In the real world, jumping cars almost always ends in tears, bent frames, and imploded suspension components, but in Hollywood it’s usually an excellent way to add an exclamation mark to a chase scene.
Hundreds of on-screen pursuits have give their stunt drivers the chance to get just a little airborne, and there are a handful out there cool enough – or is that weird enough? – to be singled out for a little extra recognition.
Here’s our take on the most impressive, and occasionally also the strangest, automotive flight plans ever captured on film.
The Transporter (2002)
The Car: 1995 BMW 735i
The Stunt: Jason Statham jumps from an overpass onto a moving car carrier
Why It’s So Cool: The most compelling aspect of the car stunts in The Transporter have to do with just how big the E38 BMW that Jason Statham’s character wheels around truly is. The 7 Series’ girth is further accented by the tiny European streets that frame the movie’s opening bank robbery escape scene, which means it’s only logical that the most impressive aspect of the sequence is also about forcing big things into tiny places.
With the rear wheels spinning and his mental timer ticking, Statham launches the 735i off a tiny overpass and lands it in the only free space available on the moving car carrier below. Thus, the Transporter is transported, and the audience has been clued in to what kind of thrills they can expect from the remainder of the movie.
The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
The Car: 1974 AMC Hornet X
The Stunt: A corkscrew jump across a river in a truly terrible car
Why It’s So Cool Weird: First things first: they actually executed a full barrel-roll jump in perhaps the least-suited automobile for such a stunt one could find in 1974. The victim of a product placement deal with AMC, James Bond’s producers apparently decided to torpedo the cool factor of the amazing, no-camera-trickery corkscrew (executed by stunt driver Loren ‘Bumps’ Williams) by dubbing over a slide-whistle sound effect that gave the entire effort the gravitas of a Looney Tunes production.
We’re still waiting for the Alfred R. Broccoli Special Edition version of The Man With The Golden Gun that gets all George Lucas in its revisions to what should have been a celebrated scene rather than a moment of ridicule.
The Rookie (1990)
The Car: 1990 Mercedes-Benz 500 SL
The Stunt: Top-down Clint Eastwood blasts through a wall of windows while jumping a Mercedes-Benz roadster from the upper storey of an exploding warehouse onto the rooftop of another building, before crashing through a skylight
Why It’s So Cool: Everything about the sentence you just read above this explains why this jump is cool, but it’s worth pointing out The Rookie was all about stretching the limits of an audience’s suspension of disbelief, especially regarding the imperviousness of the two leads to gunfire. Eastwood and his partner (played by Charlie Sheen) are completely unscathed by their multi-glass smash, and Clint even gets to drop the forgotten Mercedes-Benz tagline ‘Engineered like no other car’ as they pick themselves up out of the wreckage.
Speed (1994)
The Car: 1966 GMC TDH 5303
The Stunt: A city bus jumps from one portion of an incomplete highway to another with Sandra Bullock at the wheel
Why It’s So Cool: Depending on who you believe, the bus hump from Speed was either a resounding success or a barely-contained tragedy. Although there was no danger of the GMC hauler falling into a death-chasm (that section of highway was actually in place, and was digitally-removed in post-production), the stunt coordinator had underestimated just how well the bus would take to the sky.
At its highest arc the front of the TDH 5303 reached 20 feet from the road surface, and it managed to clear a full 109 feet in the air. This wreaked havoc with camera placement (parts of the bus weren’t even in frame), and the design of the 15-degree ramp (where the front ‘kicker’ portion dropped flat as soon as the front wheels cleared it) gave the bus a bit of a ‘747’ landing profile, but it remains an unforgettable capsule of ’90s cinema.
Taxi (1998)
The Car(s): A pair of 1992 Mercedes-Benz 500Es
The Stunt: The two Benzes are tricked into jumping from one section of an incomplete elevated roadway to another, stranding a gang of bank robbers
Why It’s So Cool: The second ‘Oops, there’s a gap in the highway’ stunt on our list stands as the thrilling conclusion to a chase between a hopped-up Peugeot driven by the film’s anti-hero and a bunch of bad dudes through much of Marseille and the surrounding countryside.
By braking at the last moment, the Peugeot driver (played by Samy Nacieri) manages to maroon the not-so-lucky 500E sedans on a hundred-foot segment of sky-high asphalt, where they can be later retrieved by police helicopter. It’s an inspired bit of direction from Gérard Pirès in a pioneering French movie that stood apart from other action fare from the same decade.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
The Car: 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California
The Stunt: A glorious ode to the freedom of valets set to the Star Wars soundtrack, and a second plunge to doom by a replica of the very same car later in the film
Why It’s So Cool: John Hughes decided to make real every single sports car owner’s fears about the habits of out-of-sight valets when he had a pair of carefree Chicago parkers go on a fantasy tear around town in Bueller’s best friend Cameron’s dad’s 250 GT California (which included more than a little air time).
A few story beats later, while trying to roll-back the car’s odometer on a jack, Cam kicks the Ferrari to death by knocking it, wheels spinning, through the glass wall of its ultra-bougie suburban garage. Two iconic jump scenes in one movie are just a part of what has made Ferris Bueller’s Day Off an indelible classic.
Gone In 60 Seconds (1974)
The Car: 1971 Ford Mustang (called a ’73 on-screen)
The Stunt: A 40-minute car chase culminates in a 128-foot jump after a 90-foot downhill plunge at full speed
Why It’s So Cool: Director and star H.B. Halicki did all of his own driving during the filming of one of the ’70s’ most unusual action films, and that means he was at the wheel when a 1971 Ford Mustang his character was driving got launched 30 feet into the air and landed nearly 130 feet later, compacting his own vertebrae but becoming even more of a legend in the process. Amazingly, only two cars were used while filming the chase and both survived the shoot, with the fully-caged jump car occasionally turning up in museums across the U.S.
Hooper (1978)
The Car: 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
The Stunt: That Trans Am? It has a rocket strapped to it, and it’s going to jump across a collapsed bridge — or is it?
Why It’s So Cool Weird: Yeah, yeah, so it does make the jump. But this is one of the stranger entries on our list, in that the jump takes place in a movie about an aging stuntman, that is directed by an actual stuntman, about a younger stuntman being pressured into doing a jump that’s way too dangerous because it involves a rocket engine attached to a Firebird. It’s like a meta-commentary how audiences are complicit in pushing film crews to take greater and greater risks to keep us all enterta — aw, c’mon, man just let me see that really sweet jump!
Speed Zone (1989)
The Car: 1985 Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV
The Stunt: A Countach is skipped across a pond like a flat stone
Why It’s So Cool: Every single auto enthusiast has, at one point in their life, looked at a body of water and thought ‘If I was going fast enough, I could definitely skip across this lake/river/pond/canal/deep ocean channel and just keep on driving when I hit the shore.’ And every single one of them has been wrong.
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
The Car: 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Yenko
The Stunt: Jumping from shore to ship to crash into Cole Hauser’s fleeing yacht
Why It’s So Cool Weird: We didn’t really need a boat in this movie. It’s not called 2 Float 2 Furious. After a whole bunch of really fun driving stunts, having a street racing film climax with a Camaro launched into a flying bridge felt more than a little out of place.
It took no less than nine Camaros to make the stunt a reality, including one that was repeatedly dunked in the drink over and over by a tow cable to try and see how far it would actually launch from a pier, and then using a crane on a set to simulate the actual impact on the back half of a faux-yacht shot against a green screen. Dom probably could have done it in one take.
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