Aston Martin DB10 & Jaguar C-X75 Discussion

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  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    One has to wonder why they ditched the key and instead used a box on the floor. A rather odd choice.
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
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    Wow that's insane. Kinda nice though they they are the only ones in the world and not available for purchase. Makes it that much cooler imo
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    I particularly love the dash. It looks so futuristic. KNCZ0TY.jpg
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    If you do care about spoilers, don't look at this article. If you don't care, click away!

    http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-martin-db10-special-gaydon-love
  • Red_SnowRed_Snow Australia
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    Behind the Stunts of Spectre, and Why Nobody Does it Better than Bond

    Another fantastic article on prepping the cars for the Rome chase. But do be warned, there are spoilers ahead.
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Thanks for posting this @Red_Snow. Some new pics in there I believe.
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    The Jag is actually a better looking car than the Aston!!!!
  • Red_SnowRed_Snow Australia
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    suavejmf wrote: »
    The Jag is actually a better looking car than the Aston!!!!

    I have to agree. I normally love the shape of the Aston's, but I really don't like the shape of the DB10, or the interior leather straps.

  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    Yep the DBS from CR was much better looking. The DB5 is also beautiful.
  • Red_SnowRed_Snow Australia
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    Aston Martin DB10 is a GREAT addition to Chinese state visit

    Ahead of its imminent debut in the forthcoming James Bond film, Spectre, the Aston Martin DB10 has today taken pride of place outside London’s Lancaster House – the venue for a meeting between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and visiting Chinese President Mr Xi Jinping.

    The luxury British sports car – built exclusively for Bond and limited to just ten examples – was on show as part of Aston Martin’s ongoing support for the British government’s successful GREAT Britain campaign, which showcases the best of what the UK has to offer to inspire the world and encourage people to visit, do business, invest and study in the UK.

    Their Royal Highnesses Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and President of The People’s Republic of China, Mr Xi Jinping, were at Lancaster House for a creative summit hosted by the government’s UK Trade & Investment department (UKTI) as part of the President’s three-day State visit to Great Britain.

    Aston Martin is a key supporter of UKTI’s GREAT initiative, and has provided examples of its luxury sports cars for display at a number of the campaign’s functions around the world.

    CEO of Aston Martin, Dr Andy Palmer, said: “I’m naturally very happy to see Aston Martin playing such a prominent role in today’s events at Lancaster House, supporting the GREAT Britain initiative through the display of the DB10 built for Spectre.”
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Carbuyer’s Mat Watson took 007’s car for a spin and, as you can imagine, found some unusual features in it, such as a super reinforced suspension and additional underbody protection for the engine, and er.... oh, yes, a flamethrower.



  • Red_SnowRed_Snow Australia
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    Spectre director Sam Mendes on designing Bond's new Aston Martin: 'I wanted it to feel timeless'

    When it came to updating 007’s signature car for Spectre, Sam Mendes knew what he wanted — and more precisely, what he didn’t want.

    The filmmaker worked closely with venerable British luxury car manufacturer Aston Martin to design the sleek DB10 that Daniel Craig drives in the movie. And Mendes’ less-is-more aesthetic dictated certain innovations to V12 coupe’s sculptured look. “Astonishingly, they allowed me to do it!” Mendes says. “I saw it when it was a clay model form and I asked them to remove a lot of detailing. I wanted a very simple, classic shape. They went, ‘Okay.’”

    For the director, eliminating superfluous detail was key in contrasting the Aston-Martin’s subdued elegance to the Jaguar’s aggressive, Formula 1-esque styling. His first request: a less ostentatious grille. “I wanted a simpler line,” Mendes explains. “I wanted it to feel timeless. It’s in direct competition with a Jaguar that’s a real proper growling supercar with the gull-wing doors and all that. While the Aston Martin is a real gentleman’s car.”

    Mendes’ design upgrades to the DB10 aside, Spectre FX specialists extensively retrofitted the cars to meet the unique demands of a James Bond car chase. “A lot of our early development of the Aston Martins and the Jags was jumping them, adjusting the suspension and shock absorbers so they don’t just fold up,” says Corbould, who ran the vehicles through 60-foot horizontal jumps during pre-production. “We built pods on top of the cars so we could have a stunt driver on the roof. So it made it look like the actors were doing the high-speed driving.”
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    sorry if already posted

    Alternate opening to QOS???

    :D
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    :)) fun video, takes me back.
  • Red_SnowRed_Snow Australia
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    From the Aston Martin Twitter account:

    Primed and ready for action – here’s a new shot of #DB10 from the #SPECTRE film set.

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  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
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    I see a lot of people preferring the Jaguar over the Aston, but I personally prefer the DB10.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Agreed, I love the design of the db10.
    " lovely craft, such lovely lines " :D
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
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    Hahaha, agreed. Did you appreciate the 70's craft of the Lotus Esprit, or do you hate the wedge shape?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    I think the Aston looks like a shark ( which I think was their idea) and it looks
    so much lighter, then the other Astons, looks more agile, and manoeuvrable.
    I also love the Lotus, like many I had several posters of it on my walls as a
    Teen. :)
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
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    Yeah, the smaller ones like the Lotus and the DB10 looked genuinely fast, powerful, and agile. And sexy, too :)

    I think I hate the Z3 from GoldenEye the most, just because they hyped up the gadgets and then didn't show it (why did they cut it out lol). At least the Turbo destruction scene was funny.
  • MalloryMallory Do mosquitoes have friends?
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    Yeah, the smaller ones like the Lotus and the DB10 looked genuinely fast, powerful, and agile. And sexy, too :)

    I think I hate the Z3 from GoldenEye the most, just because they hyped up the gadgets and then didn't show it (why did they cut it out lol). At least the Turbo destruction scene was funny.

    I think the BMW deal came quite late in Goldeneye's production, hence why there's not a car chase.
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
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    I heard that they did film a chase but cut it out. Fine by me seeing as we already had the tank chase and the race between the DB5 and the Ferrarri earlier on, I just feel like they introduced a car for utterly nothing.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    The BMW couldn't keep up with the Skoda it was chasing... >:)
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    The sketch that brought the DB10 into existence.

    DB10-Front-three-Quarter-3-932x524.jpg
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    I do have to own such a thing!!

    The in-build "Atmosphere" button is bloody great.
    The 009 Musicmix is spectacular :))

    Also it can be parked
    underwater
    isn't that bloody marvelous! :))
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    And the
    ejector seat on the driver's side
    is very innovative too.
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    Beautiful car that was not very well used in a chase that was the most boring one in the 007 history. It felt like they had seen F&tF and decided we cannot top that so we do a phone-call in the middle of a chase that shows how much we do not care about the chase.
    The emptiness of Rome was hard to understand, it is always crazy traffic there. It felt all very unreal.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I'd argue and say that there are quite a few cars in the series that weren't necessarily utilized in a chase at all that can be seen as much more "boring" than what was driven in the Rome chase sequences in SP, such as Bond's BMW that is picked up by Wade in GE.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Beautiful car that was not very well used in a chase that was the most boring one in the 007 history. It felt like they had seen F&tF and decided we cannot top that so we do a phone-call in the middle of a chase that shows how much we do not care about the chase.
    The emptiness of Rome was hard to understand, it is always crazy traffic there. It felt all very unreal.


    I think the whole reason it was a bit of a slow chase was because the cars were prototypes and the streets of Rome are very narrow. It was late at night too, which may explain the lack of traffic.
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