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Top 10 TV and Movie Cars

Have you ever dreamed of owning or driving a car that have watched on television? At times, you know they are fake, but you still want to get your hands on them. There have been many amazing cars in films and in TV series over the years and we also agree that some aren't as memorable as others. They are forgotten the moment you forget the scene. Here's our pick of the top 10 TV and movie cars indicating that some cars just can't be ignored or forgotten.

The Flintstone's Car

How good is a car without an engine? The Flintstone's car is one such car, but still finds its place in our top 10 TV and Movie Cars list. No engine, no airbags, no brakes - that's the Flintstone's car for you. This car certainly can't be driven on our roads either. Powered by the driver and passenger running, the Flintstone's car was capable of a top speed of 3 kmph.

Lady Penelope's Limousine

Lady Penelope's limousine was known as FAB1. It was over 20ft long and extremely hard to manoeuvre round corners. It is indeed one of the longest and pinkest cars one can imagine. Owned by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, the car is usually driven by her chauffeur Parker. The driver sits in a central position at the front of the passenger compartment, which is covered by a bulletproof bubble canopy. The car has been modified with gadgets and gizmos, including heavy artillery concealed behind the radiator grille and front and rear headlights. It is also equipped with smokescreen- and oil-dispensers, extendable tyre-studs for increased traction, and hydrofoils or outriggers for travel on water or snow respectively. Rolls-Royce supplied a radiator grille complete with Spirit of Ecstasy for close-up shots of the car.

Italian Job Minis

Michael Caine steals a shipment of gold from Italy in the Mini Cooper S in the film "The Italian Job". The Mini Cooper "S" was a sportier version that was successful as a rally car, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times from 1964 through to 1967, although in 1966 the Mini was disqualified after the finish, along with six other British entrants, which included the first four cars to finish, under a questionable ruling that the cars had used an illegal combination of headlamps and spotlights.

New York Taxi

A yellow taxi immediately and automatically takes us to the New York taxis made famous by Robert De Niro in the movie "Taxi Driver". The taxicabs of New York City, with their distinctive yellow paint, are a widely recognized icon of the city. They are operated by private companies and licensed by the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission and you would be surprised to know that there are over 13,087 taxis operating in the city. "Medallion taxis", the familiar yellow cabs, are the only vehicles in the city permitted to pick up passengers in response to a street hail.

The Mystery Machine

Scooby-Doo along with his friends Freddie, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy got to the bottom of every mystery. The Mystery Machine was their official van. They drove around in the Mystery Machine van solving mysteries by exposing seemingly otherworldly ghosts and monsters as flesh and blood crooks. Surprisingly, the Mystery Machine didn't include any special features or crime fighting tools, but was still a cool looking van and it rightly deserves to be in our top ten television and movie cars list.

The Batmobile

The car has evolved along with the character from comic books to television and films, but nothing can beat Adam West's Batmobile driven in the 1960s version of the Batmobile. You'll struggle to find one that has the Bat-ray, the Bat-smokescreen, or the Bat-computer. Kept in the Batcave, which it accesses through a hidden entrance, the Batmobile is a gadget-laden vehicle used by Batman in his crime-fighting activities. Batman first drove in May, 1939 in Detective Comics #27 and the car was at the time simply referred to as "his car".

Ghostbusters Ecto 1

The Ectomobile, or Ecto-1 is a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor limo-style end-loader combination car (ambulance conversion) used in the 1984 film Ghostbusters and other Ghostbusters fiction. The Ghostbusters used the Ecto 1 while investigating paranormal activities. Complete with a Proton Cannon mounted on the roof to take on Slimer or Staypuft, the Ecto 1 is one of the most memorable cars. In the original movie, this vehicle was purchased by Ray Stantz for the relatively high price of $4800 in a poor state of repair.

The A Team Van

The GMC Vandura featured disguise kits and surveillance devices but was mainly used to get B.A Baracus, Murdock, Face and Hannibal on the scene of a crime or to help someone out quickly. The A-Team's black and metallic grey GMC Vandura van, with its characteristic red stripe, black and red turbine mag wheels, and rooftop spoiler, has become an enduring pop culture icon. One of the original six vans used for the show is displayed in the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum in Keswick, northern England. The GMC Vandura used by the A-Team movie 2010 was also on display at the 2010 New York International Auto Show.

The DeLorean DMC 12

Dr Emmett 'Doc' Brown created a time machine from a Delorean DMC 12 in "Back to the Future". When Marty and Doc meet as planned, Doc reveals the DeLorean DMC-12 which he had modified into a time machine, powered by plutonium which generates 1.21 gigawatts of power into a device he calls the flux capacitor. Doc also explains that the car travels to a programmed date upon reaching 142 kmph. However, before Doc can make a trip thirty years into the future, Libyan terrorists, from whom he stole the plutonium, show up and gun him down. The Delorean DMC 12 is most commonly known simply as the DeLorean as it was the only model ever produced by the company. The Delorean factory was closed in 1985. However, there are plenty of replicas around even today.

K.I.T.T from Knight Rider

The talking car K.I.T.T can drive itself using Artificial Intelligence and an alpha circuit as its main control system. It can also communicate with Michael Knight using a voice synthesizer, and is fluent in French and Spanish. Other cool features included a turbo boost, a silent mode to avoid detection, oil jets to get rid of pursuing vehicles, a microwave jammer to stop electronic signals, a tear gas launcher and an eject button for times of crisis. The original K.I.T.T was sold for $150,000 in 2007. There are many replicas around, but none will have the original features and none of them would have been driven by David Hasselhoff himself.