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Three Sunseekers in the new Bond film

JAMES BOND: The new James Bond film Quantum of Solace is due for UK release later this month with - for the fourth consecutive movie - a batch of Sunseekers featured.
Shouldn't the driver be wearing a peaked cap? photo: bigpicturesphoto.com
Shouldn't the driver be wearing a peaked cap? photo: bigpicturesphoto.com

A Superhawk 43 plays a lead role in one of the biggest-ever 007 boat chases that was filmed on location in Panama in March 2008. It took three months of preparation and had more than 100 boats in support.

A 37 Metre Yacht M4 also appears in the film, as does one other very special Sunseeker. One of the company's very first open-cockpit speedboats - a Sunseeker Sovereign 17 built in 1970 - is used in a scene filmed in Italy where James Bond is driven by a rather familiar looking helmsman...

'You can't get any higher profile than a James Bond movie,' said Sunseeker MD Robert Braithwaite CBE. 'It's very exciting to be personally involved in the latest 007 release and actually appear alongside Britains most famous secret agent.'

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Shouldn't the driver be wearing a peaked cap? photo: bigpicturesphoto.com

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