Comments on: High Speed Stuff Wrap-up: Notable Movie Cars and In-wheel Motors

By: creandabloole

creandabloole — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:40:09 +0000

Verry good post
Respect!

By: Mark Rasmussen

Mark Rasmussen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:58:10 +0000

About movie cars: It’s been a few days since your podcast, but I just got to it. So…in order of importance to the film…to outside of the box, here are my additions.
the highly modified Ford from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Speed Racer
the cars of Grease
the cars of American Grafitti
Very cool car of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Stallone’s Karmann Ghia from Death Race 5000
Star Wars land speeder???
non car: Triumph Bonnie from the Great Escape!

By: Netbug

Netbug — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:55:26 +0000

There’s a great list from Rotten Tomatoes with some cars that you missed. You guys hit a lot of good ones though.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/speed_racer/news/1726473/total_recall_50_most_memorable_movie_cars

Bad Boys I and II both have some awesome cars as well.

And of course there’s always the truck from “Duel”.

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:35:43 +0000

Here’s a few movie cars you missed:

Michael J. Fox’s 1959 Volvo in “The Frighteners”
The Chrysler rental car in “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”
The Mercury Marquis called “The Beast” in “Uncle Buck”
The tanker truck in Steven Spielberg’s “Duel”
“Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang”
The bus in “Speed”
The dog grooming van in “Dumb and Dumber”
The “Duce” in “American Grafitti”
The cars in “Days of Thunder”