# Your top 10 movie/TV cars **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717 "2009-01-23T21:46:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/1 "2009-01-23T21:46:58Z")
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](http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2008/08/santi_general_lee.jpg) from **The Dukes of Hazzard**. 1. The black ['Cuda](http://www.imcdb.org/images/005/088.jpg) from **Phantasm**. 2. The [Batmobile](http://www.kruse.com/news/StarsCarsAubFall05/5103Batmobile.jpg) from the Batman TV series. 3. James Bond’s [Aston Martin](http://www.automotoportal.com/media/images/vijesti/061127010.jpg) from **Goldfinger**. 4. [K.I.T.T.](http://sofaking.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/knightrider460.jpg) from **Knight Rider** (the original of course!) 5. Bruce Wayne’s [Lamborghini](http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/batman_begins/christian_bale/batmanbegins2.jpg) from **The Dark Knight**. 6. Sonny Crockett’s [Ferrari Daytona Spyder](http://www.italiaspeed.com/2006/cars/ferrari/08/miami_vice/ferrari_365gts_spyder.jpg) from **Miami Vice**. 7. The [Metallicar](http://waywardson.whendarknessfalls.net/wallpaper/metallicar.jpg) from **Supernatural**. 8. [Eleanor](http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/03/17/000945.1-lg.jpg) from **Gone in 60 Seconds**. And last but certainly not least… 1. The time-traveling [Delorean](http://www.ridelust.com/wp-content/uploads/aa_1981_delorean_dmc_12_.jpg) from **Back to the Future**. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/2 "2009-01-23T21:53:50Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/3 "2009-01-23T21:55:15Z")
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](http://www.autocult.com.au/img/gallery/full/BFR26CYP.jpg) Bumblebee - Transformers (I’d get a car AND a robot!) Herbie The Love Bug Gran Torino from “Starsky & Hutch” ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/4 "2009-01-23T21:58:14Z")
I don’t need ten, I just want > [@Cuckoorex](#): > > [K.I.T.T.](http://sofaking.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/knightrider460.jpg) > > [Metallicar](http://waywardson.whendarknessfalls.net/wallpaper/metallicar.jpg) Michael Weston’s [Charger](http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee8/vestokes/the_charger.jpg), from _Burn Notice_. [Old-School Bumblebee](http://www.2dayblog.com/images/2007/july/camaro_bumblebee_1.jpg) from _Transformers_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/5 "2009-01-23T22:02:49Z")
Steve McGarrett’s black '68 Mercury Parklane from the early seasons of **Hawaii Five-0**. Essence of cool. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/6 "2009-01-23T22:06:49Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/7 "2009-01-23T22:11:00Z")
What’s cool is the Patrick McGoohan’s [Lotus 7](http://www.sandsmuseum.com/cars/seven/description/history/prisoner/prisoner.html) from The Prisoner. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/8 "2009-01-23T22:27:47Z")
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: > [@](#): > > It’s got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas. ---
**Author:** ![ClintPhoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@ClintPhoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ClintPhoenix)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/9 "2009-01-23T22:42:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/10 "2009-01-23T23:00:05Z")
All photos in this post taken from the incredible, invaluable website [IMCDb](http://www.imcdb.org/). Pierce Brosnan’s [1980 Land Cruiser](http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_3397-Toyota-Land-Cruiser-J60-1980.html) from **Dante’s Peak** , b/c long ago I used to have one, same year and color. [1966 Toyota 200 GT](http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_2661-Toyota-2000-GT-MF10-1966.html) from **You Only Live Twice**. Only ~350 ever made. The dark green convertible [Shelby Mustang](http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_143035-Peugeot-306.html) from **The Thomas Crown Affair**. Two sets of rear tires. [1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California](http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_2864-Ferrari-250-GT-Spyder-California-1961.html). Ohhhhh yeah. And finally, the Mach 5. For everyday driving. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/11 "2009-01-23T23:39:04Z")
Mentioned by **HelloNinja** [Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang) Annabelle, the Model T from [Mr. Pudgins.](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2008/11/mr-pudgins-book.html) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/12 "2009-01-24T02:55:51Z")
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_) ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/13 "2009-01-24T04:49:16Z")
> [@3acresandatruck](#): > > 1958 Plymouth Fury 2-door hardtop in _Christine_ 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… ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/14 "2009-01-24T06:19:06Z")
What, no one’s mentioned [Burt Reynolds’s Trans-Am](http://www.ugo.com/movies/crime-in-entertainment/images/smokey-and-the-bandit.jpg) 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](http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_jun2007/CoffinDragster.jpg) from The Munsters [Sonny Crockett’s Ferrari Testarossa](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Ferrari_Testarossa_-_001.jpg) from Miami Vice [The Monkeemobile](http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Desert/7445/Monkeys.JPG) [That P.O.S. Crown Vic](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_gI5wYW2XEsY/RtGv-5RnFmI/AAAAAAAADgQ/4Nr-d4TM3DU/IMG_0080.JPG) from Men In Black [Val Kilmer’s Batmobile](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Batmobile-BatmanForever.jpg) from Batman Forever. Tell me, is it over the top? [The Black Beauty](http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/new_bb_movie.gif) from The Green Hornet Can we haz music videos? [ZZ Top’s Eliminator](http://www.vinylrecords.ch/Z/ZZ_Top/Eliminator/zz-top-eliminator-71.jpg) [My Mother, the Car](http://www.tvacres.com/images/porter_mother_car.jpg) Hey, I’m trying to be unique here. At least I haven’t mentioned the Partridge Family bus. Who ya gonna call? [The Ectomobil](http://www.uphaa.com/uploads/160/ecto-1_1.jpg) from Ghostbusters ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/15 "2009-01-24T06:23:07Z")
[Bessie](http://freespace.virgin.net/dr.dean/)and the [Whomobile](http://www.imps4ever.info/specials/whomobil.html) ---
**Author:** ![Madgolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Madgolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madgolf)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/16 "2009-01-24T08:32:17Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/17 "2009-01-24T09:00:11Z")
I’ll just take one, but I don’t know if I want to go retro with the [Flintstones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_zF_EPK74&feature=related) (classic design but slow getting to freeway speeds) or futuristic with the [Jetsons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyinD6ZDqeg) (handles like a dream but the FAA would be on my ass). ETA: It is too a car! A _flying_ car! ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-movie-tv-cars/482717/18 "2009-01-24T10:09:26Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > 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… 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.