With this weekend's release of the video game adaptation Need for Speed, the cross-country auto-race movie is back.

So, let's get out our copies of The Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II and other similar movies and see which one darts to the front of the pack. If not those two Burt Reynolds vehicles, then how about the related semisequel Speed Zone?

Or one of the earlier, unrelated movies based on the same race, The Gumball Rally or Cannonball?

And before that, don't forget the cult classic Two-Lane Blacktop, which was a major inspiration on the real Cannonball contest. 

Not all movies of the genre and that time period dealt with coast-to-coast races, though. Vanishing Point and the Smokey and the Bandit series, for instance, involve shorter cross sections of America and also have races against time rather than against a slew of other drivers.

And then there are a few movies that go for much greater scope than cross-country. For a race covering more intercontinental ground, look to the comedy The Great Race. 

Of course, there's the movies about much, much shorter auto races, from the illegal street variety of Grease, American Grafitti and the Fast and Furious franchise to the sporting type of Days of Thunder, Six Pack, Speed Racer, Rush, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Pixar's Cars and the documentary Senna.

Plenty more we haven't named are out there for the choosing. Just chime in with your pick for best auto-race movie so we can find out what takes the lead over that finish line. 

First, check out the following handful of responses we received after polling users on Twitter: