List of famous automobiles

Below is a list of famous automobiles:

Real

Historical

• "La Jamais Contente" - The first car that reached 100 km/h.
• The Blue Flame - World land speed record holding rocket car.
• 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.

Racing

• Ford GT40, winner of LeMans race 1966.
• Swamp Rat, name of a series of dragsters built and raced by Don Garlits.
• Moby Dick, nickname for Porsche 935 (racing model of 1978).

From fiction

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
• The Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson's AP Films.

Television

• 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 (Dodge Charger) from The Dukes of Hazzard
• The Mach Five from the anime Mach Go Go Go (also known as Speed Racer).
• The Peugeot 403 cabriolet from Columbo
• Gladys Crabtree from My Mother the Car
• The Grey Ghost from Baretta
• The Homer, Homer's ugly car from The Simpsons
• K.I.T.T. , the talking car (Pontiac Firebird) from Knight Rider
• Del Boy's Robin Reliant in Only Fools and Horses. Later buys a Vauxhall, which Rodney nicknames 'The PratMobile'.
• The Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo

Song

• 409 by the Beach Boys
• Little Deuce Coupe by the Beach Boys
• Little GTO by Ronnie and the Daytonas
• Little Red Corvette by Prince
• The Eliminator from the videos by ZZ Top

Comics

• 1934 Belchfire Runabout, from the Donald Duck universe

See also

• List of fictional vehicles
• Archive of fictional things