STEPHEN BAYLEY
f William Lyons had not been so epically tight-fisted, James Bond’s car would have been an E-type. And then where would Aston Martin be? How might the F-type’s fortunes have been improved? The producers tried to blag freebie Jaguars, but Lyons was disinclined to deal. So 007 got a DB5. But that was only in , the third Bond film. Few remember now, but Bond’s first movie car was a Sunbeam Alpine. (In the books, it’s a
