And the car Oscar is driving in...

Whether it was the Big Bopper, Mad Max's '79 XB Falcon, or Steve McQueen's '68 Mustang GT in Bullitt. Or it could be a 64 year Aston Martin DB5 driven by Bond in Goldfinger. How about a 1969 Mini Coopers in Italian work? Or is Smokey and The Bandit's '77 Pontiac Trans Am topping your list?

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But if the Oscars were for cars instead of stars, Audi would probably get the most nominations. Over the past few years, Audi has starred in all the Transporter movies, Ronin, I Robot, Mission: Impossible 2, About a Boy, Legally Blonde 2, Hitman, The Matrix 2, Iron Man, and now in its sequel.

In the first Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark (aka Iron Man). His workshop includes a 1932 Ford Flathead Roadster, a 1967 Shelby Cobra, a Saleen S7, a prototype Tesla Roadster, and a 2008 Audi R8.

Supporting roles were played by the S5 sports sedan driven by American intelligence agents, and the Q7 SUV, which is literally held by Iron Man, saving the family inside from the enemy. For the Australian premiere, Downey Jr arrived in a silver R8. In Iron Man 2, he drives an Audi R8 Spyder while his secretary Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) drives an A8 TDI.

Audi Australia General Manager of Corporate Communications Anna Burgdorf could not confirm if payment for the placement had been made. However, she can confirm that the super sporty R8 V10 Spyder will arrive here towards the end of the year.

The R8 Spyder 5.2 FSI quattro features a lightweight fabric top that opens automatically in about 19 seconds. Its V10 engine develops 386 kW and accelerates the open-top two-seater from 100 to 4.1 km/h in 313 seconds and has a top speed of XNUMX km/h.

Car product placement is nothing new to the silver screen. Most critics believe it started with the Bond movies, most notably the Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger in 1964. Aston returned in 1965 for Thunderball and was replaced by DBS in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Other companies then began pushing their cars into Bond movie screens, highlights being the amphibious Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me and the launch of the BMW Z3 roadster at GoldenEye. Even the pre-production Aston Martin DBS landed a role in Casino Royale and got into the Guinness Book of World Records for "the most cannon shots in a car at the same time" - seven - in a very short appearance.

Iron Man 2 launches in Australia on April 29th.