{"id":150663,"date":"2024-10-11T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/luxus-magazine-90th-paris-motor-show-legendary-cars-and-pop-culture\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:03:37","slug":"luxus-magazine-90th-paris-motor-show-legendary-cars-and-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/luxus-magazine-90th-paris-motor-show-legendary-cars-and-pop-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"[Luxus Magazine] 90th Paris Motor Show: legendary cars and pop culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Paris Motor Show returns for its 90th edition. This year sees the return of European and American manufacturers such as Volkswagen, Audi, Tesla and BMW. To mark the show&#8217;s 126th anniversary, a host of beautiful machines will be on show, whether they have left their mark on automotive history or the collective imagination.<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>In<\/strong><\/b> addition to the latest automotive innovations and world previews, the <b><strong>90th Mondial de l&#8217;automobile<\/strong><\/b>, which runs <b><strong>from October 14 to 20<\/strong><\/b> <b><strong>at Porte de Versailles in Paris<\/strong><\/b>, will feature<b><strong> 19 vehicles that have marked several key eras in the industry&#8217;s development<\/strong><\/b>, from the Peugeot Type 3 to the Tesla Model S, via the Citro\u00ebn DS and Mercedes S-Class.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There will<b><strong> also be 25 proud cars that have marked generations of viewers on the big and small screens<\/strong><\/b>, with no less than <b><strong>Batman, James Bond, Starsky and Hutch, Crockett and Tubbs, Marty McFly, Ian Malcolm, John Wick and Professor Ellie Sattler<\/strong><\/b> on board <b><strong>&#8230;<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These will range <b><strong>from authentic mass-produced models to concept cars and other customized vehicles,<\/strong><\/b> such as the Batmobile from Tim Burton&#8217;s film, the Delorean from Back to the Future or the Wrangler Sahara expedition jeeps from Jurassic Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some may bemoan the absence of such legends as the Ford Mustang GT390 driven by Steve McQueen in Bullit, the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters or the GMC Vandura from The A-Team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We take a closer look at seven of them, presented in <b><strong>the Pop Culture area (Pavilion 7-1) designed by Movie Cars Central<\/strong><\/b>. 42 km from Paris, in Etr\u00e9chy (Essonne), the company has a car museum housing <b><strong>Europe&#8217;s largest collection of film and TV series cars<\/strong><\/b>, which can be viewed, rent&#8230; as well as tested on the racetrack!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Delorean DMC-12 &#8211; Back to the Future (1985-1990)<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe way I see it,\u00a0if you&#8217;re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?&#8221;<\/em> exclaims the mad scientist in Back to the Future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one <b><strong>star of the &#8217;80s<\/strong><\/b>, it&#8217;s the<b><strong> Delorean DMC-12<\/strong><\/b>. <b><strong>The sole flagship<\/strong><\/b> <b><strong>of<\/strong><\/b> the American <b><strong>Delorean Motor Company<\/strong><\/b>, founded in 1975 by engineer and businessman John Delorean, this \u201ccar of the future\u201d had a <b><strong>history as flamboyant as it was dazzling<\/strong><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The legendary coup\u00e9&#8217;s <b><strong>poor performance<\/strong><\/b> didn&#8217;t find its audience, nor did it justify its <b><strong>exorbitant price<\/strong><\/b> ($24,000). Its<b><strong> brushed stainless steel<\/strong><\/b> bodywork and emblematic <b><strong>gullwing doors<\/strong><\/b> may have been gleaming in design, but they proved <b><strong>extremely complicated to paint<\/strong><\/b>. Declared <b><strong>bankrupt, the company finally ceased production in 1981<\/strong><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-150665 size-large\" title=\"Delorean Movie Car Central\" src=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Delorean Movie Car Central\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Delorean_Movie_Car_Central.jpg 1909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><b>\u00a9\u00a0<\/b>Movie Cars Central<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until Robert Zemeckis&#8217;<b><strong> Back to the Future saga<\/strong><\/b> that <b><strong>the myth rose from the ashes<\/strong><\/b>, four years later. Doc Emmett Brown and Marty McFly&#8217;s <b><strong>time-travelling car<\/strong><\/b> featured a time convector and the famous Time Machine triple-display dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No fewer than <b><strong>six cars were needed for the shoot<\/strong><\/b>, one for static shots, another for rolling shots and a third, cut out for interior shots. Three more were added for the final part of the trilogy. Over the course of the adventure, <b><strong>this UFO of the road has been transformed into a cyberpunk hovercraft and a rail wagon<\/strong><\/b> in the American Wild West, this last transformation having, without divulging, been poorly finished.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-150667 size-full\" title=\"Mondial Auto Delorean\" src=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mondial_Auto_Delorean.jpg\" alt=\"Mondial Auto Delorean\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mondial_Auto_Delorean.jpg 800w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mondial_Auto_Delorean-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mondial_Auto_Delorean-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mondial_Auto_Delorean-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mondial_Auto_Delorean-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mondial_Auto_Delorean-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><b>\u00a9\u00a0<\/b>Mondial de l&#8217;Auto<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Its <b><strong>130 hp V6 engine <\/strong><\/b><strong>and weight of almost a ton <\/strong>actually struggled to reach the \u201c88 mph\u201d described in the film, so the director opted for <b><strong>sound editing<\/strong><\/b> to give it some pep. We hear the <b><strong>raucous sound of a Porsche 928 V8 coupled with the whistle of a landspeeder<\/strong><\/b>, straight out of his friend Georges Lucas&#8217; Star Wars saga.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/90th-paris-motor-show-legendary-cars-and-pop-culture\/\">Click here to read the entire article<\/a> on Luxus Magazine<\/p>\n<p>Featured Photo: <b>\u00a9\u00a0<\/b>Bold Films\/Odd Lot Entertainment\/Marc Platt Productions\/Seed Productions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris Motor Show returns for its 90th edition. This year sees the return of European and American manufacturers such as Volkswagen, Audi, Tesla and BMW. To mark the show&#8217;s 126th anniversary, a host of beautiful machines will be on show, whether they have left their mark on automotive history or the collective imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":150658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"The Paris Motor Show celebrates its 90th edition in style, with a number of film and TV legends on wheels.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22488],"tags":[24003,23304,24133,23539,24191,24791],"class_list":["post-150663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-en","tag-automobile-en","tag-cinema-en","tag-divertissement-en","tag-james-bond-en","tag-luxus-plus-mag-en-2","tag-paris-motor-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}