I used to think it was a bit of a shame if a really nice car was destroyed in a film (Bond movies seemed to be worst offenders), but now I really don't mind because I've come to realise they never destroy truly valuable collector's items on purpose. Often, if they are going to blow up or destroy a car, they use a replica or an empty shell (with all the valuable bits taken out). As long as it is part of a good movie, I think it's worth it, in The Long Good Friday they blew up a real Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, but so what, it was a great film. If a fine car gets destroyed in the making of a really bad film, then I think it's more of a waste. To me anything that's still in mass-production is totally expendable, unless it's a limited production supercar. Even if it's a shiny new £100,000 Mercedes S600, it's still wreckable. Now if it was a classic Mercedes W100 600, then that would be more of a travesty (this happens in Witches of Eastwick, but the damage was definetely fixable).

To me what is far, far worse is when great cars get wrecked in accidents because of the flash idiots that attempt to drive them, wreckedexotics.com is full of shocking pictures of this happening.