Most inappropriate car in a TV Series / film?
Most inappropriate car in a TV Series / film?
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gmaz

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5,220 posts

235 months

Monday 16th March
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As this is the TV & Film section of a motoring forum, what is the most inappropriate car you have seen on screen?

Examples

ItvX - Gone - The female cop had an '02 Honda which would not be CAZ compliant in Bristol. Most of the cars on there seemed to be from the late '90's or early 2000's despite the show being set in the modern day.

Sky - Under Salt Marsh - Female lead had a classic Saab 900 in an area regularly blasted by sea water and storms. Car looked in excellent condition.

BBC - Lynley - A Jensen Interceptor - such a practical city runabout. Let's hope the local Police commissioner approves his All-Star fuel card.

General
- Cars are nearly always spotlessly clean (except for the single strand of fibre in the boot from the victim's jumper)
- Way too many Saabs
- Don't get me started on Morse and Bergerac



toon10

7,061 posts

182 months

Monday 16th March
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Spender driving a Sierra Cosworth. One of the most stolen cars of the era and he's investigating criminals in some of the roughest areas of Newcastle.

WPA

14,034 posts

139 months

Monday 16th March
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toon10 said:
Spender driving a Sierra Cosworth. One of the most stolen cars of the era and he's investigating criminals in some of the roughest areas of Newcastle.
And during filming the original 2wd Cosworth was stolen and burnt out

2172cc

1,769 posts

122 months

Monday 16th March
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Bergerac Triumph

Huzzah

28,707 posts

208 months

Monday 16th March
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'Fire up the quattro'

Really? On a coppers salary?

Mammasaid

5,360 posts

122 months

Monday 16th March
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gmaz said:
BBC - Lynley - A Jensen Interceptor - such a practical city runabout. Let's hope the local Police commissioner approves his All-Star fuel card.
Lynley was a member of the landed gentry, so not much of a stretch for him to have a car handed down the generations.

coldel

10,196 posts

171 months

Monday 16th March
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Any American cop series/movie set in the 1980s/1990s where the cop was a down beat low level nobody who could barely afford to feed/clothe himself but always found enough working capital to own a top of the range mustang/corvette as his go to work car

P-Jay

11,296 posts

216 months

Monday 16th March
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Huzzah said:
'Fire up the quattro'

Really? On a coppers salary?
He was a DCI, £70k a year or so (on todays pay scale) and he lived a simple life, he ate Spagetti Hoops for Tea!

That and of course he was an Angel, or The Grim Reaper, I can't remember exactly, but something like that.

C5_Steve

7,916 posts

128 months

Monday 16th March
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Should realistically have only made it to half the crime scenes biggrin

Edited by C5_Steve on Monday 16th March 16:06

Doofus

33,461 posts

198 months

Monday 16th March
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P-Jay said:
Huzzah said:
'Fire up the quattro'

Really? On a coppers salary?
He was a DCI, £70k a year or so (on todays pay scale) and he lived a simple life, he ate Spagetti Hoops for Tea!

That and of course he was an Angel, or The Grim Reaper, I can't remember exactly, but something like that.
Let's not forget that it was a Quattro from the future.

Richard-390a0

3,319 posts

116 months

Monday 16th March
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Possibly this Reliant?


WPA

14,034 posts

139 months

Monday 16th March
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Doofus said:
P-Jay said:
Huzzah said:
'Fire up the quattro'

Really? On a coppers salary?
He was a DCI, £70k a year or so (on todays pay scale) and he lived a simple life, he ate Spagetti Hoops for Tea!

That and of course he was an Angel, or The Grim Reaper, I can't remember exactly, but something like that.
Let's not forget that it was a Quattro from the future.
How much would a UR quattro have cost in 1982 as I guess they would have been special order then

(Respect it was a later car on false plates)

unzippy

255 posts

263 months

Monday 16th March
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Doofus said:
P-Jay said:
Huzzah said:
'Fire up the quattro'

Really? On a coppers salary?
He was a DCI, £70k a year or so (on todays pay scale) and he lived a simple life, he ate Spagetti Hoops for Tea!

That and of course he was an Angel, or The Grim Reaper, I can't remember exactly, but something like that.
Let's not forget that it was a Quattro from the future.
Definitely his, not a job car?

superpp

537 posts

223 months

Monday 16th March
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Got to be that VW Beetle in the Herbie films, no way would it have won those races :-)

DoctorX

8,066 posts

192 months

Monday 16th March
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The original opening titles for The Professionals had them all screeching to a halt in a Silver Shadow for a bit of training . Always thought that was a strange choice for a police vehicle.

Skii

1,906 posts

216 months

Monday 16th March
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Richard-390a0 said:
Possibly this Reliant?

along with the most innapropiate actor to play a German Officer..

C5_Steve

7,916 posts

128 months

Monday 16th March
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This car chase from Goldeneye bothers me more than it should. DB5 should have been left way behind.


coldel

10,196 posts

171 months

Monday 16th March
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Richard-390a0 said:
Possibly this Reliant?

There was a white car in the background during a horse charge in Braveheart as I remember

Mammasaid

5,360 posts

122 months

Monday 16th March
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Richard-390a0 said:
Possibly this Reliant?

Rodney, you plonker!


DodgyGeezer

47,159 posts

215 months

Monday 16th March
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What about:

The Persuader
Jason King
(Possibly) Hart to Hart
Hardcastle & McCormick