In today's Guardian piece Jeanette Winterton argues that 007 is the biggest Bond Girl of them all -

'Take a look at that manicure... The hands on the steering wheel are not those of an action-hero. Since when did Terminator buff his nails? Bond drives like a girl. Every time he reverses he crushes someone's bonnet. Oh I know about the handbrake turns, and the back wheels in space, but you get that for free on the school-run. Look what he did to Tilly Masterson's tyres in Goldfinger. That was a classic school-run stunt.'