Hi sorry for the long read ahead, huge 007 fan here. The Aston Martin V8 is a first cast for Hot Wheels. Which is wild considering how long it has been around. What’s interesting is that they chose to include the sunroof on this car because it does not have one in this particular film. To understand why the car had a sunroof at all you have to go back to the first appearance of the V8 in the 007 franchise: The Living Daylights. We are first introduced to it at the start of the second act where 007 is seen driving the V8 Volante, the convertible version of the V8. As mentioned by Brian, this was because Aston Martin did not initially have a hard top available for shooting, so the studio used the Chairman of Aston Martin’s personal car. What’s extra interesting is that this is not the first time the 007 franchise has chosen a car from Aston Martin that wasn’t ready to be shown off.* After sometime into filming, the studio finally got their hands on the V8 Vantages from Aston Martin. However, in their rush to film with the car they had available, they created a teeny plot hole. The film moves location to the Czech/Austrian Alps where we see need for a warmer car: the V8 Vantage. According to the plot, the convertible at the beginning of the film is meant to be the same as the hard top you see later on. As the second act inches closer to its climax we see Q ‘winterizing’ the car and installing a hard top with sunroof. So the film makers needed to make a special version of the V8 combining elements of the Vantage and the Volante. This is why it is sometimes referred to as the Vantage/Volante on reference guides and merchandise for the original film and likely why Hot Wheels chose to simply call it the Aston Martin V8. Anyways I’m very happy Hot Wheels has finally made the car, it’s one of my all time favourite 007 rides that didn’t get enough love merchandise wise. Corgi made one in 1/36 with pop out skis and Johnny Lightning made it in 1/64. I think this one from Hot Wheels is the best version. My only nitpick is that I would have liked to see it sold as The Living Daylights car with some TLD packaging, detachable skis, and rockets. *(One of the original Aston Martin DB5s used in Goldfinger was actually a late production DB4 which was the the DB5 prototype. You can tell which car is the prototype by the signal lights near the side vents) *Another fun fact about this car is that one of its gadgets was in the 007 Racing game for PS1, but the V8 was not in the game.
This is absolutely fascinating! Great information to know! I had no idea how much of a hodge podge this car was and what fun little easter eggs it held! I do remember the car in No Time To Die...but I had remembered seeing it in another film from ages ago. It has been a while since I've seen the bond films, especially the earlier ones. Spike marathons really helped with that hahahaha It is kind of simple to remember the Pierce era, because other than I believe the last film when he got the Vanquish, his slot in the franchise mostly had BMW's. Memerable. But...not quite what everyone thinks the Bond cars should be hahahaha I have a sneaky suspisicon that because of the easter eggs of this car, that Hot Wheels just might tweak it a bit to have some of the gadgets that are featured in TLD. I can defiently see Mattel doing that, very similar to the 2 or 3 versions of the Back to the Future Delorean. They already have the casting. They can accomplish a car from another movie easily now.
Copied and pasted this: The James Bond film The Living Daylights; the car used in the film was a Series 4 V8 Volante owned by Aston Martin chairman Victor Gauntlett with the license plate B549 WUU and was driven by Timothy Dalton, the actor for James Bond. I'm a Bond fan but had to look that up!
What an awesome fact! I love making this videos and then having people like you deep dive to figure stuff out! We all learn something new! Thank you! I really appreciate it!
Hi sorry for the long read ahead, huge 007 fan here.
The Aston Martin V8 is a first cast for Hot Wheels. Which is wild considering how long it has been around. What’s interesting is that they chose to include the sunroof on this car because it does not have one in this particular film.
To understand why the car had a sunroof at all you have to go back to the first appearance of the V8 in the 007 franchise: The Living Daylights. We are first introduced to it at the start of the second act where 007 is seen driving the V8 Volante, the convertible version of the V8. As mentioned by Brian, this was because Aston Martin did not initially have a hard top available for shooting, so the studio used the Chairman of Aston Martin’s personal car. What’s extra interesting is that this is not the first time the 007 franchise has chosen a car from Aston Martin that wasn’t ready to be shown off.*
After sometime into filming, the studio finally got their hands on the V8 Vantages from Aston Martin. However, in their rush to film with the car they had available, they created a teeny plot hole. The film moves location to the Czech/Austrian Alps where we see need for a warmer car: the V8 Vantage. According to the plot, the convertible at the beginning of the film is meant to be the same as the hard top you see later on. As the second act inches closer to its climax we see Q ‘winterizing’ the car and installing a hard top with sunroof. So the film makers needed to make a special version of the V8 combining elements of the Vantage and the Volante. This is why it is sometimes referred to as the Vantage/Volante on reference guides and merchandise for the original film and likely why Hot Wheels chose to simply call it the Aston Martin V8.
Anyways I’m very happy Hot Wheels has finally made the car, it’s one of my all time favourite 007 rides that didn’t get enough love merchandise wise. Corgi made one in 1/36 with pop out skis and Johnny Lightning made it in 1/64. I think this one from Hot Wheels is the best version. My only nitpick is that I would have liked to see it sold as The Living Daylights car with some TLD packaging, detachable skis, and rockets.
*(One of the original Aston Martin DB5s used in Goldfinger was actually a late production DB4 which was the the DB5 prototype. You can tell which car is the prototype by the signal lights near the side vents)
*Another fun fact about this car is that one of its gadgets was in the 007 Racing game for PS1, but the V8 was not in the game.
This is absolutely fascinating! Great information to know! I had no idea how much of a hodge podge this car was and what fun little easter eggs it held! I do remember the car in No Time To Die...but I had remembered seeing it in another film from ages ago. It has been a while since I've seen the bond films, especially the earlier ones. Spike marathons really helped with that hahahaha It is kind of simple to remember the Pierce era, because other than I believe the last film when he got the Vanquish, his slot in the franchise mostly had BMW's. Memerable. But...not quite what everyone thinks the Bond cars should be hahahaha
I have a sneaky suspisicon that because of the easter eggs of this car, that Hot Wheels just might tweak it a bit to have some of the gadgets that are featured in TLD. I can defiently see Mattel doing that, very similar to the 2 or 3 versions of the Back to the Future Delorean. They already have the casting. They can accomplish a car from another movie easily now.
Copied and pasted this: The James Bond film The Living Daylights; the car used in the film was a Series 4 V8 Volante owned by Aston Martin chairman Victor Gauntlett with the license plate B549 WUU and was driven by Timothy Dalton, the actor for James Bond.
I'm a Bond fan but had to look that up!
What an awesome fact! I love making this videos and then having people like you deep dive to figure stuff out! We all learn something new! Thank you! I really appreciate it!
@@alloutoctane No problem! I love looking up all that kind of stuff. It can be quite fascinating what you find!
It absolutely can be!