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New Speed Racer Trailer Shows Regenerating Tires And Speed As A Kid

Here we have the latest trailer for the live-action Speed Racer movie. It drops some backstory and provides our first insight into what made Speed Racer a demon on wheels. We're still not that impressed by the Wachowski brothers' extravaganza, based on these early looks. However, there's definitely some kinda cool stuff going on with Speed's famous set of wheels. For example, this trailer shows the Mach 5's ability to replace its own shredded tires while flying through the air. I bet Tony Stewert is really jealous right now.

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1:45 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Travis Hudson
2,231 views, 31 comments

Latest by Bippy777: The 1967 cartoon tantalized me as a kid to draw the Mach5 over and over again from any angle on a small blackboard. Who knew each time I redrew it that it was an art lesson. I still more »

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Speed Racer Goes International In New Trailers For the Non-'Merican Scene

So crap about the Wachowski Bros. new proto-anime-animation colored in Superman ice cream notwithstanding, the two new trailers revealed this weekend for Speed Racer are finally giving us auto-lovers a real live Racergasm. Some of the new driving sequences, although fantastically fantastic n' fake looking, are even starting to grow on us a little. But then of course this whole thing requires us to suspend disbelief — especially when Speed Racer whips out the strange clutch-less hold at race-start he's got going on (unless he's got some 4th pedal in there for like "turbo" or something). But whatevs, it is a movie, isn't it? We'll suspend disbelief. Are you interested in more? Then check out the Jalopnik Speed Racer tag for our full coverage — including the Mach 5 live and in the flesh (or you can just hit the jump to see that) — and then head on over to our sister site obsessed with sci-fi to catch a glimpse at their hard-core Speed Racer action.

5:44 PM on Sun Mar 9 2008
By Ray Wert
3,840 views, 58 comments

Latest by Shprocket: I wondered what could be done to juice up racing-scenes that everybody is able to watch every sunday (in fact every day) on TV, now I got the answer! Definitely have to see this on the big screen! more »

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Speed Racer Trailer, Prepare to Trip Balls in Higher Definition


While the trailer for the new Speed Racer movie above certainly isn't in high-def, it's at least of a higher quality than what we and other sites have tried to peddle as "teh sweet." As we're sure you're already aware, it's been more like "teh suck." But at least this time you'll actually be able to tell the difference between Speed Racer and Racer X — because here they've finally got more definition and aren't quite the amorphous blobs they were the in the last version we brought you.
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12:15 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Ray Wert
7,507 views, 29 comments

Latest by Heftyjo: Shoulda called it Tron 2. And is it just me or is that Al Gore plotting to destroy Speed? more »

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The Speed Racer Trailer: Prepare to Trip Balls


Yesterday we were the first to bring you photos of Speed Racer, and now we're bringing you the trailer. We're going to hold off on making too many claims about this movie until we see it, but the trailer above kind of confirms what the film geeks over at CHUD have been saying about this movie actually being Peyote Racer. We're also going to hold off on explaining the story of Speed Racer to you because we here at Jalopnik don't think our readers are the kind of people that need the complicated plot and intricate character relationships of Speed Racer explained to them.

12:01 AM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Matt Hardigree
46,508 views, 94 comments

Latest by Heftyjo: Wow, that's some craptastic CG effects there. more »

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First Pictures From Speed Racer Movie

[*UPDATE* If you're getting to this post we've got the Speed Racer Trailer, and you should watch it. That is all.] Whatever your opinions of the Wachowski Brothers, it's hard to stop your heart rate from speeding up a little when you see the photos from the new Speed Racer film. The men behind The Matrix have decided to put their skills behind the project, and have brought John Goodman and Christina Ricci along for the ride. Oh yeah, and Chim Chim is going to be there, too.

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12:15 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Matt Hardigree
77,210 views, 84 comments

Latest by n/a: Damn!!!! I've been an advid Speed Racer fan since I was a kid (Hence the nicname) and was very much looking forward to this movie when I first heard it was being made, But when I saw the sneak peak more »