# Coolest TV/Movie car **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430 "2000-12-07T03:39:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DocDaneeka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@DocDaneeka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocDaneeka)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/1 "2000-12-07T03:39:13Z")
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](http://members.aol.com/dragula59/Jag.htm) What’s your vote? ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/2 "2000-12-07T03:56:16Z")
[cheech] Oh, man, like, the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car, man. Like, that car could _fly_, man! [/cheech] ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/3 "2000-12-07T04:02:31Z")
Better off Dead: **1969 Camaro SS.** Gone in SIxty Seconds: **1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500** ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/4 "2000-12-07T04:07:48Z")
The car from KnightRider, co-starring with the incomparable David Hasselhoff. Was there ever any doubt? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/5 "2000-12-07T04:28:59Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/6 "2000-12-07T04:30:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/7 "2000-12-07T04:34:38Z")
Naaa gotta be the batmobile ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/8 "2000-12-07T04:36:07Z")
Magnum’s Ferrari. K.I.T.T. General Lee. Green Hornet’s Black Beauty. Viper, the morphing car. And, of course, the Mach 5 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/9 "2000-12-07T04:36:26Z")
Hell, I’ll vote for the venerable General Lee. I spent my entire youth wanting a horn like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/10 "2000-12-07T04:38:40Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/11 "2000-12-07T04:45:47Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/12 "2000-12-07T05:14:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/13 "2000-12-07T05:46:44Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/14 "2000-12-07T06:09:06Z")
Nacho4Sara wrote: > [@](#): > > The car from KnightRider, co-starring with the incomparable David Hasselhoff. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/15 "2000-12-07T07:05:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/16 "2000-12-07T08:02:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*The car that Nash Bridges drives. Where are all the gear-heads to tell me what it is. > \*\* Hemi Cuda convertable. That’s the one I would want, too. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/17 "2000-12-07T08:04:48Z")
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… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/18 "2000-12-07T13:22:37Z")
The [Lotus Esprit](http://www.travelhead.com/cars/lotus/movies/pw10.jpg), 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](http://www.mi6.co.uk/docs/enc/docs/ferrari335.html) 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](http://members.aol.com/astonpics/v8vans3.htm), as seen in **The Living Daylights**. Talk about a car that breathes power! ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/19 "2000-12-07T14:38:47Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430/20 "2000-12-07T14:46:24Z")
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? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-tv-movie-car/44430.md?page=2)