coolest cars on tv and movies

ive compiled my own lists of the coolest cars on tv and in movies.some of you may not know them as some are from british tv shows.anyone else wanna contribute their choices?

TV's coolest cars

ford consul 3000 GT from The Sweeney (UK 70s cop show)
bodie and doyles' MK3 Ford Capris from The Professionals(UK 70s cop show)
lotus 7 from The Prisoner
emma peels lotus elan from The Avengers
simon templars volvo p1800 from The Saint
the munsterkoach from The Munsters
the dragula from The Munsters
the 60s Batmobile

Movies' coolest cars

1958 plymouth fury from Christine
ECTO-1 from Ghostbusters
aston martin DB5 from Goldfinger
1989 Batmobile (Michael Keaton)
1996 Batmobile (George Clooney)
aston martin vanquish from Die Another Day

The 1966/7 MGB that's in the George Gently series

Maxwell Smart's Sunbeam Tiger in the "Get Smart" TV show.

The go-carts from What's New Pussycat.

Laura!! How could you forget DCI Gene Hunt's red Audi Quatro on Ashes to Ashes!! You did get that in Scotland, did you not?

Also, Magnum's Ferrari
Sonny Crocket's "Ferrari Daytona"

Steve McQueens Mustang...for a start

Just gotta say it, the coolest car ever was that tricked out DeLorean in 'Back to the Future'.

Ditto on both Aston Martins.
They are the absolute coolest cars ever.
Could never understand why they went with the BMW in one of the Bond movies.


George Herschell

Mustang in Bullit

http://www.ponysite.de/bullit.htm

Challenger in Vanishing Point

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=vanishing+point+challenger&view=detail&id=C0311A45035A86DE790D8E75F814FB66E383A44A&first=0&qpvt=vanishing+point+challenger&FORM=IDFRIR

Sorry, but Christine wasn't a real Fury - she was a Belvedere in thin disguise. The real Furys were all the same color - a sort of sandy beige with beige/brown/gold interior, a gold anodized accent spear on each side, a gold anodized grille, gold accents on the wheel covers and some of the chrome trime was tinted gold. They all had the highest performance engines available in Plymouths, starting out with a few that had a mechanical fuel injection that was very troublesome, so immediately all were switched to dual-quad carbs. I'm not sure if any actually made it to market with the FI. Also, they had a 150-mph speedometer which none of the other series shared, and the steering wheels were off-white with brown grips on opposite sides, not found in other series. Furies were produced ONLY in a 2-door hardtop style from the first year, 1956 thru 1958, before the name was downgraded to replace the Belvedere as the top sedan line in 1959 and the Fury line was supplanted by the "Sport Fury". A convertible and other color schemes were added in 1959 to the Sport Fury line, and the big engine became optional at that point as well, and the gold stuff and the 150-mph speedo disappeared.

Almost forgot:

Another cool one is "Patrick Jane's" Citroen on The Mentalist.

George - re Bond's BMW - marketing, plain and simple. I remember the advertising blitz from BMW at the same time. $$$$$$ talks.

The age of "Product Placement" Film makers have discovered a way to get free cars to crash and get paid extra to do it. It is all about the money.

The Bond Beemer is in the "Zentrum" (museum) at the BMW plant here in Greer. It was practically hand built, pre-production in the South Carolina plant. Oh, and BMW here is said to stand for "Bubba Making Wheels"

Columbo's car:

http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/car.htm

All the F1 cars in Grand Prix Just watched it the other night for the 100th time.:D

Don Johnson's Miami Vice Ferrari, even if it was a copy

Mcqueens Mustang in Bullit

Eleanor Gone in 60 Seconds.

The GT350H in Grand Prix was pretty sweet too.

Any film or tv programme that features a Citroen ID or DS. These simply are the coolest cars ever.I fully intend to own one some day.(MGs will be sold to buy it too).

National Lampoon's Vacation 1983

Family Truckster

Police intercepter in the Road Warrior, 73 Ford Falcon, even though the fake blower drive that would be activated by a switch was B/S still a cool car.

Christine as another great one even though it was proven to be a Belvedere above, great story!

The time machine Delorean.

The General Lee cause it could squeal the tires in Ga. clay:D

Peugeot 202

...the 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4 in the Birds....how cool was that..

The Traction Avant from the movie "Diva".

And who can forget this one. "The Durango 95 purred along real horrorshow...."

Jim, you beat me to it....I was going to say the firebird on the Rockford Files.
Not because the car was cool....but the way James Garner drove it !

Oh, and the car Michael Corleone of the Godfather family drove while he was in exile in Sicily - the 46 Alpha in which his drop-dead-gorgeous Sicilian wife, Apollina is blown up.

Toyota 2000GT and Volvo P1800 are my two favs for all time.

A few Great shows or movies with a lot of great cars in them....

Route 66 - Corvette and a host of others

77 Sunset Strip - Thunderbird

FBI - Eframs' Mustangs

Mannix - Lots of nice Mopar stuff

Vanishing Point - Challenger

The Driver - 55 Chevy and Pontiac GTO

Driving Miss Daisy - Hudson and Cadillacs

American Grafitti - Just about anything

Thelma and Louise - That poor T-Bird

Gone in 60 Seconds (original and remake)

Gumball Rally - Corny - but great cars

Duel - Plymouth Valiant and Dennis Weaver Vs a big bad truck

Cannonball Run - Lots of different stuff

White Lightning' - Some really great chase scenes

The Italian Job - (original Coopers)

Smokey and the Bandit - Trans Am

Dirty mary, Crazy Larry - Charger and Chevy Impala

Hollywook Knights - I think they used a lot of the same stuff from American Graffiti

Brannigan - E-Type and Capri

Used Cars - Many

Walking Tall

Grand Prix - Classic racing movie

Winning - Another

Speedway - Classic Elvis racing and music

Spinout - Same as above

Viva Las Vegas - Same as above

Charley Varrick - Neat cars, plane and junkyard scenes

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World - Lots of early 60's classics

Le Mans - Great McQueen

The Love Bug - (original)


This is just the tip of the iceberg................................................

But most of those cars are plain old everyday cars-cars that you were likely to see around your own hometown. Nothing really special

Really, other than movies that used "special cars" like MAD Max, Deathrace 2000, The Fifth Element and some racing movies, pretty much all of the cars are ones you could have seen in neighborhoods at any given time.......

the alfa dustin hoffmen run to death in the graduate

The customized 81/82 Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor concept used in '86's The Wraith. Charlie Sheen was young and not so troubled back then.

Likelihood of seeing a Toyota 2000GT, a Volvo P1800 or an Aston Martin DB5 in my neighborhood is pretty slim. Mustangs, Camaros and Mopar stuff was common

I guess it could also have some to do with where a person is and what's normal to you..
I grew up in the Air Force (Dad was career and I joined after high shcool). It seemed that every base I was at had a few Captain or Major pilots with P-1800's.
My wife is British and her father was an officer in the Royal Engineers - In the 70's - 80's Jags, Morgans, Aston Martins, though not common by any means, were not that uncommon either.

It's all perspective I guess. The Ford Consul 3000 listed in the original post, though a common sight in England at the time, would be as strange and interesting in Omaha as a Pontiac Grand Prix in Glasgow.....

MOVIES not TV but ...

Sunbeam (Talbot) ALPINE ...To Catch a Thief Cary Grant, Grace Kelly.

Certainly the most beautiful car to come from Rootes ?

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Don't forget the Blues Brothers ex cop car. Or John Candy's backfiring POS in Uncle Buck.

and the monkee mobile?? Chuck Barris' creations were the rave.

Batmobile
Munsters - dragula
Alvin's acorn
Sony and Cher's mustangs (kinda kitschy)