James Pond's Aston Martin Needed Q Branch Upgrades
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License to Stall. No Time to Dry. The James Bond jokes were inevitable after one Aston Martin Vantage owner attempted to cross a flooded road.
An Aston Martin has appeared in 13 of the 25 James Bond movies and has had to cope with numerous life-threatening moments, but it has never successfully attempted to traverse a water-hazard before (and probably won't again). A fact that the owner of this Vantage clearly failed to realise after a video posted on X shows him over-optimistically endeavouring to drive through a flooded roadway. It was always going to end badly, considering the Aston Martin Vantage has very little ground clearance and no engine snorkels or cunningly concealed buoyancy devices.
Sure enough, the V-8 begins to choke on the water about halfway through the flood zone; the Aston Martin then goes silent and comes to a halt in the water. The frustrated driver exists the car and looks at it as if the Vantage let him down. (Clearly, it was the other way around.) We can only imagine the conversation he's going to be having with his insurance company. Something along the lines of "It just didn't look that deep."
Flooded roads are always a gamble, and it seems this Aston Martin owner learned that lesson the hard way. Had the car made a quick stop at MI6's Q branch for the amphibious upgrades from James Bond's Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me, the outcome might have been very different. Instead, James Pond's journey ended with a busted Vantage and a new nickname his friends aren't likely to let him forget.
