Check out Goldfinger. When Bond tries to escape from Goldfinger's place in Switzerland he is chased by the bad guys who are all driving 50s 180 "Ponton" bodied sedans (could also have been 190s if they were 1957 model year or newer, but body was the same). One goes into a tree, another off a cliff, and the rest of them don't seem to have any trouble keeping up with the Aston Martin DB5, even with three guys hanging out the windows shooting. Blofelt's men chase Bond in a 200Sb Finback (could also be a 220Seb)in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. There is a pretty cool scene where Bond and Tracy (Dianna Riggs) are being chased in thier T-Bird by the Finback and in an attempt to loose them they drive into a smash up derby. The Benz can turn a lot tighter than the Ford and it is noticable. I just watched it and it was not a smash up derby, it was a stock car race that turned into a smash up derby after Bond showed up. The Finback performs some pretty amazing smash ups and knocks out most of the competition until Bond's car knocks it off the course and it rolls over and explodes. So much Mercedes carnage. Of course the Mercedes have to be destroyed in a pretty spectacular way to get them off Bonds back, where as the Ford just dies on them in the middle of the road.

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Jason Priest
1999 E430
1995 E420 - retired
1986 420SEL - retired