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Best getaway/badies cars... ever?

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  • 28-09-2005 1:37am
    #1
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭


    What do ye think the best getaway cars are? BMW M5, Audi S8 or Suburu Impreza.


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    miju
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,486 ✭✭✭miju


    wrong forum buddy


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    #3
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Not really getaway or baddy, but I think De Niro proved in Ronin that it's about the shot, not the car. De Niro was way better in the Peugeot than the other lads in the Beamer. I'd give Natascha McElhone one too. :)


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    alias no.9
    Registered Users Posts: 6,294 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    Toyota Carina E, it's so non-descript that it will just fade into the background, all you need to do is drive 100 yards down the road and park up, there's no way that anyone will notice you there.


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    michaelanthony
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    The S8 because A) It's very anonymous and B) It goes like the clappers


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    the original mini in the Italian Job


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    ambro25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


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    A flying Metro, of course! :D


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    Interceptor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    When I am a badass gangsta rapper I will drive a Mk10 Jag like the Krays drove - must be black with crome spinners.

    Oh and the Mini in the first Bourne movie - mighty fine piece of driving Mr. Damon....

    'c


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    #9
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,202 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    The Blues mobile (Dodge Monaco) from the Blues Brothers movie.


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    jayok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭jayok


    bazz26 wrote:
    The Blues mobile (Dodge Monaco) from the Blues Brothers movie.

    Something along the lines of:

    Elwood: "It got cop shocks, cop brakes and cop suspension"
    Jake: <silence>
    ** They Ramp Bridge **
    Jake & Elwood: <silence>
    Jake: "Good pickup"
    Elwood: "So is it the new Blues Mobile or what?"
    Jake: "It'll do but fix the lighter"

    Absolutely classic.... :D

    I'd vote for this car too.


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    jayok
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭jayok


    <edit> just found it

    Blues Brothers Movie Script

    Quote:

    Jake: What's this?
    Elwood: What?
    Jake: This car. This stupid car. Where's the Cadillac? The Caddy? Where's the Caddy?
    Elwood: The what?
    Jake: The Cadillac we used to have. The Blues Mobile!
    Elwood: I traded it.
    Jake: You traded the Blues Mobile for this?
    Elwood: No. For a microphone.
    Jake: A microphone? Okay I can see that. Well, what the hell is this?
    Elwood: This was a bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect City Police auction last spring. It's an old Mount Prospect Police Car. They were practically giving them away.
    Jake: Well, thank you pal, the day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car.

    [Fog horn and warning bell sounds.]

    Elwood: You don't like it?
    Jake: No, I don't like it.

    [Elwood drives over a raising draw bridge.]

    Jake: Cars got a lot of pick up.
    Elwood: It's got a cop motor, a four hundred and forty cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks, it was a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. Whaddya say? Is it the new Blues Mobile or what?
    Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter.


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    dahamsta
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    jayok wrote:
    Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter.
    Not very funny unless you point out that he says this as he's throwing it out the window.


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    chern0byl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 541 ✭✭✭chern0byl


    junkyard wrote:
    Suburu Impreza.

    As proven by the "scooby gang" who ran riot down the country not so long ago. Cops could never get near them and never caught them.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    ambro25 wrote:
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    A flying Metro, of course! :D
    The man with the golden gun had one.


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    #15
    Volvoboy
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    Getaway car, bmw 523i

    Baddie car, Mercedes 560SEL


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    Seth Brundle
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    Volvoboy wrote:
    Getaway car, bmw 523i
    Out of curiosity - why?


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    Borzoi
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    Interceptor wrote:
    a Mk10 Jag like the Krays drove
    A real villains motor - that or any other large Daimler of the period :D


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    ambro25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    The man with the golden gun had one.

    Fair enough... he didn't quite make it in the end, so I guess it's not that good of a getaway car :(
    kbannon wrote:
    Out of curiosity - why?

    Opening sequence of "The Transporter", per chance?

    PS: was it a 523i? definitely a 5-something


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    bazz26
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    I think he used a 530i or 540i, he probably would not be caught dead in a little 523i. :D:D


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    Seth Brundle
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    bazz26 wrote:
    I think he used a 530i or 540i, he probably would not be caught dead in a little 523i. :D:D
    I admit that I haven't seen it but apparently it is an E38 7er - either an unkel special (735i) or a 740i - one site suggests its a V12 735i(!?!).
    Another site lists loads of errors in the film - www.moviemistakes.com/film2674


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    el tel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭el tel


    IMHO one of the best getaway cars from a movie would be the
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    that tried to escape the
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    in Bad Boys.

    (have to say that the 911 above is stunning compared to any since)


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    #22
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,221 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    ambro25 wrote:
    Opening sequence of "The Transporter", per chance?

    PS: was it a 523i? definitely a 5-something

    :rolleyes: ;)
    kbannon wrote:
    I admit that I haven't seen it but apparently it is an E38 7er - either an unkel special (735i) or a 740i]

    Twas a 735i E38 with M62 3.5 liter V8 alright :D

    It wasn't my actual car that featured in that film afaik :)


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    #23
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    It should have been an M5 used in the Transporter. Did any one see the Guy
    Richie/BMW film on the BMW web site featuring an M5?


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    #24
    IDMUD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭IDMUD


    I'd have to say the new audi RS4. Room enough for three passengers and space in the boot for the loot. It also has awd which helps in tight turns and has enough top end to outrun the police on faster roads.


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    Cerberus
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Cerberus


    In Engalind the humberside police bought this

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    to pursue this...

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    so it I reckon it deserves a mention...
    I should add that I hope to get delivery of one these in two weeks so I could be a bit biased... :rolleyes: roll on the penalty points....


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    #26
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Maybe its just me but your second picture didn't come out. But welcome to the penalty point club anyway. What kind of car are you getting?


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    #27
    dahamsta
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    It's supposed to be a Mitsubishi Evo V, judging by the URL.


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    #28
    Cerberus
    Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Cerberus


    Sorry, link got broken. ya it's an evo 5. awesome machine. just waiting on insurance to get back to me. got a very good initial quote off Brittons Insurance. Excess is high but that seems to be the price one pays to join the supercar club in your twentys....


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    Seth Brundle
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    unkel wrote:
    Twas a 735i E38 with M62 3.5 liter V8 alright :D
    well as I said, I haven't seen it. Still though, some folk insist that it was a V12 - www.automotiveforums.com/t113765.html


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    #30
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,221 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    kbannon wrote:
    well as I said, I haven't seen it. Still though, some folk insist that it was a V12 - www.automotiveforums.com/t113765.html

    I haven't seen it either :)

    The good folks in that thread pretty much correctly point out it is a 735i

    The only thing that confuses me is the manual vs automatic issue. I have never seen an E38 in Ireland that is not automatic. It would not make sense to me to sell manual E38s in the USA, but of course I might be wrong. Any specifics on that?


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