This Is the New Ghostbusters Car, and People Are Freaking Out - RoadandTrack.com (blog)
The new Ecto-1, a 1989 Cadillac Brougham (you can tell by the grille), is a design study of 1980s fashion: Slab-sided, right-angled, with a minimum of chrome and definitely no two-foot tail fins. The original Ecto-1 was a deft choice in the 1984 movie—a wacky and offbeat machine running through gritty 1980s New York City dressed in hilariously un-trendy Happy Days style. As with just about every other aspect of this reboot , some people are taking the changes made to Ecto-1 as an affront on their childhood icon. Here's the thing: The way we look at a 1959 Cadillac today is very different from how it looked in 1984, when it flashed across the screen in the original Ghostbusters. But back in 1984, the Ghostbusters weren't driving around in a prized collector car. Just look closely at how it blazed across the screen in that movie: It was a rusty, crusty old clunker, spewing smoke and wallowing around turns as if it was one flat tire away from the scrap heap. Like the original Ecto-1 was in 1984, this new Ghostbusters ride is basically just a junky old car, whose collector value is essentially zero, and whose styling is too old to be cool, but too new to be considered classic. Yes, Paul Feig is messing around with the Ghostbusters you knew and loved and memorized and quoted throughout your childhood. Source: www.roadandtrack.com
