ON A HARD WORKING BOND CAR

FOR KINGS IN ALL COUNTRIES

I'm a sucker for well-written car reviews, and this one by Lawrence Ulrich doesn't disappoint, especially in his sensitivity for the current economic climate as he reviews one of the world's most expensive cars:

"STARTING in 1965 with the DB5 in “Goldfinger,” Aston Martin has been linked at the tuxedoed hip with James Bond; gadget-packed Astons have been driven by Connery, Lazenby, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig.

But given the economy, anyone who can still afford a $270,000 Aston Martin DBS might inspire a real-world film, with enough supervillains and world domination to make 007 quiver.

Call it “The Man with the Golden Parachute.”

Wafting above the crowd is certainly the point. With 510 burbling horsepower from the V-12 power plant, angry stockholders vanish in the mirror. Seething mobs of the unemployed are drowned out by the 1,000-watt Bang & Olufsen sound system"

C.E.O.-envy aside, the roughly 300 Americans who will drive home a DBS this year need to know the score."

The actual review's pretty good too, not to mention the car of course. 
Then, if one still can't get enough of the DBS, there's always the movie it currently stars in again.
Don't worry, it didn't fare much better in the last one either.
But it always recovers fully in time for a sequel, and of course for Queen and country.

Comments

[Shefaly]

Michael

I don't know about the man with the golden parachute but I do know that some people in London have lost deposits of up to £0.5M on houses they had aimed to buy with 2008 bonuses until one spouse lost his job and the other found that the bonus will be zero. :-(

The next Bond may be seen in a London bendy bus or a fuel efficient Toyota...

[Dex]

LOL @ Michael... bond in a bus or toyota... haha