I’m sure this has been done before but I couldn’t find it. What’s the coolest car on TV or the movies? I’m betting there will be a couple of votes for Kit from Knight Rider or the General Lee.
My personal favorite is the Jaguar hearse from Harold and Maude. I would LOVE that car. Here’s a picture:
http://members.aol.com/dragula59/Jag.htm
What’s your vote?
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Oh, man, like, the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car, man. Like, that car could fly, man!
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Better off Dead: 1969 Camaro SS.
Gone in SIxty Seconds: 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500
The car from KnightRider, co-starring with the incomparable David Hasselhoff.
Was there ever any doubt?
There’ve been all sorts. Remember the ‘60s customs? The Monkees’ stretch GTO? The Munstermobile?
Bleh.
For a brief bit James’ Bond’s Aston-Martin in (what was it? From Russia with Love?) seemed pretty cool until some car mag tested it and found that an extra ton and a half sort of sandbagged it’s performance.
The movie Batmobile was apparently a cosmetics only junker, while the '60s tv show’s was a (IIRC) George Barris creation. Kinda cool.
Do any of y’all remember a loser movie that Peter Falk starred in where he was a drifter in a hot 'cuda? OK car.
But I was always sort of fond of Steve McQueen’s Mustang from Bullit.
The car that Nash Bridges drives. Where are all the gear-heads to tell me what it is.
Ooh, and Starskey and Hutch’s Gran Torino with bad-ass stripe.
Naaa gotta be the batmobile
Magnum’s Ferrari.
K.I.T.T.
General Lee.
Green Hornet’s Black Beauty.
Viper, the morphing car.
And, of course, the Mach 5
Hell, I’ll vote for the venerable General Lee. I spent my entire youth wanting a horn like that.
Reflecting on the subject a moment more causes me to think of (NO! NOT all the ridiculous rides that showed up in later sequels) the Aussie short that Mel Gibson drove in Mad Maxx.
The Shelby Cobra from Cannonball Run
The Gulf Oil Porsche 917K that Steve McQueen drove in Lemans
Hell, all the cars in those two movies!
The Ferrari in “Rendezvous”, directed by Claude Lelouch.
Lelouch bolted a camera to the front bumper of his Ferrari and drove flat-out across Paris in nine minutes. No permits, no closed streets, the man actually did it. I read somewhere that he hit 130 mph on the Champs Elysees. The first time the film was shown he was arrested.
The Coyote from Hardcastle and McCormick
Ray’s car in Stingray (black 1965 Corvette Stingray)
The car that Cursor made in Automan
I also liked Sebastian’s car in Cruel Intentions.
Nacho4Sara wrote:
Before, or after, the “super pursuit mode” modifications were made to K.I.T.T., which allowed it (him?) to travel 40% faster by having little airfoils extend out the sides and back?
And what about the variant of KITT they used in Knight Rider 2000, with the red paint job?
I read that the Batmobile in the TV series could barely do 40, they sped up the film in the shots where it seemed to be going fast.
There was a really horrible movie called ‘Black Moon Rising’ that had a cool car in it.
Hemi Cuda convertable. That’s the one I would want, too.
The Coyote from Hardcastle and McCormick was cool.
The Mach5 is of course excellent.
I would really like to have the car from The Last Starfighter though I guess calling it a car is a bit of a stretch… 
The Lotus Esprit, here featured in “Pretty Woman” (Dear Lord, have mercy on my soul for uttering the name of that film!), but also seen in “Basic Instinct”.
The Ferrari 355 GTS as used in Goldeneye, chasing Bonds beautiful Aston Martin DB5 (in reality, the Aston could never keep up with the 355, or course). The fact that Famke droved helped as well, naturally.
The Aston Martin V8 Vantage, as seen in The Living Daylights. Talk about a car that breathes power!
Movies: Ferrari. Ferris Bueler’s Day Off (Ferrari America?)
TV. The MACH 5 or the Flintmobile or the Maserocki that Barney and Fred had briefly.
TV “Real”: The Vista Cruiser
Ferris and Co were driving a kit car. Sorry.
I do recall most of my Knight Rider, and that would be an excellent car to have. Of course, the movie’s 57 Chevy in it would be nice.
How about the Corvette in Corvette Summer?
