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By Christopher Tracy
Mar 11, 2020
The correct answer is Baby Driver featuring a 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX. That’s my opinion and I won’t be swayed from it. What other opening scenes of a movie showing a sweet, sweet ride can you watch over and over again? What follows is not a comprehensive list.
Is it Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with the Porsche 996?
What about Cars?
Or is it Drive (2011)? Maybe John Wick Chapter 2 is your cup of tea?
Please let us know which opening car scene is the best in your humble opinion.
Chris works in marketing by day and writes offroad automotive pieces by night. Chris is the producer/cohost of the Off The Road Again Podcast. A dad trying to get his kids outside more. IG: @overlandingdad.
Jeff Glucker
The Transporter! Basically what Baby Driver emulated, intentionally or not.
https://youtu.be/6xewS5I4Eho
Clearly the best, if only for the manual transmission 7 series.
The fake engine noises took me out of it, though. Baby Driver at least had authentic boxer-4 thrum.
Meh, sort of like fake breasts. I may have noticed, but I didn’t really care. 🙂
Man of taste.
I can’t decide between the original, or the sequel
What about the threequel? Speed Zone had the Countach skipping across a pond!
The Italian Job. It all goes great right up until the bulldozer.
*Edit* I have to second the Pixar Cars movie up there. That “kids” movie was, ironically, the last movie I saw in the theater before my first kid was born. I’m far from a NASCAR (or Piston Cup) guy but definitely remember being in awe of the attention to detail.
Absolutely The Italian Job. No other movie sets the stage better for impending automotive mayhem, and does so with the world’s coolest sports car.
I have never even seen the original. This has me enticed, massively.
Heavy Metal. Rotoscoped space Corvette. Suck it, Elon Musk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ojne2qiC4I
Anyone left unconvinced by the phrase “rotoscoped space Corvette” is simply not amenable to the power of reasoned debate.
And as usual, the original Gone in 60 Seconds puts Gone in Sixty Seconds (see what they did there?) to shame. No one should be allowed to watch the remake, ever.
(Man, guys from 1974 wearing disguises really look like guys from 2020 dressing up as guys from 1974.)
Christine.
As noted by Batshitbox, the correct answer is Heavy Metal. This nonetheless deserves an honorable mention:
My first thought, too.
Never made into a movie, but there was a mini-series based on it with Ian McKellen. IDK if it has a bitchin’ intro or not.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043714/
The opening scene is cool – the rest of the movie is a let down.
I don’t know if I would say worst, but after all the hype, it failed to live up to my expectations.
Baby Driver was my first thought as well, when I read the question. I don’t disagree with you.
Really? What did you not like about it?
The first Mad Max film has to be a contender.
“I am the Night Rider!”
Late to the party,
Veering off topic, but close,
I found Sturgill Simpson.
The Baby Driver intro is excellent. I very much enjoy the tension in the beginning of Driver too though. The car is only a late model Impala, but the scene is pretty great.
Crap movie with a killer first scene