Greatest ever Bond stunts

2006 Record-breaking rollovers: Casino Royale

What’s the most dramatic way to avoid running over the love of your life as she’s lying tied up in the middle of the road? 007 (Daniel Craig) swerves at the last second and rolls his Aston Martin DBS seven times, a feat which took the stunt into the record books.

1971 The wheelie: Diamonds Are Forever

An understatedly brilliant piece of driving sees the British spy (Sean Connery) evade police by putting a Mustang Mach 1 on two wheels and squeezing it through a back alley. Stuntman Bill Hickman nailed it first take; the previous driver wrecked two cars trying.

1985 Decapitating a Renault 11: A View to a Kill

In keeping with the cheesy humour Roger Moore brought to the role, Bond jumps a stolen Renault onto a bus, has its roof cut off by boom gates, then gets the back sliced off by another car. The stunt used electromagnets to hold the halves together for easy breakage.

1989 Truck on nine wheels: Licence to Kill

Bond (Timothy Dalton) takes control of the baddies’ Kenworth W900B truck and avoids being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade by making the 18-wheeler sit on one side. Other than a ramp to get the trick started, stunt driver Rémy Julienne required no other props.

1974 The car corkscrew: The Man with the Golden Gun

In a world first, the special-effects team used computer modelling to calculate the jump. Borrowing a move pioneered by US stock car driver Jay Milligan, Bond (Roger Moore) pulls off a spectacular mid-air 360-degree barrel roll over a river in an AMC Hornet.