The movie was made to capitalize in the popularity of Tom Selleck's Magnum character from the TV series Magnum, P.I. (1980). Movie poster tag-lines boasted, "The Magnum Man Hits the Big Screen with a Vengeance".
Smoke American Car Thief: Hey, you know, kiddo, I like London. You know I did my research before I came. I came because I found out it was my kind of town. I mean the cops don't carry guns. Now the cops still try and chase the bad guys; but they don't find it necessary to kill him when they catch him. I call that civilized. That's one of the reasons I left New York to come here.