his own widow, but Bond identifies him. Pursuing Bouvar to his château, Bond fights and kills him, escaping with use of a jetpack and his Aston Martin DB5,"
"amongst others. Bond's most famous car is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in ""Goldfinger""; it later featured in ""Thunderball"", ""GoldenEye"", ""Tomorrow Never Dies"", ""Casino Royale"", ""Skyfall"" and ""Spectre"". The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,090,000 to an unnamed European collector. Bond also shows his taste for aircraft: a gyrocopter—""Little Nellie""—features in ""You Only Live Twice"", a Cessna 185 Seaplane in ""Licence to Kill"", an Acrostar Jet in ""Octopussy"", the Space Shuttle in ""Moonraker"" and"
"can be a private island (""Dr. No"", ""The Man with the Golden Gun""), underwater (""The Spy Who Loved Me""), mountaintop retreat (""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", ""For Your Eyes Only"") volcano (""You Only Live Twice""), or underground base (""Live and Let Die""), a ship (""Thunderball"", ""Tomorrow Never Dies""), an oil rig (""Diamonds Are Forever"") or even a space station (""Moonraker"")—among other variations. Bond usually sabotages the lair and, with time ticking down, dispatches the supervillain, rescues the principal Bond girl and they escape as the place blows up. In some cases, the villain or his primary henchman escapes to launch"
"her Ferrari F355 after which he gets captured and taken to Louisiana. He manages to escape and finds the stolen BMW, after which he pursues and destroys the boat driven by Jaws. Back in New York, Bond downloads the files from four limousines with his BMW Z8 and discovers that Litte's real plan is to release a deadly virus that will kill millions. Bond then goes to the Baltic Sea with his Lotus Esprit and after infiltrating opponent's underwater base he destroys the plane transporting the virus. ""007 Racing"" was met with mixed reviews. It received a score of 55.91%"
"discs and an AK-47. Bond kills Kaufman and helps Paris escape. They make it to the underground garage, where Bond drives away in his BMW 7 Series. MI6 has found the headquarters of Henry Gupta near the foothills of the Swiss Alps. The convoy of terrorist cars and trucks is heading to Henry's alpine hideout for an important meeting. Bond is sent to stop the convoy. Along the way Bond meets Q, who gives him the BMW to stop the Convoy. Bond successfully destroys the convoy with the BMW and drives away. Bond is then sent to a ski ridge"
"long-range missiles, missile shields, latest GPS technology and Q equipped BMW 750iL bound for Halifax was intercepted in the Labrador Sea, south of Greenland. Bond is tasked with finding the cargo. Mission takes him to New York City, where he is met by his friend from the CIA Jack Wade. Upon arriving in New York he is informed by a villain that a bomb has been planted on his car and that any attempt to defuse it or slow down the vehicle will cause it to explode. Bond jettisons the car in the Hudson River. Bond continues on with finding"
"pursues them in his Aston Martin. He sees Vesper lying in the road and swerves to avoid her, crashing his car. They are taken captive by Le Chiffre. Before Bond falls unconscious, Le Chiffre reveals that Mathis was his mole in MI6. Le Chiffre tortures Bond for the password to the account containing the money, but Bond refuses to give in. As Le Chiffre prepares to castrate Bond, White bursts in and shoots him dead. Bond awakens in a hospital on Lake Como and has Mathis arrested by MI6. Bond decides to resign from MI6 to be with Vesper. Bond"
"city, also using the famous Maiden's Tower which was used as Renard's hideout in Turkey. The underwater submarine scenes were filmed in the Bahamas. The BMW Z8 driven by Bond in the film was the final part of a three-film product placement deal with BMW (which began with the Z3 in ""GoldenEye"" and continued with the 750iL in ""Tomorrow Never Dies"") but, due to filming preceding release of the Z8 by a few months, several working mock-ups and models were manufactured for filming purposes. The soundtrack to ""The World Is Not Enough"" is the second ""Bond"" soundtrack to be composed"
"23rd James Bond film, ""Skyfall"", during the 50th anniversary of the release of the first James Bond film ""Dr. No"" (1962). It is unclear if this car is meant to be the same one Bond won in ""Casino Royale"", refitted with British number plates, right-hand drive, and gadgets. The car is destroyed in the film's climactic finale. It is seen again in ""Spectre"" (2015), firstly in Q's underground workshop in various stages of rebuild, and at the film's ending, fully rebuilt, with Bond driving away with it. On 1 June 2010, RM Auctions announced the upcoming auction of a DB5"
"film's action sequences, but felt that the film was less impressive than its predecessor ""Casino Royale"". , it is the fourth-highest-grossing ""James Bond"" film, without adjusting for inflation, earning $586 million worldwide, and becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2008. James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates him regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster), is a double agent; he attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond chases Mitchell and kills"
"is pursued by SPECTRE gunmen, from whom Aki rescues him again. The gunmen chase Aki's car and she leads them out into the countryside, where a SIS helicopter lifts the gunmen's car off the road with a giant magnet and drops it into the sea (in 2012, ""Complex"" ranked it as the sixth best ""James Bond"" chase scene). She then takes him to a quayside to investigate a ship he suspects is being used by the villains. When investigating the ship Bond and Aki are attacked by SPECTRE henchmen. Bond tells her to leave and report to Tanaka; Aki refuses"
"capable of transforming from car to submarine in the film, was purchased for £616,000 at a London auction in October 2013 by Elon Musk, who plans to rebuild the vehicle and attempt to make the fictional dual-purpose car be an actual dual-purpose car (underwater and on land). The Spy Who Loved Me (film) The Spy Who Loved Me is a 1977 British spy film, the tenth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. Barbara Bach and Curt Jürgens co-star. It was directed by Lewis"
"Bond franchise and is considered to be the quintessential vehicle of the character. As such, it has reappeared in subsequent films over the years. Within the universe of James Bond, the same car (registration BMT 216A) was used again in the following film, ""Thunderball"", a year later. A different Aston Martin DB5 (registration BMT 214A) was used in the 1995 Bond film ""GoldenEye"", in which the car is Bond's personal vehicle and has no gadgets. Although it did come equipped with a champagne cooler in the arm rest and a fax machine. Three different DB5s were used for filming. This"
"a better driver than Bond is Sir Hugo Drax, who causes Bond to write off his battleship-grey supercharged Bentley 4½ Litre. Bond subsequently drives a Mark II Continental Bentley, which he uses in the remaining books of the series, although he is issued an Aston Martin DB Mark III with a homing device during the course of ""Goldfinger"". In 1981, writer John Gardner was approached by the Fleming estate and asked to write a continuation novel for Bond. Although he initially almost turned the series down, Gardner subsequently wrote 14 original novels and two novelizations of the films between ""Licence"
"Monaco. Nicole distracts Pomerov while Bond sneaks in and breaks into his safe. Bond recovers documents and a camera that contains a video of Tedworth's interrogation. On it, Tedworth reveals that he was the lead scientist who was trying to create an antidote to both smallpox and anthrax to cure soldiers in the event of a biological attack. Having been discovered, Bond shoots his way out of the casino and escapes with Nicole in her Koenigsegg CCXR. M informs Bond that the files he found were invoices for sophisticated chemical manufacturing equipment designated to a defunct Siberian chemical refinery owned"
"and even tanks and moon-buggies. Although most chase sequences feature Bond getting chased by the villains, such as the Aston-Martin DB5 in ""Goldfinger"" and the ski sequence in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", some feature Bond chasing the villains, such as the tank pursuit in ""GoldenEye"" and all sequences in ""Casino Royale"". As the Eon series has progressed, the chases have repeated themselves with some variations and have all increased in extravagance. Among the more unusual chase sequences include the gondola sequence from ""Moonraker"", which leaves the canals of Venice to continue on land, and the cello case chase in"
"stolen truck is intercepted along its escape route by a SPECTRE helicopter, but 007 destroys the attacking aircraft by shooting its co-pilot with his sniper rifle, causing the man to drop a live hand grenade in the cockpit. Thus, Bond and Romanova make it to Grant's escape boat on the Dalmatian coast and steal that, too, only to be pursued by Morzeny, who leads a squadron of SPECTRE powerboats. Bond, however, escapes by dumping his own powerboat's fuel drums overboard and detonating them with a Very flare to engulf all the chase boats in a sea of flames. Eventually, he"
"the rear of the ship, revealing the front as a hydrofoil, which escapes at high speed in a smoke cloud. Bond climbs into the ship's cockpit, where he battles Largo and two crewmen while the ship weaves erratically among rocks and reefs. Meanwhile Largo's hired nuclear physicist Kutze turns against him and frees Domino. Largo is about to kill Bond when Domino shoots Largo with a harpoon gun. Bond, Domino, and Kutze jump overboard, and the ship runs aground and explodes. A sky hook-equipped CIA B-17 aircraft then rescues Bond and Domino. Originally meant as the first James Bond film,"
"they all head the treads and cause a flood through a broken glass into Eden that is underneath. Bond and Sunny head to the launch-tubes to escape the place before it is too late, freeing all the abducted Quinto girls and scientists on the way. While Sunny keeps her presence around them, Bond finds a scuba gear and dives into the spreading water to open the tube hatches as well as take control of Indigo's personal escape pod, a small submarine. Before he could reach it, he fights the giant squid from earlier and by the skin of his teeth,"
"Wet Nellie Wet Nellie is a custom-built submarine, created for the 1977 James Bond film ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" in the shape of a Lotus Esprit S1 sports car. The Esprit was chosen to give James Bond a glamorous car to drive. ""Wet Nellie"" is named in reference to Little Nellie, an autogyro featured in the James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"". Little Nellie was named after Nellie Wallace. The submarine does not maintain a dry interior, and thus is a ""wet sub"" that requires occupants to don scuba gear. It was built by Perry Oceanographic, Inc., of"
"as James Bond commandeers the Hornet from the dealership with Pepper in it for a car chase. The Hornet performs an ""airborne pirouette as it makes a hold-your-breath jump across a broken bridge"". The stunt car is significantly modified with a redesigned chassis to place the steering wheel in the center and a lower stance, as well as larger wheel wells compared to the stock Hornet used in all the other movie shots. The 360-degree mid-air twisting corkscrew was captured in just one filming sequence. Seven tests were performed in advance before the one jump performed by an uncredited British"
"subsequently a new civilisation would be established underwater. He leaves for ""Atlantis"" with Amasova. Bond escapes and frees the captured British, Russian and American sailors and they battle the ""Liparus""s crew. Bond reprograms the submarines to fire missiles at each other, saving Moscow and New York City. The victorious submariners escape the sinking ""Liparus"" on the American submarine. The submarine is ordered to destroy ""Atlantis"" but Bond insists on rescuing Amasova first. He confronts and kills Stromberg but again encounters Jaws, whom he drops into a shark tank. However, Jaws kills the shark and escapes. Bond and Amasova flee in"
"After identifying the group of attackers, Bond tracks their source down to Al Hajjarah in Yemen and heads over there, escorted by Victoria in her personal jet, in which both have a romantic encounter. Meanwhile, at the Outer Hebrides, a Royal Navy helicopter transporting decommissioned Hunt warheads was shut down and its containment disappeared. Upon learning the news, Bond classifies the attack as a scheme planned and executed by Kraken. Arriving at the Yemeni airport, Bond acquires a facilitated MI-6 vehicle by the Q-Branch, a gadget-laden Ford Mustang sports car, and drives to the location he tracked the source of"
"by telling him he is Klaus Hergersheimer, a technician he met in the facility. His cover is blown when the real Hergersheimer shows up. Bond attempts to remain hidden, but is seen by security. He manages to evade the guards by stealing a moon buggy and reunites with Tiffany. The laboratory report Bond's activity to the sheriff's office. Bond and Tiffany make their way back to Las Vegas; they are seen there by the Las Vegas police, who engage in a car chase, but Bond manages to evade all the cars. Bond later scales the walls to the Whyte House's"
"of his most famous vehicles from the then-current 19 official films. Cars include the Aston Martin DB5 made famous in its initial appearance in ""Goldfinger"", the Lotus Esprit from ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" and ""For Your Eyes Only"", and the BMW Z8 that briefly appeared in ""The World is not Enough"" as well as seven other automobiles. Each car is equipped with all the usual gadgetry and weapons issued by Q, the Quartermaster of a special branch of MI6 referred to as Q-Branch. In ""007 Racing"", a high ranking European diplomat and businessman plans to hijack a shipment of"
"tells Bond that he must escape before explosives are detonated or die trying to save Swann. Bond finds Swann and they escape by boat as the building collapses. Bond shoots down Blofeld's helicopter, which crashes onto Westminster Bridge. As Blofeld crawls from the wreckage, Bond confronts him but leaves him to be arrested by M, before leaving the bridge with Swann. In March 2013 Mendes said he would not return to direct the next film in the series, then known as ""Bond 24""; he later recanted and announced that he would return, as he found the script and the plans"
"compartment. In the final scenes of the film, Bond's wife, Tracy, is shot and killed whilst sitting in the car. A second DBS also appears in a brief single scene in the next Bond film, ""Diamonds are Forever"". It can be seen in the background being fitted with small missiles at Q Branch whilst Bond is talking to Q on the telephone. Another DBS was later used in the TV series ""The Persuaders!"" (1971–1972), in which Roger Moore's character Lord Brett Sinclair drove a distinctive ""Bahama Yellow"" 6-cylinder DBS (chassis number DBS/5636/R) that, through the use of alloy wheels and"
"the hangar to hide the car and the pole and make it look as though Moore was flying inside the base. For the explosion after the mini jet escapes, however, a miniature of the hangar was constructed and filmed up close. The exploding pieces of the hangar were in reality only four inches in length. Bond stole a Mercedes-Benz saloon car at a depot manned by antagonist soldiers, then as he tried to escape drove over barrier spikes which shredded his tyres. So he manoeuvred his vehicle's bare wheels onto the rails to pursue the train. During filming, the car"
"Bond out of retirement, he orders the military to fire mortars at Bond's mansion when the retired spy refuses to return to duty. The first quarter of the film features Bond's subsequent visit to McTarry Castle in Scotland, on a quest to return the only piece of M's remains recovered after the attack—his bright red toupée. Subsequently, Bond—played by David Niven—becomes the new M and proceeds to order that all MI6 agents, male and female, be renamed ""James Bond 007"" in order to confuse the enemy. In 1983's ""Never Say Never Again"", Edward Fox played M as a bureaucrat, contemptuous"
"Solex on the floor and is able to smuggle it away to Hip, who passes it to Goodnight. When Goodnight attempts to place a homing device on Scaramanga's car, she becomes trapped in the trunk. Bond discovers Scaramanga driving off and steals an AMC showroom car to give chase, coincidentally with vacationing Sheriff J.W. Pepper seated within it. Bond and Pepper follow Scaramanga in a car chase across Bangkok, which concludes when Scaramanga's car transforms into a plane, which flies himself, Nick Nack and Goodnight away from Bond. Picking up Goodnight's tracking signal, Bond flies a seaplane into Red Chinese"
"still alive. Moon has used the gene therapy technology to change his appearance, creating the identity of Gustav Graves and amassing his fortune from sale of the conflict diamonds. Bond confronts Graves, but Frost arrives to reveal herself as the traitor who betrayed Bond in North Korea, forcing Bond to escape from Graves' facility. Bond then returns in his Aston Martin Vanquish to rescue Jinx, who has been captured once again within the palace. As Graves uses Icarus to melt the ice palace, Zao pursues Bond into the palace using his Jaguar XKR. Bond kills Zao by causing a giant"