I like Diego440's taste in movies, but shame-shame for leaving Le Mans out... How can do that to Steve McQueen's masterpiece?
Speaking of car movies, I grew up watching Mad Max, Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, Gone in 60 Seconds (The Origonal), Le Mans, Bullitt, Italian Job (The Origonal), Cherry 2000 (has anyone else seen it?), The French Connection, Duel, Grand Prix, and later on Days of Thunder... Does The Blues Brothers count as a car movie, they did wreck alot of them in it... But for some reasin I did not see Taxi Driver 'til I was in college...
And as for the new car movies, some of them are ok, but I think they depend on CGI and special effects too much. I like the classic car flicks because they actually did the stunts with the cars. Realizm people, thats the ticket. Bullitt and Le Mans being prime examples of this, imo.