List of famous automobiles
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Below is a list of famous automobiles:
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[edit] Real
[edit] Historical
- The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
- The Popemobile
[edit] Racing
- Ford GT40, winner of 24 Hours of Le Mans race 1966 to 1969
- Porsche 917, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Can-Am race car that competed between 1969 to 1974 in various variations.
- Swamp Rat, name of a series of dragsters built and raced by Don Garlits.
- Green Monster, name of a series of piston and jet-engined dragsters built and raced by Art Arfons.
- Moby Dick, nickname for the 1978 Porsche 935 factory entered Group 5 racer.
- Mazda 787B, winner of the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans.
- Stanley, first robot car to win the DARPA Grand Challenge
- Grave Digger, name of a series of popular monster trucks.
- Bigfoot, the world's first monster truck.
- USA-1, one of the best known monster truck of the early era.
- Blitz ER34 Skyline, one of the few best known drifting cars from the D1 Grand Prix series, driven by Ken Nomura and is still currently competing.
- HKS Hiper Silvia RS2, the other one of the few best known drifting cars from the D1 Grand Prix series, driven by Nobuteru Taniguchi until mid 2004 season.
- Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak hillclimb racer, driven by Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima, primarily famous for appearing in the Gran Turismo series of games.
[edit] Land-speed records
- "La Jamais Contente" - The first car that reached 100 km/h.
- The Blue Flame - World land speed record holding rocket car.
- The Bluebird - Used for world land speed attempts by Sir Malcolm Campbell
- Green Monster, name of a series of jet engine land speed record cars built and raced by Art Arfons.
- Thrust2 - Former holder of the world land speed record.
- ThrustSSC - The world's first supersonic land vehicle.
- The S-Class Mercedes-Benz robot car of Ernst Dickmanns, which in 1995 achieved speeds exceeding 110 miles per hour in traffic during a 1000 mile trip on the Autobahn - a record for autonomous ground vehicles.
[edit] From fiction
(Note : "Famous vehicles from fictions" doesn't mean all vehicles from fictions are fictional.)
[edit] Literature
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the book by Ian Fleming
- Christine from the Stephen King novel of the same name
- Rocinante, the modified camper driven by John Steinbeck in Travels with Charley
- The Betsy from the Harold Robbins novel of the same name
[edit] Games
[edit] Movies
- Aston Martin DB5 and Lotus Espitit as driven by 007 in Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me.
- 2054 Lexus Manglev - working red sports model - Minority Report
- Lightning McQueen from the Disney-Pixar's 2006 film Cars (film)
- Christine (a 1958 Plymouth Fury) from the movie of the same name (based upon the novel by Stephen King)
- The Mirthmobile from Wayne's World
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the film of the same name (based on the Ian Fleming novel)
- Genevieve (film) from the 1953 film of the same name. http://www.donbrockway.com/Genevieve%27s%20History.htm
- Herbie from The Love Bug and four sequels
- De Lorean time machine from the Back to the Future series
- The Ectomobile from Ghostbusters
- Pursuit Special, the Interceptor from Mad Max
- The Bluesmobile (a 1974 Dodge Monaco police car) from The Blues Brothers
- Il Tempo Gigante from Pinchcliffe Grand Prix. [1]
- Peugeot 406 Taxi from the 1998 film Taxi, the 2000 film Taxi 2 and the 2003 film Taxi 3.
- main characters' black Dodge Charger R/T and orange Toyota Supra from The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)
- The Corvette from Corvette Summer
- The Pontiac Trans Am From Smokey and the Bandit.
- The Wraith - a supernatural but extremely high-tech black car featured in the eponymous film (actually the Dodge M4S show car).
- 2005 incarnation[2] of The Batmobile - Tank like armoured vehicle used by Batman in the successful 2005 movie Batman Begins.
- 1967 Jaguar E-Type named Shaguar from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
- Eleanor, the 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 and 1967 Shelby GT500 from Gone in 60 Seconds.
- 1968 Ford Mustang GT-390 - From the 1968 film Bullitt
- 1965 Shelby Mustang GT500, the final car in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film)
[edit] Television
- 1928 Porter from My Mother the Car
- Al's Dodge, from Married... with Children
- Batmobile from Batman
- Ford Torino in Starsky and Hutch
- Bessie from Doctor Who
- Black Beauty from The Green Hornet
- Car 54 from Car 54, Where Are You?
- The Compact Pussycat driven by Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races
- Mean Machine driven by Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races
- General Lee (Dodge Charger) from The Dukes of Hazzard
- Mach Five from the anime Mach Go Go Go (also known as Speed Racer).
- Peugeot 403 cabriolet from Columbo
- Grey Ghost from Baretta
- The Homer, Homer's ugly car from The Simpsons
- KITT, the talking car (Pontiac Trans Am) from Knight Rider
- Del Boy's yellow Reliant Regal Supervan in Only Fools and Horses. Later buys a 1978 Ford Capri Ghia, which Rodney nicknames 'The PratMobile'.
- Monkeemobile, from The Monkees
- Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo
- Flintstones' car, from The Flintstones
- Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson's AP Films.
- FAB 1, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's pink six-wheeled Rolls-Royce in the Thunderbirds TV series by Gerry Anderson's AP Films.
- Ray's black 1965 Corvette Stingray from the series Stingray
- GMC van from the series The A-Team
- Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and Viper GTS coupe from the series Viper.
- The Green & Black Mini Minor featured in Mr. Bean TV Series.
- The Blue Bubble Car featured in the Mr. Bean TV Series.
- Thunderhawk, a 1985 Chevrolet IROC-Z Camaro featured in the M.A.S.K. cartoon series
- Munster Koach and Dragula from The Munsters
- Ferrari 308 GTS from Magnum P.I.
- Ferrari Daytona from Miami Vice (actually a Corvette with imitation Ferrari bodywork)
- White Ferrari Testarossa from Miami Vice
- John Steed's Blower Bentley from The Avengers
- Emma Peel's Lotus Elan S2 from The Avengers
- Tara King's Lotus Europa Mk1 from The Avengers
- Volvo P1800 from The Saint
- 1941 Packard Darrin 180 Victoria from Banacek
- AMX400 from Banacek
- 1973 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine from Banacek
- Lotus Seven from the opening credits of The Prisoner
[edit] Song
- Rocket 88 by Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm - purportedly the first rock and roll song
- 409 by the Beach Boys
- Little Deuce Coupe by the Beach Boys
- Little GTO by Ronnie and the Daytonas
- Little Red Corvette by Prince
- The Eliminator from the videos by ZZ Top
- Red Barchetta by Rush
- Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen
- Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody
- Dragula by Rob Zombie
- V8 Ford and Coupe de Ville from Maybelline by Chuck Berry
- Slick Black Cadillac by Quiet Riot
[edit] Comics
- The "313," Donald Duck's 1934 "Belchfire Runabout," from the Donald Duck comic books.
- Grandma Duck's Detroit Electric, also from the Donald Duck comics.
- The Batmobile, Batman's specialized vehicle.
- Shelby Cobra GT500, Rally Vincent's car from the manga Gunsmith Cats
- Takumi Fujiwara's (in fact, his father Bunta's) Toyota Sprinter Trueno from Initial D
- Akio Asakura's Devil Z, a highly modified Datsun 240Z from Wangan Midnight.
