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Old 01-11-09, 07:41 AM
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The car driven by Tom Cruise in action film Minority Report is expected to fetch £64,000 (about $125,654 US dollars) when it goes under the hammer next month. The sleek red Lexus 2054 is just one of three models created for the movie and only has 38 miles on the odometer.
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Old 01-11-09, 07:59 AM
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I would spend $125,654 for a more useful sports car
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i will wait till 2054 and get this car for 30k
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I still think they put the windshield on the wrong end of it. It just looks like an interesting car driving in reverse all the time.
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38 miles on the odo? It actually moves?!
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Originally Posted by rominl
i will wait till 2054 and get this car for 30k
You'd be too old to drive by then
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Originally Posted by Felix.
38 miles on the odo? It actually moves?!
"cab forward" design was "the thing" back then IIRC.
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Old 01-11-09, 12:07 PM
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Dam, I just watched Minority Report yesterday on TV. lol

But really, what engine does it have?
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Originally Posted by Gojirra99
You'd be too old to drive by then
lol wait, doesn't it drive itself? :P
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Originally Posted by rominl
lol wait, doesn't it drive itself? :P
You're thinking the I Robot's Audi then I think the car in Minority Report drives itself, but not the Lexus.... and it have wheels unlike other vehicles in M.R.
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Originally Posted by Felix.
38 miles on the odo? It actually moves?!
I'm amazed it actually moves as well.
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Originally Posted by rominl
i will wait till 2054 and get this car for 30k
In 2054, the dollar won't be worth anything. So $30K will probably cover the wheels and that's about it.
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Originally Posted by Solo_D33A
Dam, I just watched Minority Report yesterday on TV. lol

But really, what engine does it have?
from what i heard... lexus/toyota was so lazy they used a chevy engine ... thing is it was sold back in 2007.
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Well I hope some of you liked Minority Report cause its seem ever since that movie tech companies have spent lots of money in R&D to copy the tech from that movie.
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Originally Posted by nn432100
Well I hope some of you liked Minority Report cause its seem ever since that movie tech companies have spent lots of money in R&D to copy the tech from that movie.
Thats a negative. Movie looked great for 2002. Nothing in its production is considered high-tech. Hell, we can render the circa-2002 CGI pre-renders in real-time with current computing power.

(ie: The pretty graphics for the movie that took hundreds of hours to generate on a computer frame-by-frame can now be drawn at 30 frames-per-second)

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