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[[Plot Driven Breakdown]] is the supertrope to this.
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* The French-Canadian movie ''Elvis Gratton'' [[Playing With a Trope|spoofs this trope]] with a literal version of it. It involves a [[Cool Car|talking limousine]] which actually ''insults'' the titular character. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cood3ZnRJk8 See for yourself] (in Québec French with lots of swearing). He has a pretty bad record with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJWQCN5BKfc talking limousines] anyway.
* ''[[Into the Night]]'': Inverted. Insomniac [[Jeff Goldblum]], who drove to the airport after finding his wife in ''flagrante delicto,'' has decided to go back home, but he can't get his car started. Enter Michelle Pfeiffer, being chased by Iranian diamond smugglers. She jumps into his car and tells him to go -- and the car starts right up!
* ''[[Back to The Future]]'' -- the moment it becomes critical for the time-traveling DeLorean to start up, it doesn't. There's an elaborate fan theory as to why this is, involving the supposition that the DeLorean's time circuit is being used [[Meanwhile in The Future|at another point in time]] (preventing the one in the "now" from working), but it could also just be [[Plot Driven Breakdown]] [[Phlebotinum Breakdown]]. Of course, despite the fact that he was working on a very strict timetable, and failed to get moving as soon as his alarm went off, he still managed to hit the wire [[Million
** To be fair, the movie does establish that there is something wrong with the starter, so it isn't as if the car ran perfectly until the very moment the plot needed it to break down.
** The DeLorean's problems with breaking down were [[The Alleged Car|very much]] [[Truth in Television]].
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* In ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'', the emergency brake in the main character's car comes right off in her hand. Naturally, this is as she's going up a hill in San Fransisco. It makes you wonder why she decided to use the same car again when she had to {{spoiler|rush out to the climatic ball, as it predictable stalls and won't start again. Though it isn't a life threatening situation, if she didn't announce her ascension to the throne at that time, she would lose her crown and someone else would take over}}. The car was established as a piece of shit even before all of this, though.
* In the third ''[[Tremors]]'' movie, Desert Jack has a switch in his jeep that he uses to deliberately invoke this trope to make his Graboid safaris more exciting.
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* ''[[The Love Bug]]'': All of the movies at some point have Herbie refusing to start after the main character insults the car, and of course is right when they are about to race.
* ''Rainbow Valley'' : This John Wayne western manages to pull this off with just one automobile in a movie full of horses. As a posse heads off under the mistaken impression that John Wayne is working for the bad guys his car-owning friend receives a telegram with the news that he's actually undercover. The car won't start so he ends up hitching it to a team of horses.
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* Brazilian example: Raimundos, "Eu Quero Ver o Oco" is about the bad experiences of the narrator with cars - a line goes "My hatred for automotives started early, when I [[Fingore|trapped my fingers in the door]] of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Opala Opalão]".
* The song "Sabbatical With Options" by hip-hop producer Prefuse 73, featuring rapper Aesop Rock, has a short middle section where Aesop pleads with his car:
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* [[Adam Sandler]] sings about this in the song "Ode to my Car", complaining about how the car that is so busted up that it barely runs a few feet.
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