James Bond: Spectre - 993 sighting?
11-08-2015, 12:13 AM
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James Bond: Spectre - 993 sighting?
Don't know if anyone has seen the movie (it was entertaining IMO) but I believe there was a 993 shown in the film when Bond goes to the big Spectre meeting and there are tons of nice cars in the parking lot.
It pays to be a bad guy evidentially!
It pays to be a bad guy evidentially!
11-08-2015, 01:58 AM
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i thought it was a 959
11-08-2015, 02:45 AM
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I saw the movie and the car being discussed here too. I'm pretty sure it was a silver 959. The lights were very similar looking to a 993 but the bumper looked a bit different. The car didn't get much screen time or a very clear shot.
11-08-2015, 09:22 AM
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Saw the movie Friday night. I did catch the silver Porsche. It was a fast shot. Also thought it was a 993 but from the posts here it was a 959. Cool either way.
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In Spectre, during the same scene with the silver Porsche, I thought I saw a Black Porsche a couple cars over to the left. What was that car?
What car was chasing the Aston Martin through Italy?
What car was chasing the Aston Martin through Italy?
11-08-2015, 01:52 PM
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That screenshot is from a scene in Die Another Day, towards the beginning of the movie.
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Spectre cars
Found this on the web:
The Cars
Now for the icons: the cars! Spectre is the first Bond film where Aston Martin built a car specifically for the film. (Others like the DB5 that debuted in 1964’s Goldfinger, the DBS from 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and the V8 Volante from 1987’s The Living Daylights, were all cars sold to the public.) The new DB10 is a prototype based on a modified Vantage, with a longer wheelbase and a 4.7-litre V8 engine. It has an estimated top speed of 190 mph and can get from 0-60mph in 4.7 seconds, according to Aston (in the film that number is closer to 3 seconds).
Its nose is shark-inspired, to hint at the car’s stealthy character, producers said, and all of its body panels are carbon fiber with a full clamshell hood and a heat-mapped perforation pattern, which negated the need for vents.
“I wanted a car that had clean, clear lines,” director Mendes said in production notes. In the film, Q says it cost £3 million, or about $4.6 million. That’s including, presumably, the upgrades the $1,200 Missoni-sweater-wearing Q added, like rear-mounted flame-throwers, bullet-proofing, and an immediate-ejector seat.
The villain Mr. Hinx’s Jaguar was no slouch, either. Indeed, the C-X75 has a combined power output of 850-hp on a Formula 1-inspired, 1.6-litre turbocharged and supercharged four-cylinder power plant. It has a seven-speed transmission, and the car can sprint from 0-100mph in fewer than six seconds.
According to production notes, the first C-X75 prototype exceeded 200mph in testing.
“The Jag was so powerful that we had to tone down the engine so the throttle response wasn’t so aggressive,” said Spectre stunt coordinator Gary Powell. All told, seven Jaguars were used to film the Rome chase scene.
Elsewhere in the film, Bond gets picked up in a 1948 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith ($50,000) and drives a DB5 ($450,000 and up; the one from Goldfinger sold by RM Auctions for $4.6 million in 2010). The Austria car chase required 11 Land Rover Defenders Big Foots ($100,000-plus, considering the fact that they were specially made) and seven Land Rover Range Rover SVTs ($111,000 each, plus upgrades), all of which were heavily modified. The villain Oberhauser has a couple of Mercedes-Benz G-Wagons ($219,000) at his disposal; and if you care, Monica Bellucci’s grieving widow Lucia drives around in a big black town car ($100,000), among other similarly dark sedans in the film.
There’s also a scene at Blenheim Palace that doubles as the location of the SPECTRE group meeting in Rome. The parking lot there is a fantasyland of rare vehicles that set designers used to “paint a picture of the mafia types that would be attending the meeting,” they said, [COLOR="Yellow"]including a Porsche 959 Group B Homologation car ($275,000), a full carbon fiber Bugatti ($2.5 million), concept XJ Jaguars, an Aston Martin Lagonda ($300,000), and a handful of other supercars, including Ferrari 458 Speciales ($300,000), McLarens ($265,000), and Mercedes roadsters ($130,000-plus).
Filming the car chases—in Rome, in the woods—complicated matters considerably. In Rome, filmmakers shut down key portions of the city, including a section alongside the Tiber looking toward St. Peter’s Square and the Coliseum. That chase alone used eight Aston Martins and seven Jaguars driven at 100mph by stunt pros. In the mountains, those Land Rovers were towed more than 3,000 meters up the mountain by snowmobiles, since there was no road access, and given tires with 1,500 hand-applied studs.
All told, the production crew blew up $48 million worth of cars. Ouch.
If you ask Glassner, though, he’ll say it was all worth it.
The Cars
Now for the icons: the cars! Spectre is the first Bond film where Aston Martin built a car specifically for the film. (Others like the DB5 that debuted in 1964’s Goldfinger, the DBS from 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and the V8 Volante from 1987’s The Living Daylights, were all cars sold to the public.) The new DB10 is a prototype based on a modified Vantage, with a longer wheelbase and a 4.7-litre V8 engine. It has an estimated top speed of 190 mph and can get from 0-60mph in 4.7 seconds, according to Aston (in the film that number is closer to 3 seconds).
Its nose is shark-inspired, to hint at the car’s stealthy character, producers said, and all of its body panels are carbon fiber with a full clamshell hood and a heat-mapped perforation pattern, which negated the need for vents.
“I wanted a car that had clean, clear lines,” director Mendes said in production notes. In the film, Q says it cost £3 million, or about $4.6 million. That’s including, presumably, the upgrades the $1,200 Missoni-sweater-wearing Q added, like rear-mounted flame-throwers, bullet-proofing, and an immediate-ejector seat.
The villain Mr. Hinx’s Jaguar was no slouch, either. Indeed, the C-X75 has a combined power output of 850-hp on a Formula 1-inspired, 1.6-litre turbocharged and supercharged four-cylinder power plant. It has a seven-speed transmission, and the car can sprint from 0-100mph in fewer than six seconds.
According to production notes, the first C-X75 prototype exceeded 200mph in testing.
“The Jag was so powerful that we had to tone down the engine so the throttle response wasn’t so aggressive,” said Spectre stunt coordinator Gary Powell. All told, seven Jaguars were used to film the Rome chase scene.
Elsewhere in the film, Bond gets picked up in a 1948 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith ($50,000) and drives a DB5 ($450,000 and up; the one from Goldfinger sold by RM Auctions for $4.6 million in 2010). The Austria car chase required 11 Land Rover Defenders Big Foots ($100,000-plus, considering the fact that they were specially made) and seven Land Rover Range Rover SVTs ($111,000 each, plus upgrades), all of which were heavily modified. The villain Oberhauser has a couple of Mercedes-Benz G-Wagons ($219,000) at his disposal; and if you care, Monica Bellucci’s grieving widow Lucia drives around in a big black town car ($100,000), among other similarly dark sedans in the film.
There’s also a scene at Blenheim Palace that doubles as the location of the SPECTRE group meeting in Rome. The parking lot there is a fantasyland of rare vehicles that set designers used to “paint a picture of the mafia types that would be attending the meeting,” they said, [COLOR="Yellow"]including a Porsche 959 Group B Homologation car ($275,000), a full carbon fiber Bugatti ($2.5 million), concept XJ Jaguars, an Aston Martin Lagonda ($300,000), and a handful of other supercars, including Ferrari 458 Speciales ($300,000), McLarens ($265,000), and Mercedes roadsters ($130,000-plus).
Filming the car chases—in Rome, in the woods—complicated matters considerably. In Rome, filmmakers shut down key portions of the city, including a section alongside the Tiber looking toward St. Peter’s Square and the Coliseum. That chase alone used eight Aston Martins and seven Jaguars driven at 100mph by stunt pros. In the mountains, those Land Rovers were towed more than 3,000 meters up the mountain by snowmobiles, since there was no road access, and given tires with 1,500 hand-applied studs.
All told, the production crew blew up $48 million worth of cars. Ouch.
If you ask Glassner, though, he’ll say it was all worth it.