Wold ten most popular car chases

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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Steve McQueen's car chase scene in the 1968 movie "Bullitt" still ranks as the most popular car chase scene in Hollywood history, according to a survey.

The detective movie, which featured McQueen driving a Ford Mustang in a high-speed chase through the streets of San Francisco, captured 40 percent of the votes in the survey. The email survey was conducted by Hagerty Insurance, a company that insures collectible cars, and had nearly 2,000 respondents.

"Bullitt" beat out its nearest rival, the 2000 remake of the movie"Gone in 60 Seconds," by almost a five to one margin.

The action comedies "Smokey and the Bandit" and "The Blues Brothers" took the third and fourth spots.

Rounding out the list, the original 1974 version of "Gone in 60 Seconds" finished fifth, followed by "The French Connection", "Ronin", "Vanishing Point", the recent remake of "The Italian Job" and "The Fast and Furious" which claimed the tenth spot.

Those films that just missed the cut included the "The Bourne Supremacy," the Ducati motorcycle scene in "The Matrix Reloaded" and "Days of Thunder" featuring Tom Cruise.

Gari.pk User 854 asked on 17 Jun 2010 18:49:27 pm

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Anas - on 17 Jun 2010 18:49:39 pm

I reckon that Audi chase in Ronin was spectacular. Did you know that cars used in the movies is actually a sales gimmick. For instance Audi payed the movie makers upwards of 1mill to feature an Audi A4 in that scene. The Defender in which Lara Croft descends upon the jungles of SA was used after an excuberant sum of money changed hands and Land Rover promptly put out a limited edition run of (not sure how many but could be either 250-500) Land Rver Defender (Similarly outfitted as the one used in the movey) called "The Tomb Raider Edition" Defender.
Most people may also not kow this but jackie chan used to be a Test Driver for Mitsubishi before his success as a movie star. so thats why you'll almost all of his movies (give or take a few hollywood ones) featuring one or more Mitsubishis, ALWAYS.