Land Rover · Vehicle
James Bond in No Time to Die, 2021 — as worn by Daniel Craig
In No Time to Die’s Jamaica opening, James Bond leaves the beach house he has built into a small cove outside Port Antonio and drives a blue Land Rover Series III into town before meeting Felix Leiter and fellow CIA operative Logan Ash, who ask for help.
The scene — James Bond
In No Time to Die’s Jamaica opening, James Bond leaves the beach house he has built into a small cove outside Port Antonio and drives a blue Land Rover Series III into town before meeting Felix Leiter and fellow CIA operative Logan Ash, who ask for help. The passage plays less like a chase than part of Bond’s settled routine, moving from the remote shoreline toward Port Antonio’s harbor streets, with the reunion with Felix as the first real intrusion on a life he has kept apart.
Cary Joji Fukunaga said the retirement setting mattered because Jamaica is Bond’s birthplace in Ian Fleming terms, and Port Antonio was chosen as the jumping-off point for the mission that follows. The Series III fits the Bond that costume designer Suttirat Larlarb described as “retired to beach bum life,” with his existence reduced to fishing, swimming, and practical clothes rather than a polished public persona. The vehicle follows the same stripped-back logic: not a gadget-laden status symbol, but an older, open utility Land Rover suggesting self-reliance and a man living by habit instead of display.
Production built Bond’s house on the beach near Port Antonio, rehabilitating an existing pool, and Fukunaga noted there was no road to the cove, so the departure had to be faked and the vehicle brought in by barge. Linus Sandgren’s photography emphasizes the peace and tranquility of Bond’s Caribbean hideaway, framing the Series III in bright tropical daylight against mangroves, coastal roads, and the sun-bleached townscape.
The object
The Land Rover Series III was introduced in 1971 as the final major evolution of the original post-war Land Rover utility 4x4 line, remaining in production until 1985. It retained the marque's separate ladder-frame, leaf-sprung, dual-purpose off-road design while adding notable updates over the Series IIA, including a moulded plastic grille, a revised driver-focused dashboard layout, and synchromesh on all forward gears. Series III models used aluminium-alloy body panels over a steel chassis, a hallmark Land Rover construction method that combined durability with corrosion resistance.
Short-wheelbase 88-inch versions like the vehicle seen in No Time to Die typically featured a two-speed transfer case and selectable four-wheel-drive hardware characteristic of the period. The model most commonly used a 2.25-litre four-cylinder petrol engine, though other engines existed during the production run.
The screen-used vehicle in No Time to Die has been publicly documented as a blue, right-hand-drive, open-top Land Rover Series III used in the Jamaica scenes around Port Antonio. Visible identifying details include custom grey wheel-arch extensions, a bonnet-mounted spare wheel, and UK registration 733 PFP. It functions in the film as Bond's off-duty transport, reinforcing his temporary life of utility, routine, and distance from active service before Felix Leiter draws him back in.
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