Pontiac Fiero

does.

And you look at the Fiero, the plastic body Fiero.

It was a little plastic body, but it had a really incredible cage for the time.

Oh, yeah.

Just after midnight on August 4th, 1992, 23-year-old Tara Breckenridge clocked out early from her waitressing shift at the men's club in Houston, Texas.

She changed into her street clothes and the security guard carried her tote bag out and walked her to her red Pontiac Fiero.

Tara got into her car and drove away.

About seven hours later, that Fiero was found sitting locked and empty on the shoulder of a major freeway three miles from the club, right on her route home.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

So again, she had a red 1986 Pontiac Fiero and was ultimately found in the 1200 block of West Loop North near 12th Street between I-10 and Highway 290, about three miles from the club.

That's just for my people who understand Houston geography.

Many of the cars that appear in the 2015 scenes are either modified for the film or concept cars.

Examples include a Ford Probe, a Saab EV1, a Citroen DS21, a Pontiac Banshee concept, a Pontiac Fiero, and a Volkswagen Beetle.

Cars reused from other science fiction films include the Starcar from The Last Starfighter from 1984 and a Spinner from Blade Runner from 1982.

Griff's car is a modified BMW 633, which was never sold in the convertible form seen in the film.

Sure.

I grew up in Pontiac, Michigan, uh, as I was just saying off-camera, about a mile from the old Fiero plant, uh, and the Pontiac Foundry that closed down in the late '80s, I wanna say.

Uh, first job was at General Motors, uh, at the Orion Assembly Plant.

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh.

The Fiero as the mid-

Uh-huh

...

Yes, yes.

Make it the MR2 fighter.

Go ask Toyota, like, "Can we borrow the MR2 development and chassis, and we'll call it the Fiero, and-"

And nobody needs a Corvette SUV.

So I went through what is one of the most affordable mid-engine cars you can buy.

Fiero.

[laughs]

I did not say Fiero.

You can take that one.

I'm good.

It was just a humble story about stealing DVD players and Honda Civics and a simple undercover cop drama.

Fast forward a few sequels, and they are literally driving a Pontiac Fiero into outer space and wrestling nuclear submarines on ice.

That is painfully accurate.

Right.