In the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Bond uses a moon buggy during his escape through the Las Vegas desert.
The unusual vehicle is encountered at a lunar-research facility operated by Willard Whyte. Bond takes it while fleeing the facility, creating one of the franchise’s strangest vehicle chases. Its enclosed cabin, wide wheels, and slow but distinctive movement make the sequence instantly recognizable.
The vehicle is not a genuine NASA lunar rover. It was a purpose-built film prop designed to resemble an experimental moon vehicle, allowing the production to bring space-age imagery into a contemporary Las Vegas setting.
Viewers sometimes describe it as a dune buggy because of the desert location, but the film identifies and presents it as a moon buggy. That distinction is the important clue separating it from the many conventional off-road vehicles in Bond history.