Around the Swiss Alps in a Porsche: following in the footsteps of 007

Alf Alderson follows James Bond around the Swiss Alps in a classic Porsche on the Grand Tour of Switzerland

Alf parked up at Fluela Pass. Pic: Simon Henwood

“James Bond drove this,” I think as I approach the bottom of Switzerland’s Furkapass, a 2,429m-high col down which 007 was pursued by a glamorous blonde in a convertible Ford Mustang in the 1964 movie classic Goldfinger.

Bond was in his famous Aston Martin DB5, of course, but I’m actually able to feel a vague sense of superiority over 007 in the knowledge that his stratospherically expensive wheels would never have kept up with my far more modest but much racier modern classic, a 2008 Porsche Boxster RS60.