7. Aston Martin DB10 from Spectre – a bespoke Aston built for Bond only to be wasted
This car has the best cards to trump all the rest. It is a beautiful sporty Aston, filled with all the gadgets. These include a rear-facing double-barrelled gun, a rear-facing flamethrower, and an ejection seat with a parachute. We suspect there could be more, but these are the ones Bond tried in the movie.
In the movie Spectre, Bond goes rogue (again) and takes the unfinished car to Rome against the instructions of its hierarchy. When in Rome, he found himself at a Spectre board meeting that he had to leave abruptly (some henchman did the math and figured he was not Mickey Mouse). He is followed by Mr Hinx, the recently (self-)appointed senior henchman. Mr Hinx nominated himself as an assassin with impressive credentials, only surpassed by his car, a dark orange Jaguar C-X75.
This Jaguar is one reason why the DB10 did not finish higher on our list. The C-X75 simply steals the show in this car chase scene. The other problem is that Bond drove off the DB10 from MI6 HQ prematurely. Hence most of its gadgets failed to work. Bond tried most of the rear devices, but the super-cool double-barrelled gun was jammed (Q did not load ammo). At the same time, the rear-facing flamethrower created only mild inconveniences for Mr Hinx. Ultimately, the only thing that worked on the DB10 was the ejection seat with a parachute, which enabled Bond’s escape while the car was sunk in the Tiber.
As noted above, the DB10 has all the right cards, but it fails to play them. It is one of the most beautiful Astons of all time, but it never saw production, and it has all the gadgets, but they fail to work. Its seventh place is also justified by the fact that the DB10 was chased by one of the coolest cars of the franchise paling the DB10’s presence.
