Disaster films and cars like cheese and wine are inextricably linked. What else could the heroes get away from the raging elements, if not on them? Moreover, these cars really exist, and if you want, you can find an almost exact copy of your favorite model.
And we will tell you about five cars from films about the apocalypse, which are sold in Russia.
5. Volvo V70
Film: “28 weeks later”
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This is a representative of the first generation V70, produced in 1996 - 2000. Its still reliable body and true Swedish quality protect the heroes of the film “28 days later” both from zombies and from soldiers who are too active in burning infection.
In general, Volvo is not new to filming - cars of this brand took part in more than a thousand different films and series. And in the film “28 days later” featured a model with a 2.4-liter gasoline engine, released in 1998.
Attentive spectators, noticing the license plate, struck the car through the base and found that it really exists. Or existed. The license for the car was renewed until 2009, after which its traces are lost.
It’s not easy to find a similar car in Russia now, but it’s possible, not only old copies of the nineties, but also more modern versions from the 2010 release.
4. Smart Fortwo
Film: “Geostorm”
What will happen if you put in one bowl “Gravity”, “Independence Day”, “The Day After Tomorrow”, “Interstellar” and shake, but not mix? Something like Geostorm, a disaster movie that hit the screens in 2017. True, the movie received cool ratings from both viewers and critics, largely due to the huge amount of advertising per unit of screen time.
In addition to the Chromebook, Coors Light, the Chipotle restaurant chain, a small city car called Fort Forto appeared on the screen. Prior to this, the small car was seen in two films - “Pink Panther” and “Pink Panther 2”.
And Geoshtorm demonstrated that the little Smart Fortwo is capable of not only causing emotion in the audience and spectators, but also quite effectively taking its passengers away from exploding gas pipes and crumbling buildings.
The third-generation car, developed in 2014, participated in the film, when Smart Fortwo changed both the design and the filling. He acquired a three-cylinder engine with reduced fuel consumption and a five-speed gearbox.
Exactly the same as in the film, it will be difficult to get a car in Russia (it is with an electric motor). But its gasoline counterparts are quite widespread.
3. Lincoln Town Car
Film: «2012»
The director Roland Emmerich specializes in disaster films in which he destroys the Earth in various ways: either with the help of aliens, then releasing a monstrous reptile the size of a skyscraper, then covering it with an ice crust. In the film “2012”, the core of the earth and the shifts of the earth's crust caused by its activity are used.
Surviving - so chic! Apparently, the hero of John Cusack was guided by this logic, choosing a luxurious limousine to escape from the crumbling city. A powerful car rushes to the rescue just a couple of meters from the giant cracks that threaten to devour the heroes as a whole. But this does not end the participation of high-class cars in the disaster film.
The next character in the film is a 2005 Bentley Flying Spur luxury car with a 560-liter twin-turbocharged engine. with., all-wheel drive, capable of accelerating to 100 km in just 5.2 seconds and developing a top speed of 312 km / h. And voice control.
The triumphant moment of the Bentley is when the heroes escape on it from a crashing plane. They jump into the car, start the engine by voice control, open the hatch and leave the plane a second before the crash. And they land safely on the snowy mountainside.
If there can be difficulties with Bentley in Russia, then it is not a problem to get a used Lincoln. Available in the secondary market, the instance is equipped with a 214 liter engine. with., leather seats and even a built-in socket for a bottle of champagne.
2. Ford Mustang 4th generation
Film: "I'm a legend"
In the very first frames of the film, Will Smith's character, Dr. Robert Neville, famously rolls across empty New York on the scarlet Shelby Mustang GT500. The doctor is not only an excellent driver (only a desperate daredevil can drive 100 km / h in a dilapidated city) but also a great shooter - he also aims from a rifle at a running deer!
True, Mustang fans were pretty disappointed that with the exception of this scene, the car no longer appears in the frame. But if the first frames of the film did not impress you, you may not be surprised in anything in life.
The same Mustang, which Will Smith drove around, had a 5.4-liter turbocharged eight-cylinder engine, a six-speed manual gearbox, limited-slip limited slip differential and overall was the pinnacle of Ford's 2007 automotive excellence. Under the hood of this car hid 500 liters. sec., and she was able to accelerate from 0 to 100 km in just 4.7 seconds.
Now everyone can buy an almost exact copy of the car for a modest amount of 120 thousand dollars. Or get a model of the same brand, released in the same year, but, of course, is not so exclusive. But very similar.
1. Dodge Ram
Film: “Interstellar”
Topping the list of cars from disaster films that you can buy in Russia today is the Dodge Ram pickup. Usually in a movie about the end of the world, either solid family SUVs or beautiful sports cars are featured. Before Interstellar, a pickup truck was seen only in the 1996 film “Tornado”; it was on this machine that the brave meteorological heroes with danger to life threw sensors into the mouth of a tornado.
In Interstellar, the role of a pickup truck is much less dramatic, but no less important. The Dodge Ram, on which the hero Matthew McConaughey rolls, as if sets off the plot of the film. In reality, this is a fourth-generation car, released in 2013 (that is, it was born just a year before the film was released), all-wheel drive, with a 6.7-liter diesel engine from Cummins, Firestone tires and a six-speed manual gearbox.
But for the shooting of this model, it was decided to age. Indeed, the action of Interstellar takes place in the not too distant future, approximately 15-20 years from our time, when an environmental catastrophe led to the slow death of mankind. And people simply can not afford new things, because all their forces are devoted to survival. So got a Dodge Ram rust all over the body, a scratched windshield and broken air conditioning.
It's funny, by the way, that cars got a little overdone with aging, and viewers with an eagle eye noticed that the pseudo-rust had even affected the plastic trim of the radiator grille. But rust does not happen on plastic, it only affects the metal parts of the car. There were other moviegoers at Interstellar - for example, when a young Murphy changes gears, she says: “Second ... third!”, Although in reality the transmission lever is in completely different positions.
Although rare in the secondary car market in Russia, Dodge Ram are found. So, if you want to touch both space and the American auto industry at the same time, you have direct access to specialized sites for buying and selling cars.
