The Mach Five is an actual vehicle and used in the major race of the film.

However, given the availability of modern computer modeling, is it still necessary to destroy actual vehicles?

Perhaps they were even the actual vehicles that had brought those ancestors to Pern in the beginning.

Collectors have been known to hold models next to the actual vehicle to pick out inconsistencies.

Gods, that looks strange, doesn't it, an actual moving vehicle!

The power to move the cable was normally provided at a "powerhouse" site a distance away from the actual vehicle.

The scale model was available for many years after Studebaker stopped production of the actual vehicle.

These were replicas of actual vehicles in a uniform 1/60th scale.

(The cars destroyed were replicas, rather than the actual vehicles).

Keep reading to find out why it's still necessary to destroy actual vehicles.