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List of films about automobiles

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The following is a list of films about automobiles, whose plots focus on, or prominently feature, cars and other automobiles.

List of films

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In television

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  • "A Thing about Machines", 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone
  • "You Drive", 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone in which the car of a hit-and-run driver hounds him to confession.
  • My Mother the Car, 1965 television sitcom series.
  • Knight Rider, a franchise begun in 1982, featuring an artificially intelligent third generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am named KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand). Several episodes also feature an evil version of KITT named KARR (Knight Automated Roving Robot).
  • "The Honking", 2000 Futurama episode in which the robot character, Bender, is possessed by a were-virus, transforming him into a murderous car every night at midnight. The curse can only be lifted by destroying the originator of the virus, a project-Satan car located at the "Anti-Chrysler" building. The car that hits Bender is a 1958 Plymouth, just like the one in Christine.
  • "Route 666", a 2006 Supernatural episode about a driverless black Dodge utiline truck in Cape Girardeau, Missouri killing everyone related to its owner's past.
  • "Christrina", a Grojband episode in which Kin's dream-catching camera messes up and releases Trina's soul from her body and into her car, bringing her car to life. Trina becomes angry about this and goes on a rampage destroying everything in her car body.

References

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