Video Game Car Question

[FujimiLover]

Anybody remember the classic video game Spy Hunter? What kind of car was that? Look's like some exotic of some sort. Any ideas? Not talking about the new ones, but the real 80's classic.

[Trans Am Erik]

Cool Idea! The car from the PS2 version of the game looks like it could be made with a Viper coupe, stretched through the rear to make a mid engine platform, or a heavily modified Saleen S-7. The old top view '80's arcade version could be made out of anything from a Jag to a Ferrari.

Here's the PS2 version

Keep me posted, I bought my PS2 because it had the most car games! I love the ones that let you customize the cars.

[FujimiLover]

I wonder if it's that Maseratti thing.

[modeltrucker]

Spy hunter that game took alot of my tip money from my pizza delivery job I had. good times .

[Lownslow]

there was a diecast kit based on the saleen s7 but it was too small

[Jantrix]

I have heard of a motion picture in the works based on this. Duane (the Rock) Johnson was said to be involved.

[Lownslow]

I have heard of a motion picture in the works based on this. Duane (the Rock) Johnson was said to be involved.

last i heard its still in production

[Aaronw]

It was based on a Chevy Camaro Z-28 according to Midway.

I always thought it was supposed to be a Lotus Esprit, but that may be due to it being the car of choice for the Bond movies around that time.

[dwc43]

I always thought it was supposed to be a Lotus Esprit, but that may be due to it being the car of choice for the Bond movies around that time.

You beat me to it. The old car did look a lot like a Lotus Esprit.

[Lownslow]

heres variations of the ones i know about

[FujimiLover]

Thank you Lownslow! The one on the very bottom is the only one I remember. And the game I remembered playing as a child only showed the top view of the car. I still can not tell what kind of car it was supposed to be, perhaps a custom car?

[LVZ2881]

since it came out in the 80's, it could be a custom based on a pantera...

[Aaronw]

http://classicgames.about.com/od/arcadegam...unterProfil.htm

Specifically

Trivia:

The Spy Hunter car G-6155 Interceptor is based on the 1983 Chevy Camaro Z28.

Personally I don't see it but that is what the game designers said in the extras from the Midway Arcade Classics disc.

Edited September 17, 2009 by Aaronw

[FujimiLover]

I see no part of that car that resembles a Camero at all!

[Tonioseven]

Looks like a Mercedes Benz C-111

Edited September 17, 2009 by Tonioseven

[Abell82]

The shape of the bottom of the front windshield says Lamborghini, to me. If the car was supposed to be based on a Camaro, someone should have told the artist. Fiero, maybe. Camaro? Nope!

[LDO]

Looks more like an Isdera Imperator 108i to me

[FujimiLover]

Nice find LDO, and your probably more correct than the others. But still, where the hell did they come with a Camero? Perhaps their talking about the newer Spy Hunter cars and not the old classic one?

I was also thinking of that Mercedes as well, but couldn't think of the name of that car.

I think LDO has the right answer but question is, what year did THAT car come out?

[Abell82]

I stand corrected. The Isdera Imperator does look close. I had never heard of, or seen that car before.

A quick google search says it came out in 1984. And was in production, until 1993.