There are more than a few that I have seen but can't remember, but I was just curious to know who knows of a great car movie. Also has anyone seen the movie Banzai Runner? Crap or good. I got it from the $2 bin at the warehouse.

My favorites

Mad Max
Mad Max 2 (3 can go get rooted)
Running on Empty. (Australian)
Midnight spares
Hot Rod. Nothing beats a hemi willys.
Funnycar Summer
California Kid
Bullitt
Vanishing Point (and the remake)
Death Race 2000
Cannonball (origional with David Carrodine)


Heaps more I know. Anyone have any favorites?

thank god you didnt say the fast and the furious

and lol at hot rod

haha the fast and the furious is the best :P

driven is a good movie, story line isn't the best but i love the scene where they take two of the brand new indy cars for a thrash through the streets, wouldn't you just love o do that?

I like cannonball fever or as it's known elsewhere, Speedzone. Others I like that you may not have mentioned:

- Fast and furious series (seriously I can understand and accept the storylines:P)
- Le mans
- Initial D live action movie
- origional and remake gone in sixty seconds

A coupe of bike ones:

Biker boyz (way better than torque because it's just more belivable. Torque let me down when they start riding near trains and the end of the movie)

easy rider- not bad but the ending made me angry

haven't seen stone yet so can't say anything about that

worlds fastest indian - yep just great

but yeah i'm sure there's more i haven't mentioned like landspeed with Billy Zane, again not all that bad for a cheap movie


edit: just thought American Graffitti is almost a car movie i spose

* The Fast and the Furious is the best except for one flaw, no Datsun 1200s.
* The Gumball Rally (look for the Datsun 1200s!)
* Gone in 60 Seconds (original, 1974, look for Datsun 1200s!)
* The Junkman. Not sure if it's great car movie or a bad one. But it's definitely a Car Movie. Also it has Datsun 1200s.
* And don't forget Cars, the recent Pixar movie. Some say the best Car Movie ever made ... !?!

yeah for driving scenes the initial d live movie was awesome. story line got a bit weird though.

wasn't biker boyz the one where they were obsessed with the whole tunnel vision thing?

worlds fastest indian is great too though.

gone in 60seconds is a good movie,

fast and the furious made turbo's fashionable and illegal drag races even more popular, and all the posers came out of the woodworks.

* American Graffiti. Car movie? Yes, it was about cruising. Hot rods. Police cars. Good movie. Harrison Ford drove a hot rod Ford

Talladega Nights, the ballad of ricky-bobby.
Duel (car vs truck)
Cannonball Run

Oh yes Duel. Spielberg's first full-length movie. It was a good one.

That reminds me of bad 1970s car movies:
* Convoy (trucker movie)
* Smokey and the Bandit (or was that a good one?)
* Corvette Summer (bad movie, cool idea). Mark Hamill's 2nd movie.