Top 10 Coolest Movie Cars

I love car movies and I really, really love movie cars. I love the exaggerated sounds their engines and squealing tires make. They accomplish impossible stunts and chases. This list is dedicated to best of them. These are all "real cars" so you won't find any cartoons, Speed Racer Mach 5's, or Batmobiles. Clearly, all of the cars on this list do completely unrealistic stunts, that is what makes movie cars so fun. So spin the tires and light the fires, here's my top 10:

10. 2005 Audi A8 W12 Quattro, The Transporter 2&3. A package to be delivered, a beautiful car, a British accent, and a small set of rules. This Audi is not an over-the-top sports car but rather finese, sophistication, and an insane amount of power. This car kicks your butt and does it with class.

9. 1994 Toyota Supra, The Fast and Furious. This car is everything that the above mentioned car isn't. Bright orange paint, dinner table sized rear spoiler, and enough turbo boost to propel most NASA spacecraft, and of course, those ugly "Trojan Man" stickers on the sides. Like Vin Diesel, this car is ugly, in your face, and is powerful enough to scare you. The movie was ridiculous yet fun to watch, in spite of having more neon lighting than the Vegas Strip and deeply philosophical lines such as "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time."

8. 1969 Dodge Charger R/T,The Dukes of Hazzard. Its amazing what a great car and a pair of short shorts can do to an otherwise terrible movie. "General Lee" is a southern bred, ditch jumping, automotive icon. Functional door handles not included (or necessary).

7. 1958 Plymouth Fury, Christine. Only in the mind of Stephen King. Christine is a self restoring murdering car with a vendetta for blood and vengeance. The bright red paint and shiny chrome makes her so irresistible. While many of these cars are "bad", this one is just plain evil.

6. 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT, Mad Max. It's a big, ugly cop car searching for oil and gunning down motorcyclists. And a pissed off Mel Gibson behind the wheel. What's not to love?

5. 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390, Bullitt. This is the car that invented chase scenes. The Charger in pursuit wasn't bad, but it was this Mustang that everyone still talks about. The streets of San Francisco were never the same after this car tore up Lombard. This is the only car as cool and iconic as it's driver, Steve McQueen.

4. 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500, Gone in 60 Seconds. "Eleanor." This car converted my generation to classic Mustangs. This movie starred Angelina Jolie yet we all lusted over Eleanor. It was not just a car, it was the Holy Grail among 49 other classics and exotics. The ambulance jump and outrunning a helicopter was a little extreme, but it let us know that this was not a car to be reckoned with.

3. 1961 Ferrari 250 GT, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Yeah, yeah, we know it is a kit car, but it is so incredibly sexy and forbidden. Ferris highly recommends anyone with the means to pick one up, and I wish I was one of those select few.

2. 1964 Aston Martin DB5, Goldfinger and several other Bond films. This is what James Bond is all about- timeless good looks, strength, and hidden missile launchers. I would bet on this car with Sean Connery at wheel in a road race against any other car on this list. I'd ride shotgun except for the passenger eject seat.

1. 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, Back to the Future. The ultimate hybrid- it ran on gasoline and plutonium. With gull wing doors and a flux capacitor anything is possible, including time travel at 88 mph and 1.21 gigawatts! This car eventually could fly and run on garbage.


Bonus:

Top 5 Worst Movie Cars
5. BMW Z3, Goldeneye- Its not that this is a bad car, its just that it lacks the swagger and sophistication of being a "Bond Car." This is the outcast in the impeccable list of timeless, powerful exotic cars assigned to 007. Its like casting Denise Richards as a Bond Girl, which they also happened to do.




4. 1963 VW Beetle, Herbie: Fully Loaded. This car was painfully annoying, but at least not as much as Lindsay Lohan. They both needed to be slapped. The old Herbie from the 70's was fun and had a great personality. He was a race car and he made car movies. This was not a car movie, and this car was not fun to watch.




3. 1959 Cadillac Ambulance, Ghostbusters. I really struggled with this car. I have been talking myself out of putting this on the 10 coolest list because it is so big, ugly, and slow. I would not want to drive it. Yet it remains so undeniably cool at the same time. Ecto-1 was loaded down with equipment, lights, oversized fenders, and trapped goblins in tow.

2. 1976 AMC Pacer, Wayne's World. This car, like Garth, tries so hard to be cool. Head banging and Queen played at loud volumes included.





1. 1984 Ford Econoline, Dumb and Dumber. The shaggin' wagon. I've seen a lot of company cars, but this is the only one worthy of Harry and Lloyd.