Other automotive icons in car movies

[rp23g7]

Because the highly toxic batteries in those little Toyoturds are an environmental hazard and serious threat.

Since the future of automobiles is battery or electric power does that mean we won't see any more action movies with car chases? Seriously who wants to see a Toyota Prius chasing a Honda Accord? 

So true, i watched movie called Jade with David Caruso, on the box it said something like "Greates car chase scene since Bullitt"  It was fillmed in San Fransisco.  late 90's film i think.  The chase was between a 90s Thunderbird and a 90's Taurus.  Lame.  On the first hill jump you could tell when the Taurus landed it blew the CV joints out of it.

[rustafarian]

Movies that the car is tied to the movie - from a car guys standpoint like everyone on here,  THEY'RE ALL TIED TO CARS!!! WE"RE SICK!!!
How many of you enjoy Carlitos Way just to watch the same Mustang go up and down the street in the background?

Vanishing Point  - '70 Challenger
True Romance - '59 Pink Cadillac
The Warriors - '55ish Cadillac Hearse
Jaws - Chief Brodys K5 Blazer with no top
Deer Hunter - '59 Cadillac Sedan - classic - six guys and all their hunting gear and still plenty of room.
Scarface - the leopard skin interior '67ish Caddy convertilble or the '69 Impala convertible?

What's the movie where Ernest Borgnine is a sherriff and his squad is disabled,  so he "requisitions" a souped up '70 Chevelle from a couple of stoners and eventually sends it flying thru a billboard?

ggotta get back to some work here....

[DC_1]

Movies that the car is tied to the movie - from a car guys standpoint like everyone on here,  THEY'RE ALL TIED TO CARS!!! WE"RE SICK!!!
How many of you enjoy Carlitos Way just to watch the same Mustang go up and down the street in the background?

Vanishing Point  - '70 Challenger
True Romance - '59 Pink Cadillac
The Warriors - '55ish Cadillac Hearse
Jaws - Chief Brodys K5 Blazer with no top
Deer Hunter - '59 Cadillac Sedan - classic - six guys and all their hunting gear and still plenty of room.
Scarface - the leopard skin interior '67ish Caddy convertilble or the '69 Impala convertible?

What's the movie where Ernest Borgnine is a sherriff and his squad is disabled,  so he "requisitions" a souped up '70 Chevelle from a couple of stoners and eventually sends it flying thru a billboard?

ggotta get back to some work here....

Except for Vanishing Point, I don't know that any of those you mentioned I would consider the "Car" or vehicle to be a star in the movie. The way I understand the question. The car has to be recognizable to more than just car fanatics and should be considered a crucial element to the movie and its success. I think if you asked 10 people if Sheriff Brody in Jaws drove a Ford Bronco 9 would say yes or wouldn't disagree. But, if you asked the same 10 people if Burt Reynolds drove a Ford Mustang in Smokey and the Bandit, I think 9 would say no way. This is because the car was more than a prop in the movie, it was an actual character. There are countless movies that have memorable cars but not many that have that "Star" status. Even the cars in Bullet I would consider not to meet the criteria because they really were only in a small, albeit memorable, scene in the movie. They are icons for us Charger fans and those other guys (Mustang fans) but again, if you showed 10 people off the street in the 30-50 year old age bracket a picture of those cars and asked them to name the movie they are from, I bet you would be lucky to get 3 who even have a clue. Strongest example already given I think meet this "Iconic" status I would say are the General Lee, Mad Max falcon, Smokey and the Bandit TA, Back to the Future Delorean.

Just my take on things at least.......

[Road Dog]

How about the Munsters Car or Beverly Hillbillys Truck. How about Return to Macon County.....55 Chebby.

[Ghoste]

Did the Clampetts ever do a movie?  The Munsters did and that is a good mention, so is return to Macon County.

[nvrbdn]

ok guys what is the movie where the high school kid has to make a timed run and end up on the football field in the famed 57 chevy that was hidden in a storage box?

[aussiemuscle]

But again they were just a prop.  There was another Australian movie called "Freedom" where a Porsche was a central part of it.  The kid steals a Porsche and takes off across the Outback or something.  Long time since I've seen it.

took me a while to find it as i'd never heard of it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083971/

[doctor4766]

How bout Starsky and Hutch's Gran Torino??

[Road Dog]

Did the Clampetts ever do a movie?  The Munsters did and that is a good mention, so is return to Macon County.

Yeah, Earnest P Worrel played Uncle Jed.

[Cooter]

ok guys what is the movie where the high school kid has to make a timed run and end up on the football field in the famed 57 chevy that was hidden in a storage box?

THAT's "Catch Me IF YOu Can"....The "run" was called the "Twin City Run"...Some of the Characters were "Fast Freddy", "The Fatman"..

One of the lines in the movie when they were readying the '57 Chebby, was..."427 Big Block Dillon, that's one tough engine..I gave her new cam,mags, and headers"..

All revolved around this kid who wanted to go to college, but had to street race for money. One day he meets this goody, goody chick and offers to "Help" save the school by helping with her bake sale...When nobody else wanted to help, this guy was bringing in huge money by betting on car races...Finally, they decide to bet the whole lot on one race against "Johnny Fatman's" driver. They sabatoge the Chevelle and they wonder how they are gonna race with no car..enter the principal who did the twin city run against Johnny Fatman years ago, and he walks out onto the football field so many paces, picks up the door to this underground vault where the '57 Chebby is buried...GREAT Flick...

[THE STIG]

Here's one nobidy has mentioned, the car is a 69 Brand X GTO Judge but the movie is great, very funny. I highly recomend it, not a family flick though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xOUCZH14Is