{"id":12706,"date":"2020-07-08T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=12706"},"modified":"2020-07-08T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:17:38","slug":"iconic-screen-cars-that-arent-007s-aston-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/weird-stuff\/iconic-screen-cars-that-arent-007s-aston-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Screen Cars That Aren\u2019t 007\u2019s Aston Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you mention iconic screen cars or movie cars, it won\u2019t be long until the Aston Martins driven by the various incarnations of 007 are mentioned. After all, the long-running Bond series or franchise is practically synonymous with the Aston, and there\u2019s debate about which of the Bond cars was the coolest (with a few honourable mentions going to the aquatic Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me). However, what about all the other movies (and TV series) that have seriously cool sets of wheels? What are some of the other iconic drives, whether they feature in motoring movies or not, that aren\u2019t associated with Bond, James Bond?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my pick of instantly recognizable cars from the screen, big and little\u2026<\/p>\n

Mini Cooper\"\"<\/p>\n

It carries out the famous chase scene in The Italian Job, it\u2019s Mr Bean\u2019s drive of choice on the small screen and the big screen, it turns up in one of the Bourne movies, and a fleet of them act as the ghosts chasing a giant Pac-Man in Pixels. With the ability to star in thrillers as well as comedy, this makes the beloved Mini a pretty versatile actor.<\/p>\n

VW Beetle<\/p>\n

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OK, how many cars get to star in a movie all of their very own? Or, for that matter, six movies, spanning from the late 1960s through to 2005? And their own TV series? Yes, we\u2019re talking about Herbie the Love Bug, that absolute classic Volkswagen.<\/p>\n

DeLorean DMC-12<\/p>\n

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We may have passed 2015 but the Back To The Future is still a fun watch. If it wasn\u2019t for this movie using the futuristic-looking metallic DeLorean as a time machine, the DeLorean would have been as forgotten as the Geely Rural Nanny but without even the silly name.<\/p>\n

Ford Camaro<\/p>\n

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If you talk to a non-petrolhead about a Ford Camaro, they\u2019re likely to look at you blankly. If you mention the Transformers Bumblebee car, they\u2019ll instantly know what you\u2019re talking about. Bumblebee is so recognizable that it seems unthinkable to have a Ford Camaro that isn\u2019t yellow.<\/p>\n

Dodge Charger<\/p>\n

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If it didn\u2019t feature a Dodge Charger going over a jump, then it wasn\u2019t really a Dukes of Hazzard episode. It\u2019s gathered some controversy about that Confederate flag painted on the roof (let\u2019s face it: a good chunk of us Down Under didn\u2019t realise was the Confederate flag from the US Civil War but just thought of as \u201cThe General Lee\u2019s Logo\u201d; we didn\u2019t know who the original General Lee was either). Even if it\u2019s just plain 1970s orange, it\u2019s still instantly recognizable, almost as much as Daisy\u2019s cutoff denim shorts.\u00a0 Oh yes \u2013 it also took centre stage in the first of the Fast and Furious movies (what number are we up to now?).<\/p>\n

Pontiac Firebird Trans Am<\/p>\n

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Another beauty from the 1970s, commonly known as KITT and as much a star of Knight Rider as Michael Knight. It\u2019s not for nothing that a few people of a certain age have opted to have the navigation system of their vehicles talk with this voice. Pontiac really ought to make a limited edition version using modern tech that was just a fantasy in the original series\u2026 but not the turbo thruster that practically made the Firebird do suspension-wrecking jumps. A Trans Am also featured in Smokey and the Bandit.<\/p>\n

Ford Anglia<\/p>\n

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This is another vehicle that would have been forgotten by all except a few classic car enthusiasts but was re-introduced to a new generation by the Harry Potter books and films. For you muggles who haven\u2019t read or seen them, the 1962 Ford Anglia belonging to Arthur Weasley was enchanted to fly, turns feral after crashing, then saves Ron and Harry from a tight spot involving giant spiders. People of a certain age are likely to turn to look twice at all light greeny-blue cars of this era just in case it\u2019s a Harry Potter Anglia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you mention iconic screen cars or movie cars, it won\u2019t be long until the Aston Martins driven by the various incarnations of 007 are mentioned. After all, the long-running Bond series or franchise is practically synonymous with the Aston, and there\u2019s debate about which of the Bond cars was the coolest (with a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,3139,56],"tags":[2889,1829,6463,19,4619,866,865,35,2873,6462,6464,6466,6465],"class_list":["post-12706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","category-weird-stuff","tag-delorean","tag-dodge","tag-dukes-of-hazzard","tag-ford","tag-harry-potter","tag-herbie","tag-knight-rider","tag-mini","tag-movie-cars","tag-movies","tag-mr-bean","tag-transformers","tag-vw-beetle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12714,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/revisions\/12714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}