I am old enough to remember when Bullitt came out. Steve was making the talk show circuit pitching the movie. Of couse they mentioned the chase scene. It helped sell the movie but did not seem like such a big deal at the time. There were lots of movies before it with chase scenes. The thing that changed Hollywood for the next 25 years or so was that : A. the cars were filmed at real speed - 100 mph+. Before this they either speeded up the cameras and did not have other cars in the scene so it looked like the car was going fast although it was not or they had the "stars" in a car on the set and a fake back gound in back of them and all the stars had to remember was to turn the steering wheels once in a while. Such as Hollywood stardom and lack of care in editing that they were as likely as not to turn the wheel in the wrong direction than the road in the background would indicate they shoud turn it. B. there was a real star behind the wheel at speed. Steve put an end to all of of the fake stuff. Never again would an audiance be fooled by the fakeness (until the 1990's when computer generated chase scenes would take over.) So 1968 - 1990 or so was the golden age for car chase scenes - real cars on real roads at real speeds going real fast and with the very occasional real star behind the wheel (Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner). Now we come to Steve though. He was a real motor cycle racer - he also raced a Porsche 917 at Le Mans and made the movie Le Mans which is the best racing movie ever made (Grand Prix with James Garner the second best. So he was the genuine article and according to docmentaries that I have seen hated it when the movie sudios would make him accept a stunt double - he was too valuable to risk according to them, not to Steve. The best scene in the chase sequence has Steve missing a turn up a hill and smoking the tire (as apposed to tires - no posi traction) up the hill. According to the documantry, this was a mistake. Steve was actually dri