Last but not least: The license for the small car

James Bond flirts with the secretary of his superior, drives fast English sports cars, drinks exclusive, high-proof drinks and is also otherwise quite the boss. Well, at least that's how it used to be. But the wind has changed and the advertising money is blowing this year, since our Swiss directing hero Marc Forster is finally at the helm (the Germans claim he's one of them, after all. But that's another story), is approaching from a different, much more petit-bourgeois side. In other words, instead of driving an Aston Martin, Jaguar, Daimler or Rolls Royce, Daniel Craig is apparently behind the wheel of a standard Ford Ka in the new "Quantum of Solace" movie. And this time, instead of swirling a rough alcoholic mace in the form of a stirred Dry Martini, the agent with the license to kill has to sip Coca-Cola Zero. It was not yet known whether the plot was also dictated by the sponsors. Maybe this time Bond has to use a Victorinox army knife to free the Coca-Cola secret recipe from a Ford Ka glued together with a stick? In between, he gets Pepsi poisoning and is hit by a Mazda. And this "license to kill" will probably be included in the next issue of Bravo Girl. Everything used to be better.