Pajiba

Someone needs to write a Pajiba movie, so the MurderTank can take the number one spot.

I will be played by a heavily medicated Ben Foster. Minimus will be portrayed by a Hillshire Farms smoked ham and a googly-eye.

*drooling over the Trans Am* Sooooo pretty

This list starts and ends with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Thast is all.

Stuntman Mike's '70 Nova from "Death Proof." Bad-ass.

I'd toss a nod to the A-Team's van and the Zombie Van from Dawn of the Dead...

Max Rockatansky's V-8 Interceptor.

Is it wrong to love the Bluesmobile? Maybe it's just nostalgia taking over my good sense and taste. I had a bomber like that, a slant-6 with rust all over it that kicked the snot out of beemers and 'vettes from standing starts. It used to get airborne once in a while too.

Mad Max's Ford Falcon interceptor?

Harold's jaguar hearse?

Ooooh, Harold's Jaguar. Good call, Some Guy.

Steve McQueen's Shelby GT350 from Bullitt

That is a fucking car.

Don't know if the Bond cars would actually count. Every movie he has a different one, and while they are awesome cars, I don't think any of them is particularly memorable. To me, anyway.

Because the General Lee deserves recognition, how about the top 5 cars in TV history?

1. General Lee
2. KITT (the original)
3. The Starsky & Hutch car
4. CHiPs motorcycles (ok, not a car, but....)
5. ATeam Van

The GT500 from the remake of Gone in 60 Sec. is a bad mutha fucka too .

I dont even like mustangs but those are 2 of the finest cars ever built for the screen .

You should make one for sweet rides in cinematic history if they existed in their entirety (you know shooting missiles, talking, riding upside down in congested traffic tunnels.)

It would definitely need Kitt, the car from Men in Black and the awesome taxi from Fifth Element.

Ahem, the choppers in Easy Rider.

And....Pee-Wee Hermans bike. That shit was tight.

Steve McQueen's Shelby GT350 from Bullitt
That is a fucking car.

High-fucking-five, gilp. It would be number one on a real rides-in-cinema list.

The Studebaker from The Muppet Movie. AFTER Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem get their hands on it.

I know shit about cars, and I used to work at a dealership. When someone asks me what car I drive I say "A dented blue one."

Hazard*. Some jazz probably would've classed up the joint, though.

Thank you to whomever mentioned Bullit. For a moment, I thought I might have to burn down the house...

glip you are the man/woman/commenter/dawg.

Suzanne Somers' white Ford Thunderbird from American Graffiti. One day I will own the updated version of that car.

That is all.

Hello? Eleanor? The '67 Shelby GT500 from "Gone in 60 Seconds?" That is the coolest effing car EVER! Sleek, sexy, fast, vintage--I pleasure myself to thoughts of that car.

Also, the '49 Buick Roadmaster convertible from "Mulholland Falls." Shitty movie, great car.

And I'm totally with everybody who mentioned the car in the Blues Brothers, which in fact isn't the Bluesmobile, because that got traded in by Elwood (for a microphone)

The Cadillac Ambulance in Ghostbusters

Ambulance? It's a hearse. That's half the hilarity of the ectomobile.

It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

Sorry, just had to.

I'm not really into cars... Andy's bike from 40 Year Old Virgin? I have to admit, by the end of that movie I had an inexplicable crush on Steve Carrell.

The tank from Tank Girl. It can use beer as ammunition and you can barbeque on it.

but Bale's ride is a big, ugly, hulking tank. granted it is bad ass, but cool??

Of course it is. The Burton Batmobile can obviously not go fast without having its fiberglass shell catch the wind and fly right off of it, plus it's mostly shot on tight backlot streets doing around 20 mph. The Tumbler took the Frank Miller DKR Batmobile and made it into a sports car as much as humanly possible. It's a real vehicle and can haul ass.

It is not ugly.

And how about some love for the Mach 5, huh?

by the end of that movie I had an inexplicable crush on Steve Carrell.

Not inexplicable. Totally, completely, understandable. I'm a little bit sad that I can't ever marry him.

That's it, I'm changing my stripper name to Truly Scrumptious. "Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, our fine four-fendered friend!" I'll take it filled with Toot Sweets, please. You can keep Grandpa and the outhouse.

Back when the American Graffiti came out, I wanted the piss yellow coupe.

No Pussywagon?? What about the van from Napoleon Dynamite? The wicked AMC Pacer from Wayne's World?! The metallic pea Wagon Queen Family Truckster from Nationa Lampoon's Vacation!!

Pshh. Shenanigans.

Pricilla, Queen of the Desert.

Bullitt did not drive a Shelby, it was a plain Mustang.

I would trade Christine for Herbie because I think Herbie is the more iconic car-with-its-own-mind.

I don't particularly care for the latest Batmobile.

How about the Alfa Romeo Spider from The Graduate? Like the Bullitt Mustang it actually inspired a special edition.

Or what about BigFoot from Take this Job and Shove It?

Second the Bond Aston, Family Truckster, and the Bluesmobile.

And for the old farts, how about the Barbeau-stuffed Lambo from The Cannonball Run?

Are we doing dishonorable mentions? (Snarky reviews. Bitchy people. Seems like a fit.)

For the most crap-tastic ride in cinematic history I propose . . .

The giant spider in Wild Wild West. Not only did it suck rocks out loud, but how (oh how) do you make a freaking steam-punk, giant mechanical spider with cannons boring and lame? Suck amplified by the suckitude of what might have been.

No love for the Mystery Machine? The Gadget-mobile? OK then, how about Lara Croft's Jeep Rubicon in Tomb Raider?

Had me a '75 Fury once, metallic green, bought it at a state auction in Harrisburg for, like, $1,200 and lost it in the great '85 Flood (cool band name too) in Va./W.Va. Think it was well over 100,000 by then and who knows how long it would have held out? It was all beat up on the outside and torn up on the inside, and it had no air or anything else cool. But one of the proudest days of my life was when I had the thing in a garage for some work (inspection or something) and as I was reading a magazine I was watching the mechanic. He looked at the engine, looked at the odometer, shook his head, came over to me smiling and said:

"You just can't kill that slant-6 engine."

Turns out you could, but it took eight feet of water.

Damn it, what about the Alfa Romeo Spider Dustin Hoffman drove in The Graduate (known for the song 'Hey Mrs. Robinson' by Simon and Garfunkel)?

I also agree that Steve McQueen's Mustang was awesome, but I'd prefer to see Barry Newman's Dodge Challenger from Vanishing Point.

And please, no Bond cars? Either the Lotus Espirit from The Spy Who Loved Me or the Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger should have made the list :)

How'd we miss the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle?!?

This list... she is strange. Can I say that no vehicle on it did not deserve it? Certainly. Yet it is strangely lacking.

Fegh.

I see no Mad Max car (last of the V fucking 12's....), fake as that shit was.

I do not see the Mystery Machine.

I do not see the RV from Stripes...

What sort of list is this?

I want the car from Death Race and the Transport's ride.

I want more.

You, sir, are fired. Good Day.

I said...

But only if it comes with the bag of marshmallows in the visor. That's what really ties it all together.

Bullitt's 67 Mustang without an effing doubt... would leave the bandit pissing all over the trans am's interior, and also would like to give another vote to mad max's falcon, if only because parts of the movie were filmed nearby...

"My Mother, The Car"

The Addams Family limo, with Lurch up front!

Good point No Longer Bucdaddy, there's all sorts of shit that's not a car but is a ride. I nominate the Super Star Destroyer from Empire.

Slower Slower, I would blow all the money I have on a stripper named Truly Scrumptious.

Where is Kowalski's Challenger from "Vanishing Point"??!!??

In a futile effort to rebut the testosterone fueled fantasies of all you macho Vin Diesel wanna-be maniacs, might I nominate the ill-fated '66 Thunderbird of Thelma and Louise? No turbocharger, no ejector seat, no snazzy paint job - just one cool final ride.

Sorry Guys... Some damn sweet cars mentioned but the baddest ride in cinema was the BLACK AND CHROME 1970 426 HEMI CUDA CONVERTIBLE from "PHANTASM" I defy anyone to top that!

"...I don’t know dick about cars..."

No 'Bullitt,' no 'Two Lane Blacktop,' no 'Vanishing Point,' no films of pre-1980 vintage but 'Smokey and the Bandit'...

Judging by this list, you don't know dick about movies, either.

The cudas in Phantasm(movies I've never seen) were 318s/340s made to look like something better.

http://www.angelfire.com/id/newssection/Cuda2.html

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_5088-Plymouth--Cuda-1971.html

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http://www.imcdb.org

Neato site.

Custom E38 750iL with a stick for Transporter(sometimes mistakenly claimed to be a 735iL because...I think it's a line in the movie). It's a 1999 E38 750iL which has a manual and a V12, one of two built this way, supposedly from the factory. That I've never heard as being conclusive though as many people have dropped the 6 speed manual into 750s.

And...what's not to love about the A8L W12 in 2&3?
The only stupid thing is he drives the AUTO stick shift in the W12 like it's a true manual...it's not.

Those are both sweet rides.

Lookit, you can't pick 6 sweet rides in cinematic history...try 60, or better yet 100.

And...technically .... "sweet rides"...that opens up a whole 'nother...line of diversion...

Reese Witherspoon in Fear is a sweet ride.

So is Amy Smart in Road Trip and....

This list could get very long...