Assouline’s James Bond Cars with text written by Special Effects Supervisor Chris Corbould

By: FSWL team

Published:
2025-10-24

James Bond Cars, Assouline, book, Chris Corbould

James Bond Cars written by Chris Corbould is a new official book chronicling the cars featured in the James Bond films and is published by luxury lifestyle publisher Assouline in partnership with EON Productions.

From Aston Martins fitted with ejector seats and water cannons to a Lotus Esprit reborn as a submarine to a Venetian gondola improbably reimagined as a hovercraft, the vehicles of the James Bond cinematic franchise are as iconic as the spy himself. Enter James Bond Cars, Assouline’s third fully-authorized title devoted to 007 (following James Bond Destinations and James Bond Style) and the most comprehensive chronicle ever published of not just the twenty-five films’ legendary automobiles, but also all the other must-know machines of land, sea, and air—whether motorcycles, helicopters, speedboats, blimps, snowmobiles, jet-packs, or even the bizarre one-offs developed specifically for Bond’s world (the “Little Nellie” autogyro from 1967’s You Only Live Twice comes to mind).

James Bond Cars, Assouline, film, book

Book spread from James Bond Cars with text written by Chris Corbould. Copyright © 2025 Assouline. All rights reserved.

Curated and introduced by Academy Award–winning special-effects supervisor Chris Corbould, OBE, who has worked on fifteen Bond films, James Bond Cars is both a full-throttle visual catalog and an insider’s account of how filmmakers engineered some of cinema’s most unforgettable stunts. The book features more than three hundred images, from rare behind-the-scenes stills to design drawings to production ephemera, and Corbould’s commentary lifts the curtain on the secrets of those masterful sequences (think engineering hacks, one-take-stunts, near-disasters) and the rides that powered them.

Chris Corbould commented, “Vehicles have been as central to the James Bond cinematic world as the man himself. Whether car, boat, motorbike, or plane, it is not just a machine but a character in its own right.”

Book spread from James Bond Cars with text written by Chris Corbould. Copyright © 2025 Assouline. All rights reserved.

James Bond Cars is a film-by-film journey, starting with the Sunbeam Alpine in Dr. No (1962) and ending with the bullet-scarred Aston Martin DB5 in No Time To Die (2021). The book stars 007’s own vehicles but also those used by his allies, love interests, and adversaries over the past six decades — from Bentleys, BMWs, and Land Rovers to Sunseekers, Glastrons, and Boeing 747s. The Bond series’ most enduring marque, the Aston Martin, appears in nearly half the films and is featured within this volume in a dozen-plus models, including the DB5, DBS, V8, Vanquish, and beyond. Through hundreds of vehicles on the ground, over the waves, and in the sky (or even space), James Bond Cars highlights the Bond franchise as cinema’s ultimate test driver.

To commemorate its third James Bond title, James Bond Cars, Assouline will offer a limited-edition “007 Trilogy” slipcase that also includes James Bond Destinations and James Bond Style. Crafted with brushed aluminum panels and matte metal plating inspired by the hardware of Q Branch’s most ingenious gadgets, the case has a striking, industrial presence of a true showpiece. With its embossed “007” logo in raised relief, this coffret is less an accessory than a Bond-worthy artifact, designed to command attention.

James Bond Cars, Assouline, film, book

About the author

Chris Corbould OBE is an Academy Award–winning special-effects supervisor and second-unit director—and one of the James Bond franchise’s longest-serving collaborators, with credits on fifteen Bond films, from The Spy Who Loved Me to No Time To Die. London-born, he entered special effects in 1974 on Tommy, mastering hydraulics, engineering, fabrication, and pyrotechnics before moving into senior on-set roles on Superman (I, II, and III), Supergirl, and early Bond titles such as Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only and A View to a Kill. His first supervising break came on Nightbreed, leading to global work on Shadowlands, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Mummy, and The World Is Not Enough. Subsequent supervising credits include 102 Dalmatians, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (I and II), Die Another Day (2002), Batman Begins, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He and his team earned a Guinness World Records certificate for Spectre’s “largest film stunt explosion.”

James Bond Cars is now available in hardback from 007Store.com. The price is 100 GBP.

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Assouline’s James Bond Cars with text written by Special Effects Supervisor Chris Corbould

Chris Corbould commented, “Vehicles have been as central to the James Bond cinematic world as the man himself. Whether car, boat, motorbike, or plane, it is not just a machine but a character in its own right.”

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