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Indian hand in Bond's favourite car

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Press Trust of India London
Last Updated : Jan 21 2013 | 5:46 PM IST

Since the 1960s, Aston Martin has been the fictional spy's favourite car and it is so in Skyfall, 23rd of the Bond movies.

The latest model has brakes by NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul's Caparo group.

"My company, Caparo, put the brakes into his Aston Martin," Lord Paul said.

Equipped with interesting gadgets by Q, Aston Martin DB5 was first driven by Sean Connery's Bond character in third 007 movie 'Goldfinger' in 1964.

Since then it showed up in five more films -- 'Thunderball', 'GoldenEye', 'Tomorrow Never Dies', 'Casino Royale' and in Daniel Craig-starrer 'Skyfall'.

  

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First Published: Nov 11 2012 | 11:15 AM IST

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