What's The Best Example Of A Car As A Movie Character?

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Responding to the "What Are Your Favorite Car Films Ever" post, UglyDuckCar offers

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of the different uses of cars in cinema. Let's tackle the first one, which is a car "as a character."

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Naturally, the car could be the main character like Herbie, in a cartoonish way, or a more subtly painted sidekick like the 1990 Pontiac Bonneville in Blue Ruin. The point is, that the writer or director has either employed a car as an anthropomorphic device, or created an otherwise emotional attachment to a car to drive the plot, making viewers care as much about an inanimate object as they would about a human.

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What are some other examples.