List of famous automobiles
Below is a list of famous automobiles:
Historical
- "La Jamais Contente" the first car that reached 100 km/h.
- The Bluebird, used for world land speed attempts by Sir Malcolm Campbell
- Thrust2 - Former holder of the world land speed record
- ThrustSSC, the world's first supersonic land vehicle
- Bigfoot, the first monster truck
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
Movies
- Bond Cars as driven by 007
- 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 (film) from the 1953 film of the same name. http://www.donbrockway.com/Genevieve%27s%20History.htm
- Herbie from The Love Bug and three sequels
- De Lorean time machine from the Back to the Future series
- The Ectomobile from Ghostbusters
- The Interceptor from Mad Max
Television
- The Mach Five from the anime Mach Go Go Go (also known as Speed Racer).
- The Batmobile from Batman
- The Black Beauty from The Green Hornet
- Car 54 from Car 54, Where Are You?
- The Compact Pussycat driven by Penelope Pitstop
- The General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard
- 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 from Knight Rider
Song
- 409 by the Beach Boys
- Little Deuce Coupe by the Beach Boys
- Little GTO by Ronnie and the Daytonas
- The Eliminator from the videos by ZZ Top
Sports
- Moby Dick, nickname for Porsche 935 (racing model of 1978)