Quiz: Pair the iconic car with the movie
Some cars are so inseparable from their films that just seeing them brings the whole thing back.
Ten hints. Ten iconic vehicles. Are you up for the challenge?
Name the movie before reading on.
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Car 1
The manufacturer went bankrupt before the film came out. Its stainless steel body and gull-wing doors were striking, but it was one impossible number on the speedometer that made it the most famous car in science fiction history.
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Answer
DeLorean DMC-12 in Back to the Future (1985). The real car took nearly 11 seconds to reach 60 mph.
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Car 2
Silver, elegant, and concealing enough weaponry to start a small war. Ejector seat, revolving number plates, machine guns behind the headlights.
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Answer
Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger (1964). It has since appeared in twelve Bond films.
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Car 3
No gadgets. No gimmicks. A Highland Green muscle car and ten minutes of the most honest car chase ever put on screen.
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Answer
Ford Mustang GT in Bullitt (1968). The benchmark against which every movie car chase since has been measured.
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Car 4
A teenager borrows his friend’s father’s most prized possession for a day off school in Chicago. The friend spends the film in visible distress. The car does not make it home.
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Ferrari 250 GT in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986). The real car sells for upward of $15 million. Replicas were used throughout.
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Car 5
Rebuilt and reimagined across decades. The original was a 1955 Lincoln concept car with fins and flashing lights. The latter version was essentially a tank that could jump rooftops.
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Answer
The Batmobile in the Batman franchise. Christopher Nolan’s Tumbler was built on a Lamborghini chassis.
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Car 6
A converted 1959 Cadillac ambulance carrying proton packs, ghost traps, and four scientists of questionable credentials through Manhattan.
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Answer
Ecto-1 in Ghostbusters (1984). The original car cost $4,800 and required extensive work before filming.
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Car 7
A black Trans Am with a golden bird on the hood, a case of Coors in the back, and a sheriff in furious pursuit across state lines.
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Answer
Pontiac Trans Am in Smokey and the Bandit (1977). Sales of the Trans Am jumped roughly 400 percent after release.
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Car 8
Three of them. Red. Threading through city streets, stairwells, and a shopping center in a heist that depends entirely on how small a car can be.
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Answer
Mini Cooper in The Italian Job (1969). 57 were used during production. Many were destroyed.
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Car 9
A teenager’s parents leave him alone for the weekend with their cherished sports car. He takes it out. Things happen.
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Answer
Porsche 911 in Risky Business (1983). The car ends up in Lake Michigan.
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Car 10
Orange, with a Confederate flag on the roof and doors that didn’t open. Two cousins, a corrupt sheriff, and a county’s worth of dirt roads.
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General Lee in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979 to 1985). An estimated 325 Dodge Chargers were used and destroyed across the run.
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How did you do?
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