The Coolest Cars of TV & Film

The Batmobile

It’s hard to outdo the Batmobile by any stretch of the imagination. It’s much like the bat belt, in that just when you think there’s no fucking way it could produce something to save Batman’s ass, lo and behold it delivers. Oil slick? Check. Smoke screen? Check. Laser-guided missile that cures cancer? Check. Wait what?

Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari 308 GTS

Technically the car belonged to Robin Masters, not Magnum, but ownership was hardly an issue. With this car, that mustache, and those ex-Navy SEAL moves, Thomas Magnum practically owned the Big Island.

DRAG-U-LA & The Munster Koach

The Munsters was a notoriously underrated show to begin with, but they never stopped finding ways to make it even cooler. My favorite has to be the suped-up additions of these two cars. I mean, c’mon; the DRAG-U-LA is shaped like a coffin for fucks sake, and it’s clear dome top somehow protected Grandpa from the suns harmful effect on his skin. It’s so cool that even Rob Zombie named a song after it (seriously, that’s where it came from).

James Bond's Lotus Espirit

From The Spy Who Loved Me, this is easily one of the most famous Bond cars (except for possibly the DB5), mainly because it turned into a submarine with the flip of a switch. As is standard with Q’s “modifications,” torpedoes, depth charges, and surface-to-air missiles were part of the package too. I’m fairly certain that this was also the first model in which MI6 instituted mandatory in-dash condom dispensers for all 00s as well.

Thelma and Louise's Car

Ok so I know the premise of this is around guys and that Thelma and Louise is a chick flick but even a guy has to admit the Thelma and Louise car was cool as hell.

Nothing like a cool 1966 Ford Thunderbird. I also found a site saying the actual car sold for $45,000 and I thought they drove it off the cliff.

WienerMobile

Nothing says compensation like driving a huge wiener. Porsches have NOTHING on this.

Christine - The Demon Car

While not a very scary movie, this car tried its absolute best to bring the fear.

KITT

Quite possibly the baddest vehicle to ever grace our televisions on a weekly basis, KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was an autonomous car/artificial intelligence with whom Michael Knight, the ass-kicking, lovemaking protagonist played by The Hoff, was paired with.

The amount of times that the networks tried to bring Knight Rider back from the ashes and failed miserably is a testament to just how individually awesome this show (and KITT) really was.

Bandit's 1977 Trans Am

This car may not have had any unique powers like the Batmobile or KITT, but rest assured in the right hands it was more than capable of getting the job done. And not only did this movie officially make the Trans Am cool, it ushered in a previously unopened set of swear words that my brother and I never even knew existed.

The Mystery Machine

Between Velma using her laptop to Google “how to come out to your loved ones”, Scooby and Shaggy getting high off their asses, and Fred and Daphne engaging in some good ole’ Christian over-the-pants dry humping, The Mystery Machine has seen some pretty sweet action over the years.

The Mach 5

Driven by a weird, totally effeminate guy in a red bandanna and leather racing gloves with an affinity for monkeys, the Mach 5 remains one of the coolest TV cars ever to be conceived. It checked in right at 5,000 horsepower, and with a quick press of buttons A through G on the steering wheel all sorts of cool shit happened, like turning the Mach 5 into a submarine, or slicing obstacles clean off the road. Sadly, there isn’t a button in the world powerful enough to make Speed Racer less of a homo, even with the help of his “girlfriend” Trixie.

The A-Team Van

There was always something cool happening in the back of the A-Team van, whether it was Hannibal’s collection of disguises or an even more impressive micro printing press.

Other than it’s iconic styling, the A-Team’s biggest point of notoriety was simply being a conveyance for such overwhelming awesomeness. For this reason alone its fame was well-deserved. Come to think of it, it’s a lot like how Mary got famous for carrying the son of God. Though I’d wager that the A-Team would beat out Jesus on the Fancast review pages.

The Monkeemobile

So maybe it doesn’t have the most original name of all the cars on this list, however, it’s one of the more surprisingly kick ass-looking ones. This modified Pontiac GTO featured all the luxury bells and whistles, including a parachute.

The Ecto-1

An old ambulance converted specifically for use by the Ghostbusters to carry their equipment, you could play its siren’s distinctive wail to a group of ignorant blind people that have been locked in a dungeon for the past 20 years, and they’d still be able to immediately tell you what it was from.

Herbie the Love Bug

What could be cooler than Herbie? Ok so he stunk in Herbie Goes Bananas but still a great car.