Star Wars 20th Anniversary: 3 Cars That Look Like They Rode the Kessel Run
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It's Star Wars Day, and we've gone mad.
It’s May the Fourth — a day when we honor lightsabers, the Force, and galaxy-hopping adventures with our favorite rebels and bounty hunters. But while the Millennium Falcon and X-Wings are great for space battles, what if Star Wars characters had to choose Earth cars to cruise around the galaxy in style?
Here are three cars that don’t just look like they belong in a galaxy far, far away — they practically demand a hyperspace lane.
DeLorean DMC-12
A car that literally bends time? Yes, please.
How could we talk about intergalactic travel and not mention the DeLorean DMC-12? While it was immortalized in Back to the Future, it looks like it would fit right into the Star Wars universe — maybe parked outside Maz Kanata’s castle or in a Coruscant high-rise.
Its stainless steel body panels, gull-wing doors, and angular silhouette give it the aura of a Corellian freighter, and if Doc Brown could retrofit it with a flux capacitor, imagine what R2-D2 could do with it. Hook this baby up with some repulsorlifts and you’d be zipping through asteroid fields in no time. It might not outrun the Falcon, but it sure would look cool trying.
Maserati Boomerang
Wedge-shaped speed meets Star Wars chic.
First shown off at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, the Maserati Boomerang looks less like a car and more like Darth Vader’s personal cruiser. Designed by the legendary Giorgetto Giugiaro, the Boomerang was a rolling sci-fi experiment decades ahead of its time — a razor-sharp wedge on wheels that looks like it was drawn with a lightsaber instead of a pencil.
Everything about the Boomerang screams imperial class: from its angular, spaceship-inspired profile to its futuristic (and slightly bonkers) dashboard layout, where the instrument cluster is embedded inside the steering wheel. You can almost picture a young General Hux behind the wheel, commanding stormtroopers from the cockpit.
Unfortunately, only one Boomerang was ever built. Which makes it rarer than a kyber crystal — and infinitely more stylish.
Ferrari 512S Modulo
So space-age it should come with an astromech droid.
The Ferrari 512S Modulo doesn’t just look like a spaceship — it practically is one. With a design straight out of a concept sketch for Naboo or Alderaan, this 1970s marvel is low, wide, and eerily silent. Its canopy-style roof slides forward for entry (no doors here, peasant), and its wheels are partially enclosed for maximum space-lanes aerodynamics.
Designed by Paolo Martin at Pininfarina, the Modulo packs a V12 engine under its ultra-low, spaceship-like body. On Earth, it’s a conversation starter. In space? It’s stealth mode. Fly this past a battalion of TIE Fighters and they might just mistake it for a rebel probe droid.
Forget stealth bombers — this is the car that blends with satellites, slips under tractor beams, and still has enough Italian flair to impress Leia.
