When James Bond drove Audi 200s

by "DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" (daft-ryosuke)
Published 09/26/2017 at 23:53

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So, tonight I’m watching The Living Daylights, one of my favorite Bonds starring Timothy Dalton, who is coincidentally my second favorite actor to play the role. Now, it’s obvious that the star car of this film is Bond’s Aston V8 Vantage, but I want to talk about the two hella cool Audi 200s he drives in other parts of the film.

The first one is an Audi 200 sedan, which he drives in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (the film is from 1987, pre USSR end and pre-Czech breakup). It is honestly a gorgeous car, in a fine dark grey/bronze with mesh wheels. It really looks good in the darker nighttime alleyway setting that it’s mostly seen in.

The second is a lighter beige 200 Avant seen later in the film as Bond is in Tangiers, after his Aston was ‘sploded.

While not quite as cool or good looking as the aforementioned sedan, it does serve as an interesting fact, because I believe this is the only wagon or estate that Bond drives in the series. And we all know how great wagons are.

So yeah, it’s a neat little thing to see the world’s biggest super spy drive two 80s Audi’s, and makes me wonder why the Audi 200 was even chosen for those parts when a Mercedes or a Ford Sierra could have been used. Still, it does give Audi 200 owners something to boast about.

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"fintail" (fintail)
09/27/2017 at 00:01, STARS: 1

Those old style license plates look really ancient to modern eyes, too.

The 200 C3will always be Ferris Bueller’s dad’s car to me:

"ranwhenparked" (ranwhenparked)
09/27/2017 at 00:02, STARS: 1

And he drove a Lincoln Mark VII in License to Kill. Dalton’s cars were certainly a step up from the LTD II used by Moore in View to a Kill.

"DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" (daft-ryosuke)
09/27/2017 at 00:05, STARS: 0

That LTD II in A View To a Kill always makes me chuckle.

It’s very Moore for him to settle for the most boring car on the lot, while all others would ask for something with a little more oomph.

"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
09/27/2017 at 00:43, STARS: 2

Craig best Bond, Dalton second, Connery 3rd, the rest are a blur (although I’ve seen them all at least once.

"SpeedSix" (speedsix)
09/27/2017 at 01:43, STARS: 0

And as always, you can get pretty much any car used by a character in a James Bond film as a 1:43 from the Eaglemoss James Bond series, made by Universal Hobbies.

"DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!" (daft-ryosuke)
09/27/2017 at 01:56, STARS: 0

One of these days I’ll buy one of those. Probably the TND 750iL