At the time of their release, several of these '80s car movies tanked at the box office; in the worst cases, their box-office earnings failed to recover a substantial portion of the production costs.

The 1980s was a great decade for movie cars (and car movies, for that matter). There's the absolutely iconic DeLorean from "Back to the Future," the 1958 Plymouth Fury from "Christine," and the ...

The flag was falling on bread-and-circus car movies toward the end of the 1960s. You had vehicular pulp (Hot Rods to Hell, The Young Racers), Elvis vehicles—pun intended (Spinout, Speedway)—and cult ...