Top 10 Animated Cars Of All Time
Jun 4, 2009
- The Mystery Machine - Scooby-Doo, Where are You!
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Perhaps the most famous of all animated shows on television, the series was based on the lives of Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers as they went about solving mysteries that invariably turned out to be not-so-mysterious at all... and they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
Of course, the five characters needed a way to get around, and they did so with style in the Mystery Machine, a classic '70s-era van painted up in blue and green and covered with flowers. So beloved is the Mystery Machine that it was voted as the best fictional car of all time in a 2006 survey conducted by Toys R Us. How can we argue with that? Click above to continue.
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- The Mystery Machine - Scooby-Doo, Where are You!
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Perhaps the most famous of all animated shows on television, the series was based on the lives of Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers as they went about solving mysteries that invariably turned out to be not-so-mysterious at all... and they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
Of course, the five characters needed a way to get around, and they did so with style in the Mystery Machine, a classic '70s-era van painted up in blue and green and covered with flowers. So beloved is the Mystery Machine that it was voted as the best fictional car of all time in a 2006 survey conducted by Toys R Us. How can we argue with that? Click above to continue.
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- Bumblebee - Transformers
- To the latest generation of Transformers fans, Bumblebee is a new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro. That's a bit of a shame, since true aficienados of the original animated series that aired from 1984 until 1992 will forever remember the Autobot as an old yellow Volkswagen Beetle that always seemed to be getting himself into a bit of trouble but always came through in the end. In any case, while we could have picked a number of characters from this series, Bumblebee remains one of the most popular Transformers characters in history, earning him a solid spot on our list of animated cars. Click above to continue.
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- Fred Flintstone's Car - The Flintstones
- The Flintstones is one of America's true classic animated series. Hanna-Barbera's cartoon about a "modern stone age family" originally aired from 1960 until 1966, though it's still possible to pick up the series in syndication from time to time. One of the reasons for the show's popularity was that it often depicted modern-day technology realized in very un-modern ways, including cars. Apparently, vehicles from the Stone Age had two cylindrical wheels fashioned from stone (one in the front and one out back), a horn that was really a bird that squawked when its tail was yanked and, of course, they were powered and stopped by feet. Click above to continue.
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- Toyota AE86 - Initial D
- For those of you who aren't aware, Initial D is a mega-popular manga and anime series in Japan that focuses on the world of illegal Japanese street racing, most often in the mountains outside the Japanese prefecture of Gunma. Obviously, cars are featured prominently in the series, including the super popular Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT (otherwise known as the Corolla Sport or AE86), the rotary-powered Mazda RX-7, Honda Civic, Mitsubishi Evolution and Nissan Skyline GT-R. We love the cars in real life, so it's no surprise we're also fond of them in rendered form. Click above to continue.
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- Homer's Car - The Simpsons
- The Simpsons has been on television for so long that it's not surprising the show has prominently featured automobiles more than once. Luckily for us, each time a Simpsons' episode revolves around a car, it's a classic. Such is the case with "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou," the 15th episode from the show's second season. Here's the quick synopsis: Homer is told that he has a twin brother, searches for him and finds out his name is Herb Powell and he runs an automaker. Powell directs Homer, his long-lost brother, to design the kind of car he'd want to buy. The result is awesome... horrifyingly awesome. Click on the image above to continue.
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- Tow Mater - Cars
- Even though the movie Cars was primarily about Lightning McQueen and his efforts to get back to the title-deciding last race of the season, our favorite character from the animated Pixar film would have to be the affable country-bumpkin Tow Mater, who was reportedly inspired by a 1951 International Harvester in tow truck guise. Ably voiced by Larry the Cable Guy, Mater easily had some of the most memorable lines from the movie.
In reality, any character from Cars would serve just as well in this spot, including The King, who was voiced and inspired by Richard Petty and the 1970 Plymouth Superbird; Luigi, the 1959 Fiat 500 that was voiced by Tony Shalhoub; Guido, the little forklift that managed to perform the fastest pit stop in Piston Cup history, or Doc Hudson, the 1951 Hudson Hornet made real through the voice of the late Paul Newman. Truly a classic animated film, we look forward to the sequel, which is reportedly set to debut in the summer of 2011.
