General consensus seems to be:
Bullit
The French Connection
The Road Warrior
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I vote for * The Road Warrior. *
Feel perfectly free to come up with other suggestions–I’d like to get a look a great chase scene I haven’t seen before.
I think we did this like a month ago, but many people think that Ronin has the best car chase scene ever filmed. And I tend to agree.
Not even close.
The best chase scene ever was at the end of What’s Up, Doc?. I mean, it has a Chinese dragon and everything.
Fenris
Fletch.
The bit where he pretends to be an exterminator is classic.
The other thread was about the best car chase, this one just says “best chase”. The answer, of course, is The General.
There’s a skateboarding movie called “Gleaming the Cube” in which there is a spectacular chase scene. Granted, the person being chased in on a skateboard, but it’s quite amazing nonetheless. It’s on HBO or Cinemax frequently.
When I read the thread title the first thing I thought of was What’s Up, Doc? 
I need to see that again.
*The Blues Brothers Several scenes in the movie, including driving through the mall, and falling, and falling…
It’s gotta be Bullitt. It wasn’t just an exciting chase scene, it was also cool at the same time.
Most exciting…Bullit
Best…the chase with the exterminator truck in mel brook’s “silent movie”. thank you henny youngman 
I really liked the car chase from The Man Who Knew Too Little. Bill Murray leads the cops on a chase through a construction zone, knocking over all of the cones (I’ve always wanted to do that!) and finally they end up chasing each other around a roundabout.
I think the chase scene through the asteroid field in The Empire Strikes Back is cooler than all get out.
“To Live and Die In L.A.” gets my heart pumping just typing the title.
“The French Connection” was pretty good, too.
I’d go for the car chase in Dragnet, where they crash into that stall full of soft toys
Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie, in which the chase causes a VW Squareback, owned by an exterminator, to go out of control. It crashes into an unused bus bench and the inertia throws the plastic fly on the roof onto a table at an outdoor cafe, onto a bowl of soup. The customer is Henny Youngman; his dialog title card says, “Waiter! There’s a fly in my soup!”
Mighty Joe Young, an old favorite. Jill, Greg, and Max O’Hara race against time and the local police to haul Joe out to the harbor. On the way they are interrupted by:
- A bum looking for a free ride; he sees Joe and runs around screaming, until a cop hauls him in; he speaks some strange language to a desk sergeant who says, “Wait a minute! That’s my old man’s lingo!” I never did understand that…
- A surly truck driver who almost collides with the van; he starts to throw a punch at Greg, who decks him. Greg and Jill put Joe in the truck and continue.
- A soft patch of mud–they’re on a dirt road–that the truck gets stuck in, until Joe lifts it out.
- A burning orphanage. Joe redeems himself by rescuing three little kids–including a terrified three-year-old girl staggering about on a fourth-floor ledge.
I’ll take these over What’s Up, Doc? and Blues Brothers any day.
I just watched Ronin again last night, and lemme tell you, them’s some damn fine car chases. Narrow streets full of people and cars and vendors, driving through oncoming traffic, offroading in a sports car. Awesome.
Frankenheimer(The Train, Grand Prix, Ronin and Reindeer Games amoung others) knows how to film an excellent chase scene. I think he experimented with Gran Prix a mediocre movie but the racing scenes are the template for Ronin.
The boat chases in Face Off and The World is Not Enough.
In Jurassic Park when the T-Rex is chasing the jeep and there is a shot of him in the mirror on which is printed, “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.”
Gotta go with “The Blues Brothers,” although if you think about it, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is very nearly one long chase scene.
Also, although it isn’t a chase scene in the sense of somebody trying to escape somebody else or beat them to a destination, the fight scene in “The Quiet Man” is one of the best progressive scenes ever.