The other day, Topspeed posted a reprint of "The 10 Greatest Car Movies Ever," originally put together by "The Jennings Motor Group." According to the internet, Jennings is a group of Ford, Kia, Mazda and SEAT dealers in Northeastern England. They promise customer satisfaction, and we’ve got every reason to believe them. But as to their taste in car movies...employing that grandest of all British social commentaries...
BOLLOCKS.
Don’t get me wrong: I do appreciate that fully more than half the list is made up of American movies. Thank you, England. We also make excellent bacon and drone robots. Three of the 10 also make our Top Ten list, most notably the First Place entry. But come on, mates. Bullitt? That wasn’t a car movie. It was a detective story that had one good car chase, and only then because everything with Steve McQueen has a car chase. Same with The Italian Job and American Graffiti. Good movies involving cars, but not good car movies. Two cars, one race or one chase does not a car movie make.
Car movies are about the love of the machine; driving it, building it or just being around it. Of course character and story are important — they are in any movie. But a car movie is one where the culture of the characters is framed around the cars; not one where cars make a cameo appearance. More than anything else, a great car movie needs to remind us of what we love about automobiles: mechanical beauty, power, speed, sex appeal, rebellion and freedom.
With that in mind, here’s Topspeed’s list of the REAL Top Ten Car Movies of All Time.
TopSpeed's 10 Best Car Movies originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 4 May 2015 17:00 EST.
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