Re: Ronin (and other good driving movies)

["Pantelis Giamarellos" <pantg@otenet.gr>]

After having seen Ronin yesterday I can agree with all listers that it has
two of the best car chase scenes I ever saw.
Maybe not the best but surely ranking between the three best. Now since
RONIN has two car chase scenes it scores 66.6666666% possibility of having
the absolute best.

Anyway.
My comments about the cars.
I will agree about the car being an S8. I don't think it is the facelifted
one though.
I will agree with the steering wheel point of being different from one scene
to the other.

I wish I had the available space to side drift my RS2 like that too.
When I will find petrol in my garden I will build a race track to try it.

I think the best car of the lot was the white truck where Gregori had his
mobile phone direction locating devices. I will never have my mobile
switched on in the car. Maybe somebody (the Highway Patrol) could detect my
car at more the speed limit.

The old Merc. was a 450 SEL with the optional 6.9 engine.
Now this was a VERY fast car at its age. I really liked the way the stunt
man veered the Merc with the handbrake (which in the Mercs is a foot
activated one). Pin point precision on a very difficult stunt and with
various fruits and vegetables on the road to make it more slippery.

Finally I was trying to avoid oncoming car in the opposite direction Highway
chase scene.
Great shooting and camera angles.

Anybody wants to buy a never run in but just rolled (omelete roll) VW Golf.
I am trying to imagine if that thing has happened to somebody's car during
delivery.
"An unfortunate minor incident has caused this color difference in your car
sir" and other sales person blah blah blah.

Regards from Greece
Pantelis

P.S. It broke my heart to see the S8 and the M5 being treated like that.
Deep down.



-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>
To: Todd Phenneger <phen9461@uidaho.edu>
Cc: Quattro List <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: &Pgr;&eacgr;&mgr;&pgr;&tgr;&eegr;, 25 &PHgr;&egr;&bgr;&rgr;&ogr;&ugr;&agr;&rgr;&iacgr;&ogr;&ugr; 1999 5:02 &mgr;&mgr;
Subject: RE: Ronin (and other good driving movies)


>At 13:13 99-02-24 -0800, Todd Phenneger wrote:
>
>> Anyhow, I loved the movie.  I thought they could have matced cars
>>up a little better but oh well.  Its been a few months since I saw it but
>>didnt they have an Old Mercedes keeping up with an M5 or something when
>>they were going the wrong way on the Free Way.
>
>Actually, the car they chase the M5 in is an Peugeot 406, apparently in
>higher trim version (wood, leather etc.), so I believe it has the 3 liter
>V6 193hp engine - still much slower than M5, but in heavy trafiic
>horsepower is not the most important factor.
>The old Mercedes is used to chase the Citroen XM and several Peugeots 605.
>I'm not sure, but I believe I saw the "450SE" badge on the trunk... so
>despite age, it's pretty fast.
>
>Aleksander Mierzwa
>Warsaw, Poland
>mailto:alex@matrix.pl
>87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
>88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
>91 mountain bike (just in case both cars break at the same time :-)
>