<![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> and yes i know it's only "Cars in Movies" - but KITT has to be included anyway - even though it never featured in a movie...

nuklearwanze

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> as a list of "most well known movie-cars" it is IMPOSSIBLE to exclude KITT from Knight Rider.

absolutely everybody - even people in very remote locations of this world (and quite possibly on planets in our close proximity) know that black trans-am.

doesnt cout if you liked the show or not - excluding KITT is just insane...

nuklearwanze

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Let's just say that despite a persons age, if you're really a car enthusiast you'll know what an Aston Martin is. I mean, they're still building them(!). Same goes for being a movie buff. I'll bet money that most know about the James Bond franchise and most know details about different aspects of each film . . . not the least of which would be what vehicles were in certain movies.

leemikemphstn

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> For those of us who grew up in the 60s, one of the most memorable was the Jaguar XKE ('station wagon') from the movie "Harold and Maude". It was strange and cool . . . but it didn't make the list(!).

leemikemphstn

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @smalleyxb122: haha, yes!

i agree with the Mach 5 sentiments. Ecto-1, DB5, and a few others shoulda been way ahead.

i kinda wish the bus that the Muppets used was on there too.

mikedrawcar

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> It's surprising that they dared put Christine at the measly 20th position. She's out there somewhere, and was last spotted self chauffering Elvis in Chattanooga.

Nitrous Oxide

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]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> At least this bad boy should have made the list Maximum Overdrive

Gradall

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @smalleyxb122: I saw that when it came out and about 2 months ago when I saw in on the in-demand list on Comcast. It did make the Honorable Mentions list.

timrussell

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> I can add one of my favorite cars of all time.
It is the '57 chevy from the movie,Return to Macon County.
Stars include Don Johnson and Nick Nolte.

Bee1

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @Bumblebee: I loved how the Mach 5 was on there too, it almost seems like their shilling out doesn't it?

I was a little disappointed about Kowalski's Challenger ended up. To me Vanishing Point is pretty much the definitive car movie and easily one of my top-5 favorite movies. I suppose most people probably haven't seen it though.

kingfloopy

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> what about rubber duck? sure its a truck, but it still should be on the list as the most awsome (and manly) truck ever!!

ideon

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> The 1st car chase I ever saw on film was Thunder Road


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smokeydog001

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @Spasticteapot: They could have just put "An aston from James Bond" and for me it would have still deserved its position, but, i'm glad they chose what, for me, is easily the most stylish and most memorable Bond car of all time.

6street

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> How about the Ferrari, Cobra, 911, Camaro and That Babe in the American Flag bikini car washing a from Gumball Rally. Or Dirty Larry Crazy Mary Charger which is the most BAD ASS car in any movie. You Tube that chase scene. How about the Plymouth Valiant and Peterbilt in Duel? Joe Dirt's hoopty, winged Charger ? Borat's tiny ice cream truck Divco???

moon lake vintage

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> I like the #2. Although, the liquid cooled 3 main in cannonball run is nowhere on the list..or did I not find it.

bdon

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @Skunky: But I transformed into a real car, just like Spaceball I transformed into a real Mega Maid.

Bumblebee

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> of course that should be robert Mitchum and THUDER road@3304HL:

3304HL

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @Spasticteapot: Don't be so sure. I have a number of Bond-enthusiast college-age friends that have all seen it, and, all else fails, there was one in Casino Royale.

A strolling player

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @vwminispeedster: They also left out the group of Peugeot 504s that chased the 2CV. I think that was in "For Your Eyes Only," but I'm not quite sure.
Despite the lack of 504s, I consider this list a vindication of my childhood-- all the cars I was obsessed with as a kid are there. Herbie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Greased Lightning, Fozzie's Studebaker... awesome, dude. And ECTO-1, of course. When I attended my great-grandmother's funeral when I was four years old, I got really excited because the hearse was a "Ghostbusters car!"

Armand Bengle

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Damn,The orignal Eleanor loses out to Eleanor II yet again.Yeesh,has no-one seen the original movie?That movie is craptastic,no actors,no plot,but the best chase scene ever.....Well,Bullit is probably the best ever...

kfdave

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Great list--after all, it's "Most Memorable" -- not hottest or best or coolest.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> The most glaring omission was the smart 42 Passion from Pink Panther.
Also, the El Camino from the Mexican.
Other than that, every one of the cars I would have listed was there.

Great list.

smart42

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> three that come to my mind that didn't even make the honorable mentions list;
robert Mitcham's Ford from Tobacco Road, J.D.'s 49 Merc from East of Eden, and the Mustang from A Man and a Woman...


3304HL

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Interesting that they used a pic of Bandit's T/A from the second movie instead of the original.

Smells_Homeless

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Ferrari 250GT from Ferris Bueller since The Wraith has been mentioned.

smsolo1

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Well I'm atleast glad to see my car(I own one used in the movie) Herbie came in at #2 on the list.

Herbie3Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @smalleyxb122: Holy crap, that was a real car? I always thought it was just a prop built on a vw pan or something. It may have only been a concept but wow, that's JFG materiel.

kleinlowe

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> I thought the last page of honorable mentions was interesting...I'd forgotten about the car that was in White Lightning, which was filmed in this area. Wonder if it might exist in a barn around here somewhere (or was it crashed in the end, I don't remember)? Probably wouldn't be as effective at acquiring "shaky pudding" as it was back in the day...unless you were to paint it yellow, of course.

nosirrahg

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @Bumblebee: But you made the list! I've read the prequel comics man, I know how those Cybertronians made it to earth! :D

Skunky

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @Skunky: Nice pull on the Winnebago. I totally forgot about that, but I guess it's really a spaceship.

Bumblebee

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> This is not a contest of "Best movie cars" so much as "Most well-known movie cars". Were it a test of quality, Buckaroo Banzai's fine custom automobile would've fetched first.

Which raises the question of how on earth a DB5 managed to get on the list. Almost nobody under the age of 30 (besides myself) has seen Goldfinger, and even fewer know what an Aston Martin is.

Spasticteapot

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @tonyola: No way, if you're gonna throw in a bus, I think the one from Speed is more memorable.

Come to think of busses...where the hell is Lonestars Winnebago!?

Skunky

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @vwminispeedster:

How about the weird Tatra-esqe customized Citroen DS from National Lampoon's European Vacation?

Also, since the weedy panel van from Up In Smoke is included in the lst, I think it should also include a bus - the one used in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. It was on display for a while at the Hard Rock Cafe in the early 90s, and the people swore up and down it was the real thing.

tonyola

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> That list is so shitty. The three Minis for the Italian Job remake beat Eleanor.

944turb0

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> You know, now that I think of it, it's missing a few cars. The aforementioned Wraith is a hot one. The Punisher's GTO would have made sense. Do direct-to-video movies count? Because I'd throw in the Dome Zero from the Smooth Criminal segment of Moonwalker. There are alot of cars that are way more memorable than some of the low-ranked things they pulled out of nowhere.

Skunky

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> no mention of Burt's SM in longest yard or the Traction in Indiana Jones or the 2CV in that Bond flick?!?! what a crappy list sans Citroens.

vwminispeedster

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @smalleyxb122: you should go back and look at some of my past comments...
I mention the Wraith far more often than anyone should as well.


Berafftone

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> The Road Warrior was the greatest movie ever made. IMO, the memorable state of the Pursuit Special is several-years-lived-in, with giant fuel tanks, and with the nose busted off.

Also it should be number 1.

TechnoDestructo

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Hells yeah, I fully approve of the #1 spot. I also approve of the inclusion of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.

The only question I have is: Did Luke's Landspeeder not qualify or something? Cause it's a helluva lot more memorable than a beat up Buick from freakin' Rain Man...

Skunky

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Wow, an excellent list. Just awesome. The DeLorean at #1 is a given. Any other vehicle at #1 and I'd be arguing that they'd done the list through the "pull-a-name-from-the-hat" technique.

And I can't even argue with Herbie at #2, although the General, I think deserves to be much lower down the list. It's a TV car that featured in a piece-of-crap parody movie. If this list were made five, ten years from now, they'd be looking through the IMDB to recall if there was actually a "Dukes of Hazzard" movie that would qualify it as a movie car... but they'd still remember, say, ECTO-1.

BeerDearthair

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Perhaps it is too obscure a film, but the Turbo Interceptor (Dodge M4S) was missing from the list.

Okay, a lot of people have never heard of The Wraith, let alone seen it, but it is a more memorable car than at least 5 of the cars on that list. Or at least don't give 2 slots to Eleanor, and 2 slots to Italian Job Minis. (they lumped both Bumblebees together, and Herbie got one nod while listing multiple films)

Fair warning: Any time a movie cars post is made, I will mention The Wraith

smalleyxb122

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> I'm pretty obsessed about movie cars and think this list is very well done. While my personal list has the Mad Max car in the top 5, in reality its a cult car in a cult movie and #26 is about right, close to the Bullitt Mustang. Plus, they used the correct name, Pursuit Special, which is a minor miracle considering everyone calls it the V8 Interceptor which is incorrect.

Cars like Herbie, ECTO-1, the BTTF Delorean and especially the General Lee are cultural icons moreso than movie props and certainly deserve their high ranking.

Uncle Bo, ironically aestheticized

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @fullmoonparty: fix the cigarette lighter.

boosted-lego-wagon

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @Bumblebee: I remember that it sucked. That's how bad it is: it's reversed the flow of time.

boosted-lego-wagon

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> @fullmoonparty: Oh man, mine too. Bluesmobile forever.

Matt Hardigree

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> I do like that they managed to work in possibly my favorite movie line ever: "if you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up."

I also like the respect shown for some admitted novelties (batmobiles, ecto, etc) without elevating them higher than they should be. The top 5 (odd numbers at least) even comes out pretty well, though my heart pines for the "cop motor, cop tires . . ."

fullmoonparty

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Ha ha ha: I love that they name the Mach 5 memorable when that movie was only released today.

I don't remember it yet. Do you?

Bumblebee

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> "A bear in his natural habitat. A studebaker."

fork in the road....

boosted-lego-wagon

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Love the Ecto. My neighbor owns the one that was in Florida Universal Studios Theme Park for 15 years. It is recognized as one of the three originals.

Bee1

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> Ahem: #33.

What really makes this list a winner, however, is the Studebaker at #45.

Bumblebee

]]> <![CDATA[The 50 Most Memorable Movie Cars, According To Rotten Tomatoes]]> I know the car from Ferris is a fake... but that model Ferrari is still my favorite car in my personal JFG...

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sorry, I passed out thinking about it and hit the keyboard

Berafftone

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