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The name's Martin. Aston Martin.
Aston Martin has been known for its exquisite and luxurious sports cars that is seen in the hands of the main heroes of a work. Ever since it grew popularity with the film franchise James Bond, the brand has spawned numerous works, mainly the ones in British film and television, typically owned by a fancy lady or a sharply dressed gentleman, or even a stereotypical secret agent who drives this beauty for their missions or for cruising pleasure around the city and countryside.
Remember... a character don't need to be like James Bond to drive an Aston Martin.
If anyone thinks about this car, then they're most likely thinking of it as the Hero's Classic Car of James Bond.
The Aston Martin DB5 is a grand tourer produced by Aston Martin from 1963 to 1965. The "DB" designation is derived from the initials of David Brown, who bought the company in 1947 and built it up afterwards, working closely on the production of the Aston Martin 2-Litre Sports, now retroactively known as the Aston Martin DB1. The car is powered by a 282 hp 3.7 L - 4.0 L DOHC inline-6 engine with three SU carburettors and a robust ZF 5-speed transmission, capable of reaching 145 mph (233 km/h), which is pretty fast at that time.
Numerous variants of the DB5 were produced such as the convertible in which the "Volante" name wasn't used until 1965, a one-off shooting brake designed for David Brown, and a DB5 Vantage, a high-performance version of the DB5, fitted with three Weber carburettors and revised camshafts, producing 40 horsepower more than the original.
In 2013, the DB5 was featured on a "British Auto Legends" postage stamp issued by the Royal Mail.
Film — Animation
- Befitting a British spy archetype, C.H.R.O.M.E. Agent Finn McMissile from Cars 2 bears a striking resemblance to the DB5.
- As an Actor Allusion with Sean Connery, the silver grey Cool Car the titular protagonist drives of Sir Billi is the famous Aston Martin DB5, which "still handles like it used to..."
- After Leonardo DiCaprio's character in Catch Me If You Can watches Goldfinger in a theater, he decides to fancy himself as Bond and buys himself a suit and an Aston Martin DB5.
- As an Actor Allusion in The Cannonball Run, Roger Moore plays an eccentric millionaire who... amusingly enough, participates in the race with is an Aston Martin DB5.
- As mentioned before, the DB5 is best known for its role in the James Bond films.
- The car first became widely known in the Sean Connery era after it appeared in Goldfinger. The same car (registration BMT 216A) was used again briefly in the next film, Thunderball. Q says it all introducing the car in Goldfinger:Q: Now, pay attention please. Windscreen - bulletproof. As are the side and the rear windows. Revolving number plates, naturally. Valid - all countries.
- A different DB5 (registration BMT 214A) was used in Pierce Brosnan's first film GoldenEye, in which it's implied that the car was now Bond's personal vehicle and had no gadgets — although it did come equipped with a champagne cooler in the arm rest and a fax machine. The same car briefly reappeared in the next film, Tomorrow Never Dies. It was set to make a cameo appearance in the Scotland-set scenes in The World Is Not Enough, but most of these scenes were cut in the final edit.
- The car managed to appear in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig's debut, in spite of the film's Continuity Reboot. In the film, the car is owned by one of the villains, Alex Dimitrios, and Bond wins the car from Dimitrios after beating him in a poker game. Another DB5 with the original registration BMT 216A appears in Skyfall, but is destroyed in the film's climactic finale. Nonetheless, it is seen again, fully repaired, in the next film Spectre, firstly in Q's underground workshop in various stages of rebuild, and at the film's ending, fully rebuilt, with Bond driving it away. It was featured yet again in Craig's final film, No Time to Die. As a result, in total Craig drove it more than Connery and Brosnan combined.
- The car first became widely known in the Sean Connery era after it appeared in Goldfinger. The same car (registration BMT 216A) was used again briefly in the next film, Thunderball. Q says it all introducing the car in Goldfinger:
- The DB5 convertible is seen in the hands of Warren Beatty's character in Kaleidoscope.
- In the 1983 TV movie of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E., George Lazenby made an appearance as "J.B.", an unnamed spy wearing a white tux who drives a weaponized Aston Martin DB5.
- In season one of Mission: Impossible, the episode "Odds On Evil" features a red DB5.
- "Millennium
" by Robbie Williams is something that borrows elements from You Only Live Twice, as the English singer himself fancies as Bond with an Aston Martin DB5 as his Cool Car featured in the music video. With a Bond girl included, too. - Usher can be seen be seen dancing in front of his Aston Martin DB5 in "Burn".
- In 007 Racing, it is one of the cool vehicles Bond had driven throughout the franchise's then-38-year run.
- Same goes for Blood Stone, where the DB5 plays a critical part of, alongside the DBS.
- Dunk and Martin in Choro Q are both bodied in Aston Martin DB5s. The latter is clearly a Shout-Out to James Bond.
- John Tanner can rock like James Bond and fany himself in a DB5 in Driver: San Francisco. This would be prominent in the "It's For Charity" mission where the DB5 is one of the vintage vehicles that need to be recovered.
- This Bond car appears in the Forza series since Motorsport 3. In Horizon 3, a car like that is needed to complete one of the Horizon Secret Service challenges.
- Gran Turismo 7 marks the debut of the DB5, and the game isn't hesitant to refer this as an iconic James Bond car. It can be awarded for free by getting all gold in The Human Comedy driving missions. It's the third pre-80s classic Aston Martin after DB6 of GT2 and DB3S of Sport
- While more closely resembling a DB4, the JB 700 in Grand Theft Auto V is meant to be a Shout-Out to Bond's own DB5.
- Before that, Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 also included this iconic British sports car, with the obvious Punny Name of "James Bomb".
- The DB5 made its debut in the Need for Speed franchise in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) as part of the Movie Legends Pack. Despite its slow acceleration and top speed, it makes up for it with its cornering capabilities.
- It would later return in Need for Speed Payback as a DLC car in a March 2018 update. In Heat and Unbound, it appears as a regular car in the base roster.
- You can be like James Bond in Rocket League as the DB5 is one of the Downloadable Content cars you can bash oppnents with in a car soccer match. It does however have some weapons of its own.
Western Animation
- The Phineas and Ferb episode "Live and Let Drive", as its name indicates, would obviously have lots of James Bond references. Here, Major Monogram sends Perry the Platypus to a mission in a swanky spy car, the "1963 Olson Martin".
The Aston Martin DB7 is a luxurious sports tourer produced from 1994 up until 2004, serving as the successor to the then-aging DB6 20 year ago.
This was the first ever Aston Martin to be designed by Ian Callum (who'd later design its successor the DB9 and the Vanquish) who also worked alongside South Africa's Keith Helfet. Like its predecessors, the DB9 continues the tradition on using the "DB" Theme Initials, owing to the name of the owner David Brown. Initially, the DB7 uses a six-cylinder 335 hp engine, and was considered to be an "entry-level" Aston Martin model, just below the V8 Virage which was introduced a few years earlier.
Its powerful variant, the DB7 V12 Vantage was introduced in 1999, and as the Meaningful Name implies, utilizes an almighty Aston Martin V12 engine, which produced about 100 horsepower more than its vanilla DB7. And in 2002, revised version called the V12 GT gets a slight power increase while the V12 GTA offers an automatic transmission.
While it discontinued in 2004 and was replaced by the DB9, more than 7,000 units of the DB7 were produced making it the most-produced Aston Martin model of that time.
Anime and Manga
- Yayoi Matsunaga of Nightwalker engages in a Car Chase and gun battles in her red Aston Martin DB7.
- The alter-ego titular protagonist of Paprika can be seen driving what looks to be a British green DB7 lookalike during the film's opening. Then she transition to her real ego as Dr. Atsuko Chiba (being a lady with a Split-Personality Merge as it seems).
- The tricked out spy car that the titular character Johnny English commandeers with his partner Bough, is an Aston Martin DB7 Vantage. Not just any Cool Car, but it's a cool Weaponized Car, armed with miniature rocket launchers which may come in very handy in mundane parts of their mission... and an Ejector Seat, which English involulntarily launched Lorna Campbell from the vehicle.
- As one of the songs of Men in Black, Will Smith raps to the beats of his tune whilst just cruising around in the streets of Los Angeles and New York City with his Schizo Tech DB7 Volante in "Just Cruisin'. Empahsis on the schizo tech cat... it can turn into a boat, a jet fighter, or hell, can clean itself with just a simple touch of a button.
- Only made its one-time cut in Forza Motorsport 4, where the DB7 Zagato shows up as part of the August Playseat Car Pack.
- The DB7 has been a longtime mainstay for Aston Martin since the first Gran Turismo game up until 6. The first two also has a Volante variant while later games starting with 3 use the powerful DB7 Vantage instead.
- First appeared as PC-exclusive car in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, before it returned naturally in High Stakes. Oh, for PC players? You need to download that car.
- Shows up in Test Drive 6. In TD: Overdrive, there is a police variant for the London map (befitting the British aesthetics, mind you!) plus a special "Sound Max" edition obtained via Cheat Code.
- An even ultra-rarer case is this DB7 GT Zagato which can be obtained normally like its other fellow Aston Martins in Test Drive Unlimited.
The DB9 is Aston Martin's grand tourer which debuted in 2003. Designed by Ian Callum and Henrik Fisker, the DB9 uses an aluminum construction, whilst utilizing the 5.9L V12 engine from the Vanquish.
Like its predecessors, the DB9 continues on using the "DB" Theme Initials, owing to the name of the owner David Brown. As the DB7's successor, Aston Martin did not name the car DB8 due to fear that the name would mean the car would use a V8 engine.
The DB9 comes in either a coupe or a Volante convertible. A 2013 facelift saw many tweaks and improvement to the overall design, whereas the DBS V12 is a high-performance sports car based on the DB9, serving as the successor of the first-generation Vanquish. The Virage name was revived in 2011 (last seen in 2000 as a separate grand tourer), as as the comfort and refined variant based on the aforementioned DBS.
Its racing car, the Aston Martin DBR9 debuted in 2005 and would be the LMGT1 class winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2007 and 2008.
Film — Animation
- Nigel Gearsley, a professional race car and one of the World Grand Prix racers from Cars 2 is based on the Aston Martin DBR9. The colors are also based on one of Aston's factory GT1 teams.
Film — Live-Action
- Being a native British for the Shaw brothers, The Fast and the Furious has offered some DB wheels for them:
- Owen Shaw in Fast & Furious 6 has him pulling up in a DB9, where he makes a bargain for Dom and his crew to leave London.
- His older brother Deckard Shaw's in Furious 7, used this car in the climax to Car Fu head-on against Dom in his Charger.
- The Aston Martin DBS V12 made its first appearance in the James Bond film series in Casino Royale, the first film of Daniel Craig. It was later destroyed when pursuing Le Chiffre. It later returns in Quantum of Solace, and ends up quite badly damaged in a chase in Northern Italy in the pre-credits sequence.
Live Action TV
- Eva Longoria's character Gabrielle Solis from Desperate Housewives can be spotted driving a red Aston Martin DB9 Volante.
- Vincent Chase from Entourage can be see treating his entourage in a DB9 Volante. Then shit hits the fan as things gone downfall when his financial situations get worse and his cars, including this one gets repossessed.
- The Good Guys featured a DB9 in one episode of Season 1.
Music
- "Ayo Technology" by 50 Cent features him driving an Aston Martin DB9, chasing down a hot chick in a red Lotus Elise.
- One-third of The Jonas Brothers, Nick Jonas comes along a high speed run in the rain in his DB9 GT in "Under You".
- Hip hop artist Lloyd Banks goes around New York City in his beloved DB9 Volante in the first half of the video "I Don't Deserve You".
- The aptly named "Aston Martin Music" by Rick Ross (feat. Drake and Chrisette Michele) doesn't lie at all. The music video is all about the beautiful looking Aston Martin DBS Volante, where the star rapper takes the car for a nice little cruise around Miami. The DB9 Volante can be also spotted at one scene.
- The DBS is the Rule of Cool here in Blood Stone as a nod to the aforementioned Casino Royale Quantum of Solace. The one used in the tutorial level taken from outside Greco's hiding spot, Nicole's friend's DBS in Siberia, and presumably Bond's own in the epilogue.
- The "Double or Quits" race mission of Driver: San Francisco puts John Tanner in Jun's shoes, driving a DB9 Volante... and his unlucky buddy gambled his pink slip.Ayumu: Because if we screw this up, we lose the car! ...Uh, 'cause I also bet the car.Jun: You idiot!
- The vanilla DB9 coupe only appeared in the first four Forza Motorsport games, whereas the race-spec DBR9 debuted in 3 onwards. The DBS also made a appearance as well.
- Exclusive to Motorsport 4 and the first Horizon game adds this Virage available in both via Downloadable Content. The car was fairly new by then and quite rare to see.
- Gran Turismo 4 introduces us to the 2003 DB9 Coupe. In the PS3 era, a much more detailed 2006 DB9 also joins the roster. Finally in Sport adds this GT1-spec DBR9 as one of the Gr. 3 race cars alongside the V12 Vantage GT3.
- The DBR9 is one of the GT1 Le Mans race cars in Race Driver: GRID, which Ravenwest's Nathan McKane and Rick Scott drives for this category. There is also a hidden Play.com livery available via Cheat Code.
- While Midnight Club: Los Angeles already has the cool-looking V8 Vantage Volante, the Downloadable Content adds the classic DB9 in the line up, which also has a delivery mission car of its own.
- Need for Speed has a few examples of this British sports tourer:
- Ronnie, the #3 of the Blacklist in Most Wanted (2005) drives a yellow and green custom DB9. In-Universe, it was a graduation gift from his parents following the player's arrest at the end of the prologue.
- In Carbon, it is a Tier 2 Exotic car, and is driven by Wolf, The Leader of T.F.K.
- The Booster Pack in ProStreet includes the road-going DB9 and the race-spec DBR9. For the latter's case, it cannot be visually modified.
- While the DB9 in Shift is in the regular lineup, the race-going DBR9 becomes unlockable after you reach level 50. The sequel also includes its little brother, the DBRS9 for FIA GT3 championships.
- The DBS is made available in Hot Pursuit (2010). For the racers, they get the Volante. For the SCPD, they get the coupe. If a racer doesn't want to much wind, then the closed coupe DBS is available too. But only if you have the SCPD Rebels Pack first.
- In reference to the aforementioned Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace, the DBS was included in Most Wanted (2012) as part of the Movie Legends Pack.
- Project Gotham Racing 3 began with adding both the road-going DB9 and the race-going DBR9. In 4, the DB9 was replaced by the then-trendy DBS.
- The Test Drive Unlimited series adds this hot grand-touring beauty, both in Coupe and Volante form, with the DBS joining the DB gang in the sequel.
The grand touring DB11 debuted in 2016 as a successor the the flagship DB9.
New to this car included "Aeroblade" intakes in the front, a new roof design available in either black, aluminum or its body color, as well as utilizing the AE31 twin-turbo V12 engine, making it the first ever turbocharged Aston Martin model ever produced. The car is also equipped with a 8-speed automatic transmission from ZF. In 2018, a powerful performance-oriented DB11 AMR was announced as the replacement of the DB11. A convertible variant, the DB11 Volante was also announced at the same year, albeit using a less-powerful M177 V8 engine, used from Mercedes-AMG models.
The DBS Superlegerra is was also unveiled on the same year in 2018 as the replacement of the second generation Aston Martin Vanquish. Based on the existing DB11 platform, the DBS Superleggera includes aggressive aerodynamics from F1 technology, an uprated twin-turbo V12 and new quad pipe titanium exhaust ensuring its monstrous track-oriented performance.
The DB11 ended production in 2023 and it was succeeded by the DB12.
Film — Live Action
- In The Batman (2022), inside Mayor Don Mitchell Jr.'s garage, a silver DB11 can be spotted in the background alongside other prized possessions such as the Morgan Aero 8 and a Pagani Zonda F.
- A much more advanced version of the DBS from Casino Royale has New Meat agent Nomi driving an Aston Martin DBS Superleggera in No Time to Die.
- A suave dark blue DB11 Volante in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway is owned by Bea McGregor.
- Cogman, Sir Edmond Burton's robotic butler, drives a DB11 in Transformers: The Last Knight.
- The Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive has scenes in the first two seasons involving Red Bull Racing drivers and their DB11 due to Aston's sponsorship with the team at that time. Another scene in season 3 shows also a blue DBS Superlegerra.
- Danny Rand from the MCU series Iron Fist (2017) in episode 5 is shown driving an Aston Martin DB11.
- A Volante version of this Cool Car can be seen driven by Richard "Richie" Wheatley in "An Inferior Product" in Law & Order: Organized Crime.
Music
- The music video "Kiymetlim" Translation by Turkish artist Mustafa Ceceli has various scenes of him driving in this car inside an illuminated tunnel.
Video Games
- The DB11 appears as a low-class B car and one of the original launch cars in Asphalt 9: Legends. The 2019 update for that game and also in 8: Airborne included the DBS Superlegerra, while an update on December 2023 includes the coachbuilt DBS Superleggera: the DBS GT Zagato.
- The New Orleans mission in Fast & Furious Crossroads puts you in Roman Pearce's shoes, being a Badass in a Nice Suit driving a silver DB11 whilst engaged in a hot pursuit against the local police.
- The DB11 debuted in Forza Horizon 3 as part of the Playseat Car Pack and this car carried over in their future games. The Horizon 4 update 12 patch also added the DBS Superlegerra.
- One of the updates in Gran Turismo Sport added this British GT in the lineup. In 7, one of the drivers in a World Touring Car 600 race drives a modified DB11.
- The Aston Martin DB11 debuted in Need for Speed in Need for Speed Payback, usually seen in the hands of Marcus Weir, when not in his precious Koenigsegg. It returns in Heat as a regular car, and its major update includes a Volante version of the DB11 as a free DLC car. In No Limits, the newly-improved DB11 AMR and the DBS Superlegerra made its mark in one of the updates.
- The "Head to Head" trailer of Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown shows a Sharps driver in their DB11 battling a gold-and-black Range Rover around the parking.
, a reveal video of the 2012 Aston Martin VanquishIn a World… of sporty grand-touring coupes, Aston Martin has played its part of being the pinnacle of British automotive. And the Vanquish is bar none, one of the most exquisite grand tourers in the country during the Turn of the Millennium.
The V12 Vanquish was designed by Ian Callum and drew inspiration from the DB4 GT Zagato. It was produced from 2001 to 2007, as one of the flagship models of the marque, alongside the DB9. Under the hood comes with a 465 horsepower V12 and almost equal amount of torque.
Following the discontinuation of the DBS, in 2012 the second generation Gaydon Vanquish was introduces, based on the existing DB9 platform, and also available in "Volante" variant. Both generations also receive a high-performance variant named the "Vanquish S", both of which included styling revisions and new aerodynamic packages. The Vanquish would eventually discontinue and was succeeded by the DBS Superleggera in 2018.
Film—Live Action
- In the 2002 move Die Another Day, James Bond receives the Vanquish, dubbed the "Vanish" as the car contains an Invisibility Cloak.Q: Aston Martin calls it the Vanquish, we call it the Vanish. [Q presses on the key fob, revealing the Vanquish from its invisible state]
- The Aston Martin Vanquish in The Italian Job (2003) that Handsome Rob plans to buy and that Steve Frazelli does buy after he steals the money and kills Bridger.
Live Action TV
- A black Vanquish can be seen in CSI: NY episode "You Only Die Once" (note the episode's name), and said car has some Self-Healing Phlebotinum.
Music
- Jay-Z drives a V12 Vanquish with Beyoncé onboard during the music video for "'03 Bonnie & Clyde.
- In the second verse of "Same Girl", Usher picks up R. Kelly at the airport in an Aston Martin Vanquish.
- In T.I.'s music video, "U Don't Know Me", in one scene a Vanquish can be seen parked at a gas station at night.
- The beginning of "Shawty Say" by David Banner has Ryan Sheckler coming out from his silver Vanquish and detain the titular artist for Domestic Abuse.
Video Games
- The V12 Vanquish serves as the cover car of the PlayStation 2 game Enthusia Professional Racing.
- Forza features the 2001 Vanquish in the first 4 Motorsport games. The Xbox One era games uses the second-gen Vanquish before the aforementioned 2001 Vanquish returns in the 2023 reboot.
- The 2000 Vanquish concept car appeared in Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec before the 2004 production-ready model later appeared in 4 and its 2 subsequent games.
- The Dewbachee Massacro in Grand Theft Auto V is based on the 2012-2018 Vanquish.
- The second generation Vanquish appears in GRID 2 as a Tier 3 GT car. A Rockstar Energy livery is also available by completing the titular Product Placement race challenge. This car later reappeared in Autosport.
- The V-12 Vanquish S in Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights appears as a League 2 "Supercar". Though the "supercar" phrasing is quite questionable since it's a grand tourer after all.
- Owen, a James Bond Expy in Midnight Club II drives a Vanquish-based "Victory". The base car and generic name may have a Meaningful Name, as "vanquish" means to defeat your rivals, thus making a "victory".
- The V12 Vanquish only appeared in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. The second-gen Vanquish later appeared in Rivals as one of the early cars in the game.
- In NightFire, the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish is included as a tie-in with Die Another Day. One of Q's gadgets, the Q Wedge, allows Bond to make the Vanquish go Car Skiing. The Vanquish itself later returns in Everything or Nothing.
- Appears in Project Gotham Racing except for the third game. In 2, it's appropriately classified in the Grand Touring category, whereas 4 uses the high-performance Vanquish S variant.
In 2005, the Vantage name (which was last seen from the Virage-based car from The '90s) was resurrected as part of Aston Martin's next new series of hand-built sports cars.
Unveiled as the AMV8 Vantage concept car in 2003, production has pushed through for the 2005 model as the V8 Vantage, and as the name implies, it uses an AJ-V8 engine from Jaguar, producing 380 horsepower. Unlike its grand-tourer brother, the DB9 and the Vanquish, the V8 Vantage was intended to lean on performance and more exotic engineering, being focused on buyers from The Rival, the Porsche 911 and other widely known sports car competitors.
Throughout its course, the Vantage has made various variants, including the powerful Aston Martin V12 Vantage, hence the name, using an AM11 V12 engine from the DBS V12. Both have gotten uprated and sportier version of said models such as the V8 Vantage S and the V12 Vantage S. In 2015, a limited-edition track-oriented Aston Martin Vantage GT12 was unveiled as part of the homologation of the race spec Vantage GT3.
While the V8 Vantage and V12 Vantage ended production in 2017 and 2018 respectively, Aston Martin unveiled the next generation 2018 model known as simply the Vantage, which now utilizes a turbocharged Mercedes-AMG V8 engine, with its V12 counterpart following 4 years later.
Vantages have been widely involved in motorsports, such as the Vantage N24 which competed in the Nürburgring 24 Hours, the Vantage GT2 and GT3 that partook in various endurance races, the new generation Vantage AMR GTE that competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship, as well as the Class 1 Touring Car that made its one-shot appearance in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters in 2019. Notably, the British green Vantage became one of the safety cars in Formula One in 2021 onwards.
Anime and Manga
- Emma Greene of MF Ghost drive her "green" Cool Car, which is a British Racing— ahem... green 2018 Aston Martin V8 Vantage used exclusively for the 4th round of MFG.
- Infinite stars Mark Wahlberg's character's black Aston Martin Vantage as his Cool Car during a Car Chase against an armored truck. Perhaps as means of Product Placement, possibly.
- Min & Max has the titular Huge Guy, Tiny Girl in a white V8 Volante as their source of transportation.
- Rebel Alley of Arrested Development is a sexy girl with a sexy Cool Car, and being part of the Love Triangle with Michael and George, she is well resonated with what she drives; an Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster which further amplifies her eye-candy appeal.
- A lime green V8 Vantage Roadster is one of Eric Murphy's personal cars in Entourage, no short than Rule of Cool.
- Ben Grogen, the resident Jerkass of Fairly Legal uses a 2006 Vantage as his personal Cool Car.
- Anything related with the Aston Martin F1 Team in Formula 1: Drive to Survive would ultimately feature this sports car, especially the safety car used during race sequences.
- Can be seen with Richie and Gina driving around in their blue Volante in Law & Order: Organized Crime.
- The episode "Jack" in S.W.A.T. (2017) features the white 2019 Vantage as the catalytic carjacking car.
- "Do Ya Thang" by Ice Cube has him show off his swinging orange V8 Vantage Roadster around Los Angeles.
- Tim McGraw is "Lookin' For That Girl", with him cruising around in his V12 Vantage Volante throughout the Disney Acid Sequence.
- There are plentiful of Vantages throughout the Asphalt series.
- ...and don't be surprised if Vantages show up in Forza. V12, V12 S, GT12, and the "AM Vantage '19" to tally.
- Added as a Downloadable Content premium/detailed car in Gran Turismo 5 is the 2010 V12 Vantage. Now the DB9 isn't the only premium car of Aston Martin.
- For Sport & 7, has is V8-powered Vantage S instead, which would be the basis for a Gr. 4 race car (which looks nearly identical to the V8 Vantage GT4). For Gr. 3, it uses the V12 Vantage GT3 instead.
- The Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4 in GRID (2019) shows up as one of the Group 2 GT cars alongside its other fellow GT4 race cars, and is one of the 5 GRID Edition cars from the Ultimate Editiion.
- Ditto for DIRT Rally 2.0 as a Rally GT Car. Truth in Television, the GT4 Vantage does indeed compete in rallies, especially the one that partook in the FIA R-GT Cup. A Vantage GT4 with a Beats by Dr. Dre livery would end up being the cover car in DiRT 5.
- Ditto for DIRT Rally 2.0 as a Rally GT Car. Truth in Television, the GT4 Vantage does indeed compete in rallies, especially the one that partook in the FIA R-GT Cup
- The V12 Vantage shows up as one of the most venerable British sports cars of the 2010 version of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Need for Speed: The Run.
- In Most Wanted (2012), as you start the game for real, you will be placed in a V12 Vantage while the game tasks you to drive to your first Jack Spot (a Porsche 991 Carrera).
- A V8 Vantage Roadster is one of the exotics in Midnight Club: Los Angeles and is also one of the delivery mission cars.
- The V8 Vantage in Project Gotham Racing 3 & 4. It is the supercar with the Jack of All Stats due to having nearly equal parts power and equal parts handling (and drifting).
- While the Aston Martin V8 Vantage appeared in Test Drive Unlimited, its sequel uses this frequently in the asphalt driving schools.
- Also there is the V12 powered Vantage, available in vanilla base colors or in Carbon Black.
Q: Be careful, 007, it's just had a new coat of paint!
The V8 series are Aston Martin's handbuilt grand tourers manufactured from 1969 to 1989.
When Aston Martin were looking for the successor to the DB6, they insist on a larger, more modern looking car. It was ready, but the engine wasn't, so at the mean time, the company in 1967 launched the Aston Martin DBS, with a straight-six engine from said DB6. However Tadek Marek's V8 was ready to be fitted in 1969, now called the DBS V8. With the inline-6 Vantage cut-short in 1973, the DBS V8 is now restyled and simply called as the Aston Martin V8 or the AM V8. As the name implies, it's powered by a 5.3 L V8 engine, producing 315 horsepower at average and top speeds estimated at 242 km/h (150 mph).
A powerful variant called the V8 Vantage introduced in 1977 has its engine uprated to 390 hp, though a 'big-bore' aftermarket option is also available with a 450 hp 6.3 L V8 engine, shared with the full-size Lagonda. With a top speed of 170 mph (270 km/h), the V8 Vantage was earned the title as "Britain's First Supercar".
Anime and Manga
- Appropriately fitting the British setting, Lupin III: Part 6 episode "Last Bullet" is something taken outta The Living Daylights, as the titular character chases down and deliberately Car Fu Lily's kidnapper across the Scottish Highlands in a black Vantage V8.
- The 1990 remake of The Desperate Hours has Nancy Bryers in her beautiful V8 Volante, typically used during a high-speed Car Chase.
- In House of Whipcord, Mark takes Ann-Marie for a spin in his flashy Aston V8. Cue him taking the mean streets as he Drives Like Crazy around town.
- The '80s Car Chase scene of Infinite shows Bathurst in a Big Badass Rig, deliberately T-boning Abel and Leona, who are in the classic V8 Vantage. But not before Bathurst ensures they are KIA by turning The Precious, Precious Car into an explosive Pinto.
- Like every James Bond film, it's no surprise that the Cool Car is none other than an Aston Martin like this:
- The Hero's Classic Car of Timothy Dalton's The Living Daylights has him as Bond drive an Aston Martin V8 Vantage. And just like its previous models, it's a Weaponized Car, armed with lasers, rockets and a Self-Destruct Mechanism. Naturally, it ends up destroyed.
- The beautiful classic would make a surprising re-appearance in No Time to Die, where Bond takes Vantage out of storage later in the film.
- Johnny English Strikes Again would take a page out of The Living Daylights as English chooses to drive a beautiful Aston Martin V8 Vantage (albeit in red) with all the usual refinements in this film.
- Shame's black convertible in A Low Down Dirty Shame is this classy Volante of Aston Martin.
- The episode "Harts and Hounds" in Hart to Hart has the couple go around the countryside in their beloved V8 Volante whilst hunting down the murderer behind Sir William's death.
- Ricardo Tubbs in Miami Vice in "Walk-Alone" runs past a toll booth in his flashy Aston Martin V8 Volante, which is the catalytic car that sent him to the penitentiary.
- The Jonas Brothers in 2023 go on a wild party in London at 2 am in "Waffle House'', where Kevin and Joe are briefly seen inside the driver's seat and Calling Shotgun respectively in their mustard yellow Aston Martin V8.
- You can take The Living Daylights for a cruising joyride in 007 Racing where this swanky classic Vantage can be yours to drive freely via Cheat Code.
- The Conquest Motors Dominance in Driv3r is based on the 1978-87 Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
- The fastest V8 grand tourer of The '70s makes the cut in the Forza Motorsport series, where in 6, you can get this rare unicorn for free by completing one of the Rivals mode events.
- And let's not forget The Living Daylights car in Horizon 4, since it comes along with its other James Bond signature cars in the Best of Bond Pack.
