ELWOOD: It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we
got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes,
it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
JAKE: Hit it.
We had a bit of a film binge the other day
here at miDrive HQ, which got us all thinking...which
movie car is the most iconic? After a lot
of pondering, here's what we came up with...
10. Elanor - Gone in Sixty Seconds
RAINES: Okay, let's ride!
Gone in Sixty Seconds features a ton of iconic
cars, but none stand out as much as Elanor.
MEMPHIS: The '67 Shelby Mustang GT500. The GT500.
KIP: Yeah, yeah.
Elanor is the last of fifty cars Memphis Raines
has to steal in order to save his brother's
life. Nicolas Cage, playing the talented car
thief, actually did most of his own stunt
driving for this film.
...because Nicolas Cage is CRAZY.
MEMPHIS: No no no no, don't - don't, don't do this,
don't - don't start with me - no, don't, no - start! Start!
9. Herbie - The Love Bug
Herbie might be fading into obscurity a little
recently - I mean who could forget the seminal 'Herbie Goes Bananas'?
But as cars go, this
little Volkswagen Beetle is still pretty iconic.
Half car, half pet, Herbie helps down-on-his-luck
racecar driver Jim Douglas rise to stardom
after he finds out it has a mind of its own.
JIM: Did you see this thing take off?
CAROLE: One of your showboat tricks, Mr. Douglas.
JIM: I tell ya, I had nothing to do with it! Hey,
we were turning!
Opening with a montage of bizarrely horrific
car crashes, the introduction is only a handful
of explosions away from resembling a Michael
Bay movie.
8. The Bluesmobile - Blues Brothers
It's hard to think of the Blues Brothers without
thinking of their second-hand cop car, a 1974
Dodge Monaco.
ELWOOD: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic-inch plant,
it's got cop tyres, cop suspension, cop shocks;
it's a model made before catalytic converters
so it'll run good on regular gas. 
ELWOOD: Whaddya say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
JAKE: Fix the cigarette lighter.
The star of what may very well be the greatest
film car chase of all time, in which Jake
and Elwood Blues systematically wreck a shopping
mall whilst on the run from the police, the
Bluesmobile actually hit 118 miles per hour
during the chase under the elevated train
line. Bought from the California Highway Patrol,
the film gets through a grand total of twelve
Bluesmobiles. That's a lot of cops without
a ride.
7. The Weasley's Flying Car - Harry Potter
and the Chamber of Secrets.
Determined to surround himself with all things
muggle, Arthur Weasley enchanted his sky-blue
Ford Anglia to fit eight people, six trunks,
two owls and a rat. And to fly.
RON: Hiya Harry!
When Harry and Ron miss the train to Hogwarts,
they use the enchanted car to get to school...and
promptly crashed it into the Whomping Willow.
HARRY: Most muggles aren't accustomed to seeing a
flying car!
RON: Uuuh...right.
The Ford Anglia would be a great car to own;
you'd never have to pay congestion charges
again, not to mention the fact that it would
be pretty nifty to have a car capable of protecting
you from giant spiders.
DORIAN GRAY: I am an immortal, sir, not a gazelle. How can we outrun this?
6. The Nautlius Car - The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen
SANDERSON REED: Care for a spin?
After a criminal mastermind starts executing
his plan to orchestrate a world war, our heroes
arrive in Venice aboard Captain Nemo's submarine
to thwart him. Since it's tricky enough as
it is to pull off a three-point turn in a
submarine, let alone being confined to the
canals of Venice whilst you do, the team deploy
Nemo's car. A six-wheeled, Steampunky, twenty-two
foot long beast of a car, the Nemomobile was
custom-made for the film. It has two separate
brake pedals, to help the stunt driver achieve
more control over the vehicle. Sadly it's
not in the least bit street legal.
MAGGIE: What did they get you for?
SAM: Uuuh...I bought a car. Turned out to be an
alien robot.
5. Bumblebee - Transformers
In the original Transformers cartoon, Bumblebee's
alternate form was a Volkswagen Beetle, but
this was changed for the movies into a Chevy
Camaro, primarily because the Beetle reminded
Michael Bay too much of Herbie. In Bay's defence,
there's a nod to Bumblebee's origins in the
film, even if it's not exactly the most gracious of moments. 
Whilst a new Camaro would set you back around £35,000,
I think the transformation
function comes as extra...
4. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang
CARACTACUS: It's saying 'Chitty chitty, chitty, chitty,
chitty chitty bang bang!
 CARACTACUS: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Inspired by a series of cars in the 1920's
that actually used aircraft engines, Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang is the titular car in a film
that has become a family movie staple. You've
all seen it, you know the story; Dick Van
Dyke restores a car that, after some casual
reckless endangerment of his kids and with
the help of some dodgy special effects, he
discovers can both sail and fly. Hijinks ensue.
3. ECTO-1 - Ghostbusters
VENKMAN: You can't park that here!
Half ambulance, half hearse, the ECTO-1 is
the Ghostbusters' car of choice.
STANTZ: Everybody can relax; I've found the car. Needs some suspension work and shocks...and brakes,
brake pads, linings, steering box...
It doesn't look like much to start off with,
but once it's repaired it's hard to mistake.
With an array of lights, sirens, lots of ghost-hunting
gadgetry, and a white-and-red paint job, it's
hardly the most inconspicuous of cars. But
maybe that's what you need when you have urgent
ghost-busting matters to attend to.
2. Batmobile - Batman
No Top 10 Movie Cars list would be complete
without the mention of the Batmobile. Whether
it's the 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car from
the Adam West TV series, or the Tumbler from
Christopher Nolan's films, the Batmobile has
always been iconic. However, nothing beats
the incarnation from Tim Burton's Batman.
Inspired by a combination of 1930's salt flat
racers and 1950's muscle cars, this Batmobile
is pure awesome.
1. DeLorean - Back to the Future
MARTY: Are you telling me you built a time machine
out of a DeLorean?!
DOC: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a
time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
...and style it has! By the bucketload. In
fact, whilst the gullwing doors have become
synonymous with the DeLorean, they can prove
troublesome when trying to park in a standard
parking space. However, there's a cunning
solution to that; just drive around the car
park at 88 miles per hour (Libyan terrorists
not necessary), activate the flux capacitors,
and travel back in time to a period before
bay parking was invented. Problem solved.
And there you have it! miDrive's Top 10 Movie
Cars. If you have any car-related Top 10 lists
you want us to cover, leave us a comment...and
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MARTY: Rock and roll.
