Things I've learned about cars from movies

[akiratubo]

Cars often launch themselves into the air at dramatically appropriate moments.
99% of the time, cars explode in a collision, no matter how minor.
1% of the time, cars do not explode.  They flip over and THEN explode.
The explosion will come from the passenger compartment or under the hood of the car.  Explosions never come from the area of the car containing the gas tank.
If a bad guy is in the car, it will explode immediately.  If a good guy is in the car, it will not explode until he has crawled out and run a short distance away.
If a car jumps over a ramp or other such obstacle, flies through the air, and makes a very hard landing, it will still run just fine.  In fact, you can do this several times with no damage to the car.
Most cars produce extremely loud, V8 exhaust notes regardless of whatever engine they actually have.
Car tires will squeal on dirt, gravel, snow, or sheet ice.
Driving on a perfectly straight road requires constant, large movements of the steering wheel.
No matter how fast you are already going, hard acceleration requires slamming it down at least two gears.

[redsneaker]

Great Post!!! hehehehe! You are correct!

[Sister Grace]

Great post. definite karma..

Also have you ever noticed that when a car launches itself off of a parking building, bridge, cliff, ect.. that if you catch a glimpse of the underneath of the car, it magically becomes just a shell with tires.. no guts in the belly so to speak...

[Jack]

You forgot one:  If a car is parked in a remote area and there's a killer on the loose, the battery will automatically go dead.   

[Dennis]

There is always at least one parked car that is unlocked and ready to drive, whether or not you can do this depends on your position in the film, if you're a minor supporting character you'll get in the car, have no way to start it and get killed/eaten by the creature/maniac, also if the killer gets in the car with you none of the other doors will open. If on the other hand you're the star or main character of the film you will know that in addition to leaving the car unlocked the owner keeps a spare set of keys behind the driver's side sun visor, find them immediately, start the car and drive away.

[Dr. Whom]

If the hero drives the car, it automatically becomes bulletproof

[Zap Rowsdower]

         Also... All cars are easy to hot wire , since you only need to touch two wires together and both wires are lose , already striped and hanging out from under the dashboard.

[Andrew]

They also tend to explode the moment they drive off a cliff.  Either that or some maniac has traveled around the world, planting anti-vehicle mines on the sides of steep cliffs, just in case a car goes over the edge.

[AndyC]

Really speedy cars don't actually need ramps to jump. For example, the '69 Dodge Charger can jump over practically any obstacle from a perfectly flat road.

[peter johnson]

This has sort of been touched upon, but cars demonstrate unexpected resiliance if used in chases, though cars being chased are much more invulnerable than the cars doing the chasing --
Heck, you can smash them through market stalls, crates of heavy vegetables, fountains, other vehicles, doorways -- As long as you're being chased, this will result in at most some dust on the body and perhaps a few cosmetic dents.
peter johnson/denny crane

[AndyC]

Further to that, cars involved in a chase are far less likely to collide with other cars, or sustain damage from such a collision, while running red lights or emerging suddenly from alleys. This is balanced by the large number of collisions between the cars around them.

[BTM]

More neat facts...

In a high speed car chase/gun battle, no bullets will ever hit a needed component of the car which will cause it to slow down and stop.

EXCEPTION: If you're a good guy on foot, shooting at bad guys who are racing towards you, you'll miraculously ALWAYS hit something (or someone) that'll cause the car to veer off at the last moment (or explode outright). 

Plus, more often than not, bullet holes will magically appear/disappear over time.

Also, jumping out of a moving car does very little damage to you, so long as you "tuck and roll".

[AndyC]

And shooting the driver of a car racing toward you will always cause it to miss you. It will never just continue on its course.

And in rare cases where a bullet does hit some vital component of a hero's car, we see that it is capable of running much longer than a normal car after losing all of its oil, coolant or fuel. What's more, anything but total destruction can usually be repaired in a few hours with what's at hand. Something like a cracked block might take a day or two.

[El Dogo]

If there is a monster or killer nearby, the engine will not catch.  It will have the strongest freshest battery possible, for some odd reason, but it just won't catch.

[Oldskool138]

If there is a monster or killer nearby, the engine will not catch.  It will have the strongest freshest battery possible, for some odd reason, but it just won't catch.

Exception:  The car in Evil Dead 2.