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Mach 5 and Mach 6 gallery

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve added a cool gallery in our
Speed Racer: Mach 5 vs. Mach 6. article, with high quality pictures. We know you’ll like it, so we put it here too! Find it after the jump, and don’t forget to push the “Full screen” [...]

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Tags: Mach 5 · Merchandising · Movie car

Speed Racer: Mach 5 vs. Mach 6. What’s your favorite?

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Update: now with a gallery!

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If you’ve wandered in the toy section of any store recently, you’ve probably noticed that it’s a big battle between Iron Man and Speed Racer. Which is a bit ironic, considering that the first one is PG-13 [...]

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Tags: Mach 5 · Merchandising · Transforming vehicles

Speed Racer: the videogame

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Coming up with a racing video game a couple weeks after Gran Turismo 5 hit the shelves can sounds like a risky idea, but when you’re wearing the Speed Racer name and have all the buzz generated by the movie with you, it [...]

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Tags: Mach 5 · Merchandising · Movie car · News · cult car movie · marketing · video games

Speed Racer: new Italian TV spot

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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This new trailer brings us more images, including the Mach 6 transformation AND it’s very cool to see it in Italian. It really feels like the movie will be a music-video paced visual overdose. Weirdly enough for a flick that seems [...]

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Tags: Anime · Mach 5 · Merchandising · News · TV ad · Transforming vehicles

KITT is Back: the newest NBC commercial.

February 9th, 2008 · No Comments

digg_url = ‘http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/02/09/kitt-is-back-the-newest-nbc-commercial/’;Only a week away from the 2 hours pilot of the new Knight Rider, the marketing is getting more and more aggressive and NBC airing new commercials.
Here, Justin Bruening (as Mike Tracer) is being explained that the Foundation is back and [...]

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Tags: Knight Rider · Merchandising · Movie car · Mustang · News · Product placement · Shelby · TV ad · TV show · Transforming vehicles

Bond’s couch

February 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The guys at
Aston Martin Heritage Design, who typically create custom parts for the famous British cars, used their craftsmanship on something more unusual: a couch shaped as a DB6 rear end. It’s all handmade and would probably please hard-core Bond fans (we’ll [...]

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Tags: James Bond · Merchandising · Movie car