Non Car films with pretty decent cars?

[couzens]

Recently watched Dancing Queen which stared Rik Mayall, Martin Clunes and Helena Bonham Carter.

Clunes drives about in a 205 Gti and Mayall a TVR Griffith which ends up being driven along Scarborough beach at the end.

This has made me wonder if there's any other non car/action films out there that use unusually cool cars?

A definite PH director I think!

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_106656-Dancing-Queen.ht...

[Moonhawk]

Honey I blew up the kid featured a Lotus Elan M100. It's the only movie I have seen that had that car in it.

And who can forget the opening sequence of Pretty Woman with the Lotus Esprit.

[soad]

Swordfish?

[Dr Jekyll]

Gattaca. A futuristic world where the heroine has a Citroen DS and the police patrol in Rover P6s.

[HTP99]

There was an British post apocolyptical futuristic film with an Avantime converted into 4 doors; can't remember the film though?

[couzens]

HTP99 said:

There was an British post apocolyptical futuristic film with an Avantime converted into 4 doors; can't remember the film though?

Children of men? Cracking film!

[Morningside]

Phantasm (where my username comes from).

[drivin_me_nuts]

National lampoons European vacation.

[Gretchen]

Dr Jekyll said:

Gattaca. A futuristic world where the heroine has a Citroen DS and the police patrol in Rover P6s.

I re-watched this a couple of nights ago with my boys as they like Sci-Fi and thought they'd enjoy (which they did) one of them commented on the cars as he knows I love the P6. We were discussing how it was cool they'd used classics but converted them to electric? Re-chargeable vehicles.

[viscountdallara]

OP..
Interesting username.. This happens to be my Grandparents surname. Any links to to Tottenham in the early 1900s ?

[belleair302]

I was watching The Business on Sky recently. For a low budget (£2 million) film they had some fun cars which showed life in the early 1980's well.

Bad Boys has the Porsche 964 Turbo and the AC Cobra.

[StuntmanMike]

couzens said:

Recently watched Dancing Queen which stared Rik Mayall, Martin Clunes and Helena Bonham Carter.

Clunes drives about in a 205 Gti and Mayall a TVR Griffith which ends up being driven along Scarborough beach at the end.

This has made me wonder if there's any other non car/action films out there that use unusually cool cars?

A definite PH director I think!

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_106656-Dancing-Queen.ht...

Read a book by Rik Mayall a few years ago, in it he said all he wanted to do when he was young was earn enough to buy a green RS3100.
Very sad day for me when he died.

[StuntmanMike]

drivin_me_nuts said:

National lampoons European vacation.

Was that the one where they couldn't get off the roundabout in that Maxi?

[vrsmxtb]

Mk1 Mx5 in Looper.

[AshVX220]

Rain man, in the beggining Tom Cruise is at a dock watching his stock of Lambo Countach's being unloaded.

[SpudLink]

In The Man Who Haunted Himself, Roger Moore plays a character with two personalities, one of which drives a Lamborghini Islero.

[Blib]

A Star is Born with Streisand and Kristofferson had an original Ferrari Daytona Spyder, which is crashed and totalled in the film. In fact, the car had previously been involved in a wreck that had severely damaged the chassis. It was bought specifically to be crashed once more, this time on screen.

[SpudLink]

In The Man Who Haunted Himself, Roger Moore plays a character with two personalities, one of which drives a Lamborghini Islero.

[Dr Jekyll]

SpudLink said:

In The Man Who Haunted Himself, Roger Moore plays a character with two personalities, one of which drives a Lamborghini Islero.

And the other drives a Rover P5. Actually 2 as the first one gets written off in a crash on the M4 in West London. Interesting fact, the director of the film was killed in a car crash on the M4 in West London. Don't know the make of car though.

Edited by Dr Jekyll on Tuesday 7th July 18:07

[Pickled]

AshVX220 said:

Rain man, in the beggining Tom Cruise is at a dock watching his stock of Lambo Countach's being unloaded.

And drives a Ferrari 400.