# Fake car brands \[in movies and TV\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071 "2014-01-29T21:08:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/41 "2014-02-01T20:43:48Z")
FMC. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/42 "2014-02-01T21:45:36Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > FMC. > > On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Huh. I never noticed that. I thought it was a veiled you-can’t-sue-if-we-don’t-say-the-name car company. There’s all kinds of easter eggs in that movie. I don’t know many car companies based in the unnamed state where that takes place (Delaware). ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/43 "2014-02-01T21:53:24Z")
WTF is “that movie” with the “FMC” car brand? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/44 "2014-02-01T23:37:18Z")
Google **toofs** ’s quote, but Fight Club. Probably a GM reference is my guess, especially since they operated FMI overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/45 "2014-02-01T23:39:52Z")
Ah, that was a quote. Sorry, I didn’t realize that. The lack of quotation marks didn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/46 "2014-02-01T23:46:41Z")
The most beautiful car ever, the Flying Wombat from the 1938 film “The Young in Heart.” YouTube clip available. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/47 "2014-02-02T00:21:35Z")
Not quite what the OP asks, but an interesting bit of trivia I rarely get a chance to share: In the first few seasons of “Get Smart,” Max drove a red Sunbeam Tiger, which was a real car. But they didn’t use a real Sunbeam Tiger to play the Sunbeam Tiger. They used a Sunbeam Alpine, which is the same body, but with a smaller engine. That left more room under the hood for fake machine guns and whatnot. They rebadged the vehicle by gluing a “Tiger” logo onto the side where the “Alpine” logo had been. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/48 "2014-02-02T01:57:40Z")
Thundercougarfalconbird from Futurama Project Satan, and the Bender Were-car from Futurama “The Car” from the low budget horror movie (and which Bender’s Were-Car form was inspired by) The Hammerhead Eagle I-Thrust from Season 14, episode 2 ofTop Gear (may not qualify, as it is an actual car, just not a particularly good one) ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/49 "2014-02-02T02:42:35Z")
FAB1 from Thunderbirds? Course that was meant to be a custom car (ditto Lola from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D ) Brian ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-car-brands-in-movies-and-tv/680071/50 "2014-02-02T03:25:15Z")
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