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* Many official cars used by heads of state fit into this category. The limousine currently used by the President of the United States (often called "Cadillac One" or "The Beast") is a monster, fitted with 5-inch thick armor plating that could take anything short of a direct hit by an anti-tank round, yet can accelerate and move faster than most commercially-available vehicles. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5zH0Il8B0 Has difficulty with driveways, though.] |
* Many official cars used by heads of state fit into this category. The limousine currently used by the President of the United States (often called "Cadillac One" or "The Beast") is a monster, fitted with 5-inch thick armor plating that could take anything short of a direct hit by an anti-tank round, yet can accelerate and move faster than most commercially-available vehicles. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5zH0Il8B0 Has difficulty with driveways, though.] |
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* [[Lethal Joke Character|The Caterham Super Seven.]] descendant of the old Lotus Seven. Yes it looks like a cross between a go-kart and a 1930s racer, and yes, its 250-hp 2-liter engine may appear to be a joke by virtue of it being from a Ford Mondeo. Now that you're done laughing, take into account the fact that it is so friggin' light (506 kg, or 1,116 pounds) that it has a power-to-weight ratio greater than the Bugatti Veyron. Let's reinterate: its power-to-weight ratio is better than the ''Bugatti Veyron'', the fastest production car in existence ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tN6_xUL8j4 it actually got around the Top Gear test track a second quicker than the Veyron did]). It's also a fraction of tthe cost and is a hell of a lot more fun to drive. |
* [[Lethal Joke Character|The Caterham Super Seven.]] descendant of the old Lotus Seven. Yes it looks like a cross between a go-kart and a 1930s racer, and yes, its 250-hp 2-liter engine may appear to be a joke by virtue of it being from a Ford Mondeo. Now that you're done laughing, take into account the fact that it is so friggin' light (506 kg, or 1,116 pounds) that it has a power-to-weight ratio greater than the Bugatti Veyron. Let's reinterate: its power-to-weight ratio is better than the ''Bugatti Veyron'', the fastest production car in existence ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tN6_xUL8j4 it actually got around the Top Gear test track a second quicker than the Veyron did]). It's also a fraction of tthe cost and is a hell of a lot more fun to drive. |
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** Super Sevens show up in at least two works by [[Kosuke Fujishima]]: ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' and ''[[éX-Driver]]'' |
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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]. Holder of the record time up the mountain. [[Cool Old Guy]] + Cool Car = Win. |
* Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima's [http://rundeautochat.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/01-hill-climb-suzuki-sx4-sport.jpg Pikes' Peak Suzuki Escudo]. Holder of the record time up the mountain. [[Cool Old Guy]] + Cool Car = Win. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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