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Circa 1998, Peugeot were really pushing their cars into movies. Witness the 406s in Ronin, Taxi and er... Notting Hill.
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Fave motorised star has to be the old land rover in "the gods must be crazy". Crap film, but the landy steals nearly every scene. (that and the mechanic who refers to it as 'the antichrist'. quote:"why the hell do they put the nuts where you cant get a spanner on them")
WTM
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Anyone remember Genevieve?
The veterans were splendid of course, but as tension builds towards the end, there's a wonderful scene where one of them gets held up by what the Prayer Book would call a 'holy and godly matron' in a late 30's Hillman convertible. So often the cameo role steals the show.
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If you watch the chariot scene of Ben Hur frame by frame a Fiat 500 appears in one frame, only about 1900 years out of place.
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>>only about 1900 years out of place.>>
Unusually the subsequent revamped/new look Fiat 500 models never seemed to get any bigger and more spacious than previous versions...:-)
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If you watch the chariot scene of Ben Hur
For your information, that was a pre-production model undergoing aclimatisation.
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Audi S8 in John Frankenheimer's Ronin for me... still want one !
Mind you, in the same film, the first Citroen XM you see is a series II (the citroen sign in the middle on the front) and then you see a XM series I (the citroen sign on the driver's side on the front). It changes back and forth a couple of times !!
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Transit van in the film of the Freddie Forsyth book "Fourth Protocol" starring Michael Caine and a dodgy looking Pierce Brosnan. Also had one of the best action shots of an SD1 driving at speed, and then pulling a handbrake turn on some station platform in order to allow M Caine to make the 5.07....
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Jaguar XJS V12 - comes with free personalised oil tanker.
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>Transit van in the film of the Freddie Forsyth book "Fourth >Protocol" starring Michael Caine and a dodgy looking Pierce >Brosnan. Also had one of the best action shots of an SD1 >driving at speed, and then pulling a handbrake turn on some >station platform in order to allow M Caine to make the 5.07....
Have to watch that film - was a freeby DVD with the sunday papers last week.
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>Transit van in the film of the Freddie Forsyth book "Fourth >Protocol" starring Michael Caine and a dodgy looking Pierce >Brosnan. Also had one of the best action shots of an SD1 >driving at speed, and then pulling a handbrake turn on some >station platform in order to allow M Caine to make the 5.07....
Station in question was London Liverpool Street.
Also features a brand new (at time of filming) XR3i.
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had one of the best action shots of an SD1 >driving at speed, and then pulling a handbrake turn on some >station platform in order to allow M Caine to make the 5.07....
Now pay attention 007..Rover V8 SD1 Standard issue MI5 equipment circa mid eighties complete with rocket launchers.. ejector seats.............
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see a Rover 75 look so classy on screen.
It's a nice looking car HJ.
My favourite are the black Fiat Dino Coupes in the Italian Job.
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Remember, a lot of people mistook the Rover 75 for a Jaguar for a long time...:-)
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Remember, a lot of people mistook the Rover 75 for a Jaguar for a long time...:-)
really? who? (not me)
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THe Rover 75 and Jaguar S Type were both launched at the same 1998 Motor Show at the NEC. Personally it thought the 75 the better looking car.
But ignoring the fact a revised S Type exists.... for a volume car (e.g. the Rover 75) six plus years is a long time.
If the 75 was a Ford/VW/GM/BMW/Mercedez "group" car, the totally new Rover (i.e. new platform) would now exist... for Rover they never got a new platform...
For a while I liked the 75 but it quickly dated...
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