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* In the 1984 film of [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|the story of the same name]], everything is run down, dirty and decaying except for a patrol helicopter that's seen outside Winston Smith's window at one point. Presumably because it would have been too much trouble to dirty down a helicopter and then clean it up again before returning it to the hire company.
** This is possibly [[Fridge Brilliance]]. A totalitarian government will make sure to keep patrol helicopters and other military vehicles in pristine condition because they focus more on the military than the rest of the country, akin to Soviet Russia or North Korea.
** In addition, helicopters are extremely delicate mechanisms and require regular servicing just to keep flying at all (the average helicopter requires 5–10 man-hours of wrench time for every hour of flight time). If the helicopter is capable of completing a patrol circuit without crashing then by definition it is being given preventive maintenance, which also means they'd be keeping it at least halfway clean.
* Arguably, the vehicle driven by Dennis Quaid in the film ''[[Vantage Point]]''. He (playing a Secret Service agent) chases a vehicle being driven by his traitorous partner, and incurs three car crashes during the chase, none of which slow the vehicle down at all. It's only a full-on collision with a wall that stops the vehicle, and Dennis Quaid jumps out of the vehicle with nary a scratch.
* ''[[The French Connection]]'', when police officer Popeye Doyle drives recklessly to catch a suspect travelling to a nearby station in Manhattan. The car narrowly misses dozens of vehicles and pedestrians, and makes it without a scratch.
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