Top 40 James Bond Vehicles Of All Time
By Paulo Acoba
#38- Honda US90 ATV
Appeared in: Diamonds Are Forever
For a brief shining moment, a three-wheeled Honda ATV was used as a Bond vehicle. In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond jumps off the moon buggy that he’s been driving around in for awhile and lets it roll off with no one at the controls. Two guards give chase in Honda US90’s while one guard, who’s fallen over, takes his sweet time to get back onto his ATV and rejoin his pals. In the movie, the fallen guard takes an awfully long time (almost to a fault) and it gives Bond plenty of time to jog on over and knock him off. Bond immediately bugs out of there and reunites with Tiffany Case and her ’65 Ford Mustang (which we’ll get to later .)
The Honda US90 was Honda’s first foray into the ATV market. The way the story goes is that Honda needed something to sell in the off-season when motorcycles weren’t being purchased as readily. The design lent to complete disassembly and had the ability to be fit into the trunk of a normal sized passenger car. Powered by a 4-stroke 90cc engine paired to a 4-speed transmission, it was really a do-all off road vehicle that was also surprisingly convenient as Bond discovers.
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