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James Bond Is Getting an Electric Aston Martin
Popular Mechanics ^ | March 13, 2019 | Nate Erickson

Posted on 03/14/2019 10:29:42 AM PDT by C19fan

James Bond is not an activist. There's the boozing, the womanizing, the license to kill. More than a few submarines downed in the ocean. That mess on the Russian border couldn't have been good for anybody. But Daniel Craig is not a typical James Bond. And Cary Joji Fukunaga is not a typical director. With that pair teamed up for the next entry in the franchise, we're about to see another side of the British super-spy: Environmentalist. In the still-yet-to-be-named Bond 25, 007 is taking the wheel of a £250,000 all-electric Aston Martin Rapide E, per a report from the Sun. The choice was spearheaded by Fukunaga, a "total tree-hugger," who really wanted to see Bond upping his green credentials.

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To: bgill

Ru Paul, LOL. Yep, the next Bond girl could be some cross dresser, or transsexual, to be “with it” and in tune with the modern times of gender bending.


21 posted on 03/14/2019 10:50:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: C19fan

IF a bad guy steals the car and drives it off the side of a cliff, will it explode in mid air for absolutely no reason at all?


22 posted on 03/14/2019 10:55:27 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: cuban leaf

If all you knew about our culture is what you saw on TV such as sports, sitcoms, news, & commercials, you might conclude that America is majority black.


23 posted on 03/14/2019 10:57:12 AM PDT by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: All

“Bond. Jane Bond. Double-oh-eight. James is no longer with the Service. And I am just as into chicks. Which reminds me, I have the rest of the day off while the car charges. Is there an anti-pipeline rally you’d like to go to?”


24 posted on 03/14/2019 10:59:26 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
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To: C19fan

In the next movie, we get to see James Bond attending Sexual Harrassment training while he wears an Empathy Belly.


25 posted on 03/14/2019 11:05:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: elcid1970
If all you knew about our culture is what you saw on TV such as sports, sitcoms, news, & commercials, you might conclude that America is majority black

Completely accurate. My wife cringes at every commercial that blasts hip hop music in the background. Every commercial also has to have the dumb white guys being enlightened by the super-intelligent and informed black woman or man.

It isn’t our imagination. “Diversity” is the baseline for every..........single.........commercial.

26 posted on 03/14/2019 11:10:49 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

“It isn’t our imagination. “Diversity” is the baseline for every..........single.........commercial. “

Exactly——I have to turn them off-——the group they seem to be REALLY pushing is young women who seem to be financial and home repair geniuses.

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27 posted on 03/14/2019 11:14:42 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Magnum44

I wonder why people always forget Timothy Dalton, I thought he was the best bond for a while before the Daniel Craig era.


28 posted on 03/14/2019 11:23:43 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: Bob434

And you know the thing will never need charging...he’s Bond after all!


29 posted on 03/14/2019 11:23:56 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Bob434

And you know the thing will never need charging...he’s Bond after all!


30 posted on 03/14/2019 11:23:56 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: C19fan

As long as he utterly destroys it I’m OK...


31 posted on 03/14/2019 11:44:57 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: SkyPilot

Yeah, it’s gone way beyond stupid white hubbie who can’t tuck his shirt in while being schooled by his smart, sassy, & well turned out wife.

But I betcha won’t see a biracial couple in a TV ad anytime soon. Ironic, because my wife & I have been friends for years with one; she’s black and he’s white and she is undoubtedly the smarter of the two.


32 posted on 03/14/2019 11:51:02 AM PDT by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: elcid1970
If all you knew about our culture is what you saw on TV such as sports, sitcoms, news, & commercials, you might conclude that America is majority black.

And the other half is gay (hat tip > Rush)

33 posted on 03/14/2019 12:06:15 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Learned in middle school that all the top women’s fashion designers were faggies.


34 posted on 03/14/2019 12:25:55 PM PDT by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: al_c

I have not seen any Daniel Craig Bond flicks, so I don’t know if the gadgets are still a big part of each movie. However, if there is one thing about a Bond car, it is the fact that the viewer must ignore what they know about cars when a gadget laden Aston Martin zooms by. We all know that a real car could not hold all of that stuff and be driveable, but we love the cars anyway. We just chalk it up to Q being able to create cool stuff, probably with top secret technology making everything go. The boffins in Q’s shop are probably using batteries that make the car drive twice as fast with ten times the range, taking up half the space to make room for the laser cannons and wings.


35 posted on 03/14/2019 1:04:04 PM PDT by yawningotter
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To: C19fan

Hope the chase scenes are not over 5 miles or end up in the river.


36 posted on 03/14/2019 1:08:47 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: C19fan

He should drive an AMC Matador like Roger Moore in the Man with the Golden Gun.


37 posted on 03/14/2019 1:17:58 PM PDT by Atticus
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To: Bob434

James Bond franchise has passed its expiration date


38 posted on 03/14/2019 1:20:08 PM PDT by RaginRak
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To: yawningotter
I have not seen any Daniel Craig Bond flicks, so I don’t know if the gadgets are still a big part of each movie. However, if there is one thing about a Bond car, it is the fact that the viewer must ignore what they know about cars when a gadget laden Aston Martin zooms by. We all know that a real car could not hold all of that stuff and be driveable, but we love the cars anyway. We just chalk it up to Q being able to create cool stuff, probably with top secret technology making everything go. The boffins in Q’s shop are probably using batteries that make the car drive twice as fast with ten times the range, taking up half the space to make room for the laser cannons and wings.

Indeed! And given the "new" Q ... he certainly looks the "green" type.


39 posted on 03/14/2019 1:28:14 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: C19fan

Will it have submarine capabilities like the Lotus?

A British electric car with submarine capabilities, what could go wrong?


40 posted on 03/14/2019 1:35:36 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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