Like so many things about that movie the scene probably could have been saved with a minor rewrite. For example:
During the car chase Shia LeBoufe falls out of one of the vehicles heading down a windy road. Tumbling down the slope he accidentally disturbs a jaguar. He high-tails it downhill as fast as he can and makes it to the next switchback just before the convoy. The jaguar leaps for the kill just as the bad guy in the lead car drives between them, causing the car to careen off the road.
Granted, that version would basically be a rip-off of one of the chase scenes in Apocalypto but better to steal from another action movie than to steal from George of the Jungle.
