Is the Fiat 500 posh enough for a classy spy like James Bond? It’s going to be featured in the next franchise installment, where it will be driven by star Daniel Craig through the streets of Rome. Hopefully it’s the awesome Biposto, although we wouldn’t want to see one crashed…
He won’t be at all gentle with it, as it reportedly gets totaled by the end of the chase scene, somewhere near the Vatican, according to Sky News.
It’s not the only car to be crashed in Rome, as the same source reports another one will end up in the river Tiber, although it was not specified what make/model that is.
The last Bond movies have suffered from excessive and very obvious (often obnoxious) product placement. In recent years, it started (in this in-your-face fashion) with the BMW Z3, Z8 and 7-Series, and continued with the new Ford Mondeo that was introduced in 2006’s Casino Royale – see the (non-English) video excerpt from the movie posted below which also plugs Sony Ericsson as a mobile terminals manufacturer too…