AMEN!

If nice cars get destroyed in an exciting scene in a good movie, then that's absolutely fine with me. As long as the scene is done right, I've not got a problem with it.

However, what I do dislike seeing is nice cars getting wrecked in AWFUL movies. Transporter 2 is a movie so awful that I can't even put it into words, and it even annoys me to see a ten a penny Crown Victoria get destroyed in a completely worthless movie like that, especially in really absurd scenes with supposedly professional law enforcement officers driving like utter morons.

http://imcdb.org/vehicle_71262-Morris-Minor-1957.html
This classic Morris Minor is blown up in an utter abortion of a movie. How many of these can there be left in the USA and they had to destroy it?

http://imcdb.org/vehicle_130013-Ford-Mustang-1966.html
The movie wasn't awful, but this final scene was not only criminally wasteful, but also immensely stupid. Read my comment on that page for more details.

The R8 is a recent one, still in production, and having it seen there will probably help to sell more. In addition of that, as the cars were provided by Audi, it was maybe even not normal retail versions (though that it is easier for them?)

In my case it depends on what cars are wrecked or damaged.
OK for me: National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Not OK for me: Iron man

Maybe I should visit a psychologist to fix my silly attitude

A car chase without at least some cars being wrecked or damaged is no fun.

Every dead Smart is a good Smart.

The big junkyard Kiesow in Norderstedt, just North of Hamburg, offers "car-bashing" for its customers:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultur/0,1518,550775,00.html

Cars not it production shouldn't be destroyed, unless they are ugly! NEw cars should be destroyed as quick as possible!

If it's a car or truck I like, whether it's mass market or not, I do tend to be disappointed. I loved the fuselage Plymouth Fury's especially, the 1972's. So while the Fury that was wrecked in the Wendy O. Williams video "It's My Life" wasn't a 1972(at first), and it contributed to the overall mayhem that made it so enjoyable, the fact that it was a 1969-73 Fury was somewhat of a let-down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MsQlHgmSb8

And Taxiguy, I agree with you on the CrownVic.

Mass market cars become obsolete eventually, and many of them aren't considered special or unique enough to achieve generally recognized "classic" status, like the Ford Mustang, Chevy Corvette Stingray, that kind of thing.

I don't know what some people are worrying about because surely there will always be a few preserved models of these cars somewhere (museums, collectors etc), don't the main manufacturers (although ones like Austin don't exist anymore) keep their prototypes and final commercial release versions stored somewhere? The Vauxhall Vectra is common now, one day it'll be one of these "vanishing cars", but I don't think that'll make me care about it any more. And the day it becomes a priceless historical relic, I'll already be dead.