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Hollywood's Best Car Chases, As Rated by a Top Stunt Driver

There's a highly scientific explanation for why so many films feature car chases: Car chases are awesome. And there are so many good ones that to safely navigate a timeline of the best, we handed the wheel to an actual stunt driver -- Darrin Prescott, who orchestrated the car-fu in The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and Drive.
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Also in this issue There's a highly scientific explanation for why so many films feature car chases: Car chases are awesome. And there are so many good ones that to safely navigate a timeline of the best, we handed the wheel to an actual stunt driver—Darrin Prescott, who orchestrated the car-fu in The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Drive. Above:

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Steve McQueen's 1968 Mustang Fastback flies over the hills of San Francisco on the trail of two hit men. Prescott's take: "Those guys really were going really fast. Today we shoot it so it looks fast. But back then it was hammer down and go."