Captain America: The Winter Soldier from "Captain America: The First Avenger", with Captain America riding the company's Softail Breakout motorcycle in the film. In October 2013, Marvel released the first trailer for "Captain America: The Winter Soldier". "The Hollywood Reporter" said, "it looks like it'll live up to the 'political thriller' that's been promised for months now." "The Los Angeles Times" said, "[the] trailer runs 2½ minutes and teases plenty of action, conspiracy and clever banter between Captain America and his S.H.I.E.L.D. colleagues, with a smattering of the previously released Comic-Con International and D23 footage." "The Los Angeles Times" also noted that the day before
Captain America: The First Avenger or actual vehicles from the period were used as inspiration. Daniel Simon, who was previously responsible for many vehicle designs in "", was appointed Lead Vehicle Designer. Director Johnston cited Simon's book "Cosmic Motors" as a reason to trust his influence, saying "he's sort of the guy I wanted to be when I was designing stuff for "Star Wars"". The Red Skull's car, for instance, was based on two Mercedes-Benz vehicles from the 1930s, the 540K and the G4. "Variety" reported in March 2010 that Chris Evans was cast as Captain America and Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull; Marvel