So if Jake gave his bro the car, wouldn't the cops try to arrest him?

"the cops wouldnt arrest him. the cops didnt like packards bunch."

Is that how it works? A policeman's own, individual likes and hates define how he does his job. How nice, how equal, how law-abiding. Not.

A police has to do their job REGARDLESS of whether he likes or hates the victims of murders, for crying out loud! And every single cop doesn't necessarily have an opinion about them anyway.

What good is a cop that lets his own feelings about people affect how well he does his job? A cop that hates everyone would simply never arrest a murderer, he would just say "good riddance". And you would be ok with that? That's how it's supposed to work? If a murder-victim is unpleasant, then the police doesn't have to do his job?

That must be a great relief to the cops. They might just start hating many victims just to avoid unnecessary work - in fact, they would never have to work again!

Get real, man! They can't just choose who they arrest based on whether they LIKED a 'bunch' or not!

Having said that, how would the cops explain how Jamie's brother did it in court? "Well, he simply raced the gang, one by one, and then took off with great speed, and then stopped the car in the middle of the road. By the time a gang member reached his car, it was too late to brake, so he drove right into the black car, which then exploded, and afterwards the gang member's car exploded as well. Somehow Jamie's brother made sure that the bodies didn't explode though, and carved their eyes out because he is low on eggs in the burger place where he works. We don't know how he stopped the gang member's bodies from exploding, burning, or even heating up, or how he had time to scrub the bodies so clean before the eye-gauging. But we do know he somehow re-assembled the exploded black car and drove away. And he did this several times, and once turned the car to pure energy, which then continued to spread to different directions as balls of light, and made the sky burn in blue flame"

I don't think that story would hold very well..

And in addition, how would the cops explain where he got the car from? I mean, if he's the murderer, he must have BUILT the car by himself, or bought it from somewhere? If the car is really seen as the murder weapon, the cops would have way too many questions to answer than they would be able to, to make the case stick in court. And who's to say it's the SAME car? It could be just a car that looks identical. It's at least as plausible in court as any of that other stuff, and the cops couldn't prove any of it in any case. Innocent, until proven guilty, you see.

"...id also be willing to bet he didnt have liability insurance on the car."

Freakin' hilarious.

I was going to post the exact same question because honestly, its one big plot hole. Moreover, how'd you explain it?

Billy: "Check out my new ride..."
Friend: "Oh man, that's *beep* sweet, bro! Where'd you get it? How'd you get it? I mean, on your hourly wage at Big K's Burgers Im just dumbfounded that you could afford this."
Billy: "ummm...I won it?...in a raffle?"

And Im sure Chrysler would be pretty damn curious as to how the hell thier M4 concept car ended up in New Mexico.

Still a great movie though. I still recall the first time I saw it when I was seven, I was home from school sick. There is NOTHING better at seven then chicken noodle soup and "The Wraith".

"Most likely the cops/feds would just take the car away for examination. "

With what authority?

Do you really think ANYONE can even touch your property without your permission, if you haven't broken the law - even if they are feds, cops, or whatever? A badge doesn't give anyone the right to break the law (which "taking" the car would be - there's a better word for it: STEALING).

No one can take your property lawfully, unless you have consented to being governed by a system where it's stated that you must give it away to a badge holder.

If the car is REGISTERED (Regis = king - when you register your property, it becomes the King's property, and you have only the user rights), for example, and you have all kinds of licenses and you don't own the allodial title to it - then sure, they can take and impound it away all they want.

But I don't think a car made in another world/dimension would fall under that kind of jurisdiction, so the only way they can "just take the car away" is to either trick Jamie's brother (he looks pretty trickable) into forming (even verbal) contracts with them that gives them authority to do so, or do it unlawfully (steal it). They can also do it by 'intimidating' him into 'co-operation' which would mean he would voluntarily give it to them.

So there are plenty of ways they could technically get the car, lawfully and unlawfully, but they can't "just take the car" - and if Jamie's brother happens to know how the law works, and what the legal system is (it's not law), and so forth, there's no way they can ever take the car lawfully.

You seem to have pretty conformist-fascistic worldview, if you think someone can just take your property away just because they wear certain kind of clothes or metal figurines.