EF/EL as US police cars?

[Velociraptor82]

Hey all.

I was watching Death Race 2 the other day and noticed that they used EF/EL falcons for some of the police cars. In some scences I think they appeared to be right hand drive too.

It makes no sence to me for hollywood to import aussie falcons just to blow them up when there are soo many us police cars so I was wondering if anybody knew anything about EF or EL's going to the states????

[xrboss]

That's because it was filmed in OZ. Alot of those B grade movies are

[Kryton]

Originally Posted by xrboss

That's because it was filmed in OZ. Alot of those B grade movies are

Correct.
There are other movies with Aussie Falcon's in, of which i cant remember the name of the film but there was an AU parked in the back ground of one scene.

[Professor Farnsworth]

i'm pretty sure some of it was filmed in New Zealand, so i'm guessing the parts with the EF/EL's were done there.

[Professor Farnsworth]

If you look at the scene of "The Marine" where they're all stopped at the 'gas station', there are a few shots where you can see a red XD with its bonnet up. I believe that was shot in qld.

[rednutz]

Originally Posted by xrboss

That's because it was filmed in OZ. Alot of those B grade movies are

I was watching Mission Impossible the other night and they blew up a few ef/el's! too bad they didnt use holdens for that instead!

[EFFalcon]

It was filmed in South Africa (where we exported Falcons too)

[Fev]

Superman Returns has EA falcons as taxi's in it (someone posted this a few months ago)

[XPfalcon170]

Originally Posted by EFFalcon

It was filmed in South Africa (where we exported Falcons too)

full of diplomatic immunity

[MOND30]

"Knowing" with Nicolas Cage a couple of years ago, there was a clear side shot of a Territory in an underground car park.
And a clear Victorian numberplate on a Getz (I think) in the plane crash scene, when he's sitting in the traffic jam.

[Mr Hardware]

Originally Posted by rednutz

I was watching Mission Impossible the other night and they blew up a few ef/el's! too bad they didnt use holdens for that instead!

Didn't they blow up an AU in MI2?

[Jack91]

No only ef/l's from memory. Released in 2000 so probably finished filming by the time the first AU was released.

[Zed7fiddy]

Couple O Screenshots for yall:





and IMDB only puts the filming locations down as Cape Town South Africa, i dont recognise the Highway scene as anything local (not that ive seen every highway in australia and im welcome to being proved wrong on that one)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500491/locations

And they are definaely using Crown Vics in the Background, weird that they have mixed the two

[R0BD0G]

Originally Posted by xrboss

That's because it was filmed in OZ. Alot of those B grade movies are

very b grade...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBncoOgBjGY

[351@GT]

think they woulda at least had the crown vics up the front and the el's in the back ground

[MethodX]

The original Punisher movie (Dolph Lundgren) was shot in Aus.
You can see Sydney landmarks, and they used Valiants, CL or CM as cop cars.

[TheInterceptor]

They look awesome in the USA cop guise...shame they had to wreck them....

Edit: barcode rego plates? cool....

[onfire]

Whats worse are Aussie shows like Underbelly. It's early 1995 and theres brand spanking new cars driving around in the background.

[MexicanBatman]

Originally Posted by MOND30

"Knowing" with Nicolas Cage a couple of years ago, there was a clear side shot of a Territory in an underground car park.
And a clear Victorian numberplate on a Getz (I think) in the plane crash scene, when he's sitting in the traffic jam.

A guy from work was in that as an extra and so was his Jeep LOL