The DB5 made famous by 007 is for sale. Is it cheap? No Mr. Bond, they expect you to pay $4.7 million dollars.

In Top Gear's phenomenal new special about 50 years of James Bond's cars, Richard Hammond makes the bold claim that Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is the most famous car in the world.

You may have seen Daniel Craig flip an Aston Martin as James Bond in Casino Royale, but that didn't convince the New York Department of Motor Vehicles to give the actor a driver's license without meeting all of the requirements they have of other foreigners who apply for one.

These days filmmakers often turn to computer graphics for scenes of destruction that would otherwise be too expensive or dangerous to stage in real life. But Skyfall posed a different problem. Namely that the effects crew didn't want to damage a priceless 1960 Aston Martin DB 5 that appeared in the original Bond film…

People like to say that you should look at a Mercedes-Benz S-Class to figure out what sort of things are going to be on mainstream cars within a decade. Stuff like ABS and airbags showed up on the big Merc long before they did on, say, a Golf.

Crowds of James Bond fans will be lining up to see Skyfall tonight in glorious IMAX. They'll be watching Bond back behind the wheel of a classic Aston Martin (more money that way). And It's on the occasion of a Bond film we get to nerd-out and talk about the cars.

James Bond has never really had a sidekick. Unless you count his car. From the very beginning, when Dr. No debuted in 1962, 007 has battled the baddies in a ride that stands out from all others in the movie.

Want to go for the most obscure James Bond car? It isn't the Toyota 2000GT that they specially turned into a convertible so Sean Connery could fit. But it is a car that, deep down, I know everyone likes.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Dr. No, the first Bond film. And besides having tons of sex (and probably contracting an equal number of STDs) over his now 50 year career, Bond has been responsible for some of the greatest car chases in movie history.

Over the years, James Bond has been able to get his hands on incredibly sexy women as well as super sexy cars. And that's made for some of the best car chases in cinema. And one flying AMC.