First T-1000 appearance, he kills the cop and kneels by him to pick up his gun, and his nutsack is visible in that shot in the older versions of the movie.
In the audio commentary for the movie, Robert Patrick explains that scene was shot by some passenger rail lines, and one train happened to pass by during filming. Robert, butt-ass naked, stood straight up and waved to the passengers.
T3 gets way too much hate. It neatly answers the time paradox of why Terminators are still appearing from an alternate future timeline if that timeline were prevented by T2. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty fun, action-packed movie that respects its own universe and lore.
Vehicles all play a nice little metaphor in this film. John on his nimble little dirt bike versus the hulking freighter beast of a diesel truck that comes after him.
Arnold and outdated T model who’s already been beat to hell trying to outrun the more advanced more dynamic and faster helicopter.
Mine too! The climbing sequence at the end is hair raising. Really shows that Moore could turn in an excellent and serious performance too.
I gotta say, the 12 year old boy in me still loves Moonraker too…
Big fan of this movie. After a couple of "mad genius builds huge complex in order to destroy all of humanity" outings, FYEO feels so grounded and realistic. I mean, retrieving a lost coding device before someone else does seems like an actual mission on which to send a MI6 agent.
Apparently they wanted to get away from ever more elaborate gadgets.
But I have to wonder if the use of the 2CV was inspired or an hommage to the Louis de Funès "Les Gendarmes"-movies where "Sœur Clotilde" makes a frequent appearance to give chase in a 2CV.
That’s a damn good one. One of my other favorites is the chase in the Seven-Ups. Two off-the-lot Pontiacs in one of the best chase scenes ever put on film.
104 cars wrecked in that movie. Mostly police cars. But the climax was a chase between the Bluesmobile and a suburban station wagon and a Pinto.
The Pinto got exactly what was coming to it.
I bought a Mini Cooper a few years back, and had this conversation.
**Dealer:** And here's a little gift package we give out to new buyers. Has a Mini keychain, Mini air freshener, Mini fridge magnet, *Italian Job* Blu-ray...
**Me:** Wait, what was that last one?
**Dealer:** Fridge magnet?
I'm 100% serious, they gave me a copy of *The Italian Job* with my car.
Been a long time since I watched the original, but didn't they E-Type Jags for the getaway, but the mafia destroyed them all on a mountain pass so they resorted to using the mini's?
Obligatory; *you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"*
My hazy recollection was that they had several high end sports cars they flashily drove that the mafia pushed off the winding mountain road with a front end loader, but that was all misdirection and the plan was to use the Minis all along.
In Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, they start off in a BMW but then shift into a Fiat: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2cHsEgCTE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2cHsEgCTE)
The Blues Brothers have multiple car chases in their Dodge Monaco: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI)
The Morocco chase in rogue nation is also great, even though the main car is a bmw, ving rhames and jeremy renner are in a very impractical safari looking car
Dead Reckoning was the first that came to mind too. Of course, everyone knows that a Fiat 500 is infinitely cooler than any BMW, but that's a different conversation.
In What's Up Doc the climactic car chase is with Ryan O'Neil and Barbra Streisand in a Volkswagen Bug. It ends up floating in the San Francisco Bay, which is an homage to a famous ad.
I was going to bring up this film, glad you mentioned it. I recall one of the vehicles in that scene was a camper van that literally looked like a log cabin, like with wood siding or whatever.
This was gonna be my response. Recognizable, slightly futured-up European family cars. Completely ordinary cars that bring that dystopian future so close to today.
When that opening scene happens and they walk past all those cool cars to the impala i instantly knew this movie was going to be something special. One of my favorite movies ever
Wait...the lead character's dead? The film's not over yet!
One of my all-time favourites. I especially love that Friedkin did NOT want Wang Chung to title a song after the movie but when he heard [the song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4x36XKhsM)...
One of the craziest scenes ever filmed for a studio production. They *didn't have licenses* to race a NYC subway train in the middle of Brooklyn so they bribed a NYC transit official with $40,000 and a one way ticket to Jamaica.
https://screenrant.com/french-connection-car-chase-filming-explained/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/french-connection-william-friedkin-recalls-936506/
This car chase is absolutely worth a watch on YouTube.
This is my favorite answer.
Yes, car nerds are gonna think those cars are cool. The movie really presents them as just average European cars in the context of the film. No fancy tires or body kits, nothing particularly cool about them.
Plus it's one of the best car chases in film history.
The Audi S8 was mentioned in the movie as a fast yet nondescript sedan. True in real life as well. It's cool.
The Mercedes SEL is one of the original sleeper cars. The one featured in Ronin had a monstrous 6.9 liter V8. That was a 4 door sedan that could out accelerate Ferraris. Cool car.
The other cars, nah they were never cool
Came to the thread for this answer, anticipated the arguments. Was not disappointed. Top 3 to 5 car chases of all time depending on who you ask. Those cars do not look ‘cool.’ They aren’t sporty flashy chase cars. The cars don’t steal the show - the absolute bonkers chase scene steals the show. Deniro and Reno and the whole cast are just bouncing around while these modest looking cars are doing the most insane twists and turns you will ever see.
Everything is second fiddle to the chase.
Yah, the MINI chase was the first one that came to mind because it’s specifically insinuated that the car is not in good condition. Then the taxi chase too.
When I'm being a goof and getting ready to drive, I'll sometimes turn to my gf and say "do you put air in the tires? Felt a little splashy on the way over here". I always get the most satisfying eyeroll.
These are comedies but they use this trope to great extent, and the chase scenes are still quite well choreographed and shot.
21 Jump Street: undercover cops (Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill) give chase to a drug-dealing motorcycle gang, first in a Driver's Ed Hyundai Accent with dual controls, and then commandeering a pink 90s Volkswagen Beetle. The finale of the movie also includes a chase in a stretch limo.
22 Jump Street: the cops flee a drug dealer across a college campus in a football-helmet-shaped electric golf cart. Later in the movie, Hill's character tries to commandeer a Lamborghini during a chase, but struggles with its manual transmission.
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA = culminates with Chance (William Petersen) driving the wrong way on the freeway to evade capture.
THE BOURNE SUPREMACY = final car chase into the Moscow tunnels where Bourne is driving a stolen Russian cab
DRIVE = the escape from the pawn shop robbery
One of the all time best car chases, with spectacular stunt driving, is in the movie [Short Time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIZdhoJmY4) No fancy cars, just great driving.
Maybe the most famous (or at least difficult) Bond jump was in an AMC hornet, of all cars. The corkscrew/barrel roll over the river in Man with the Golden Gun.
*Terminator 2*.
The T-1000 is chasing Ahnold and the Connors in an 18-wheeler. Already mid.
They’re driving a POS pickup that looks like a 1981 POS GMC C-3500 after the chicken coop on the back falls off.
“I could get out and push faster than this!”
> This is the vehicle’s top speed.
*Jade* has one of my favorite car chaces. It involves a black early 90's meh Ford Thunderbird being chased by an even more meh silver Ford Taurus. The Taurus didn't seem out-of-place, as the non-descript car was being driven by a detective who probably is meant to blend in a little, the black Thunderbird (a big-engined luxury-ish coupe) was being driven by a "baddie", so that kinda makes sense sense. It didn't feel like product placement in the moment, but in retrospect, both being Fords probably was a purposeful marketing decision if I had to guess.
Trigger warning: the scene starts with a woman basically getting assassinated by the baddie first ramming into her, then running over her. This link SHOULD take you to 1:01, which is immediately past the initial violence, but note that there is a portion later in the char chase that goes through a parade, and there are some shots of people lying in the street.
[https://youtu.be/WbJ2p0l1npc?si=1We9QUCrd8qwrRfG&t=61](https://youtu.be/WbJ2p0l1npc?si=1We9QUCrd8qwrRfG&t=61)
The Raid 2 has an incredible car chase scene with boring black sedans and a generic SUV, well worth finding on YouTube (or better het watch the whole movie)
One was a monstrous Audi S8. And the driver mentions dropping a NOS into it. But that was the whole point. The S8 looked like a boring sedan with a few discreet badges on it.
Fiat 500.
Fun fact, whenever you see a 500 in a movie there's like a 99% chance it's going to be yellow, [and this is why](https://youtu.be/LTOJZiDv1Uk). Super influential car chase from Miyazaki's first film, been shouted out to dozens of times, including that MI chase.
Spielberg has called it the greatest car chase ever.
Ronin.
Seriously, that flick is underrated.
Great cast and incredible direction.
The car chases in that film are amazing to watch, and the vehicles are not flashy nonsense.
Ronin is the GOT.
Don't they do something like this in the most recent Mission Impossible movie? I thought I remember some car chase scene in a movie from the last year or so that was kind of silly like that.
Ok. At the end of the movie Busting (1974) there is a car chase scene with two hospital hearses. High speed, bashing into stuff, catching air, people dodging out of the way... The context made sense because a bust went down at a hospital and the kingpin played by Allen Garfield escaped by jumping into one. Leaving the pursuing vice cops played by Robert Blake and Elliot Gould to give Chase in another one.
I don't remember thinking about product placement or buying hearse.
The car chase in ‘The Man Who Knew Too little’ might qualify. I mean the old Mini Cooper is kind of cool but the rest of the cars, not so much. https://youtu.be/56vtwcV0Kj4?si=R8evpnIyYE_3Z_Vi
A lot of these answers have amazing chase scenes with actually cool cars
It's like I could mention that Back To The Future had a scene involving an old West train with a broken piece of shit DeLorean strapped to it and a little girl's skateboard with no wheels and my post would fit right in
Roger Moore has a few of those during his 007 years. In "For your eyes only" he rans from some bad guys in a Citroën 2CV, and in "A view to a kill" he chases an assassin in a parachute from a Renault 11.
The choice of "uncool" cars in chase scenes can add a layer of realism and unexpectedness to the action. One example that comes to mind is the 1994 film "Speed." The bus isn't an "uncool" vehicle. It's not a sports car or a sleek sedan. The tension in that movie doesn't come from the bus itself but from the situation and the characters involved. Another example is the 2007 film "Hot Fuzz." In one of the chase scenes, Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) drives a humble Vauxhall Nova. The choice of this car is intentional because it contrasts with the high-speed pursuit and adds a comedic element to the scene. The vehicle choice makes sense in the context of the movie's tone and plot. As for when a car in a chase scene feels like product placement, it often depends on how the brand is featured and whether it feels natural within the story. If a specific car brand is highlighted or if the camera lingers on the logo, it can start to feel like an advertisement rather than an organic part of the scene.
Opening scene is in an STI, which is definitely cool.
End scene is a police charger and a hellcat, which are also definitely cool.
There's a cool purple Chevy caprice in the middle too, as well as a Mark V that does not get into a chase.
Baby Driver is loaded with cool cars.
I drove a 1985 grand fury for a while ( got it with 43k OG miles and it was a tiny beast ) and I can’t help but notice them now when I watch 80s and 90s movies, they along with the LTD and a few others were always the cop cars that got crashed. I think Ghostbusters features some as well as die hard, lethal weapon, and a few I can’t think of. Mabey Heat.
Short Time, 90s movie, comedy where a guy gets the wrong blood test sent back and thinks he's got days to live.
I remember it because of the car chase and it was awesome (well at least in my head) 😀
Basically all of Jackie Chan's oeuvre in the '80s and '90s after Mitsubishi started sponsoring his films. You had him doing wild chase after wild chase in the latest Mitsubishi cars of the era and not always the hot stuff either. My favorite is still him using a basic FTO to chase down a Skyline GT-R, one of the hottest cars of the '90s, in the *Thunderbolt* film.
For a different take, the film *Rush* has Niki Lauda chasing Marlene's approval in a Lancia sedan.
that scene in bourne was great, and i feel like movies set in continental europe (esp. eastern europe) often hade realistic cars like that. spy movies esp perhaps ... because the characters simply wouldn't own an exotic or even halfway decent car. i think normal cars are sorely lacking in film. and dirty cars. most movie cars are way too clean. a 10-year-old mazda that hasn't been cleaned in 3 months - that's what i want to see in a car chase next time around.
Terminator 2 the freeway chase and the little tin can pick up truck.
my dad *still* points out to this day that the front drivers side window pops out in a shot before the T1000 knocks out with his hand
That’s been edited out in the remaster. Along with T1000s scrotum shot.
Can you fill me in on the scrotum shot? I wanna see some robo junk
First T-1000 appearance, he kills the cop and kneels by him to pick up his gun, and his nutsack is visible in that shot in the older versions of the movie.
In the audio commentary for the movie, Robert Patrick explains that scene was shot by some passenger rail lines, and one train happened to pass by during filming. Robert, butt-ass naked, stood straight up and waved to the passengers.
Got it. I guess my search history tonight is gonna be **weird** Edit: https://youtu.be/EiDnqKKjFhM?si=65iNQakZ_0Cvhczz Timestamp at 1:16
Holy shit, YouTube shows this is the part that’s been most replayed
The world wants to know about Robert Patrick's hang down.
Did it ever not?
Lol and the XR100 which has 5 gears in real life. The sound effects guy blew that one. It sounded like he upshifted about 100 times during that chase.
"this is the vehicles top speed"
I could get out and run faster than this
The fire truck chase scene in Terminator 3 also rocks!
T3 gets way too much hate. It neatly answers the time paradox of why Terminators are still appearing from an alternate future timeline if that timeline were prevented by T2. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty fun, action-packed movie that respects its own universe and lore.
The scene at the cemetery is one of my faves
I sort of love T3. Good ending.
It does.
Terminator 2 is still one of the best action movies ever made.
Vehicles all play a nice little metaphor in this film. John on his nimble little dirt bike versus the hulking freighter beast of a diesel truck that comes after him. Arnold and outdated T model who’s already been beat to hell trying to outrun the more advanced more dynamic and faster helicopter.
For Your Eyes Only. The lotus gets blown up in a gag so bond gets chased down a Mediterranean hillside in a Citroën 2cv instead.
This is the one I came here to say! Recently rewatched it. Such a fun movie.
It's my favourite Moore Bond movie.
Mine too! The climbing sequence at the end is hair raising. Really shows that Moore could turn in an excellent and serious performance too. I gotta say, the 12 year old boy in me still loves Moonraker too…
Big fan of this movie. After a couple of "mad genius builds huge complex in order to destroy all of humanity" outings, FYEO feels so grounded and realistic. I mean, retrieving a lost coding device before someone else does seems like an actual mission on which to send a MI6 agent.
Apparently they wanted to get away from ever more elaborate gadgets. But I have to wonder if the use of the 2CV was inspired or an hommage to the Louis de Funès "Les Gendarmes"-movies where "Sœur Clotilde" makes a frequent appearance to give chase in a 2CV.
Hot Fuzz
Somehow the correct answer to 95% of the questions asked on r/movies
It's like it was made by movie aficionados...
Vauxhaul Astra Diesels... Basically a diesel Dodge Omni for us yanks.
I mean.. Blues Brothers really takes the cake here.
It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks
Fix the cigarette lighter.
And, it was made before catalytic converters, so it runs good on regular gas.
“Geeyasss” I love Ackroyd’s Chicago accent on that word.
I don’t believe it, it’s that shitbox Dodge again!
In the TV version I saw as a kid, they changed that to “screwball” dodge. For some reason, that’s what I always hear.
GLUE. Strong stuff\~!!
This mall’s got everything
Disco pants and haircuts!
New Oldsmobile’s are in early this year.
Do you have Miss Piggy?
It's a nice nod to Frank Oz, who played the property clerk at the prison.
See also: [Trading Places.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Rm-RB4MgE)
Do you know what this stuff does to kids?!
The oldsmobiles are in early this year
The chase between a smogged up 80s Caprice and Grand Marquis in to live and die in L.A. is up there for me
This is a classic. Buddy Jo Hooker and his team did the stunts. Absolutely agree.
Wang Chung with the chase music.
That’s a damn good one. One of my other favorites is the chase in the Seven-Ups. Two off-the-lot Pontiacs in one of the best chase scenes ever put on film.
104 cars wrecked in that movie. Mostly police cars. But the climax was a chase between the Bluesmobile and a suburban station wagon and a Pinto. The Pinto got exactly what was coming to it.
The original Italian Job used sports cars as a diversion, and Mini Coopers in the coolest chase scene up to that time.
I bought a Mini Cooper a few years back, and had this conversation. **Dealer:** And here's a little gift package we give out to new buyers. Has a Mini keychain, Mini air freshener, Mini fridge magnet, *Italian Job* Blu-ray... **Me:** Wait, what was that last one? **Dealer:** Fridge magnet? I'm 100% serious, they gave me a copy of *The Italian Job* with my car.
The original or new one?
New one.
They must not have liked you much
Kinda fits if it was a modern Mini Cooper and not a late 60s one
And the remake features the product placement of the new Mini design.
Given that the original film featured Mini Coopers, it makes sense that the remake would, too.
Minis are extremely cool though (or became so after the film).
Even the police cars are Alfas. The cars in this chase are small but very cool.
Been a long time since I watched the original, but didn't they E-Type Jags for the getaway, but the mafia destroyed them all on a mountain pass so they resorted to using the mini's? Obligatory; *you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"*
My hazy recollection was that they had several high end sports cars they flashily drove that the mafia pushed off the winding mountain road with a front end loader, but that was all misdirection and the plan was to use the Minis all along.
Makes sense Need to see the movie again, but that ending always drove me nuts with suspense
The plan must have been to always use minis, as only they would fit in the bus. The Jag was just Michael Caine's character's car he was driving there.
Bullitt was out the year before.
[Not in my Mustang you don't!](https://youtu.be/Cafdx21a4-s?si=dmdMp0dJYGCGTZo5)
Wasn't it that the mafia trashed the e-type jags that were supposed to be the getaway cars.
The Self-Preservation Society.
In Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, they start off in a BMW but then shift into a Fiat: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2cHsEgCTE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2cHsEgCTE) The Blues Brothers have multiple car chases in their Dodge Monaco: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI)
Came here in support of Dead Reckoning! Great car chase, hilarious car. The unspoken humor in this scene specifically was very fun.
The Morocco chase in rogue nation is also great, even though the main car is a bmw, ving rhames and jeremy renner are in a very impractical safari looking car
It’s a Land Rover defender and it’s cool as fuck. Just maybe not the best car for that situation.
Dead Reckoning was the first that came to mind too. Of course, everyone knows that a Fiat 500 is infinitely cooler than any BMW, but that's a different conversation.
Which was also unintentionally a Lupin the Third reference down to a tee.
The Other Guys with a Prius.
America!
We're about to have ourselves a little screw party in this red Prius over here if you wanna join us
Are you Dirty Mike and the Boys?
Watching this now. Found this thread just after Will Ferrell started ripping around in the f shack!
I feel like we're literally driving around in a vagina.
Hell of a vehicle, its a real shame what dirty Mike and the boys did to it.
Nice car. Does it come with a dental dam?
In What's Up Doc the climactic car chase is with Ryan O'Neil and Barbra Streisand in a Volkswagen Bug. It ends up floating in the San Francisco Bay, which is an homage to a famous ad.
This is also one of the best car chases ever done.
The payoff of the cliche' "two guys carrying a pane of glass across the street" is wonderful.
We can make it! We can make it! ... We're not gonna make it.
I was going to bring up this film, glad you mentioned it. I recall one of the vehicles in that scene was a camper van that literally looked like a log cabin, like with wood siding or whatever.
A lot of the chases in Children of Men are in total scrap buckets. But they're still amazingly shot and tense.
If I could procreate with any movie's cinematography, Children of Men would ironically be at the top of the list.
I know Emmanuel Lubezki is a busy man, but it could happen.
The irony is not lost on me. “Children of Children of Men.”
I suppose I understand if that film gets people horny...
This was gonna be my response. Recognizable, slightly futured-up European family cars. Completely ordinary cars that bring that dystopian future so close to today.
CoM has the best car chase sequence ever imo...
That forest ambush was awesome.
Duel.
😆 yeah... Plymouth Valiant
Definitely the first movie I thought of.
Not really a chase, but the opening scene of Drive features a Chevy Impala.
The opening scene of Drive is one of my favorite scenes ever. I love how grounded it is compared to a typical flashy Hollywood chase.
When that opening scene happens and they walk past all those cool cars to the impala i instantly knew this movie was going to be something special. One of my favorite movies ever
Pineapple Express has a very underrated car chase.
*You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos, motherfucker!*
To Live and Die in LA used mid 70's Chevys and Pontiacs.
https://youtu.be/VOK9QW21VPo?si=OkIVGx3tRdVUhftI
Can’t go wrong with Friedkin, either with this film or The French Connection
Literally just watched it an hour ago lol. My dad and I's favorite
Wait...the lead character's dead? The film's not over yet! One of my all-time favourites. I especially love that Friedkin did NOT want Wang Chung to title a song after the movie but when he heard [the song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4x36XKhsM)...
The French Connection
Wait a min... Are you saying that the 1971 Pontiac Lemans isn't a cool car?
Cool, but not *Bullitt* cool.
One of the craziest scenes ever filmed for a studio production. They *didn't have licenses* to race a NYC subway train in the middle of Brooklyn so they bribed a NYC transit official with $40,000 and a one way ticket to Jamaica. https://screenrant.com/french-connection-car-chase-filming-explained/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/french-connection-william-friedkin-recalls-936506/ This car chase is absolutely worth a watch on YouTube.
It's so insane that there was no traffic control so those cars that were getting run into were legitimate bystanders lmao
Are you saying that the R42 subway car isn't a cool car?
This is a good answer. Movie known for its car chase with a real 70s beater.
I mean, the movie is pretty much the reason car chase scenes are still so prevalent
Why is this so far down the list.
It's the best answer to OPs question because it's basically the reason these other movies even have chase scenes to begin with
Ronin
This is my favorite answer. Yes, car nerds are gonna think those cars are cool. The movie really presents them as just average European cars in the context of the film. No fancy tires or body kits, nothing particularly cool about them. Plus it's one of the best car chases in film history.
Sorry, but those cars are supercool.
The OP asked about "cool looking" cars, which I would argue they are not.
The Renault Safrane!
Isn't one of them a Peugeot 406. Definitely not super cool.
The Audi S8 was mentioned in the movie as a fast yet nondescript sedan. True in real life as well. It's cool. The Mercedes SEL is one of the original sleeper cars. The one featured in Ronin had a monstrous 6.9 liter V8. That was a 4 door sedan that could out accelerate Ferraris. Cool car. The other cars, nah they were never cool
Don’t forget about that BMW.
Nah that 406 was very cool
Came to the thread for this answer, anticipated the arguments. Was not disappointed. Top 3 to 5 car chases of all time depending on who you ask. Those cars do not look ‘cool.’ They aren’t sporty flashy chase cars. The cars don’t steal the show - the absolute bonkers chase scene steals the show. Deniro and Reno and the whole cast are just bouncing around while these modest looking cars are doing the most insane twists and turns you will ever see. Everything is second fiddle to the chase.
But those are kinda cool cars. Probably the best car chase in any movie imho
Yeah this movie and car chase are real good. And the cars are all cool but really neutral.
best car chases of all time, and it's not even a car chase movie.
The Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy
Yah, the MINI chase was the first one that came to mind because it’s specifically insinuated that the car is not in good condition. Then the taxi chase too.
When I'm being a goof and getting ready to drive, I'll sometimes turn to my gf and say "do you put air in the tires? Felt a little splashy on the way over here". I always get the most satisfying eyeroll.
These are comedies but they use this trope to great extent, and the chase scenes are still quite well choreographed and shot. 21 Jump Street: undercover cops (Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill) give chase to a drug-dealing motorcycle gang, first in a Driver's Ed Hyundai Accent with dual controls, and then commandeering a pink 90s Volkswagen Beetle. The finale of the movie also includes a chase in a stretch limo. 22 Jump Street: the cops flee a drug dealer across a college campus in a football-helmet-shaped electric golf cart. Later in the movie, Hill's character tries to commandeer a Lamborghini during a chase, but struggles with its manual transmission.
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA = culminates with Chance (William Petersen) driving the wrong way on the freeway to evade capture. THE BOURNE SUPREMACY = final car chase into the Moscow tunnels where Bourne is driving a stolen Russian cab DRIVE = the escape from the pawn shop robbery
I kinda liked the scene with the brand new Range Rovers vs the much older Toyota Land Cruiser in No Time to Die.
One of the all time best car chases, with spectacular stunt driving, is in the movie [Short Time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIZdhoJmY4) No fancy cars, just great driving.
Maybe the most famous (or at least difficult) Bond jump was in an AMC hornet, of all cars. The corkscrew/barrel roll over the river in Man with the Golden Gun.
*Terminator 2*. The T-1000 is chasing Ahnold and the Connors in an 18-wheeler. Already mid. They’re driving a POS pickup that looks like a 1981 POS GMC C-3500 after the chicken coop on the back falls off. “I could get out and push faster than this!” > This is the vehicle’s top speed.
*Jade* has one of my favorite car chaces. It involves a black early 90's meh Ford Thunderbird being chased by an even more meh silver Ford Taurus. The Taurus didn't seem out-of-place, as the non-descript car was being driven by a detective who probably is meant to blend in a little, the black Thunderbird (a big-engined luxury-ish coupe) was being driven by a "baddie", so that kinda makes sense sense. It didn't feel like product placement in the moment, but in retrospect, both being Fords probably was a purposeful marketing decision if I had to guess. Trigger warning: the scene starts with a woman basically getting assassinated by the baddie first ramming into her, then running over her. This link SHOULD take you to 1:01, which is immediately past the initial violence, but note that there is a portion later in the char chase that goes through a parade, and there are some shots of people lying in the street. [https://youtu.be/WbJ2p0l1npc?si=1We9QUCrd8qwrRfG&t=61](https://youtu.be/WbJ2p0l1npc?si=1We9QUCrd8qwrRfG&t=61)
Other guys…literally a Prius car chase
The Raid 2 has an incredible car chase scene with boring black sedans and a generic SUV, well worth finding on YouTube (or better het watch the whole movie)
Arguably the best movie car chase of all, Ronin, uses pretty average 90s cars.
One was a monstrous Audi S8. And the driver mentions dropping a NOS into it. But that was the whole point. The S8 looked like a boring sedan with a few discreet badges on it.
Knives Out
Fun fact - the soundtrack for the scene is called "The Dumbest Car Chase Of All Time".
The latest Mission Impossible in that little yellow tin can
Fiat 500. Fun fact, whenever you see a 500 in a movie there's like a 99% chance it's going to be yellow, [and this is why](https://youtu.be/LTOJZiDv1Uk). Super influential car chase from Miyazaki's first film, been shouted out to dozens of times, including that MI chase. Spielberg has called it the greatest car chase ever.
The Fiat 500
MI7 - the yellow Fiat 500 pumped with an electric motor is hilarious 😅
Goodbye Pork Pie. You’re welcome 😉
epic car chase through Wellington train station in a yellow mini
Ronin. Seriously, that flick is underrated. Great cast and incredible direction. The car chases in that film are amazing to watch, and the vehicles are not flashy nonsense. Ronin is the GOT.
I had to scroll WAY too far to find this.
Don't they do something like this in the most recent Mission Impossible movie? I thought I remember some car chase scene in a movie from the last year or so that was kind of silly like that.
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The Italian Job - Mini Cooper car chase
Does the chase from Austin Powers count?
Twister. I mean, I think the Jeep Comanche and 2nd gen Dodge Ram are cool, but they definitely aren’t stereotypical car chase vehicles
The Jackie Chan Police Story shanty town scene
Ronin. Best car chase in any movie, regardless of what the cars look like
Ok. At the end of the movie Busting (1974) there is a car chase scene with two hospital hearses. High speed, bashing into stuff, catching air, people dodging out of the way... The context made sense because a bust went down at a hospital and the kingpin played by Allen Garfield escaped by jumping into one. Leaving the pursuing vice cops played by Robert Blake and Elliot Gould to give Chase in another one. I don't remember thinking about product placement or buying hearse.
Grand Theft Auto (1977) has all sorts of vehicles chasing an old Rolls…
> I just watched The Bourne Identity One of my favourite car chases and it's because Potente sells her reactions so well.
Ronin
MI Dead Reckoning with the electric Fiat 500
The French Connection
The Italian Job. I’m a car connoisseur so I think the cars are cool but I can imagine a lot of people not sharing that sentiment.
Ace Ventura first movie .
The car chase in ‘The Man Who Knew Too little’ might qualify. I mean the old Mini Cooper is kind of cool but the rest of the cars, not so much. https://youtu.be/56vtwcV0Kj4?si=R8evpnIyYE_3Z_Vi
The hitman's bodyguard. Crappy Ford Focus or Ford something anyway
“Atomic Blonde”
A lot of these answers have amazing chase scenes with actually cool cars It's like I could mention that Back To The Future had a scene involving an old West train with a broken piece of shit DeLorean strapped to it and a little girl's skateboard with no wheels and my post would fit right in
Roger Moore has a few of those during his 007 years. In "For your eyes only" he rans from some bad guys in a Citroën 2CV, and in "A view to a kill" he chases an assassin in a parachute from a Renault 11.
The choice of "uncool" cars in chase scenes can add a layer of realism and unexpectedness to the action. One example that comes to mind is the 1994 film "Speed." The bus isn't an "uncool" vehicle. It's not a sports car or a sleek sedan. The tension in that movie doesn't come from the bus itself but from the situation and the characters involved. Another example is the 2007 film "Hot Fuzz." In one of the chase scenes, Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) drives a humble Vauxhall Nova. The choice of this car is intentional because it contrasts with the high-speed pursuit and adds a comedic element to the scene. The vehicle choice makes sense in the context of the movie's tone and plot. As for when a car in a chase scene feels like product placement, it often depends on how the brand is featured and whether it feels natural within the story. If a specific car brand is highlighted or if the camera lingers on the logo, it can start to feel like an advertisement rather than an organic part of the scene.
[The first thing that popped into my head.](https://youtu.be/K5UBRXOHTuM?si=4UTYoP5yRn7ruCsz)
in the Transporter films, the protagonist drives IMO regular-looking cars and the action and chase scenes are great
Baby Driver
Opening scene is in an STI, which is definitely cool. End scene is a police charger and a hellcat, which are also definitely cool. There's a cool purple Chevy caprice in the middle too, as well as a Mark V that does not get into a chase. Baby Driver is loaded with cool cars.
Lucy. The DaVinci Code. Goodbye Pork Pie (NZ). For Rich or For Poorer.
[Löggulíf](https://youtu.be/A-DlMDy_4qE?si=4la_XAnRfn53NS6C) (1985)
The chase in The French Connection
Italian Job 2003 due to plot reasons the final car chase was in Mini Cooper's, mini Cooper sales skyrocketed after the movie.
Mr & Mrs Smith - minivan best line - "no, no, you're not going to kill her."
Blues Bros Mall chase in the POS dodge cop car. - minus cigarette lighter
OJ Simpson, 1994
I drove a 1985 grand fury for a while ( got it with 43k OG miles and it was a tiny beast ) and I can’t help but notice them now when I watch 80s and 90s movies, they along with the LTD and a few others were always the cop cars that got crashed. I think Ghostbusters features some as well as die hard, lethal weapon, and a few I can’t think of. Mabey Heat.
Idk if it counts as “good” but it was definitely funny; the Prius chase in Knives Out at like 30mph.
Bourne Identity with the beat up little Mini.
Short Time, 90s movie, comedy where a guy gets the wrong blood test sent back and thinks he's got days to live. I remember it because of the car chase and it was awesome (well at least in my head) 😀
New film Monkey Man has a pretty fun one
Basically all of Jackie Chan's oeuvre in the '80s and '90s after Mitsubishi started sponsoring his films. You had him doing wild chase after wild chase in the latest Mitsubishi cars of the era and not always the hot stuff either. My favorite is still him using a basic FTO to chase down a Skyline GT-R, one of the hottest cars of the '90s, in the *Thunderbolt* film. For a different take, the film *Rush* has Niki Lauda chasing Marlene's approval in a Lancia sedan.
you’d think there’d be one with a lowered Honda Civic
that scene in bourne was great, and i feel like movies set in continental europe (esp. eastern europe) often hade realistic cars like that. spy movies esp perhaps ... because the characters simply wouldn't own an exotic or even halfway decent car. i think normal cars are sorely lacking in film. and dirty cars. most movie cars are way too clean. a 10-year-old mazda that hasn't been cleaned in 3 months - that's what i want to see in a car chase next time around.
Citroen in 'A View to a Kill' In fact Bond has turned many a shit heap into a chase vehicle.