The concept of Bond driving an Aston Martin DB5 was introduced in Goldfinger, and became Bond's most well known vehicle, with it appearing in Bond films such as Thunderball and GoldenEye. The car will also make a return appearance in Skyfall, with the same BMT 216A registration that the Aston Martin had in Goldfinger and Thunderball. Sam Mendes, director of Skyfall, said that having the DB5 in the film "felt like it was a thematic thing. It is about the old and the new, and theres something about last part of the movie which is deliberately very consciously could have taken place in 1962." It'll be interesting to see what Mendes means by this connection. Also, this may be the first time the car is equipped with gadgets since Goldfinger, with a reference to the ejector seat from that film, which hopefully is no joke.