Famous Cars

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Below is a list of famous automobiles:

Real

Historical

• The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
• The Popemobile
• The Moon Buggy

Racing

• Ford GT40, winner of 24 Hours of Le Mans race 1966 to 1969
• Swamp Rat, name of a series of dragsters built and raced by Don Garlits.
• Green Monster, name of a series of piston and jet engine dragsters built and raced by Art Arfons.
• Moby Dick, nickname for the Porsche 935 factory model of 1978
• Stanley, first robot car to win the DARPA Grand Challenge
• Grave Digger, name of a series of popular monster trucks.
• Bigfoot, the world's first monster truck.
• Panoz Q9 Hybrid, banned from LeMans about the same time the Prius released in Japan.
• The Black 3 - Dale Earnhardt's Chevy Monte Carlo SS NASCAR stockcar.

Land-speed records

Main article: Land speed record

• "La Jamais Contente" - The first car that reached 100 km/h.
• The Blue Flame - World land speed record holding rocket car.
• The Bluebird - Used for world land speed attempts by Sir Malcolm Campbell
• Green Monster, name of a series of jet engine land speed record cars built and raced by Art Arfons.
• Thrust2 - Former holder of the world land speed record.
• ThrustSSC - The world's first supersonic land vehicle.

From fiction

Main article: List of fictional vehicles

Literature

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the book by Ian Fleming
• Christine from the Stephen King novel of the same name
• Rocinante, the modified camper driven by John Steinbeck in Travels with Charley
• The Betsy from the Harold Robbins novel of the same name

Movies

• Bond Cars as driven by James Bond 007
• 2054 Lexus Manglev - working red sports model - Minority Report
• Lightning McQueen from the Disney-Pixar's 2006 film Cars
• Christine (a 1958 Plymouth Fury) from the movie of the same name (based upon the novel by Stephen King)
• The Mirthmobile from Wayne's World
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the film of the same name (based on the Ian Fleming novel)
• Genevieve from the 1953 film of the same name. [1]
• Herbie from The Love Bug and four sequels
• De Lorean time machine from the Back to the Future series
• The Ectomobile from [Ghostbusters]
• Pursuit Special, the Interceptor from Mad Max
• The Bluesmobile (a 1974 Dodge Monaco police car) from [The Blues Brothers]
• Il Tempo Gigante from Pinchcliffe Grand Prix. [2]
• Peugeot 406 Taxi from the 1998 film Taxi, the 2000 film Taxi 2 and the 2003 film Taxi 3, and the enemies' cars, Mercedes-Benz E-Class in Taxi 1, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution in Taxi 2
• Ford Crown Victoria taxi and her enemy, BMW 7 Series from the 2004 film Taxi
• The Corvette from Corvette Summer
• The Camaro from Better Off Dead
• The Ford Mustang GT390 Fastback from [Bullitt]
• The Shelby Mustang GT500 from [Gone in Sixty Seconds]
• The Pontiac Trans Am From [Smokey and the Bandit]
• The 1970 Dodge Hemi Challenger from Vanishing Point
• The Wraith - a supernatural but extremely high-tech black car featured in the eponymous film (actually the Dodge M4S show car).
• Cat in the Hat Mobile- The main conveyance of the Dr.Seuss feline classic.
• The Silver Hornet (Citroen 2CV) from Revenge of the Pink Panther [[3]]
• The Ford LTD Crown Victoria in Men in Black I, and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class in its sequel, Men in Black II
• A 1978 Camaro/ 2009 Camaro known as Bumblebee in the movie "Transformers"

Television

• The Homer, from The Simpson's
• 1928 Porter from My Mother the Car
• Al's Dodge, from Married... with Children
• The Batmobile from Batman
• Ford Gran Torino in Starsky and Hutch
• Bessie from Doctor Who
• The Black Beauty from The Green Hornet
• Car 54 from Car 54, Where Are You?
• The Compact Pussycat driven by Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races
• The Mean Machine driven by Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races
• The General Lee (Dodge Charger) from The Dukes of Hazzard
• The Mach Five from the anime Go Mifune (also known as Speed Racer).
• The Peugeot 403 cabriolet from Columbo
• Gladys Crabtree from My Mother the Car
• The Grey Ghost from Baretta
• The Homer, Homer's ugly car from The Simpsons
• KITT, the talking car (Pontiac Trans Am) from Knight Rider
• Del Boy's yellow Reliant Regal Supervan in Only Fools and Horses. Later buys a 1978 Ford Capri Ghia, which Rodney nicknames 'The PratMobile'.
• The Monkeemobile, from The Monkees
• The Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo
• The Flintstones' car, from The Flintstones
• The Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson's AP Films.
• The FAB 1, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward's pink six-wheeled Rolls-Royce in the Thunderbirds TV series by Gerry Anderson's AP Films.
• Ray's black 1965 Corvette Stingray from the series Stingray
• The GMC van from the series The A-Team
• The Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster and Viper GTS coupe from the series Viper.
• The Green & Black Mini Minor featured in Mr. Bean TV Series.
• The Blue Bubble Car featured in the Mr. Bean TV Series.
• The Thunderhawk, a 1985 Chevrolet IROC-Z Camaro featured in the M.A.S.K. cartoon series
• Drag-U-La and Herman's Munster Coach from The Munsters
• GMC Truck from Fall Guy driven by Colt Seavers(Lee Majors)

Song

• Rocket 88 by Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm - purportedly the first rock and roll song
• 409 by the Beach Boys
• Little Deuce Coupe by the Beach Boys
• Little GTO by Ronnie and the Daytonas
• Little Red Corvette by Prince
• The Eliminator from the videos by ZZ Top
• Red Barchetta by Rush
• Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen
• Mercury Blues by Alan Jackson
• Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody
• Dragula by Rob Zombie
• Mercedes-Benz by Janis Joplin
• Slick Black Cadillac by Quiet Riot
• Built For Speed by The Stray Cats
• Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett

Comics

• The "313," Donald Duck's 1934 "Belchfire Runabout," from the Donald Duck comic books.
• Grandma Duck's Detroit Electric, also from the Donald Duck comics.
• The Batmobile, Batman's specialized vehicle.
• Shelby Cobra GT500, Rally Vincent's car from the manga Gunsmith Cats

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• Lists of automobiles