Faster, Pussycat: The sharpest gangster gals

Beware: they eat men for breakfast. They steal, beat, and murder without scruples. Today we have strapped on our holsters and arrested the sharpest gangsteresses of the silver screen. 

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Michelle Pfeiffer gets catty in Batman Returns 

Skin-tight latex with coarse stitching and cute cat ears. So Michelle Pfeiffer appeared as Catwoman in the film adaptation of the comic-strip classic, ‘Batman Returns’ – surely among the sexiest goddesses of wrongdoing the cinema has ever tempted us with. 

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Miss Evil: Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde 

The real Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was the female half of a duo who spread fear across the Midwestern United States in the 1930s. Period photographs do not depict a particularly attractive woman, but Faye Dunaway is an entirely different matter. 

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Too hot to handle: Tura Satana, Haji and Lori Williams in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 

Russ Meyer knew what makes men tick and the name of the film says it all. What you need, it seems, are three violent go-go dancers, fast cars and a highly sexed plot, all of which are provided in the unambiguously titled ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’. Surprisingly, however, there’s (almost) no nudity. 

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Man-eating vamp: Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct 

One of the hottest murderesses in film history, Sharon Stone – as Catherine Tramell – is in some ways reminiscent of an icy cool Hitchcock blonde, although the gradual emergence of her personality as a bisexual, murderous sex-addict is far more 1990s than 1950s. 

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Text: J. Philip Rathgen (Classic Driver)
Photos: The Movie Companies

Citroën Méhari: Reporting for duty… at the beach?

It might look like a beach buggy, but the Citroën Méhari’s low weight and robust mechanicals made it an ideal vehicle for the police, who adopted it (as did the fire service and army) for duties on rough terrain. 

Unveiled in Deauville in May 1968, the Méhari was a bit of a change from Citroën’s usual product range, although the chassis and twin-cylinder 602cc engine came straight from the Dyane 6. Its body was made from lightweight ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, if you’re interested – or plastic, if you’re not) which doesn’t corrode. 




The car pictured is for sale at Artcurial’s ‘Automobiles Sur Les Champs 5’ auction, in Paris on 10th June. It was first registered in 1977, roughly the middle of the Méhari’s 21-year production life, and it was used for ‘liaison duties’ – hence the radio antenna. The odometer reads 5,526km but this is no low-mileage gem: the odometer has been round the clock, so make that 105,526km. But we’re told it’s running and ready for duty. At the beach, maybe? With an auction estimate of EUR 5,000 – 10,000, why not?

Louis de Funès in charming company in a Méhari (from the 'Le Gendarme' films).

Related Links Both the auction listing for this car and the full full auction lotlist can be found in the Classic Driver Marketplace

Text: Charis Whitcombe (Classic Driver)
Photos: Artcurial

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first Colorado testing for Sébastien Loeb / les premiers essais de Sébastien Loeb au Colorado

First Colorado testing for Sébastien Loeb at the the wheel of Peugeot 208 T16.

Les premiers essais de Sébastien Loeb au volant de la Peugeot 208 T16 au Colorado.