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1985 Aston Martin V8 MkIV

1985 Aston Martin V8 MkIV in No Time to Die, Movie, 2021

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin:

1985 Aston Martin V8 MkIV

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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Gag Halfrunt ◊ 2019-12-04 20:28	Rear view in /vehicle_1326762-LEVC-TX-2018.html Same registration number as the Aston-Martin V8 in The Living Daylights. /vehicle_1825-Aston-Martin-V8-1985.html
dsl ◊ 2019-12-05 04:42	.... but doesn't seem to have a sunroof now??
Moviecarlover ◊ 2019-12-12 11:58	I couldn't believe he drive that 3rd Aston Martin again. It same plate but another car like it.
CRAFT372 ◊ 2021-10-03 02:06	3 stars
CRAFT372 ◊ 2021-10-03 17:07	/vehicle_1825-Aston-Martin-V8-1985.html
CarnivalRedEscort ◊ 2021-11-07 20:51	The number plate has the post 2001 font. It surely would be straightforward to reproduce the original!
mike962 ◊ 2021-11-09 14:28	-- Last edit: 2021-11-09 19:41:05 (walter)
midnight ◊ 2021-11-10 00:59	In this story canon Bond's daughter would probably learn to drive using this.
bhomburg ◊ 2021-11-17 21:15	In the credits, the producers explicitly thank "Alexander Gregg for use of the registration B549 BUU".
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2021-12-18 22:16	A nice call back to Timothy Dalton's two outings as Bond in the late eighties. Bravo.
GodzillaFan54 ◊ 2022-06-13 18:47	Anyone else think this car looks like a Mustang?
night cub ◊ 2022-06-13 19:47	I always thought these resembled the Mustang, especially from the front
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2022-11-26 22:52	GodzillaFan54 wrote Anyone else think this car looks like a Mustang? Must remember this era of vehicle used sealed beam headlights, so many vehicles resembled eachother. Ford Ranger looked like a Cherokee and a S15 Jimmy - Whereas a few years later we would be allowed plastic headlights that could vary from one model to the next.
dsl ◊ 2023-01-03 01:17	Later appearances
SixtiesSwing ◊ 2024-07-17 20:31	Kowalski5599 wrote Must remember this era of vehicle used sealed beam headlights, so many vehicles resembled eachother. Ford Ranger looked like a Cherokee and a S15 Jimmy - Whereas a few years later we would be allowed plastic headlights that could vary from one model to the next. I've always seen the resemblance, and the sealed beam headlights similarity is not the reason. Think about the original Aston-Martin V8 (which was seen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and also featured the round sealed-beam units, albeit quads. I see no resemblance to the Mustang in that design. But in the 1972 facelift which the model carried through the rest of the production run, the Mustang influence is evident. On the redesign, its the recessed side headlights, thee shape of the surrounding "cove", and how the grille juts forward prominently. Sealed beams were the round units, and then square until for the North American market until US Federal law regarding lights removed the restrictions for the 1984 model year. If sealed-beams were responsible for similarity of appearance, then all cars would have looked overly similar. Once composite headlights were introduced, the shape of headlights changed, but that did not result in cars that never resembled one another again. Later Aston Martins looked very much like Jaguars and to some extent Fords partly because of Ford ownership of all three at one point. Designers often incorporate attractive styling features of other companies' models (original Chevrolet Corvair inspired cars from NSU, FIAT, and Hillman / Rootes Group). Even though the Mustang was mass-market, Aston-Martin Management and Designers apparently liked the masculine and aggressive front of the Mustang, and took some influence from it....though by that time, Mustang had abandoned that styling with the flat-faced look of the '71 to '73 models. The Ford Ranger / Bronco / Jeep Cherokee / Chevrolet S-10 and Blazer similarities is due to size and styling trends of the time (the 1980s was very angular), along with size. Once a market is created by a vehicle, usually the parameters are set in various terms: price, dimensions, and look. These vehicle all completed in the same market, and rather than try to come up with something unique, mainstream car manufacturers tended to transpose a successful concept rather conservatively, and not make it too unfamiliar with people shopping that market. AMC under the direction of stylist Dick Teague was really the rare instance in modern American car design where they tossed the competition's blueprints out the window. Cars like the 1974 Matador Coupe and the Pacer were totally unique designs. Meanwhile, Chrysler cars of the 1970s were very close design interpretations of GM cars, and Ford was also turning out inoffensive designs by following the leader. And over 50 years on from when the Aston-Martin V8 was facelifted in '72, many new vehicles on the roads today look even MORE similar despite lacking sealed-beam lamps. I would not attribute this modern vehicle interchangablity to xenon lamps, but to the cost of developing a car, and importance of minimizing risk of introducing a design that is avoided by the buying public. In the last Century, I could walk into any parking lot, and the variety of design coupled with rainbow of colors made a vehicle easy to spot. Today, my vehicles are easy to spot because I don't want to be the crowd and driving gray / black / beige pickups or SUVs.

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