There have been many famed auto featured in picture show and video shows over the years . In some cases , the cars are as celebrated as the people who drove them on both the big and little screen . Mention a finicky picture show or television receiver programme and people outright think of the car in it . And no matter what a someone ’s age is , most of us are familiar with the most iconic cars in film and tv set history . Here ’s a list of 12 of the most unforgettable on - screen vehicles .
12. The Mutt Cutts Van - Dumb and Dumber
It ’s not the most famous fomite of all fourth dimension , but nobody who has hear the 1994 movieDumb and Dumbercan forget the infamous fucking - covered mutt cuts vanguard that thespian Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels repulse from Rhode Island to Colorado . Made out in the simulacrum of a dog , the van is hilarious to expect at and exemplifies the stupidity of the two lead characters . In genuine life history , the van used in the moving-picture show was a 1984 Ford Econoline van that was painstakingly customized to give it the shaggy dog appearance . get wind Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels race across America in that van is unforgettable . Sadly , the new wave was abandon halfway through the film so that the two main characters could push back an equally funny fomite — a tiny moped scoter .
11. The A-Team Van
It was n’t fancy or high - technical school , but the red and black van labour in the iconic eighties telly showThe A - Teamendured in the populace ’s witting , as has the program . A 1983 GMC G-15 van , The A - Team ’s vehicle of selection was shown in about all 97 episode of the TV program , and , during the series running game , it was subject to a lot of misuse — including being spud up , set on blast , driven into lakes , run off cliffs and flip over on infinite occasion . Perhaps it was the fact that the van was featured in so many action sequences that hearing remember it so readily when ask to recallThe A - Team . It could be argued that the van is as well remembered as Mr. T ’s Mohawk or the show ’s touch , and oft - repeated , short letter : “ I love it when a program add up together , ” and “ I feel for the jester . ”
10. Pontiac Firebird Trans Am - Smokey and the Bandit
The seventies was the geological era of the car chase movie , and no film exemplify the genre better than 1977’sSmokey and the Bandit . And the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am featured in the celluloid is as well - have intercourse to audience as the picture ’s stars — Burt Reynolds and Sally Field . The Trans Am is even featured on many bill sticker for the movie alone — without Burt Reynolds , who plays the form of address character of Bandit . With a simplistic plot about efforts to transport beer across county lines while being follow up on by a Sherriff ( Jackie Gleason),Smokey and the Banditis short on story and long on car pursuit — and almost all of them boast the now - legendary Pontiac Firebird Trans Am , which audiences at the prison term could not get enough of .
9. Cadillac Miller-Meteor Hearse - Ghostbusters
The tricked out 1959 Cadillac Miller - Meteor Hearse featured in the iconic 1984 movieGhostbustersis memorable for all of the additions to it , which included flashing luminance , sirens and an amped - up radio receiver system . The melodic theme to use a hearse as the Ghostbusters ’ vehicle of choice was an actor and co - writer Dan Aykroyd ’s , and his character in the movie can be seen modify the hearse at the Ghostbusters ’ headquarters ( an vacate fervidness station ) . obviously , Aykroyd thought having the Ghostbusters drive a hearse that had antecedently been used to carry dead bodies would fit with the film ’s gallows humour and theme of helping spirits and ghosts of the deceased . However , it was all the adjustment on the hearse that made the Ghostbusters fomite rightfully memorable to moviegoers .
8. The Mystery Machine Van - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Arguably the best - known vehicle ever to be featured in a toon has to be the Mystery Machine van fromScooby - Doo , Where Are You!Painted in multiple colors , and with the name “ Mystery Machine ” on the side , this van represent the recent sixties and seventies aesthetic better than almost any other vehicle of the time . It also carried Fred , Daphne , Velma , Shaggy , and Scooby - Doo from one enigma to another each hebdomad on the popular TV show . A existent - life translation of the van was developed for the unrecorded - action movie that hit theater in 2002 . However , it is the cartoon version of the van that is most memorable to generation of youngster who grew up watching the lovable Scooby - Doo get out of one tight spot after another .
7. Ford Gran Torino - Starsky and Hutch
If the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am inSmokey and the Banditwas the best - known movie car of the 1970s , then the 1975 Ford Gran Torino fromStarsky and Hutchhas to be the best - acknowledge television machine of the earned run average — with perhaps one exclusion render further on in this list . Starsky and Hutch were two hard - hitting copper who clean up the inner city , and they drove around in a super cool red and snowy Gran Torino . Over the show , four years running — from 1975 to 1979 — the Gran Torino drive by Starsky and Hutch became as iconic as the show itself and often outshone its stars , David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser . People who watched this show instantly remember the red and white Gran Torino even if they ca n’t remember the actors ’ epithet . A true testament to the car ’s fabled position .
6. Volkswagen Beetle - The Love Bug
The 1968 movieThe Love Bugis about the gondola featured in it — a 1962 Volkswagen Beetle name “ Herbie . ” For this reasonableness , it is difficult not to call back the car when remember the film . However , the Volkswagen featured inThe Love Bugis so fondly remembered and beloved because of its typical key business , signature issue 53 , and the quirky personality that was bestowed on the car , which has a nous of its own and operates independently of its driver in the movie . In fact , the Volkswagen Beetle from the movie was and go on to be , so popular that it has become synonymous with that model of cable car and the Volkswagen make . This was a grammatical case of product emplacement before it became commonplace in the pic . Herbie is still used to promote the Beetle and Volkswagen brands worldwide , and it remains an iconic movie railcar .
5. The Batmobile
The Batmobile is unique in that there have been many incarnations of the car , and every one of them is memorable and iconic in their own way . However , for the purposes of this list , we ’re babble about the Batmobile from the sixties television show that starred actor Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as his trustworthy buddy Robin . The iconic auto from the 1960s TV show was a modified 1955 Ford Lincoln Futura construct car that was originally price at $ 250,000 but never go into full product . The show ’s producer were able-bodied to get their hand on this one - of - a - form car and the rest , as they say , is history . And while the Batmobile featured in manager Tim Burton ’s 1989Batmanmovie was coolheaded , as was the tank - title version of the car in director Christopher Nolan’sDark Knighttrilogy about the caped crusader , it is this original Batmobile from the camp ‘ 60s TV serial publication that is best commend . In fact , the original Batmobile remain so democratic today that it hasits own website , stark with the motorcar ’s history , specification and news on replica models .
4. Ferrari 308 GTS - Magnum, P.I.
Few car are as associated with a video show as the Ferrari see on the 1980s classicMagnum , P.I.And the elevator car was not only the ride of lead character Thomas Magnum ( actor Tom Selleck ) , it also exemplified the cool Hawaiian location of the program with its medallion trees , sandy beaches and sunshine . Even people who did n’t watch the program think that Tom Selleck drove a red Ferrari on the show . The 1977 Ferrari 308 GTS was even boast in the program ’s title episode each calendar week . And the machine was also ofttimes used as a plot dot , as when Higgins ( flirt by John Hillerman ) would threaten to take the fomite aside from Magnum to punish him for some foolishness he ’d undertaken or problem he ’d gotten into . When masses think of the eighties , this Ferrari is one thing that comes to mind .
3. K.I.T.T. - Knight Rider
Probably the only television car from the eighties better know than the Ferrari fromMagnum P.I.is K.I.T.T. , the artificially intelligent Pontiac Trans Am from the super pop showKnight Rider . WhileKnight Ridermay seem tinny in retrospect , it was a immense hit when it aired on NBC from 1982 to 1986 , and it made a star out of both the serial publication booster cable , worker David Hasselhof , and the Trans Am that the show was really about — K.I.T.T. , which put up for “ Knight Industries Two Thousand . ” While the auto ’s main features were that it could drive itself , spill the beans and go fairly tight ( all feature to be launch in most car these Day ) , it nevertheless captured the imaginations of kids who could not get enough of the show or its touch elevator car . K.I.T.T. ’s paradigm was emblazon on lunch boxes , packsack and triiodothyronine - shirts everywhere in the 1980s , not to mention that the auto was a bestselling toy . And while David Hasselhof may have lose his boundary over the years , K.I.T.T. remains as coolheaded as ever .
1. General Lee - The Dukes of Hazzard
The 1969 Dodge Charger from TV showThe duke of Hazzard , with its distinctive orange key line , is such a big part of the program that it has its own name — the General Lee . And no other motorcar from film or TV is more iconic than this fomite . The whole show , which aired from 1979 to 1985 , was about cousin Luke and Bo Duke speeding around Hazzard County in General Lee , doing good deeds and evading the bumbling police who were always in blistering pursuit . Kind of like a TV interlingual rendition ofSmokey and the Bandit , The Dukes of Hazzardwas about cars and railcar Salmon Portland Chase , and the General Lee was at the center of it all . With doorway that did n’t undefendable and a on the face of it limitless speed , the General Lee was see each week performing breathtaking stunts and nerveless jumps , even , occasionally , drive on two wheels . The railway car always survive and never seemed to even get a chip on its paint task . And while the show has remained pop in rerun , the General Lee has remained fabled .
