The Tech Behind Movie Car Chases [Movie Cars]

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pobject width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2GDfyX4gTu8hl=enfs=1fmt=22"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2GDfyX4gTu8hl=enfs=1fmt=22" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo"/embed/objectHave you ever wondered how they got those incredible driving shots in movies like a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/transformers-2-trailer/?id=5155420"emTransformers 2/em/a, a href="http://jalopnik.com/5041626/fast-and-furious-4-trailer-grand-national-rs200-with-vin-diesely-goodness"emFast Furious/em/a or a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/batman-begins/?id=334603"emDark Knight/em/a? Thanks to a href="http://www.redline-tv.com/"Redline TV/a and host, Tanner Foust, we'll get an inside look./p pCar chases in film have always been an interesting mix between pure driving skill and cinematic artistry, but we always wondered exactly how they shot some of the more intense scenes. The a href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/cadillac/?id=283694"camera cars/a employed by a href="http://www.pursuitsystems.com/index.html"Pursuit Systems/a include a 100+ mile per hour dune buggy, a 500 horsepower a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged MITSUBISHI EVO" title="Click here to read more posts tagged MITSUBISHI EVO" href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/mitsubishi-evo/"Mitsubishi Evo/a, a supercharged a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged MINI COOPER S" title="Click here to read more posts tagged MINI COOPER S" href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/mini-cooper-s/"Mini Cooper S/a and a couple of 450 horsepower Porsche Cayennes. A pretty impressive stable, wouldn't you say?/p pThey've proven to be emthe/em go-to-guys in the movie making world. Whether those needs are for a 100+ mile per hour chase scenes while dodging traffic or drift scenes through a multi-leveled parking structure, it doesn't really matter, a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged PURSUIT SYSTEMS" title="Click here to read more posts tagged PURSUIT SYSTEMS" href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/pursuit-systems/"Pursuit Systems/a can do it all./p pstrongPursuit Systems Demo Reel:/strongbr / object width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lWwKK9zQnaQhl=enfs=1fmt=22"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lWwKK9zQnaQhl=enfs=1fmt=22" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="506" height="311" class="left gawkerVideo"/embed/objectimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/02/lWwKK9zQnaQ_04.jpg" style="display: none;" class="embeddedVideoThumbnail"/br / em(Hat Tip To Lorne!)/em/p p[via a href="http://www.pursuitsystems.com/"pursuit systems/a]/ppa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NcK4bydwKkvmhx-D3UDZyGm8P0g/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NcK4bydwKkvmhx-D3UDZyGm8P0g/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=TR9m9BQe"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=T5m9r56C"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=aCl7iLi5"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=aCl7iLi5" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=P93gVTWj"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=P93gVTWj" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~4/EYOMOLFv5Kc" height="1" width="1"/

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