Horace (The Love Bug)

Horace the Hate Bug is an evil black VW beetle and Herbie'sarch nemesis and evil twin who appears in the 1997 Television remake of The Love Bug. equipped with modifications and vicious behavior he will win at all costs even as far as to kill The Love Bug.

Background
In the film, Horace is made by Dr. Gustav Stumpful, the same person who created Herbie only to be created with a devious and evil personality. He becomes the personal race car of ex formula one race driver Simon Moore.

When Simon decides to eliminate the competition he sends Horace and Rupert to find Herbie and kill him. Rupert was about to do the job himself until Horace did the honors and brutally smashes Herbie to death with Rupert watching in horror.

Much to Horace's disgust, he saw Herbie fixed up while Simon took him out for some exercise. So they decided to settle this in a road race. Using modifications to cheat, Horace and Simon try piercing Herbie's tire and even try splitting him in two but the little car with a heart of love wins the race. Angry over losing to Herbie he attempts to destroy him by running him down. unfortunatlly he misses and goes off the edge of the dam and blows up when he crashed into the earth.