Dude, do I have the car for you…
Ignore the price; or better yet build one of your own…
Call me what you will but I never agreed with Daisy Duke driving a Jeep CJ. I seem to recall her also having a white Satellite which seemed more in line with what them Dukes was up to.
Yellow Road Runner for the first few episodes, then a yellow Satellite Sebring, which was wrecked while trying helping a wealthy industrialist from Oklahoma, who gave her the Jeep.
Nice! But I’ll just putter around in my original. At least until I sell it… prices are getting ‘noteworthy’.
Any film with Dean Jeffries’ The Mantaray has something going for it, but in Bikini Beach it’s used as a tow car for Potato Bug’s dragster…and that’s a waste. Not 100% sure, but I think that may be Mr. Jeffries driving, made up to look like (Frankie Avalon as) Potato Bug.
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The brilliantly cast and made-up Lincoln Continental as “Deathmobile” in Animal House.
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The Leslie Special (for Tony Curtis) and the Hannibal 8 (for Jack Lemmon) in The Great Race
The other day I saw a Hyundai Accent hatchback in traffic, and it made me think of Marta’s car in Knives Out. That was the prefect car for an underpaid home healthcare worker. It’s one of the cheapest new cars one can buy in America, if not the cheapest. She needed reliable transportation to get to her job, so she wouldn’t drive some old clunker, but she would get the cheapest new car she could find.
A timely (Sort of) CineFix video:
They still put out decent content even though they have been added to the IGN family.
Early in the first season of Heroes I saw my first ad for the Nissan Rogue. Not twenty minutes later the cheerleader’s father presented her with a car for her birthday. She cried, “You got me the Rogue!”
My bubble of disbelief exploded.
We just watched Breaking News from Yuba County and I have to say that Allison Janney’s Nissan Cube was absolutely the perfect car for her character, as was her douche husband’s F-Type R Jag. It summed up the whole relationship perfectly.
You beat me to it. I’d say Columbo’s car was worse than “nondescript” – it was almost embarrassing, like his perpetually rumpled overcoat. Just perfect!
The worst is the Rolls Royce in Burke’s Law. It’s not that the Rolls is inconsistent with the portrayal of the show’s main character, it’s that the whole premise is so stupid. To quote Wikipedia:
Burke’s Law is an American detective series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1966. The show starred Gene Barry as millionaire captain of Los Angeles Police homicide division Amos Burke, who is chauffeured around to solve crimes in his 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
Not sure what model and year it was, but the POS car that Eddie Murphy drove to California in Beverly Hills Cop seemed ideal casting to me. It was like exposition on four wheels.
Likewise the European luxury sedan his friend (Jenny?) drove when he got there seemed to say quite a bit about her personality. (I honestly cannot recall, was it a Beemer or a Mercedes?)
Benjamin Braddock’s Alfa-Romeo in The Graduate.
'72 Chevy Nova.
Thanks to both of you.
At least it didn’t have any bananas in the tail pipe.
Nick Knight’s “1962 Caddy”* in Forever Knight.
It’s only criterion? “It’s got to have a big trunk.”
*They were actually a pair of '61s.
The Lincoln Continental Mark IV was the perfect vehicle for the lead character in the detective series Cannon. An overstuffed car for an overstuffed detective.
Keith Pratt’s Morris Minor was quite apropos in the all-time greatest film “Nuts in May”, as was Steve Martin’s awesome coming-to-a-stop-by-itself motorcycle in the otherwise abysmal “Little Shop of Horrors”.
The Johnson’s new AMC Pacer in “Spirit of '76” (1990) was very “them”.
I am bumping this thread to mention I good one I noticed last night.
I just watched the first two episodes of season 3 of Hacks, in which we see that Ava drives a Chevy Bolt, and I really feel like that’s the perfect car for her. She totally seems like the type of person who would buy an electric car, but she can only afford one of the cheapest electric cars on the market. They could have just had her driving some generic econobox, but putting her in an electric econobox was nice attention to detail and was perfect for her character.