The final film of a number of actors, they being David Niven, Harold Kasket and Peter Arne, the latter of whom died around just a couple of weeks before the film's American release.
The movie's Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) title had actually been the original working title for the earlier Pink Panther movie Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) which had been made and released about five years earlier.
As the taxi is sliding down the road on its roof, the "bomb" attached to the car falls off when it flips upright after hitting yellow construction container.