The Gumball Rally : Your fave car(s)

It's gotta be that Ferrari 365GTS Daytona. It looks & sounds great, as I'm sure Crockett & Tubbs (of Miami Vice) would agree.





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Couldn't agree with you more. And this one was real! The Miami Vice Daytona Spyder was a kit-car - a 1980 Corvette rebodied to look like the 365GTS.

Right, McBurnie Coachcraft (or something) did that conversion and tried to market this but AFAIK there were plenty of other kit-car companies doing the same thing.

I guess the show's producers had the good taste to use a real Testarossa later in the series. EDIT: Holy moley! From FerrariClub.com:

"By the start of the third season (of Miami Vice), Ferrari executives were getting miffed that the ersatz Daytona was gathering so much attention. The television audience was unaware that the show cars were fake. The producers intended for the car to be treated as a genuine Ferrari and Crockett never hints that the Daytona is a replica. Given the constructed reality of television, it is no wonder that the fake car was treated as real. In any event, Ferrari North America offered to provide two bona-fide Ferraris for Miami Vice, and they chose their flagship model, the 12-cylinder muscle machine, the Testarossa."

The Testarosa was a Pantera with a body kit


Raul Julia.. OK Smarta Boy. Ferrari . But I liked the RS 2nd Generation Camaro

No. There were two real Testarossas (exterior shots star car & partly dismantled interior shots car with permanently attached huge 1980s cameras) and a (bad) replica based on a Pantera chassis. This was supposed to be the 'stunt car' but it was more of a stand-by last resort when they couldn't use the real ones and it was too late to change the script!

My personal, realistic, favorite is the Yellow 1970 Split Bumper Camaro! If I were to 'let things get away from me' it would be the Ferrari Daytona Spyder!

Cobra for me its a beautiful car the sound is great, being a v8, However if i were to go upper class ferrari is nice, i dont perticully like those models.

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REALLY!!!!???! i didint know that

I like the Bike guy. Although the bike changes brand and size a couple of times (anyone recall what the bike was supposed to be?), it clealry has a two stroke soundgotta love the old street two strokers.
He was absoloutely the funneist person in the movie! Poor guy got pounded, burned, frozen, ate bugs, flew the bike more than oncetotally hilarious.
But he did finish!!

The Cobra, without a doubt.

The Porsche is a second.

The Bike is a 1970's Kawasaki 750 (mach 3?) two stroke triple. They were awesomely quick, but had laughable brakes and suspension, plus they blew up all the time, the middle cylinder used to sieze.
My mate had one and we called it the widowmaker, fortunately it spent most of its time being fixed :)
Would be worth a fortune now.
Great Movie and the silent Hungarian nearly stole it :)

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The Ranchero the two cowboys were driving (hey, it 'caught' the Porsche)!
Second, the Cobra. Yes, it's uncomfortable and unrefined, but in the good way.
Third, the Kawasaki. I remember when those big bore Kaws showed up in the '70s, I had to get me one of those!

1. Big-block, split bumper, screamin' yellow Camaro!!
2. T-Bucket. Had an L.A. Roadsters decal in the windshield.
3. Cobraawesome!
4. Cowboy's Ranchero.





"How fast is that thing?"
"Depends on who's around."

Well, My Favourite cars were the Cowboys Ranchero, the cop's Dodge highway patrol car, but number one for me was the beautiful Rolls Royce silver shadow 1, it absoulutley pained me to see it in all those near misses, get keyed by a scummy biker and go through that sand storm!!!!! poor car!!!!!

For me it's the Cobra, probably uncomfortable and a bitch to drive but they just look and sound *sooo* MEAN!
Having said that, the hot rod roadster (T-bucket?) has a certain charm about it :)
The bike Lapchick was riding was one of the KH series, if memory serves it was a KH400. Crap for going coast-to-coast in, obviously far better to use a four-stroke but hey, this is Hollywood!

I absolutely love the Cobra. It's so friggin America with a pushrod big block V-8. There's nothing like the sound of a high-revving big block. From what I've read, they used a real steel-bodied Cobra for the movie and not a kit car!

Yepit was the real deal!




"How fast is that thing?"
"Depends on who's around."

The genuine CSX Series Cobras used aluminium body panels made by AC Cars in Great Britain. Not quite American.

For me it has to be the cobra.

Me too. I was 5 when I saw this with my Dad. I told him to buy one, his response was that it was too expensive. Now he wishes I was more persistant.

nice choicethats my fave

I like the Cobra and the Camaro the best.

Why did the make the Cobra red on the DVD cover? That was pretty stupid, you'd think they could get something like that right.

Absolutely the Cobra!!
That 427 is such a cool little racer.
One day I hope to own one. Blue with white stripes!

True, but that engine was a Ford 427 "side oiler" stock car engine. Not British.

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absolutely love the Cobra. It's so friggin America with a pushrod big block V-8. There's nothing like the sound of a high-revving big block.

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shame its a british design then
oh and a ford v8 aint high revving.

:P

Agreed, and it's no contest. That Ferrari has always been my dream car.

It has to be Merc 300SL. I always liked the gull wing version.

Lets back up to when those engines were designed, back in the late 50's is when the FE Ford motor was first produced. Dragging around huge 2 ton + cars was their fate. However in the 60's when the 427 was produced they ran 7000+ rpm for hours at a time on the Nascar tracks. The 427 I own (in a Kirkham Cobra) has seen 7500 many times. At the same time a Ferrari in the 60's would see maybe 7500 to 8000 rpm. A different engine designed to something different. Lest we forget Ferrari has never made a 4000 + lb car that required the low end torque of a large cubic inch engine such as the FE series. If you want to know if the 427 made a good race engine ask your Ferrari buddies what happened in the 60's when Ford got serious about racing in Europe.

It's definitely the Ferrari Spyder and the Shelby 427 Cobra and lastly, not so much the Porsche Targa

It's definitely the Ferrari Spyder and the Shelby 427 Cobra and lastly, not so much the Porsche Targa

I've always been a Ferrari girl, myself but I absolutely LOVE the Cobra!

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Love em' all.movie is a time machine to the 70's.

But I still love Xk Jags..even when it's humid:)

The Cobra and Camaro were my fav,the Ferrari in New York City echoing sounded like music!!The Vette splitting in half was crazy.Dodge Polara(ex police car)was cool too.

GTSNo, Cobra. No, on second thoughts, the GTS. Yes definatley the GTS.

Wait, wait. Changed my mind. Cobra.

But then, the GTS is gorgeous and has a howler of a V12. Yes, GTS
is my final answer.

Erm.Cobra now that I think about it. Okay, final, final answer is the CobGTS.

But then there is the sound of that 427 V8Mmmmmm. And those muscular rear haunches. Ok, I'm sticking with the Cobra.

Hang on. Wasn't there an E-Type in this film too.? Awwww FU_CK!!!

Awww, dammit!!!! There is just no right answer to this question. Damn you OP. Damn your evil eyes for asking that question!!!!

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I have to go with the Cobra as my first choice, and the Camaro second. The Ferrari and Porsche are okay, but I'm 6'4" and those werent designed for anyone over 5'10.
I sat in a 308GTS once and I felt cramped like a sardine.If I were to chose based on comfort as well as performance, Id have to go with the Mercedes.

The cobra..
And one of the best car scenes in any motor movie ever, when the come out of the flood canal thing, up the off ramp, and onto the road absolutely neck and neck, and they floor the daytona and cobra at the same time, change into second, and the cobra just blows the doors off the ferrari..
its a thing of beauty

I agree, great scene
did you also watch it on tv in the uk?

In this order:
Mercedes
Jaguar -shame they didn't get out of the garage, I would love to see it speeding on the road
Cobra
Porsche