As someone who grew up in Mexico, my list is very different. When I think of bad guy/villain cars, I instantly think of big capable 4x4 SUVs and trucks. - 4th and 5th gen Ford Broncos in all black with tinted windows all around. - 1990’s Tahoe/Suburbans - 1990’s F-150 short bed - 1980’s Silverado short bed
@@VivaanBhaskar yeah man 😅 because in the well known drug states like Sinaloa, Michoacán, Juarez and Tijuana, usually those meant that there was an issue that was about to be solved with gunfire and possibly explosions. That’s why my sister and I, and many kids were alarmed every time we saw these traveling in groups. Usually when it’s 2 to 6 vehicles at a time, it meant war. If it’s just one then it’s no big deal, it was probably just a guy using it as basic transportation.
The 1960s Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors is a true villain car. Most cartoons with big villains feature the suicide door Continental as their car Something else is the big 1930s stuff like Dusenburgs or the Mercedes 770, Adolf had a 770.
Didn't Robert Kennedy kill some cute intern girl in a Lincoln Continental by driving her into a lake and drowning her? Serves him right what happened to him about 20 years later.
The Maybach Excellero is like the car you'd expect a high class villain like The Penguin from Batman to show up in. (Or a modern day Cruella Deville, like Doug said) Good pick!
In no particular order: -Early 2000's Mercedes G55 AMG - The quintessential transportation choice of Russian gangsters and Eurovillains. Tell me you're a Russian gangster without telling me you're a Russian gangster. -Toyota Hilux or Land Cruiser 70 series pickup (preferably configured as a "technical" with a machine gun mounted in the bed) - enough said... -Zimmer Golden Spirit - Could you picture Cruella DeVille driving any other "modern" vehicle? -1980's Lincoln Town Car - Joe Pesci should be heading out to the desert to dispose of bodies in one of these. -1930's Chrysler Airflow in black - Reminiscent of Al Capone and prohibition -Late 80's-Early 90's Econoline van - The ubiquitous getaway vehicle of seemingly every TV and film robbery gang despite that body style being out of production for over 30 years. -Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren - always looked to me like a bond villain should be driving it. -Plymouth/Chrysler Prowler
Quite surprised Doug disgareed about the E38. Doug himself said "That late-1990s 7 Series (E38) that looked like the kind of thing the devil would drive, if he was late to a board meeting in Hell."
Here in Holland, Jags are mostly just upper class BMW drivers, not specifically evil in the way of being a gangster or murderer, just an evil rich person.
And you are the type of person who makes the same joke that has been repeated on every single video since Daddy Doug first baked cookies for his Porsche.
The only guy around me I've seen that owns a (mint) black Impala SS is a regular customer at a restaurant I co-own. I have lunch with him twice a week. His name is Mike, but he is the nicest guy, tips the waitresses well, retired machinist, Vietnam vet, always makes you smile... Just an overall congenial dude. I'm gonna be lmao when I show him this video.
I'd add 1 to this list. I can't think of a more stereotypical bad guy car than a black (with tinted windows) Chrysler 300. It was driven by the mob villains in the movie "A History of Violence" with Viggo Mortenson, and It's about as menacing a car as I can think of. Every time that car showed up on screen, everyone knew that something horrible was about to happen...
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Also driven by Walt in Breaking Bad when he became the villain, and was the bad guy car in Drive. Also was quintessential mobster car in mid 2000s Eastern Europe in real life.
The issue is that these cars have become the car of the wannabe gangster too much. Esp with how cheap they are used or financed. No serious important villan would drive one now. 10 years ago, sure. Not now. It's the car if you want to appear tough, not if you actually are.
Oh yeah, since the late 2000s Chrysler 300s have depreciated, they are getting picked up by drug dealers, hoodrats, and baddies everywhere...they always stick aftermarket rims on them. Definitely bad guy vibes, but you can't talk about it because everyone will accuse you of being "based".
I must have misunderstood the premise of this video because in 90% of the movies I watch the baddies drive black Range Rovers and this has been true for years. Having owned a couple of black Rovers it’s something that I always notice and there’s often a “hah!” from my wife as the car chase starts and the black Rangies pull into formation behind the hero’s Deux Chevaux (or similar). Not sure how the boys missed this.
Yea good point, I few years ago I watched a Belgian gangster show on Netflix, they all drove range rovers or Black Mercedes. The main character was named Ferry.
See in my opinion the black range is driven by the unending myriad of HENCHMEN, and will all be destroyed somehow in the chase scene while the slick antagonist somehow gets away
When a villain rolls up in a black Maybach Excelero, that's how you know you live in a Batman cartoon. Also, Vader upgraded from Grand National to Zenvo ST-1.
Totally agree with Kennan on the red LFA. The styling features just have that flowy yet sharp look as if the lines are going to extend, curl, and consume you as soon as you see it drive out a corner in a big city at night. I think it looks so alien because it was Lexus's first attempt at overstyling with a sports car, and I absolutely love it
This is low-key my favorite non vehicle review video on this channel. Pure gold watching you guys have this much fun quipping off each other. More of this!
I am surprised Lotus Carlton/Omega was not mentioned. It is the definitive baddie's car: - It only came in black and looked menacing as hell - It was stolen by bad guys to be used as a getaway car in heists - Police helicopters struggled to keep up with this car on the highways during the chases - Cherry on the cake - government wanted to ban the car due to above reasons
This was such a fun video. I agree with the 30's Mercedes, Duesenbergs, Cadillacs (V12s and 16s) my pick would be for the pre merger AMG Mercedes and Toyota Centuries and Crowns Yakuza style. When Kennon mentioned any "devil" shows, I instantly remembered the 62 black Corvette convertible in Lucifer.
If you find weird that American Police and gangaster used similar cars, in Italy criminals and Police used the same exact car, usually Alfa Romeos. And back in the days, like in the 80s, basing on stories that relatives told me, if you saw a black Alfa 75 (or Milano for the USA) in front of a bank, with no people inside and the engine running you'd better run away as far as possible. So for me I think the Alfa Romeo 75 is a proper villain car.
Totally agree with Kennan about the E38, especially as a European. These are seen as incredibly badass cars over here, especially in black, like the kind of car used during a bank robbery or heist. Just like the A8 in Ronin.
You forgot the Ford GT, Carrera GT, the new Defender, the Range Rover (with a warranty), the convertible G wagon, and a vast array of E class station wagons
Great list guys, although I reckon if we're talking villain cars, we've got to talk about these: 1998 Jaguar XJR in black 2005 Chrysler 300C GAZ Chyka (Firm favourite with KGB agents, and is terrifying from every angle) 2009 Lincoln Navigator (Blacked out of course) 2006 Cadillac CTS- V Blacked out Range Rover Sport (With the supercharged 4.2) 2007 Mercedes CL 65 AMG 2003 Mercury Marauder (Similar vibe to the Impala) 2010 Maserati Quattroporte GTS 2009 Alfa Romeo 159 Ti (More of a henchman's car rather than the arch villain himself)
For post Soviet countries black E38 meant gangsters mostly because of russian film from called Бумер (Bimmer). It was about the couple of gangster and the car was one the central pieces of the movie so for the younger generation E38 firstly about the 90s crime and gangsters.
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I mean they chose that car for the movie because it was THE car for 90s gangsters in Eastern Europe. MB S600 if you’re the boss, E38 if you’re one step below the boss
Also the so-called шестисотые (600) Mercedes-Benzes were always attributed to Russian gangsters in Russian anecdotes, and G-classes would be driven by actual gangsters.
in late 90s the w140 s class in indonesia had the “evil person” rep bc it usually means that you have ties to the president at the time so if one is parked outside your house, you’re time is coming and you will be declared “missing” not long after that
Everybody forgot about the Brutus with a 47 liter V12 engine from a German WW2 bomber? “The chain drive, from a machine the devil uses to rotisserie those who displease him” - Jeremy Clarkson or as its creator said in an interview: "this car constantly tries to kill you"
Mercury Marauder (with the jacket). Gives off a different kind of villain vibe. This guys not a mobster or something but he’s been in more than a few fights and comes out on top.
Where is the black villain Volga? (GAZ-21 & 24) There was an urban legend spread in Poland, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, about a black Volga limousine traveling around the city, allegedly used to kidnap children.
I grew up in NJ, one job as a kid was caddying and I always knew when members of organized crime would show in some version of a Caddy Fleetwood (though in some surprising colors); they would tip me a ten (hey this is 1966), and tell me to wait for them on the 9th tee while they carried one driver, one iron and one putter or shared a bag. It was one of their chosen places to chat and do business without being tapped.....I do remember those Caddies.......and the second ten spot on the 18th green......
Back east a lot of the made guys drove Lincoln Towncars in the 80’s and 90’s then switched to Navigators in The early 2000’s. Helped them keep a low profile because the same cars are often used as livery cars.
In Russia we have the movie named "Бумер" ("Bimmer"), what means BMW in car slang, and the entire movie is about russian gangsters rolling through country on stolen BMW 750i. This movie is crime drama classic in the post-soviet world. So Kennan is totally right with his BMW pick.
I once drove a two tone black Rolls Royce Wraith Black Badge that I thought was an appropriate villain car. I felt so comfortable driving it that it convinced me that I probably am a supervillain in training.
Great video. Those 80’s Caddy’s and Lincoln Town Cars were associated with mobs on tv. If they took you toward those cars and opened the trunk instead of the back door Game Over!!
For car reviews Kennan becomes Dougyish so it feels weird, but for discussions it's fine to have Kennan because it's like Doug and Kennan are chatting with each other and at the same time they are also talking to us
@@enisra_bowmanDoug mentioned that Kenan has some social anxiety. I think with some time, he's gonna feel more and more comfortable just being himself.
I've always thought the Aston Martin Lagonda is something the bad guy in a 80s futurist sci-fi movie would've drove. The Ferrari Testarossa in black always looked really sinister to me as well.
All of the early 2000’s movie villains drove the W220 S-Class that I can remember. I bought one in 2012 and my family/friends asked me why I was buying the villains Mercedes.. Just my own personal experience.
I think in one of the 90’s movies or slightly newer, there were some people using W126s as well! Classically badass and stated cars to be used as a villain’s car
definitely surprised no S class was mentioned here. W220/221 for the modern villain / organized crime head. W140 because.. it's the W140 and everybody fears anyone who drives up in a black one. And the W126 for your dictators
I was expecting to see a Black Town Car or Mercury Marauder make this list. But the ultimate villian ride is a black 60's Lincoln Continental OR Chrysler Imperial.
If I was the villain . My ultimate cars are: • Bentley 8 Litre • Bugatti Royale • Cadillac Eldorado "1967" • Hummer EV • Jaguar Mark X • Lagonda Taraf • Lincoln Town Car “1980’s” • Mercedes Benz 600 Pullman • Panther Deville • Rolls Royce phantom 925 • Rolls Royce spectre • Voisin C20 mylord Demi-Berline
The Maybach makes me think more of a Batmobile TBH... does that mean that Batman is a villain? 🤔 Also, "The Devil drives a LFA" would sound like a logical sequel to "The Devil wears Prada" 🤣
The Jaguar X350 XJ is the pinical of modern villain cars. True baddies don't want anything overtly flashy or attention-grabbing. They want stylish but understated, luxurious, fast, large... The XJ does that. And it's a Jaaag. Hidden gem!
This comment is so underrated. 🤣🤣Here's a Hongqi L5 for those unaware. Of course, you need those flag poles in the front too: ruclips.net/video/RTA1AglbRb4/видео.html
Let me add something. 1. NISSAN ALTIMAAAA - menaces of the road! 2. BMW 318i - another road menace. 3. Toyota Crown/Century in black with 3333 or 8888 license plate 4. Cadillac CT5 V Blackwing. 5. Aurus Senat - you know what I mean. 6. Hongqi L5 - you also know what I mean. 7. Lotus Carlton - driven by real villains. 8. 1959-1984 Cadillac de Ville - the name suggest. 9. Toyota Land Cruiser - every warlords, druglords, gunrunners, dictators have one. 10. Lincoln Continental.
To stay with the theme, a black W140 S-Class is, of course, one of the most bad guy cars ever since literally almost everyone important in the Yakuza actually drove these.
The previous W126 S Class is also an honorable mention. If you are familiar with 1980's Miami, a W126, especially one equipped with an AMG body kit, was a popular choice for a Miami Drug Lord.
@@donaldwilson2620 Yeah, it was not only AMG bodykits but also several other ones like Gemballa models, and so on. I have watched enough Miami Vice :D.
Over here in the UK, the Ford Transit, particularly the 80s and 90s era were used for armed robbery and other organised crime escapades due to their ability to disappear into the London traffic. That Mark II Jags and the 4200s were the gangsters favourites in the 50s and 60s.
The reason Kennan mentioned the E38, and why I agree with him, is because that is the car the hitman drives. Case and point, the first Transporter movie with Jason Statham. True, he turned out to be the good guy, but he had lived the rest of his life being the bad guy, and when they destroyed his E38 he became the good guy sssoooooo
I think Kennen freaked out with Doug’s intro 😂. Any Jaaag is a villain car. Also the Alfa Guilia Quad. And of course if you’re going to be breaking bad … the Pontiac Aztek 😎
'The Transporter' (in the movie of the same name) drove one of those 7 series, but might have been a long wheel base. And of course, Raymond Reddington drives a previous generation S-Class.
1:19 You expect the driver to come out wearing black leather gloves so they don't leave fingerprints on the silenced pistol they'll be using in the next minute.
In Eastern Europe the car that is most often assossiated with bad people is by far the G-Class. Maybe not so much in the movies where usually their security uses them but in real life that's the car which the people you shouldn't mess with usually drive.
My pick would be the vauxhall lotus carlton mainly because there are cases where it outran the police and was nearly banned from UK markets because of it
I'm typing this while you're on the Maybach, so maybe you'll get to it, but I recently was at the Corvette Museum and the 1965 (I think) Corvette Mantaray is the most sinister looking car I've ever seen in person. With the body being extra long and the wheel arches being even taller than usual it just stands out in a villainous way and I loved it.
@@SunnynPhilly Ha!! Budget Bentley with Merc parts bin cobble needn’t be ranked *that rough 😆 in Cali it was def low-level shady character choice mobile
Hey Doug. Last night I had a dream. I dreamed that I was driving down the highway Do you know how I realized I was dreaming? Because I was driving an allroad with no lights on in the dash.
I really enjoy your videos, and with the addition of Kennan and Alanis your videos are even more entertaining. What I would enjoy from your videos is one of a comprehensive list of the reliable BMWs etc. Not the bad ones to avoid, but the ones over the years that were not money repair pits. Keep up the great videos.
Exactly. It was super sinister in the movie “Color of Night” with Bruce Willis. The windows were all blacked out and drive a Red 1977-1978 Pontiac Trans Am.
My Mom had a 95 IMPALA SS and she DROVE THAT CAR!!! One Friday, she wanted me to meet her for lunch. We left the restaurant and got on the highway as she passes me ( in my 05 Pontiac GTO), WAVING. I look down and I’m doing about 87mph and not catching her. Oh yeah, she was 82 at the time…
@@jono6379 yeah but we are talking actual lords of the underworld cars. Like what mafiosis in NY and Boston or Moscow would drive. Or arabic clan leaders in Germany. (It's Merc S AMG, E AMG, C AMG or an CL AMG)
What about the Mercedes 600 Grosser? One of the most favourite cars of past dictators and despots alike. Aside from Jeremy Clarksson, who bought it way later in life, whoever got that thing new was some kind of agent of evil.
Honorable mention to 70s/80s Chevy cargo vans. Not exactly high in the cool factor but in that era, just the sight of one on a show and you just knew bad guys were inside.
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Despite Jaguar literally marketting themselves as a villains car, they got no mention!
The XJR saloons would pretty much give away that baddie vibe even when static. After all, Jags have been one of the getaway choices for Bond villains.
I agree... Jaaaggg is a bad guy's car. But I think that's a British maybe top gear thing
Maybe they are bad guys cars in the same sense Megamind is bad
Yeah. The MK X is the stereotypical villians car if you ask me
@@frogger1580 they literally made an ad for the F-Type once with Tom Hiddleston that said "it's good to be bad"
As someone who grew up in Mexico, my list is very different. When I think of bad guy/villain cars, I instantly think of big capable 4x4 SUVs and trucks.
- 4th and 5th gen Ford Broncos in all black with tinted windows all around.
- 1990’s Tahoe/Suburbans
- 1990’s F-150 short bed
- 1980’s Silverado short bed
All cartel vehicles?
@@VivaanBhaskar yeah man 😅 because in the well known drug states like Sinaloa, Michoacán, Juarez and Tijuana, usually those meant that there was an issue that was about to be solved with gunfire and possibly explosions.
That’s why my sister and I, and many kids were alarmed every time we saw these traveling in groups. Usually when it’s 2 to 6 vehicles at a time, it meant war. If it’s just one then it’s no big deal, it was probably just a guy using it as basic transportation.
The 1960s Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors is a true villain car. Most cartoons with big villains feature the suicide door Continental as their car
Something else is the big 1930s stuff like Dusenburgs or the Mercedes 770, Adolf had a 770.
The mob, was jumping out the Lincoln
Did he have any pre 1980s cars in this list? Doug only discusses cars from the 1980s to today which you can find onnnn Cars & Bids!
@@EightPieceBox The Mercedes 600 is in there. But without that one, it would have been a joke.
@@MartijnterHaar"Reichsmarshall Goering has arrived!"
Didn't Robert Kennedy kill some cute intern girl in a Lincoln Continental by driving her into a lake and drowning her? Serves him right what happened to him about 20 years later.
The Maybach Excellero is like the car you'd expect a high class villain like The Penguin from Batman to show up in. (Or a modern day Cruella Deville, like Doug said) Good pick!
I'm a little disappointed nobody mentioned the Charger. It was the "bad guy" car in movies and tv for a long time, and still is today.
Was just gonna say the same thing
Like in deathproof
Nah, cause the most famous Charger is from the Dukes of Hazzard
Yeah the 68 charger in Bullitt too
Not just in movies either, in real life too. When you see a modern Charger on the road you're in danger regardless if it's a V6 or a Demon.
In no particular order:
-Early 2000's Mercedes G55 AMG - The quintessential transportation choice of Russian gangsters and Eurovillains. Tell me you're a Russian gangster without telling me you're a Russian gangster.
-Toyota Hilux or Land Cruiser 70 series pickup (preferably configured as a "technical" with a machine gun mounted in the bed) - enough said...
-Zimmer Golden Spirit - Could you picture Cruella DeVille driving any other "modern" vehicle?
-1980's Lincoln Town Car - Joe Pesci should be heading out to the desert to dispose of bodies in one of these.
-1930's Chrysler Airflow in black - Reminiscent of Al Capone and prohibition
-Late 80's-Early 90's Econoline van - The ubiquitous getaway vehicle of seemingly every TV and film robbery gang despite that body style being out of production for over 30 years.
-Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren - always looked to me like a bond villain should be driving it.
-Plymouth/Chrysler Prowler
Zimmer!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!!
100% up for a part 2 of this. Never gets old hearing about these weird mashups
Yo just saw your top comment on Wills video what the hell haha
I would love to see a part 2 of this.
pasted comment from the weird car partnerships video?
@@realAutomanA lot of teenage girls require many hours of therapy because of Regurgitation 🤮
Quite surprised Doug disgareed about the E38. Doug himself said "That late-1990s 7 Series (E38) that looked like the kind of thing the devil would drive, if he was late to a board meeting in Hell."
How the heck did both of you forget JAGUARS? They’re so associated with villains they even had commercials about that lol
Jaguar, Aston Martin's and Mercedes g wagon
Exactly! The baddies always drive Jaaaaags.
Not in America. Or anywhere outside the U.K.
Yeah, I was gonna say that an old black jag mkX is the definition of an old gangster car
Here in Holland, Jags are mostly just upper class BMW drivers, not specifically evil in the way of being a gangster or murderer, just an evil rich person.
Doug is choosing super villain vehicles while Kennan is actually choosing real life villain vehicles 😂
*Doug is the type of guy to bake cookies for his Porsche every day*
Maybe that’s why supercar maintenance is so expensive, you have to bake them homemade cookies daily for them 😂
And you are the type of person who makes the same joke that has been repeated on every single video since Daddy Doug first baked cookies for his Porsche.
And then snatch them all for himself
THC cookis so Porsche can sleep for while 😂
The type of guy to always have 3 cookies stocked on the napkin. No more, no less
The only guy around me I've seen that owns a (mint) black Impala SS is a regular customer at a restaurant I co-own. I have lunch with him twice a week. His name is Mike, but he is the nicest guy, tips the waitresses well, retired machinist, Vietnam vet, always makes you smile... Just an overall congenial dude. I'm gonna be lmao when I show him this video.
I'd add 1 to this list. I can't think of a more stereotypical bad guy car than a black (with tinted windows) Chrysler 300. It was driven by the mob villains in the movie "A History of Violence" with Viggo Mortenson, and It's about as menacing a car as I can think of. Every time that car showed up on screen, everyone knew that something horrible was about to happen...
Also driven by Walt in Breaking Bad when he became the villain, and was the bad guy car in Drive. Also was quintessential mobster car in mid 2000s Eastern Europe in real life.
The issue is that these cars have become the car of the wannabe gangster too much. Esp with how cheap they are used or financed. No serious important villan would drive one now. 10 years ago, sure. Not now. It's the car if you want to appear tough, not if you actually are.
@walt was the hero
Especially an SRT model. A blacked out SRT 300 tells me the owner has been to prison and is very much okay with going back.
Oh yeah, since the late 2000s Chrysler 300s have depreciated, they are getting picked up by drug dealers, hoodrats, and baddies everywhere...they always stick aftermarket rims on them. Definitely bad guy vibes, but you can't talk about it because everyone will accuse you of being "based".
I've really been enjoying these garage discussion videos. This is one of my favorites so far. Great, non-traditional topic
I must have misunderstood the premise of this video because in 90% of the movies I watch the baddies drive black Range Rovers and this has been true for years. Having owned a couple of black Rovers it’s something that I always notice and there’s often a “hah!” from my wife as the car chase starts and the black Rangies pull into formation behind the hero’s Deux Chevaux (or similar). Not sure how the boys missed this.
Black Range Rover, black S-Class, black G-Wagen. If they're low-budget it's a black Charger.
Yea good point, I few years ago I watched a Belgian gangster show on Netflix, they all drove range rovers or Black Mercedes. The main character was named Ferry.
Its like a Porsche cayenne... Too boring and reputation created by beverly hills moms.
See in my opinion the black range is driven by the unending myriad of HENCHMEN, and will all be destroyed somehow in the chase scene while the slick antagonist somehow gets away
When a villain rolls up in a black Maybach Excelero, that's how you know you live in a Batman cartoon.
Also, Vader upgraded from Grand National to Zenvo ST-1.
Totally agree with Kennan on the red LFA. The styling features just have that flowy yet sharp look as if the lines are going to extend, curl, and consume you as soon as you see it drive out a corner in a big city at night. I think it looks so alien because it was Lexus's first attempt at overstyling with a sports car, and I absolutely love it
Yeah, if the Devil wears Prada...she also drives a Lexus LFA.... Giggity.
I never would have thought of it but it is a perfect fit. It looks so sinister yet inviting which is exactly what a devil would want
Ya, for me it's between the LFA and the TVR Sagaris. Both look sinister.
The headlights and the front end look like that of a sinister villain
This is low-key my favorite non vehicle review video on this channel. Pure gold watching you guys have this much fun quipping off each other. More of this!
I am surprised Lotus Carlton/Omega was not mentioned. It is the definitive baddie's car:
- It only came in black and looked menacing as hell
- It was stolen by bad guys to be used as a getaway car in heists
- Police helicopters struggled to keep up with this car on the highways during the chases
- Cherry on the cake - government wanted to ban the car due to above reasons
Imperial Green mate. May as well have been black though. This list was regionalised
How many cars generate a literal government response because they're causing too much trouble?!🤣
Absolutely top shelf pick.
Great choice! You must be British! Loved seeing news in the UK where the police and helicopters couldn't keep up!
I demand a full review of this car pronto!
I love the lotus carlton, but they weren't black. Great shout though
This was such a fun video. I agree with the 30's Mercedes, Duesenbergs, Cadillacs (V12s and 16s) my pick would be for the pre merger AMG Mercedes and Toyota Centuries and Crowns Yakuza style.
When Kennon mentioned any "devil" shows, I instantly remembered the 62 black Corvette convertible in Lucifer.
If you find weird that American Police and gangaster used similar cars, in Italy criminals and Police used the same exact car, usually Alfa Romeos. And back in the days, like in the 80s, basing on stories that relatives told me, if you saw a black Alfa 75 (or Milano for the USA) in front of a bank, with no people inside and the engine running you'd better run away as far as possible. So for me I think the Alfa Romeo 75 is a proper villain car.
Same thing with UK and Germany the BMW both police and gangsters they drive them.
They use the same today- Dodge Charger
Alfa 159
@@carlosrondonm This the car that Bond henchman would drive
Totally agree with Kennan about the E38, especially as a European. These are seen as incredibly badass cars over here, especially in black, like the kind of car used during a bank robbery or heist. Just like the A8 in Ronin.
E32, 34 as well. Is these pulled up next to you in 90s eastern europe, you were about to be packed into trunk or caught in crossfire
You forgot the Ford GT, Carrera GT, the new Defender, the Range Rover (with a warranty), the convertible G wagon, and a vast array of E class station wagons
Hol' up
🤣🤣🤣🤣
And the school bus yellow H1 of course
Gwagon for sure and E class or how criminals in my country call baby elephant or buljavi what mean someone who's eyes pop out 😂
Defender looks goofy imo, but new Range in black is defo evil looking bc of the rear lights
Great list guys, although I reckon if we're talking villain cars, we've got to talk about these:
1998 Jaguar XJR in black
2005 Chrysler 300C
GAZ Chyka (Firm favourite with KGB agents, and is terrifying from every angle)
2009 Lincoln Navigator (Blacked out of course)
2006 Cadillac CTS- V
Blacked out Range Rover Sport (With the supercharged 4.2)
2007 Mercedes CL 65 AMG
2003 Mercury Marauder (Similar vibe to the Impala)
2010 Maserati Quattroporte GTS
2009 Alfa Romeo 159 Ti (More of a henchman's car rather than the arch villain himself)
For post Soviet countries black E38 meant gangsters mostly because of russian film from called Бумер (Bimmer). It was about the couple of gangster and the car was one the central pieces of the movie so for the younger generation E38 firstly about the 90s crime and gangsters.
I mean they chose that car for the movie because it was THE car for 90s gangsters in Eastern Europe. MB S600 if you’re the boss, E38 if you’re one step below the boss
Also the so-called шестисотые (600) Mercedes-Benzes were always attributed to Russian gangsters in Russian anecdotes, and G-classes would be driven by actual gangsters.
Worldwide in general the gangsters prefer BMW.
Don't forget about 90's mercedes s600 black color
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in late 90s the w140 s class in indonesia had the “evil person” rep bc it usually means that you have ties to the president at the time so if one is parked outside your house, you’re time is coming and you will be declared “missing” not long after that
100% correct on the covered wheel arches. Whenever I see a Honda Clarity I get chills down my spine.
😂😂😂
how about the volkswagen xl1?
It's the 1994 Mercury Sable for me. Got that light bar across the front, too...
you've made me choke on my food
Citroen Xantia man, jesus
Everybody forgot about the Brutus with a 47 liter V12 engine from a German WW2 bomber?
“The chain drive, from a machine the devil uses to rotisserie those who displease him” - Jeremy Clarkson
or as its creator said in an interview: "this car constantly tries to kill you"
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Mercury Marauder (with the jacket). Gives off a different kind of villain vibe. This guys not a mobster or something but he’s been in more than a few fights and comes out on top.
If the Impala SS made this list, the Marauder makes it as well. Beast of a car.
i've seen too many cops driving those.
Marauder just Screams Bad Guy...but it falls on deaf ears. Love them, I believe they only came in black?
I mean, it is a cop car, so yeah, it's a villain car
@jacquesc3166 Those aren't popular though and you don't see those in Popculture? Most people don't know what a mercury maruder is
Where is the black villain Volga? (GAZ-21 & 24)
There was an urban legend spread in Poland, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, about a black Volga limousine traveling around the city, allegedly used to kidnap children.
The E38 definitely belongs in this list
A car I always thought of as a villain car is a black 1977-1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V.
I grew up in NJ, one job as a kid was caddying and I always knew when members of organized crime would show in some version of a Caddy Fleetwood (though in some surprising colors); they would tip me a ten (hey this is 1966), and tell me to wait for them on the 9th tee while they carried one driver, one iron and one putter or shared a bag. It was one of their chosen places to chat and do business without being tapped.....I do remember those Caddies.......and the second ten spot on the 18th green......
Back east a lot of the made guys drove Lincoln Towncars in the 80’s and 90’s then switched to Navigators in The early 2000’s. Helped them keep a low profile because the same cars are often used as livery cars.
lol I don't think Doug has actually been around anyone shady. I agree with you 100% on your calls.
In Russia we have the movie named "Бумер" ("Bimmer"), what means BMW in car slang, and the entire movie is about russian gangsters rolling through country on stolen BMW 750i. This movie is crime drama classic in the post-soviet world. So Kennan is totally right with his BMW pick.
I once drove a two tone black Rolls Royce Wraith Black Badge that I thought was an appropriate villain car. I felt so comfortable driving it that it convinced me that I probably am a supervillain in training.
I've spent a ton of time around a '95 Impala SS the past few months and it's so good. The car still makes a statement.
Great video. Those 80’s Caddy’s and Lincoln Town Cars were associated with mobs on tv. If they took you toward those cars and opened the trunk instead of the back door Game Over!!
For car reviews Kennan becomes Dougyish so it feels weird, but for discussions it's fine to have Kennan because it's like Doug and Kennan are chatting with each other and at the same time they are also talking to us
Kennan’s car reviews on Cars & Bids have gotten better and better
@@sbs-0055 ye, give the man time to find his own voice, he is new to this whole thing and doesn't do a bad Job, what do People expect?
@@enisra_bowmanDoug mentioned that Kenan has some social anxiety. I think with some time, he's gonna feel more and more comfortable just being himself.
I've always thought the Aston Martin Lagonda is something the bad guy in a 80s futurist sci-fi movie would've drove.
The Ferrari Testarossa in black always looked really sinister to me as well.
All of the early 2000’s movie villains drove the W220 S-Class that I can remember. I bought one in 2012 and my family/friends asked me why I was buying the villains Mercedes.. Just my own personal experience.
I think in one of the 90’s movies or slightly newer, there were some people using W126s as well! Classically badass and stated cars to be used as a villain’s car
definitely surprised no S class was mentioned here. W220/221 for the modern villain / organized crime head. W140 because.. it's the W140 and everybody fears anyone who drives up in a black one. And the W126 for your dictators
This was a fun segment wish it was longer! 😊
That’s what she said
I was expecting to see a Black Town Car or Mercury Marauder make this list. But the ultimate villian ride is a black 60's Lincoln Continental OR Chrysler Imperial.
I took my driver's license driving test in my mom's '96 Impala SS. The instructor must have passed me out of fear.
Russian Mafia: Black G-Wagon
Japanese Mafia:: Black W126 S-Class
Stasi: Grey Vovlo 740
Pimp with gun: Golden W126 560SEC
The Japanese mafia would drive a Toyota Century
If I was the villain . My ultimate cars are:
• Bentley 8 Litre
• Bugatti Royale
• Cadillac Eldorado "1967"
• Hummer EV
• Jaguar Mark X
• Lagonda Taraf
• Lincoln Town Car “1980’s”
• Mercedes Benz 600 Pullman
• Panther Deville
• Rolls Royce phantom 925
• Rolls Royce spectre
• Voisin C20 mylord Demi-Berline
The Maybach makes me think more of a Batmobile TBH... does that mean that Batman is a villain? 🤔
Also, "The Devil drives a LFA" would sound like a logical sequel to "The Devil wears Prada" 🤣
The Jaguar X350 XJ is the pinical of modern villain cars. True baddies don't want anything overtly flashy or attention-grabbing. They want stylish but understated, luxurious, fast, large... The XJ does that. And it's a Jaaag. Hidden gem!
Exactly
I'd add a black W140 Yakuza Special, and the Hongqi L5
This comment is so underrated. 🤣🤣Here's a Hongqi L5 for those unaware. Of course, you need those flag poles in the front too:
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Let me add something.
1. NISSAN ALTIMAAAA - menaces of the road!
2. BMW 318i - another road menace.
3. Toyota Crown/Century in black with 3333 or 8888 license plate
4. Cadillac CT5 V Blackwing.
5. Aurus Senat - you know what I mean.
6. Hongqi L5 - you also know what I mean.
7. Lotus Carlton - driven by real villains.
8. 1959-1984 Cadillac de Ville - the name suggest.
9. Toyota Land Cruiser - every warlords, druglords, gunrunners, dictators have one.
10. Lincoln Continental.
To stay with the theme, a black W140 S-Class is, of course, one of the most bad guy cars ever since literally almost everyone important in the Yakuza actually drove these.
The previous W126 S Class is also an honorable mention. If you are familiar with 1980's Miami, a W126, especially one equipped with an AMG body kit, was a popular choice for a Miami Drug Lord.
@@donaldwilson2620 Yeah, it was not only AMG bodykits but also several other ones like Gemballa models, and so on. I have watched enough Miami Vice :D.
Over here in the UK, the Ford Transit, particularly the 80s and 90s era were used for armed robbery and other organised crime escapades due to their ability to disappear into the London traffic. That Mark II Jags and the 4200s were the gangsters favourites in the 50s and 60s.
Love these garage videos
The reason Kennan mentioned the E38, and why I agree with him, is because that is the car the hitman drives. Case and point, the first Transporter movie with Jason Statham. True, he turned out to be the good guy, but he had lived the rest of his life being the bad guy, and when they destroyed his E38 he became the good guy sssoooooo
I think Kennen freaked out with Doug’s intro 😂. Any Jaaag is a villain car. Also the Alfa Guilia Quad. And of course if you’re going to be breaking bad … the Pontiac Aztek 😎
'The Transporter' (in the movie of the same name) drove one of those 7 series, but might have been a long wheel base. And of course, Raymond Reddington drives a previous generation S-Class.
NEED A PART 2!
1:19 You expect the driver to come out wearing black leather gloves so they don't leave fingerprints on the silenced pistol they'll be using in the next minute.
I can't believe the Mercury Marauder didn't get mentioned!
No mention of the Mercury Marauder, what a missed opportunity 😢!
1962 Lincoln Continental seems like an obvious choice. An early 1970's land yacht like the Cadillac Coupe DeVille would be a good choice as well.
Im surprise they didn't mention any 70s Lincoln or Cadillac.
In Eastern Europe the car that is most often assossiated with bad people is by far the G-Class. Maybe not so much in the movies where usually their security uses them but in real life that's the car which the people you shouldn't mess with usually drive.
G class is just for OF "models" and wannabe gangsters.
My pick would be the vauxhall lotus carlton mainly because there are cases where it outran the police and was nearly banned from UK markets because of it
The stories surrounding it make the Carlton way more badass than meets the eye. Genuinely badass cars!
@@rahulmandala4930I think it being so understated adds to it to be honest.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Yeah, the innocent, classic “wolf in sheep’s clothing” style of design at its finest. It’s why I love the much older M5s too!
Comment wouldn’t have existed without that hagerty video a week or two ago
@bi7826 it was a carthrottle extra from about 4 years ago is how I found out about it
Hi Doug and Kennan! Love the videos!
W123 estate, blacked out amg body kit. One of the most gangsta cars ever made!
The cameraman laughing is hilarious 😂
I'm typing this while you're on the Maybach, so maybe you'll get to it, but I recently was at the Corvette Museum and the 1965 (I think) Corvette Mantaray is the most sinister looking car I've ever seen in person. With the body being extra long and the wheel arches being even taller than usual it just stands out in a villainous way and I loved it.
Kennan is killing it in this video too! Great job man I couldn’t stop laughing
I agree with the e38. It's the German 90s impala in my opinion. They look VERY menacing when lowered, and fit big wheels well
They are wannabe gangster car now
The Citroen Traction Avant deserves a mention
SL65 Black Series -like every Mercedes listed was designed by the hand of Bruno Sacco. This episode came out swinging and did not miss. 👊🏾
PLEASE DO A PART 2!!
G Wagons, definitely! At least in the movies, the soldiers are always using Gs if they serve somebody with enough money!
Awesome episode!
Funny, entertaining, and great editing.
Black Range Rovers anyone?
I always thought 3-4 black range rovers pulling up to someone's place was bad sign.
props to Doug for the Biggie Smalls reference at 4:18
Black Mercury Marauder should be #1 Most sinister name. 3 bodies fit in the trunk and presence is menacing!!
I think the Mercury Marauder would’ve been another great villain car for this list
Same thing as impala.
They aren't well known
One you should have mentioned in my opinion was a murderer. The Plymouth Fury!
Mid-2000’s blacked-out Chrysler 300C Hemi didn’t make the list?? 🖤🖤🖤
100%
That’s for the trailer park edition.
@@SunnynPhilly Ha!! Budget Bentley with Merc parts bin cobble needn’t be ranked *that rough 😆 in Cali it was def low-level shady character choice mobile
It's not a villain car, it's a ghetto hood $1200 monthly payment car.
I never thought the Pontiac Aztec was ominous until Braking Bad
If covered wheel arches mean mafia, then the Honda Insight must have been the secret fleet car of the Yakuza
I think a blacked out Maserati Quattroporte old model, and even the newer one has a villain vibe to it.
Hey Doug.
Last night I had a dream.
I dreamed that I was driving down the highway
Do you know how I realized I was dreaming?
Because I was driving an allroad with no lights on in the dash.
I really enjoy your videos, and with the addition of Kennan and Alanis your videos are even more entertaining. What I would enjoy from your videos is one of a comprehensive list of the reliable BMWs etc. Not the bad ones to avoid, but the ones over the years that were not money repair pits. Keep up the great videos.
You should put F-body Camaro/firebird/trans am in there. Everytime I see them, I think the driver is a villain in a Tv show
The Camaro is the official car of murderers ( according to Jeremy Clarkson).
When we see those here in Europe, we know it's either a drug dealer or a pimp.
Exactly. It was super sinister in the movie “Color of Night” with Bruce Willis. The windows were all blacked out and drive a Red 1977-1978 Pontiac Trans Am.
No w140 big bodys? And the E38 was always seen as a mafia car in Russia and Europe.
My Mom had a 95 IMPALA SS and she DROVE THAT CAR!!! One Friday, she wanted me to meet her for lunch. We left the restaurant and got on the highway as she passes me ( in my 05 Pontiac GTO), WAVING. I look down and I’m doing about 87mph and not catching her. Oh yeah, she was 82 at the time…
Some other honorable mentions!
-Jaguar 420G
-BMW E34 5 Series
-Any US police car
-1968 Dodge Charger
2003 Mercury Marauder in black is def at the top of my list. Fantastic looking car for a villain.
That car is not well known
E38 is absolutely a villain car
Just needs to be super low and clean ideally preface lift. Black with chrome trims that is a car with presence
I was expecting more actual examples, but I assume Doug and Kennan are so deep into cars that they know little about movies or tv.
True. I was more thinking S-Classes, Lincolns, BMW E34 or E39 5 series. Bentley Arnages
It wasn't meant to be a list of favourite bad guy cars from tv and movies
@@jono6379 I understood that after I started watching. I'm not criticizing the video.
@@jono6379 yeah but we are talking actual lords of the underworld cars. Like what mafiosis in NY and Boston or Moscow would drive. Or arabic clan leaders in Germany. (It's Merc S AMG, E AMG, C AMG or an CL AMG)
2000's Maserati Quattroporte in black!!!
I know these are filmed well in advance, so it’s hard to respond to feedback but I would really appreciate more opinion videos with just Doug in them.
Throttle House called the Huracan STO “Satan’s Chariot”.
What about the Mercedes 600 Grosser? One of the most favourite cars of past dictators and despots alike. Aside from Jeremy Clarksson, who bought it way later in life, whoever got that thing new was some kind of agent of evil.
it looks similar to the last Mercedes on this list
@@pp3k3jamail I have no idea why I don't recall the last part of this video. I could have sworn that it ended with the Escalade... oh well, my bad.
I like Doug and Kennan as a duo as compared to the other duo pairing.. Kennan exudes a confidence that says he understands he's "in the club".
I feel like the lamborghini jarama is a villian's car (with a black spec and closed headlights)
A black Jaguar 420G is one of the most villainous looking cars I've ever seen.
Honorable mention to 70s/80s Chevy cargo vans. Not exactly high in the cool factor but in that era, just the sight of one on a show and you just knew bad guys were inside.