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** The award for most uncool car of the series goes to Itsuki's AE85. Itsuki attempts to buy the Corolla Levin variant of Takumi's AE86 and gets ripped off with an authentic POS.

*** Not necessarily [[Truth in Television]]. These now being 20-plus-year old cars and engine swaps being easier than extensive rust repair, condition is more important than original spec.

* In ''[[Wangan Midnight]]'', Akio Asakura drives a heavily-tuned vintage Nissan Fairlady Z (specifically, a model that was sold as the Datsun Z on this side of the Pacific Rim), known widely as the "Devil Z" for [[Blessed with Suck|a very good reason]].

** ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2'' and its sequels let you drive a Toyota HiAce. Which is a ''van''. That, like any other car, can be tuned to upwards of ''800'' horsepower.

** J even notes that the MIB have "unlimited technology from around the galaxy, and [they] have to drive around in a Ford POS". He eats his words when it comes time to push the little red button on the stick shift...

** J's Mercedes in the sequel is a nice [[Flying Car|upgrade]].

* ''[[The Fast and the Furious]]'' is a series ''runneth over'' with Cool Cars so hard, they're pretty much about this trope. Just pick a car, any car. Except for the Chevelle and the Ferraris, being the former apparently uncool and the latter portrayed as "already awesome", all these cars are rigged with the most powerful, badass engine upgrades in the world, enough to make them run like Formula 1 cars, and on top of that, all of them are equipped with bangin' sound systems, neon lights, all sorts of sophisticated control computers (except for the muscle cars, of course, which rely on good ol' [[Bigger Is Better|humongous block]]), LCD monitors, and, of course, a lot of [[Nitro Boost]]. The list includes:

## Two sleek Ferraris (TFATF, 2F2F).

** The AMC Hornet from ''[[The Man with the Golden Gun]]'' [[The Alleged Car|is really pushing it]], but is arguably saved by pulling off an incredible spiral-jump that could only have suceeded with Bond behind the wheel.

*** Bond also drives a (1933) Bentley in the original Ian Fleming novels.

* [[2012]] has the sports cars in Yuri's plane which include a Lotus Elise, Lamborghini Gallardo, Porsche Carrera GT and a Bentley Continental that they use to escape the crash.

* The DeLorean in the ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]]'' film trilogy. The version in ''[[Back to The Future The Animated Series]]'' had even more gadgets attached.

* [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] drives a Daimler that he has named "Mrs. Murdle," after a character from Charles Dickens. He likes to drive it fast, too, but is fortunately very good at it.

* The standard Cool Car in [[Kim Newman]]'s ''[[Diogenes Club]]'' stories is the Rolls Royce ShadowShark, only six of which were ever made. [[The Cowl|Dr Shade]] has one. [[Big Bad|Derek Leech]] has one. [[The Hero|Richard Jeperson]] has ''three''.

'''Jeperson''': Mine, I'm delighted to say, doesn't. }}

* ''[[The Three Investigators]]'' rode around in a gold Rolls-Royce, complete with a cool chauffeur, Worthington.

* Duncan MacLeod's black 1964 "Flair Bird" convertible Ford Thunderbird from ''[[Highlander the Series]]'', the Seacouver half. (He had a Citroen and then a Land Rover in Paris)

** Also, Tessa's classic Mercedes in the first season.

* The Dodge Viper in ''[[Viper]]''

* ''[[The A-Team]]'' had a cool black GMC van.

* The Coyote in ''[[Hardcastle and McCormick]]''.

* The Middlemobile [and other vehicles] from ''[[The Middleman]]'' and to a lesser degree, both of Dub-Dub's mundane cars.

* ''[[Angel]]'''s sleek black convertible, not to mention Gunn's vampire-hunting truck (for which he ''literally sold his soul'')

** And Angel had a whole fleet of Cool Cars in season 5. Spike destroyed a few of them.

* ''[[Nitronic Rush]]'' has a car which can jump, fly for a short time, drive on walls and flip. It also has [[Nitro Boost]].

* ''[[Car Battler Joe]]'' is full of these.

* Many of the vehicles from the ''[[Mario Kart]]'' series games, especially from ''Double Dash'' onwards.

 

== Webcomics ==

* [http://centralcitytower.blogspot.com/2010/03/machine-introduction-buggy.html The buggy] in Project 0 is essentially this for Aatu.

** They look like something Hitler would drive, and that's no coincidence.

* ''[[Misfile]]'' is chock full of cool cars, virtually every single character has one. The fact that almost every character is a street racer probably has something to do with it. However, it's also realistic in that many of these cars ''weren't'' inherently cool: they're the sort of cars High School kids could actually afford made cool through [[Wrench Wench|modification]] for their "Run what you brung" street races.

* The Mystery Machine from ''[[Scooby Doo]]''.

* ''[[Speed Buggy]]'' had helicopter & submarine modes. Also, he never lost a race he was in despite competing against race cars.

* ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'': The Autobots, when in their vehicle modes. All of them.

* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' features the Joe's method of transport, The Coyote, and Major Bludd's Mad Max inspired ride. Both also count as a [[Weaponized Car]].

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