Your top 10 movie/TV cars

Cafe Society
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The magical car djinn appears and offers you your choice of ten land vehicles (sorry, no boats, planes, spaceships, etc.) with the following qualifiers:

The vehicle must have either been featured prominently or have been used by a major character in the movie or TV show.

The vehicle will be fully functional as depicted in the movie/TV show, so yes, oil slicks for spy cars and all that stuff works.

You only get to pick one vehicle from each movie/show. So no “I’ll take the ten best cars from Gone in 60 Seconds” option.

Here’s my 10, in no particular order:

10: The General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard.

  1. The black 'Cuda from Phantasm.

  2. The Batmobile from the Batman TV series.

  3. James Bond’s Aston Martin from Goldfinger.

  4. K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider (the original of course!)

  5. Bruce Wayne’s Lamborghini from The Dark Knight.

  6. Sonny Crockett’s Ferrari Daytona Spyder from Miami Vice.

  7. The Metallicar from Supernatural.

  8. Eleanor from Gone in 60 Seconds.

And last but certainly not least…

  1. The time-traveling Delorean from Back to the Future.
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I don’t have a list but #1 would be Mad Max’s Pursuit Special- V8 Interceptor
(a customized 73’ Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe)

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Great OP. Let’s see if I can think of 10…

In no order:

General Lee - Dukes of Hazzard
Delorean - BTTF
K.I.T.T. - Original Knight Rider
The A-Team van
Columbo’s station wagon (for kitch)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Condorman’s car
Bumblebee - Transformers (I’d get a car AND a robot!)
Herbie The Love Bug
Gran Torino from “Starsky & Hutch”

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I don’t need ten, I just want

Michael Weston’s Charger, from Burn Notice.

Old-School Bumblebee from Transformers

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Steve McGarrett’s black '68 Mercury Parklane from the early seasons of Hawaii Five-0. Essence of cool.

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I’d just like to remind you kids of a few famous vehicles that you may not have thought of -

The Animal House transforming parade “Deathmobile”

Cheech and Chong’s smoking van made out of pressed weed.

The Grisswald’s woody panel wagon in “Vacation”

The Tron Bikes (OK disqualified - not a car)

Dean Martin’s station wagon fro The Silencers (yes, station wagon for a secret service agent) - with its booze dispensing backseat bar for cocktails on the road.

Jackie Chan’s gizmo equipped Japanese car in Cannonball Run

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What’s cool is the Patrick McGoohan’s Lotus 7 from The Prisoner.

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1961 Plymouth 4-door sedan in Car 54, Where Are You?
1958 Plymouth Fury 2-door hardtop in Christine
the Jeep pickup (a J10?) driven by Val and Earl in Tremors
the Bluesmobile, a 1974 Dodge Monaco 4-door sedan:

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The Aston Martin DB5 is probably the coolest Bond car, but the Lotus Esprit that turned into a submarine in the Spy Who Loved Me was pretty awesome too.

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All photos in this post taken from the incredible, invaluable website IMCDb.

Pierce Brosnan’s 1980 Land Cruiser from Dante’s Peak, b/c long ago I used to have one, same year and color.

1966 Toyota 200 GT from You Only Live Twice. Only ~350 ever made.

The dark green convertible Shelby Mustang from The Thomas Crown Affair. Two sets of rear tires.

1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California. Ohhhhh yeah.

And finally, the Mach 5. For everyday driving.

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Mentioned by HelloNinja Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Annabelle, the Model T from Mr. Pudgins.

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Ah, now here’s a righteous thread. My choices (not necessarily in order):

  1. The last of the V-8 Interceptors (Mad Max & The Road Warrior)
  2. Steve McQueen’s Mustang (Bullitt)
  3. Aston Martin DB5, with enhancements (Goldfinger)
  4. The Hannibal 8 (The Great Race)
  5. The Batmobile (Batman TV series)
  6. The Bluesmobile (Blues Brothers)
  7. Delorean Time Machine (Back to the Future)
  8. Gran Torino (Starsky and Hutch)
  9. The Police ‘Spinner’ (Blade Runner)
  10. Steve McQueen’s Porsche 917K (Le Mans)
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Er…you realize that, according to the conditions set forth in my OP, whatever properties, natural or supernatural, that are displayed in the movie will also work in the real-life version, right? Methinks you might want to find a different '58 Fury in another movie for that one…

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What, no one’s mentioned Burt Reynolds’s Trans-Am from Smokey and the Bandit? I know it doesn’t have A.I. and Turbo Boost like K.I.T.T., but still…K.I.T.T. didn’t have Sally Fields in the passenger seat.

Grandpa’s Dragula from The Munsters

Sonny Crockett’s Ferrari Testarossa from Miami Vice

The Monkeemobile

That P.O.S. Crown Vic from Men In Black

Val Kilmer’s Batmobile from Batman Forever. Tell me, is it over the top?

The Black Beauty from The Green Hornet

Can we haz music videos? ZZ Top’s Eliminator

My Mother, the Car Hey, I’m trying to be unique here. At least I haven’t mentioned the Partridge Family bus.

Who ya gonna call? The Ectomobil from Ghostbusters

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Bessieand the Whomobile

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Yup to the Phantasm HemiCuda

Yup to Max’s Ford Falcon XB

Cusack’s Camaro from Better Off Dead

Whatever the bad guys were driving in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (Aston Martin Lagonda?)

That modded Mach 1 Mustang from Nuke Em high

Simon and Simon’s simple Camaro with targa roof.

Cobra’s chopped 49 Merc’

Chief Brody’s K5 Blazer

Charlie Sheen’s Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor from The Wraith

And something with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast, and gets really shitty gas mileage! … the 6000SUX!

(and the Tron Light cycle)

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I’ll just take one, but I don’t know if I want to go retro with the Flintstones (classic design but slow getting to freeway speeds) or futuristic with the Jetsons (handles like a dream but the FAA would be on my ass).

ETA: It is too a car! A flying car!

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Thanks for the warning. I did misunderstand that part: I thought you meant the actual car used in the filming. So, let’s take that one off my list.