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Continuity
When Jim tries to make Herbie stop by shutting off the ignition, but it's stuck, the ignition key is already in the off position.
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When Tennessee finishes welding Herbie, the view out the back window shows the scenery traveling sideways, but in the next scene it's going straight again.
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When Herbie's wheel comes off and the car crashes over the side of the cliff, the bonnet comes up. In the next shot it is down again
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When Herbie's tire comes off and rolls over the cliff there is no rim.
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There are two cars used in the Lamborghini scene. The first one in which Jim drives up is in fact a Lamborghini, but the car that gets destroyed by Herbie moments later is a red Jaguar.
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When Tennessee is hanging out of Herbie over a cliff, the number 53 is missing from Herbie's passenger door.
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At the drive up restaurant, Carole's earrings are on when talking to Jim Douglas, off when talking to the hippies, and then back on again when talking to Jim Douglas again.
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The Edsel grille on Tennessee's sculpture is upside down the first time we see it and then appears right side up when it appears again a few moments later.
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As Herbie wobbles drunkenly down the race track, the sun light is behind him. Then a few scenes later, the sun light is in front of him.
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When Tennesee is shown (in between shots of Herbie's engine failing) after realizing what happened with the Irish coffee, he looks at the car when he realizes this, then his head is down upon the rail. After the car fails, he is again looking up then lowers his head again into the position that it was already seen to be in.
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At several points in the movie, Herbie is seen repeatedly passing a particular group of parked cars on the street including a red Datsun Fairlady, even though seconds earlier, he supposedly passed the same cars.
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After Herbie hits Mr. Wus' shop he has a dent up front, but later in the impound lot this dents gone and his headlights have no glass in them.
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When Herbie is following the cable car his headlights have rust in them, even though through out the rest of the film his lights are rust-free.
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At the start of the 'El Dorado' race Herbie passes the same pair of E-type Jaguars twice.
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When Jim climbs out from the overturned car in the opening sequence his helmet's chinstrap can be seen loosely dangling, yet he dramatically "removes" the chinstrap to throw off his helmet.
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When the second wheel comes off Herbie on the first day of the El Dorado, it goes over the cliff. As it falls it is just a tire, but then after it lands halfway down the mountain and starts rolling again, it is a full wheel and tire.
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Shortly before Thorndyke drives Herbie off the road and into a tree, the external view shows Thorndyke's car moving up on the right side oft he road to be parallel, yet in the interior shot with the Thorndyke, his rear window view shows Thorndyke to be clearly on the right lane of the road.
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Errors in geography
When Herbie gets scared to get on the freeway there is a sign showing Findlay, Garfield, Wilcox exits. This is in Los Angeles, not San Francisco where the film is set.
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Revealing mistakes
When Herbie the car is following Jim (who is on the tram), ropes can be seen that are attached from the front of Herbie to the back of the tram as the car passes the camera. Thus revealing that the car is being towed by the tram.
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The Volkswagen was not being pulled behind the cable car. It was actually driven from the back seat by a man whose head can be briefly seen in the right rear side of the car.
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When Jim first buys Herbie, he drives him from a single lane street onto a two lane street and past a sign that says "Left lane must turn left". Jim has just entered a one way street going the wrong way.
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In the final scene Thorndyke and Havershaw are working for Wu and start spraying each other with lubricant, but the lubricant is black. No new lubricants are black - only used oils become black.
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