In the 1976 movie “The Gumball Rally” Team Jaguar never made it to the starting line because their car wouldn’t start.
I was going to mention that running gag. The story is that Jaguar wouldn't give them a car to use for filming, so they got back at them. Here is a quote from the trivia page on IMDB for the movie: The producers approached Jaguar and asked them to provide a car for the film. The company refused, so the producers obtained the Jaguar seen in the early scenes of the film from elsewhere. Then, in what was an apparent act of 'F-U' retaliation, they filmed the in-the-garage scene of the rally send-off ... with the Jaguar being unable to participate because it refused to start. The car is a 1974 XK-E V12 Series III. The unreliability of this car is well known. This car made Time magazine's 2019 list of "The 50 Worst Cars of All Time".