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Drive It Like You Stole It: The most ridiculous car chases in cinema history

Bullitt.

The French Connection.

Ronin.

All classic car chases, sure to fill out every single list ranking those scenes on the internet. This list doesn’t have a single one of those movies on it. Why? Because they’re not ridiculous enough. Sure, they’re great and all, but this is the week The Fate of the Furious hits theaters, and you mean to tell us that people go and see those movies because the car chases are great? Well, sure, they are, but they’re also absolutely stone-cold crazy (that bank robbery in Fast Five would have made this list if we weren’t banning all of those movies from it because it would be nothing but clips from that franchise), and last we checked, people weren’t writing about how well-shot the Siberian sequence in F8 is, they were writing about it because The Rock punches a goddamn torpedo out of his car’s way. So here’s a list of eight incredibly ludicrous and fun chase/car scenes for your entertainment.

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Corvette Summer (1978)

We can’t find the sequence we want to show from this absolutely bonkers Cannonball Run cash-in, so we’ll simply show you the trailer and hope you can dig it, daddy-o. Mark Hamill (post-Star Wars, before the face-altering car accident) stars as a dude obsessed with a really butt-ugly Corvette that he goes to Las Vegas to track down, and he’s joined by Melanie Potts (who was nominated for a Golden Globe for this, back in the era when bribing the Hollywood Foreign Press was as easy as a free dinner and an open bar). It’s a silly movie, directed by Hollywood veteran and expert screenwriter Matthew Robbins, and the chicken sequence at the end of the film is one of the nuttiest extended crash sequences in any ’70s car film.

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