Daddy was a bank robber he never hurt nobody...

[warren t claim]

Just incase any shiters are musing over a career change into armed robbery I thought it might be helpful to have a thread on the most suitable and shite worthy getaway cars. Assuming that your working as a team you'll need a 4 door saloon with plenty of grunt and a decent separate load space on the off chance the G4S guard has a chance to deploy the orange dye. A remote boot release or the ability to access the boot without removing the ignition key is a must. Your choice of wheels will need to be plain looking street furniture but with a decent turn of speed and capable of barging through a roadblock without folding like paper.

 

Any suggestions and memories of interesting getaway cars in history?

[Pete-M]

Horsey Horseless Mk5 GL

[warren t claim]

Horsey Horseless Mk5 GL

Not the 2.3 GLS Horsey Horseless?

[dean36014]

Think a mgzt 190 would fit the bill perfectly as long as it was a plain colour. After all, with obligatory standard rover issue flatcap who would suspect an OAP of being the getaway driver! 

[Junkman]

My 1974 Buick Electra 225 with the 455 was stolen in Berlin in the mid 80s and used as a getaway car in a bank robbery.

One would think German bank robbers selected something slightly more inconspicuous?

My getaway chod of choice would be a 560 SEL.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Get a Transit, paint it purple. Then leave it unlocked near a Securicor van. Hopefully someone will accidentally fill it with money, at which point you drive off. 

[trigger]

1984 Rover 3500 Vitesse V8 SD1 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Predictable answer but it has to be a Rover SD1 (or P6) V8, big, tough, fast and made for the job, as long as there's several petrol stations on route.

 

Actually saying that you'd need to rob a bank in the first place to run one so maybe not so ideal after all...

[warren t claim]

The problem with the SD1 is thus, if your getaway car starts you can split the proceeds and live in Spain. If it fails to start then you're spending the next 15 years in a 10'x5' cell with a wanking murderer, Purple Aki and a bucket of shit. Do you trust Austin Rover build quality that much?

[CreepingJesus]

Volvo S70 T5. Play the coppers at their own game. Given that you'd be getting chased by diesel Corsas if you tanned a bank in Fife, anything would do.

But the Volvo would be fairly nondescript, fast as you need, would plough through a diesel Corsa without fail, so it would be ideal. That and it wouldn't break the bank to buy a cheap one.

See also V8 Jag S-class, Lexus LS400 etc.

[Richard]

The police in Cupar have moved to a new station that manages to be on the wrong side of the traffic lights in every direction. If you did the Post Office on a sunny Saturday morning there is precisely fuck all the police could do about it, however asthmatic your getaway car was. They would still be trying to get out of their car park at teatime.

[Spiny Norman]

Royal Mail van.

Invisible to most drivers since they're everywhere and usually driven by bellends so the getaway driving style won't attract undue attention.

[pandamonium]

[Mr Lobster]

There was an article in Car magazine years back about this sorta thing. Reckoned that the ultimate getaway car at the time was an early '90's M5. I'd reckon that still holds true - solid, fast and not that obvious.

 

Quick enough to get away from Vauxhall Senators and Range Rover Vogues and avoid that 'he's crashed, he's crashed' moment on Police Camera Action.

[hairnet]

dpd/tnt liveried sprinter

 

or indeed g4s livery on above

[brickwall]

Rangies were often used as the first getaway vehicle before switching to a couple of saloons.

[fordperv]

^{got to be a sapphire cosworth for me, seats 4 comfortably, nice huggy recaros in the front to hold you in spirited cornering, remote boot release and goes like stink}

[skattrd]

Thema turbo, anonymous looking saloon that goes like stink, they handle pretty well as well.

[Micrashed]

Modern:-

2.0 Ghia Focus Saloon

 

Old:-

2.0 Ghia Sierra Saloon

[gary_davidson]

I'd probably go for something like a Nissan Stagea 2.6 turbo. De-badged so joe public can only identify it as 'a car', only problem is it's an estate so you're risking the orange paint going off everywhere - might be better saving it for when you do over a jewelers 

[Pete-M]

X type 3.0 estate.

[Pete-M]

Saloon is that's the rule..

[cort16]

You need space and pace. Nothing too big, nothing too flash and something to put out a bit of distance between you and the  coppers if you want to out pace a t5, 530d or what ever they've got. I recon maybe an 2004 Audi S4 with 300+bhp, v8, manual box and 4wd should put the shits up them without it's arse overtaking you on a roundabout or understeering you into a potato field.

 

If it was a vintage bank robbery I recon an SD1 Vitesse should so the job.

[autofive]

[brickwall]

You might need an old Transit van with the doors swing wildly as Smuger Jones clings on before being pulled into the back.

[406V6]

I remember reading an article about this very subject a while back and the most popular getaway car in the real world was a Transit van.  In the 60s it must have been a Mk II Jag with the 3.4 or 3.8 engine.

[Pillock]

I'm going to suggest an Impreza. Without wishing to tar all Impreza drivers with the same brush, nobody bats an eyelid to one being driven like a knob any more. The boxer throb also blends into most town and city ambience without fuss.

 

They're quick, saloon, I hope it has a boot release (I've never driven one, let alone gone to Tesco in one) and 4WD so if you do need to flee across a few fields then hopefully you'll lose the fuzz and their Astras. Then you can sell it to a moron-haired chav who will indulge in a bit of small-time drug dealing and instantly get pulled over due to the "armed robbery" tag on the car.

[Split_Pin]

Any pre 2000 Audi with a big engine or a similar Passat.

[eddyramrod]

[Alexg]

I'd go Rover 620ti. Totally anonymous but rapid.  

[Lacquer Peel]

Citroen Xantia 1.9D automatic.