It is no secret that Hollywood loves destroying cars, and for good reason. There is something incredibly fun about blowing up, crushing, or crashing a car in some jacked-up, Hollywood way. But there are some movies that go above and beyond a couple of car crashes, destroying dozens, if not hundreds of vehicles in the pursuit of entertainment.
CarThrottle has put together a list of the Top 9 most vehicular destructive movies ever made, and while we would have guessed many of these movies, others came as a bit of a shock.
For example, who could have guessed that more than 100 cars (112 to be exact) were destroyed during the filming of the recent G.I. Joes movie? Not us. And there are two Blues Brothers on this list as well; the original film saw 103 cars totaled, while Blues Brothers 2000 destroyed 104 cars.
But those two movies combined still didn’t destroy as many vehicles as the filming of Fast Five did, with around 260 cars, trucks, and other vehicles wrecked. If you include the four films that came before it, over 900 vehicles have been destroyed in the Fast and Furious franchise, working out to about one car for every 37 seconds of film.
Even Fast Five pales in comparison to the kind of car killers, Michael Bay’s Transformers 3 destroys. In that film, 532 flood-damaged vehicles were destroyed during filming, an incredible number for a single movie. It makes the cars destroyed in other films seem almost inconsequential.
Other movies on the list inlcude: Ronin, the European espionage thriller, and of course who can forget the original Gone in 60 Seconds movie with 93 cars being destroyed? The Bruce Willis movie A Good Day To Die Hard took in 132 cars and made scrap metal out of them. Is the cost of entertainment worth destroying so many cars?