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In the first Taken film, near the end, Liam Neeson's character steals an Audi S8 to chase a slow moving boat, just departed, which has his daughter on board. He drives at high speed alongside the river (the boat is doing maybe 5 knots at the most), but it appears to take about a mile or more for him to catch up and get in front of it.
In the first of The Transporter films, Jason Statham has his BMW 7 Series stationary at 90 degrees across a bridge. He sees a car transporter approaching (from behind) on the road below. Then spinning up the rear tyres, he miraculously manages to gain enough speed in the 10 feet or so to the edge of the bridge, to launch the 7 Series on to the top deck of the transporter as it passes. The car has gained enough speed to fly maybe 70-100 feet forward from the edge of the bridge to when it lands on the transporter. In one of the others, he does a corkscrew jump to knock a bomb off the underneath of the car (an Audi A8 or S8 this time if memory serves).
In one of the Daniel Craig Bond films (Casino Royale I think), he does I high speed swerve in his Aston Martin, which (amazingly) flips the car sending it into barrel roll. I didn't realise Aston's had the same stability as an original Merc A Class or Suzuki SJ! ;-)
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