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CDA
January 24, 2023
These super cars were wrecked in movies… and it turns out they’re the most expensive we’ve ever seen smashed to pieces on the big screen.
The cinema is full of tricks and special effects that deceive the viewer and make them see incredible but unreal scenes. However, in some films, due to script requirements, real cars have been wrecked and some of an exorbitant price. We review them.
The most expensive cars wrecked in the movies
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Porsche 917 at “Le Mans”
The 917 is one of Porsche’s most iconic cars, giving the German brand its first Le Mans victory in 1970. It is an extremely rare and expensive model (around 14 million euros), which didn’t stop Steve McQueen from destroying one in the 1971 film “Le Mans.” It didn’t help much, as the film ended up being a box office flop and nearly bankrupted McQueen.
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Aston Martin DB5 in “Goldfinger”
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Of all the Aston Martins used in the James Bond movies, the DB5 is arguably the most iconic. The DB5 became the ultimate Bond car after Jaguar turned down a great opportunity to provide a car for Goldfinger, and Aston Martins have since been used in a number of Bond films.
In the 1964 film, the DB5 with a machine gun is destroyed after he is slammed into a wall by James Bond during a chase. A surviving DB5 from the film sold for a whopping €4.6 million a few years ago.
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Aston Martin DB10 in “Spectre”
This one had a body as advanced the design of the next generation of the Vantage. The iconic car chase scene with the Jaguar C-X75 in Rome saw the DB10 end up plunging into the river. Aston Martin built 10 examples of the model for the film, of which seven were destroyed. One of the cars in the film was put up for sale in 2016, reaching 3.6 million euros.
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Lykan Hypersport in “Fast And Furious 7”
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The “Fast and Furious” franchise never disappoints by being the showcase of authentic carsyes, many of them destroyed by demands of the script. More than a thousand cars are said to have been destroyed in the saga over the past two decades, including an ultra-rare Lykan Hypersport, valued at €3.5 million.
The Hypersport is a supercar produced in the Middle East by W Motors. Less than 10 units have been manufactured and one of them was stamped by Dominic Toretto from one skyscraper to another in “Fast and The Furious 7”.
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Rolls-Royce Phantom in “Iron Man 2”
The luxurious British saloon was destroyed during the scene of the F1 race in Monaco. Two copies of the Phantom valued at nearly half a million euros each were used in the filming, in which Mickey Rourke’s character, Ivan Vanko, he used his electrified whip to cut them in half.
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Lamborghini Murcielago LP-640 in “The Dark Knight”
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In this film starring Batman, the protagonist, Christian Bale, is forced to destroy his Lamborghini Murciélago, valued at around 355,000 euros, and prevent an assassination attempt causing the killer’s truck to crash into him instead of the target’s car.
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Lamborghini Huracán in “Doctor Strange”
The Huracán is revered by many motoring fans for its design, its powerful V10 and its fantastic driving dynamics, which explains why it is best selling Lamborghini of all time. In the movie Doctor Strange, the Hurricane (with a price of around 250,000 euros), it was used to narrate when the protagonist is involved in a terrible accident that leaves his arms paralyzed.
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Aston Martin DBS in “Casino Royale”
In this case, Daniel Craig, to avoid running over a woman, is responsible for destroying an Aston Martin DBS in this film about agent James Bond. About 225,000 euros thrown away and the despair of many lovers of the motor world.
