Shockingly bad TV car mistakes....

[T89 Callan]

At the beginning of The Punisher, there is a chase and a guy is riding a motorbike, it's an older style cruiser type thing with either a big single or V-Twin (it's been a while since I saw it) but the noise has been dubbed over with the noise from a screaming Jap' Superbike.

Also during the motorbike bit in Mission Impossible 2 you can clearly see the susperbike tyres changing to Motorcross tyres wh on the sand.

Everything in Silver Dream Racer, especially David Essex that was a shocking mistake.

ETA: I have just realised that none of the above are TV or Car mistakes. sorry

Edited by T89 Callan on Thursday 7th January 14:02

[Fidgits]

Alfanatic said:

Almost any car crash. Particularly if it involves a pipe ramp or explosive charge.

In Car Classics (or something like that) on TV recently when the presenter did a feature on a Lamborghini Countach. She said it has a 5.2 litre V8.

Can't remember the movie or show, may have been Heroes. Anyway it had a modern Mercedes Benz locking up under braking. I can't remember what model it was but I'm 99.99999998% sure it would have had ABS.

comes down to editing/reshooting - sometimes they go back and film things later when the edit doesnt make sense - and they cant always/dont always get it spot on, usually because they are in a rush or dont check the details.

[ChapppeRS]

Yeah... why don't TV or Movie cars have ABS?

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telecat said:

Not as many Car mistakes as aircraft. Anybody ever flown the Atlantic on a 737??

You could though, newer variants have the range. Also now BA fly from London City to JFK and back in an A318, which is smaller than a 737. It's not completely implausible.

Better plane mistakes are classics like "it's stalled! Pull up!", screaming death dives when one engine fails, explosive decompression and of course inflatable autopilots.

Back on topic, I've always laughed at the tyre-screech effect whenever a car pulls away at moderate speed in a film.

[Le Mans Visitor]

When Knight Rider squeels its tyres when driven on sand or grass.

[OnTheOverrun]

Every American film ever made that has a car chase containing a car with a manual gearbox where the driver makes 15 up changes without a single downshift. . . . . .

Every film or TV drama made in cold weather where the car has allegedly been driven for miles but pulls up at the destination with plumes of white steam pouring out of the exhaust indicating it's just been started from cold. . . . . . .

[lockup]

OT: Film motorbike mistake
Terminator 2 when Jon Connor is trying to escape the Terminator on his crosser. The bike with a million gears!

[mat205125]

ChapppeRS said:

Yeah... why don't TV or Movie cars have ABS?

.... and what part of the TV and Movie Police driver training involves coming to a stop by yanking the handbrake whilst swerving towards dustbins?

[Accelebrate]

The way actors in murder mysteries always seem to manage to induce tyre squeal whilst stopping at a fairly sedate pace outside a suspects house. Tyre squeal on gravel is another good one.

[tvrolet]

telecat said:

Not as many Car mistakes as aircraft. Anybody ever flown the Atlantic on a 737??

Quite a few flight crew I'd have to assume - they don't ship 'em over here from Seattle in containers

And I have flown the Atlantic in a 707

[soxboy]

It's not a continuity error but it is something minor that I notice more and more and thus gets on my tits:

Every time someone remote locks or unlocks a car on TV the car makes a bleep noise. No car I've owned in the last 10 years has ever made that noise when being locked.

[CrisW]

I could never quite grasp how in Foy Your Eyes Only Bond in his tasty white Espirit had so much trouble evading Jaws and three other heavies (in both the figurative and literal sense) chasing him in a Granada. Perhaps the gearbox had failed and he was stick in second.

It also used to amuse me that the baddies would only have a crash if they were in a crap car. Anything half decent and they'd stop and try to escape on foot (invariably across the local waste-ground).

I could also mention entirely the wrong car being chosen for the character. Very few get it right, though I think Alan Partridge's (or even better Gareth Cheeseman) choices were spot on.

[Morningside]

I would never drive a TV/Film car. None of them seem to have airbags that go off.

[The Wookie]

soxboy said:

It's not a continuity error but it is something minor that I notice more and more and thus gets on my tits:

Every time someone remote locks or unlocks a car on TV the car makes a bleep noise. No car I've owned in the last 10 years has ever made that noise when being locked.

Er, two of my cars do, and another one of my Dad's does! Not the specific 'bwip bwip' that seems to be used 90% of the time in the filums, but still, they do bleep!

[Rollcage]

HereBeMonsters said:

Ozone said:

The Bond film Moonraker, where the car goes on to the near side 2 wheels to go down a narrow passage between buildings and comes out the other side on the offside 2 wheels - amazing!

Have you seen the DVD cut, where they inserted a scene where they steer across the alley to change sides?

[PedantMode]

Diamonds are Forever, actually!

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[anonymous-user]

djohnson said:

HereBeMonsters said:

Wasn't there an S reg Rover 600 in the latest series of Ashes to Ashes?

Indeed there was. I think it's in the final episode.

Yea, and it was very obviously on show. Funny how they left that in considering the lengths they went to try and keep everything authentic 80s.

[AdamW]

Carpie said:

Beefmeister said:

2) Woman loses control of a Smart car, coming off the road onto some leaves, bumping the front into a log. Car won't start, as steam is pouring from the front of the car. Hmmm, the rads and engine are at the back of a smart aren't they?

Rad on a smart roadster is at the front. Don't know about normal smarts.

Yep, at the front. I know this because I squashed the rad in my Smart and I was definitely going forwards during that impact...

[jamieboy]

The Wookie said:

soxboy said:

Every time someone remote locks or unlocks a car on TV the car makes a bleep noise. No car I've owned in the last 10 years has ever made that noise when being locked.

Er, two of my cars do, and another one of my Dad's does! Not the specific 'bwip bwip' that seems to be used 90% of the time in the filums, but still, they do bleep!

All three of mine do, two factory standard, the other with an elderly Clifford thing.

[red_rover]

jamieboy said:

The Wookie said:

soxboy said:

Every time someone remote locks or unlocks a car on TV the car makes a bleep noise. No car I've owned in the last 10 years has ever made that noise when being locked.

Er, two of my cars do, and another one of my Dad's does! Not the specific 'bwip bwip' that seems to be used 90% of the time in the filums, but still, they do bleep!

All three of mine do, two factory standard, the other with an elderly Clifford thing.

On Midsomer Murders - when John Nettles had a sucession of several Rover 75s - they all made bleeping noises.

However- I own and drive a 75 and have been to many Rover 75 meets. Not one has ever made a 'pleep pleep' noise when locking!

I also worked for a well known car hire company for nearly three years. I drove everything from a Chevvy Matiz to E-class Mercs. Not one car I ever drove made a pleeping noise when you locked it using the RCL system!

Edited by red_rover on Thursday 7th January 14:38

[red_rover]

But apart from the pleeping locking systems - one of the most annoying things is when they remove the head restraints!

You see people in say - a new Mondeo - with all the head restraints taken out. A bit later when you see the exterior - the head restraints are all back in.