best car movies

[Buckeye1647545503]

that must be where bmw got the idea becouse this was a new thing a few years ago and am pretty sure it was bmw. I will have to fins a faster comp to watch that clip kirk if it was anything like the newer one I am sure it is good

[Patrick]

nevermind, video i was looking for got deleted from youtube-i'll keep looking, its worth seeing

 

edit:: found it. watch the whole thing, well worth it.

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwhhm_rendezvous-de-claude-lelouch_auto

 

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The French cult classic C'était un rendez-vous, or just simply Rendezvous.

 

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.

 

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

 

The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.

 

It's a simple enough story- a man drives his car at breakneck speed through the streets of Paris to join his date, burning through red lights and traveling up one way roads to get to her as quickly as possible.

 

Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago

 

Supposedly, there was a blind crossing near the end. The driver had an assistant stand there and inform him of any traffic that may be coming via handheld radio. At the end, they found out the assistant's radio was dead. Plus it was as long as it was due to having just enough film for the sequence.