What is your favorite auto movie or video?
 

Great thread--I look forward to more responses, but my favorite is Rush, by a mile.

LeMans.

Followed closely by Ronin.

Grand Prix...1966...Rush is also very good...

oon the lighter side... Days of Thunder had some good car and racing sequences, although the cars can only turn left...

Gone in 60 seconds

Great thread !

Vanishing point is a classic.
Death Proof is under rated, but good family fun.
Mad Max, Fury Road had the most effort put into the cars of all the series.

Top favorite if we are voting: Cannonball Run

I'm old enough to remember the classics, Lemans and Grand Prix, both injected the racing bug. But I also grew up with movies like

Spinout - Elvis
Corkey - Robert Blake in that Barracuda with superbird wing.
Smokey and the Bandit
Cannonball Run definitely a classic.
All the Fast and Furious, no matter how far out there

Rush is definitely the modern classic in a racing movie.

Cannon Ball Run for sure it has to be in the top ten. Two Lane Blacktop is one on my faves list with American Graffiti and Hollywood knights. Classic comedy.

Great thread. My vote goes to American Graffiti, Cannonball Run one and two, the original Smokey and the Bandit (two and three were terrible), and Hollywood Knights.

+1s to Cannonball Run and American Graffiti.

I thought Mad Max: Fury Road was among the worst movies I've ever seen, though. "Let's drive to the middle of the desert... oh, let's turn around and go back."

Grand Prix
Le Mans
Senna

Le Mans
Grand Prix

Mark great video to watch

but apparently he did it in a 6.9L merc & overdubbed the Ferrari

still the father of all car videos & just amazing nerve

Graeme

After watching it, as I don't think I'd ever seen it, I was dumbstuck at how fake it seemed. That car was maybe doing 80 at the most in some spots, and far less most of the time. The overtaking speeds were down right slow, the static street environ passed, slow, you have a Ferrari running 5000rpm in 5th gear and there's no way that car was doing anywhere near the speeds associated with the soundtrack. Having driven like a douce my whole life, it wasn't even close. Yea, he ran a lot of red lights, most of them at any real speed had wide open sight lines, the ones in the narrow streets are at far lower speeds. Although, it did sound good, it did "look" good, it was exciting, it just wasn't close to real.

Then I watched the how to video and I think he still played it up to be more than it actually was.

I just saw "ts a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and was amazed by the stunt driving in the moving made in 1962 using old cars and little safety measures

No love for the Blue Brothers?

For a 3min video, this one was and still is one of my all time favorites even tho it's grainy by todays standards. Inspired me when I was making my own racing videos (SCCA rally and NASA CMC).

I was big into NASCAR a few years after that came out. Hated the continuity errors. Close up of dirty bashed up cars swerving, next shot was wide, clean cars 'real' racing. I thought Talladega Nights was 10x better in that aspect. Though they all have the "want to go faster? Just SHIFT!" nonsense.

THIS short clip :
"just watch this for a breathtaking display of forceful driving"

Movies: Le Mans, Vanishing Point (71), Bullit, each on it's own rights...

Thomas

How about the Charlie Sheen movie "The Wraith" VelocityAPs DB9 SuperSport exhaust has a low end tone almost just like the Wraith sound.

Another Charlie Sheen Movie about 911's being stolen was "No Mans Land"

For me it has to be, of course, Cannonball Run, as it's autobiographical since I drove in the original Cannonball race on which the film was based. Burt Reynolds played my character! By the way, the real race was way more exciting than the movie.

Best car movie, ever...
 

All those are decent, but without a doubt, the best car movie ever filmed is: Gone In 60 Seconds
Not the lame Nick Cage knockoff, the real, original movie. Written, directed and starred in by the infamous H.B. Halicki.

The cast of significant cars involved has never been matched, not even close.

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