What Q will say to Bond when he hands over the DB10

[Phil74891]

Now listen up 007. Here’s your new company vehicle. Aston Martin DB10. Based on the ancient and somewhat ugly Vantage. It has massive wheels with tyres which don’t work below 7C, and under no circumstances should you get the carbon ceramic brakes wet. They’ve made the front lights smaller so you don’t notice them steaming up as much, and whatever you do, don’t take one in the rear splitter, because they’re nine grand each. Also inside, you’ll notice there’s no gear stick, which means the ejector seat button has been moved to one of those horrible black plastic switches that control the seats. No gear lever means you have Aston’s Sport shift IV gearbox, which everyone who’s never driven one hates. It has lightweight seats so don’t get in it with a cold arse. We’ve also taken out the satnav which is ste, and not replaced it with anything. We just took it out and gave it to Simpkins in accounts to put in his caravan. It doesn’t have any machine guns because we couldn’t get US type approval and there’s no adaptive camouflage because we don’t go in for that sort of thing anymore. We were going to fit a defibrillator but we weren’t entirely sure how to spell it, and we reckoned you’d probably crash the bstard before you had a chance to use it. One final word, make the most of it James. Next time out you’ll be in an SUV with a Mercedes engine that will sound terrible, but it will have a radically improved in car entertainment system, and will warn you when it’s about to rain in Austria.

Despite all the above drivel, there’s no other car in the world I’d rather own.