{"id":622545,"date":"2026-06-05T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622545\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:23:09","slug":"the-best-and-worst-james-bond-cars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622545\/","title":{"rendered":"The best (and worst) James Bond cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    James Bond and his cars are closely linked.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since he first roared into action over 60 years ago, master spy\u00a0Commander James Bond\u00a0has taken his choice of company car almost as seriously as his choice of hand gun, champagne and, er, companion. So it\u2019s far from reassuring to see just how many\u00a0dodgy,\u00a0dire\u00a0and\u00a0occasionally disastrous\u00a0choices he\u2019s made.<\/p>\n<p>So forget the\u00a0missile launchers,\u00a0ejector seats\u00a0and\u00a0amphibious capability, let\u2019s look a little closer at the motors behind the myths to see which, if any, really are worthy of the attentions of the world\u2019s least secret agent \u2013 and we also suggest some he missed, and take a look at some the villains used too:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Bond and his cars are closely linked. Ever since he first roared into action over 60 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}