Cars in James Bond Skyfall

James Bond Skyfall, I have just watched the movie and I wanted to write about the cars in the movie. Because, there are more cars placed in Skyfall that you imagine.

The list starts with Land Rover Defender and Audi A4. Then JaguarXJ as you expected, then we Range Rover as usual. China sequences starts with Mercedes S500 (S550 for US market) and the taxi was a Volkswagen Passat. And we saw Land Discovery 4 as police vehicles and as a normal vehicle. I totally forgot the wrecked Volkswagen Beetles in the Turkey.

The London Police was driving Kia Optima, Sportage and Opel/VauxhallAstra. I really don’t know whether the London Police drives Kia or not! And the fire trucks were Dennis, a British classic. Later on, Bond left the Jaguar XJ and moved away with the Aston Martin DB5.

If there are more cars, I will update the post later. It was quite hard to keep up with in the Skyfall :)

Land Rover Defender

Audi A4

Jaguar XJ

Range Rover

Mercedes S-Class

Volkswagen Passat

Land Rover Discovery 4

Volkwagen Beetle

Kia Optima

Kia Sportage

Opel / Vauxhall Astra

Aston Martin DB5

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New Toyota Land Cruiser V8

Toyota Land Cruiser V8, if you are interested on off road vehicles or SUVs, you would definitely know Land Cruiser. Otherwise, you don’t have a passion for off road! Toyota Land Cruiser is one of the oldest SUVs in the market. And in my opinion, Land Cruiser is the best looking Toyota for all time.

I am not a Toyota fan but Land Cruiser is different! Land Cruiser never breaks down, works at any condition. Leave a Land Cruiser for a half century and arrive with a battery and petrol and it will definitely be running. I have no idea how Toyota managed to create a vehicle that never destroyed by Mother Nature.

Land Cruiser is not only designed for off road, but also designed for on road as well. I cannot compare Land Cruiser with Porsche Cayenne for on road performance but Land Cruiser offers really high production quality and luxury for a vehicle that is supposed to be driven in the middle of nowhere. Also don’t try to compare the luxury of Land Cruiser with Range Rover, they are totally different vehicles!

With the latest model of Toyota Land Cruiser, there is a very nice function. Actually, this function is not available with any other vehicle. It is called off road Turn Assist. Turn Assist works in off road to reduce the amount of space for turning the Land Cruiser by breaking the rear wheel inside the corner. If you turn left, Land Cruiser will break the left rear wheel to reduce the turning circle. Turn Assist is a very cleaver function and very very useful for off road terrain. Land Cruiser is a quite large vehicle and this causes some difficulties vehicle making a turn.

Overall, Toyota Land Cruiser is state-of-art SUV, off road vehicle. I would never ever hesitate to buy one!

Toyota Land Cruiser V8 is powered by 4.5-lt turbo diesel engine with 286 PS of power and 650 Nm of torque with 6-speed automatic transmission. 

Some of the features;

Advanced technologies for greater off-road driving capability
World-first Turn Assist, reducing vehicle turning radius when negotiating tight bends
Crawl Control with seven speed settings for steep incline climbs and descents
Multi-terrain Select with five modes to suit different off-road conditions
Multi-terrain Monitor providing 360-degree view of vehicle surroundings via four external cameras
Tyre Angle Display
Variable Flow Control power steering

New premium features including heated steering wheel, front seats with cooling and heating functions and memory settings, new-design 20-inch alloy wheels, powered upper tailgate section and bi-xenon headlamps

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Goodwood Festival of Speed: Land Rover Discovery 4

Land Rover has the most creative stand in the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The production line was a great idea to see the different parts of the Land Rover Discovery 4. 

Honestly, I never seen the chassis and drive train of Discovery 4 that close. Actually, Discovery 4 has a serious, a proper chassis that you cannot find in nowadays. Because, most of the vehicles manufactures on monocoque technology. So, they are a bit like Lego. When you dissemble there is nothing and when you assemble, you have the vehicle.

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Interview with Kim L. Palmer: Discovery 4's Trip to Chernobyl

Last week I have attended the Jaguar Land Rover’s PR event and guess who I met? Kim Lawrence Palmer (Senior Press Office at Land Rover), one of the team members of Journey of Discovery from Birmingham to Beijing, however he attended to stage where they visited Chernobyl!

One day ago, I wrote about the 1.000.000thDiscovery 4’s journey to Chernobyl and I was thinking, is it possible to meet someone from the team? And it happened! So, I took this opportunity with Kim and did an interview.

We talked about the Chernobyl, what he saw, how he felt and details of the journey. Probably I will never have chance to meet with someone who visited the Chernobyl.

And thank you very much Kim to take time for the interview during the tight schedule.

Here is the interview!

Journey of Discovery is a fund raising project and here is the information.

The Journey of Discovery expedition aims to raise £1,000,000 (GBP) for Land Rover's Global Humanitarian Partner, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The money will be used to support a much needed water sanitation project in Uganda(www.landrover.com/million).

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Interview with Roger Crathorne (Mr. Land Rover)

Yesterday I attended to Jaguar Land Rover’s PR Event. I had the opportunity to experience with various Jaguar and Land Rover models. However, and the most important moment was meeting up with Technical PR Manager of Land Rover, Roger Crathorne (as known as Mr. Land Rover). Roger has been working in Land Rover for 49 years; he started from the junior level and worked in different positions in Land Rover during the years. His nearly half a century of experiences made him the most experienced off-road specialist and engineer in the business. All those years, he worked as engineer for the first generation Range Rover, and developed the four-wheel drive system, transmission and drive train. Later on he was involved with the Discovery project and also took important roles during the development.

He has a well-respected experience and knowledge on four-wheel drive vehicles and currently works at PR department to explain the Land Rover’s technologies to us. You will find more details during the interview. We talked about why Land Rover never introduced front differential lock, the details of the journey from Birmingham to Geneva with the first generation Defender and 1.000.000^th Discovery 4, how he perceives the contemporary SUV market and experience at Land Rover. We didn't skip the Mercedes G-Wagon, Porsche Cayenne and BMW X6!

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Land Rover Discovery 4 in Chernobyl

1986 was a normal year like the previous ones, we were getting closer to 1990s; technology was improving, computers started to appear in real life, telephone was still the most favourite communication instrument until April 26.

I was only five-year old at that time, attending to nursing school. I barely remember those days. However I remember one thing very very very clear, Chernobyl. On 26^th April 1986, the worst ever nuclear disaster occurred. A nuclear power station exploded.

I remember how my parents, our family friends were concerned about the incident. Actually, nobody had any idea about what had happened and what would happen next, but a silent wave of fear was growing inside everyone. This fear was so strong, at the age of five, I learned the word radiation and for that age it was really hard to understand what does it mean. You perceive the world through psychical objects and the scariest can be a barking dog outside your window, and an invisible object appears in your life.

Many people were talking about the incident on TV, each friend visit had the same conversation all the time, endlessly. So, I learned the word radiation and Chernobyl at the age of five.

Years have passed, we all forgot the incident. Time-to-time there were some documentaries about the incident and they were saying that no one lives in Chernobyl and it is a restricted zone. Until last couple of minutes, I was thinking the same.

But, I have just saw the press release of Land Rover’s fund raising trip of 1.000.000^th Land Rover Discovery 4’s trip from Birmingham, UK to Beijing, China through 15 different countries. And they stopped at Chernobyl! I thought I read it incorrectly; it cannot be possible to send a team to visit Chernobyl. I read it again and again but, it was correct. A team of people driving Land Rover Discovery 4’s visited the restricted city and visited the exploded power station. I wish that the team did not expose to anything but the press release mention that, there is still radiation around the area.

This press release just recalled my child memory. I remember one phrase from that time "don't drink tea".

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