Somebody is doing a great job with Speed Racer
In case you missed it, a picture of the Mach 5 - Speed Racer’s awesome race car - have been released for the upcoming live action Speed Racer movie, which is due out next summer. Here’s a little taste:
Lemme tell ya, that looks great. Looks a lot like the one from the cartoon. If you look closely, the Mach 5 appears to be a Corvette C3 underneath. Not too bad. Corvette C3s are like sports car chicken - they kind of look like everything. You can make Speed Racer’s Mach 5 from one, and Sonny Crockett’s Ferrari Daytona on the Miami Vice series was also a Corvette C3 underneath.
Along with the job well done on the Mach 5, the casting department is doing pretty good with Speed and Trixie, too. Here are some side-by-side shots of the characters on the cartoon, and the actors who’ve been cast to play them in the movie.
Trixie (Christina Ricci):
Speed (Emile Hirsch):
Freaky, huh?
–Will
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September 10th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
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Just for reference, the underpinnings of the Mach Five above is one of the new Corvette ZR-1’s with a six-speed transmission and a fuel-injected LT1 Corvette engine putting 435 ponies to the ground. (The previous incarnation was ONLY putting down 385 horses….) It was tested out at the Irwindale Speedway in California.
Cost of vehicle: $ 75,000.00