Best car chase has got to be the finale of The Road Warrior!
Anybody who says anything except Bullitt gets grounded from bacon for a week.
Here is the scene from the Blue's Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRXnuoK1ss
I have not seen the other 70s movies but what I am noticing in this thread with the few exceptions of Ronin is that the better car scenes are back from the 70s **BEFORE** all the digital magic we have now.
Case in point the Blue's Brother's completed destroyed that mall in real life. Just like in those other movies those cars physically took a beating and what we saw on film and what we did not see from the other 10s of cameras on film is the real destruction of stuff. Unlike today *cough* fast and furious series *cough* which is just too unbelievable.
The mall scene in the Blues Brothers LOL...do you have Miss Piggy?