poking around, some neat ronin trivia:
A total of 80 automobiles were destroyed during filming.
Skipp Sudduth requested to do his own stunt driving during the car chases, and John Frankenheimer agreed. Frankenheimer told Sudduth, "I don't wanna see any brake lights."
300 stunt drivers were employed to give the final chase scene the required amount of metal-crunching realism.
One of the stunt drivers was former Formula 1 driver Jean-Pierre Jarier.
In a 2008 readers poll conducted by "CAR Magazine", four cars featured in this movie merited ranking in the magazine's "Top 40 Coolest Movie Cars" issue: Audi S8 (9th), Citroën XM and Peugeot 605 (24th), and BMW 535i (29th). Other featured vehicles included Peugeot 406, Citroën Xantia, and a (rare) Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9.
The brown Mercedes Benz used by Vincent and Sam is a rare, high performance 450 SEL 6.9 version of the W116 S-Class. The 6.9 badge refers to the car's engine size of 6.9litres and in the late 70's it was the fastest and one of the most expensive saloon cars money could buy. Only around 7000 were made over a 6 year production run.
Forget Fast & Furious, Ronin is the king...
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Yeah, 'Bullitt' is here, but it's far from number one.
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