This third entry in Disney's series about the VW Beetle with a mind of its own is rather predictable, though still entertaining. Here, Herbie is reunited with driver Dean Jones (from the original Love Bug movie) and falls for a powder-blue Lancia (driven by Julie Sommars) during the Paris-Monte Carlo rally. Putting a headstrong intelligence under the bonnet of a car has been a winning formula over the years for the studio, but there are only a few touches here that rise above the mechanical.

Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.