Classic Mustang
Mustang makes the James Bond top 10
By Jeff Bressler, All Ford Mustangs
Dec 23, 2008, 23 Dec 2008 10:23:00

Mustang aficionados have websites and forums like All Ford Mustangs, so why not something for James Bond fans? Well there is. BONDzology recently named the top 10 James Bond cars of all time. And while one thinks of Bond behind the wheel of an Aston Martin, the beloved Mustang captures two of the top ten slots.

Making the list in 10^th place is the Mustang from the 1965 release of Thunderbolt.

The mid-year introduction (1964 and 1/2 model year) of the first Ford Mustang made a splash when in the movie Miss Volpe, Spectre's hired assassin, picked up Bond on her way to their hotel...at the end of the 120mph hair-raising ride she quips to Bond after he complains about her driving "Some men don't like to be driven"...Bond smugly replies, "No. Some men don't like to be taken for a ride".  (Actually it was first seen in Goldfinger being driven by Miss Masterson and wrecked when James ripped the side of the car with the spinning wheel spindles).

Coming in a more than respectable 6^th is the Ford Mustang Mach-1 from the 1971 release of Diamonds Are Forever.

007 gets to acrobatically drive an American muscle car for a change in 1971’s Diamonds Are Forever. Sean Connery took the Mach-1 on a wild car chase with the cops in hot pursuit around the "The Strip" in Las Vegas. Bond flips the Mustang up onto two wheels to squeeze it through a narrow alleyway, but the film’s editors made a big mistake. A continuity error has the car entering the alleyway on one set of wheels, but emerging on the other side driving on the opposite pair...oops!