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** In the [[Memetic Mutation]] [[Spiritual Successor]] "[[Mr. T]] vs." it could reach any destination in just five minutes.
** Face's white Corvette with a thick red stripe counts, too.
* FAB-1, Lady Penelope's six-wheeled Rolls-Royce from ''[[Thunderbirds]]''. While the original was only a model, it was [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091650/http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-Ford-FAB-Film-Thunderbirds.htm actually built] for the 2004 [[Live Action Adaptation]] (though in an [[Egregious]] example of [[Product Placement]], it was no longer a Rolls Royce but a custom Ford Thunderbird).
* ''[[Miami Vice]]'' had many cool cars. Sonny Crockett first drove a black Daytona Spyder, then a white Testarossa, then a red F430 in [[The Movie]].
* In another Don Johnson reference, the title character in ''[[Nash Bridges]]'' drove a 1971 'Cuda Hemi ragtop. There were only 7 of them made, one in each color offered on the Barracuda, of which 6 survive to this day. It's worth a couple million dollars at auction, pushing this into [[Improbably Cool Car]] territory.
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* Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima's [http://rundeautochat.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/01-hill-climb-suzuki-sx4-sport.jpg Pikes' Peak Suzuki Escudo]{{Dead link}}. Holder of the record time up the mountain. [[Cool Old Guy]] + Cool Car = Win.
* The [[Boring but Practical|agricultural-looking]] humble Land Rover Defender. It literally started its life as an [[Torches and Pitchforks|agricultural implement which could also burn banana oil]] in 1948, far from the glamorous military career of the American Jeep. Extreme construction simplicity combined with aluminium-alloy bodywork immune to corrosion made it able to outlive modern Jeeps, SUVs and other 4x4 animals [[Badass Grandpa|by decades]], and has remianed unchanged in that time (excluding a few engine upgrades). It has become the hallmark of African safaris, the all-enduring donkey able to carry what it breaks the camel's back and a bit more. And the British military still clings to it above all the Humvees in the world.
** [http://www.lr-mad.co.uk/pics/lrpvx2.jpg the Land rover Perentie LRPV]{{Dead link}}, part of the 'Perentie' 6x6 series of land rovers developed by and for the australian army and SASR, its essentialy a defender put on steroids to cope with the australian conditions, features include 2 machine gun mounts (one on a cupola the other on the passgengers seat), 6x6 drive, a fuel capacity of 365 litres (giving it a range of about 1600 km between drinks), an integrated cab and body structure with stowing facilities for equipment and rations as well as a low profile over the crew area. and a mounting rack so it can ''carry its own motorcycle'' for scouting purposes. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121002125437/http://www.allisons.org/ll/4/LandRover/Perentie/LRPV01.jpg as demonstrated here]
*** It should be noted, however, that both the LRPV and standard 4x4 110s used by the Australian Army do away with the [[The Alleged Car|notoriously unreliable]] stock engine and install an Isuzu Diesel.
* The American counterpart of the Ferrari... errr... [[wikipedia:Studebaker Avanti|the Studebaker Avanti]] was a car so cool that it [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|outlived by decades the company who designed it]], simply because it was too cool to drop. Although designed by the early 1960s, it was far beyond what the [[Boring but Practical|traditional American car]] was supposed to be: aerodynamic fiberglass body, modern disc brakes, modern suspension, powerful V8 engines, a design straight from [[Buck Rogers]] strips. Just after the Studebaker closure of 1964, all it took were a few enthusiastic people and leftover parts to keep production running up to [[The Eighties]], when another company took over, [[It Got Worse|got bankrupt itself]], let another one to take over... even when the last owner [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|got imprisoned for fraud]] the brand still [[Made of Iron|didn't give up]]. As of 2005, they were still in production.
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