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* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''. The title character's Cadillac Coupe de Ville, with built-in tape launcher and slick sprayer.

* [[Elvira, Mistress of the Dark|Elvira]]'s Macabremobile.

* The Deathmobile in ''National Lampoon's [[Animal House]]''.

* Pretty much every car seen in ''[[Mad Men]]''. After Betty {{spoiler|inherits her late father's 1961 Lincoln Continental}} it's noted in-series that that ''is'' a Cool Car for a thirtysomething housewife and mother even in its day, it's not just the [[Gorgeous Period Dress|Gorgeous Period Chrome]].

* The Batmobile in the campy 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series was the coolest thing on the show.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Black RX]]'' (and its notorious adaptation, ''[[Masked Rider]]'') had a car for the titular protagonist.

** ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' has a car-like vehicle (it doesn't actually have controls, instead being remote-operated by his cellphone), but it holds the parts for his [[Cool Bike]] and is indeed pretty cool.

* ''[[Fallout]] 2'' lets the player acquire a car if they manage to find the fuel cell controller needed to power it.

* S.O.P.H.I.A. from the ''[[Blaster Master]]'' series. It's practically the only way Jason (and later his son Roddy, in ''Blaster Master: Blasting Again'') is able to survive underground against a horde of mutants. Comes equipped with a mounted cannon, homing and dumbfire missiles, and it can be upgraded to [[Flying Car|hover]], among other things.

** Don't forget the sequel [[Mafia II]]

* The Deuce or "Druid Plow" from ''[[Brutal Legend]]''. Cool at the start, and can become even cooler with all the upgrades you can get it.

 

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* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' - [http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=85676&d=1269794315 Imperial cars.] Look like [http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=85675&d=1269794315 fucking tanks].

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

* In ''[[Double K]]'', Kamina has the [http://captainosaka.deviantart.com/gallery/11716754#/d1683lv Gurrenrod]. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it doesn't last very long.}}

* Parodied in [[Yehuda Moon and The Kickstand Cyclery]] with Thistle's bakfiets (cargo bicycle.) It's the envy of kids because it's not the usual soccer mom transport.

* ''[[The Trenches]]'': Isaac's car.

 

** Her car also made a cameo appearance at the very beginning of ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', where it is now driven by Madame Medusa.

* The Patty Wagon in ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'' is pretty cool. It can drive even though it's just a stack of unattached pieces, some of which probably aren't even mechanical, and every part of it is fast food-themed. It runs on frying oil, its wheels are pickle slices, it has actual sesame seeds, etc.

* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'': Madame Foster owns a black Firebird. Even with the [[Thick Line Animation|stylized artwork]] it can still be [[Shown Their Work|clearly identified]] as either a 1977 or 1978 model.

* The Question's car in ''[[Justice League]]'' looks to be a 60's Pontiac GTO. Extra points for using it to drive [[Car Fu|over some bad guys]].

* [http://www.spainvia.com/Merlincar.htm This custom car] was built around a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. That's right, it's a car ''powered by the same engine as a Spitfire''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxMxFE37Sxw&feature=channel_page Here it is] on Classic Top Gear.

* As was this '55 Chevy, with the ol' Merlin running 3 ''thousand'' Horsepower! Here's a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj2GVfua84 video] of it.

* The crown for aircraft-powered cars probably goes to Quad-Al, a dragster with FOUR Allison V-12 engines, totaling 12,000 horsepower. Unfortunately, the car was never completely finished, and never raced. Instead, it was sold off to a guy named Tex, who was promptly shot to death before he could finish it himself.

* A particular model of Porsche uses an air-cooled engine which, by pure fluke, is the exact right size and shape, with exactly the right mountings, that it can be used as a replacement engine in the original Volkswagen Beetle if the rear shock were strengthened slightly, resulting in a Beetle that can out-accelerate many sports cars.

* [[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.

** Super Sevens show up in at least two works by [[Kosuke Fujishima]]: ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' and ''[[éX-Driver]]''

* 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.

*** 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.

* The Overfinch Holland & Holland Range Rover. A collaboration between Land Rover tuner Overfinch and custom gun make Holland & Holland. In addition to all the usual luxury refinements, the car has the best optional extra ever fitted to any car in the whole of human history - a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krqxEm1BlhM#t=6m56s self replenishing drinks cabinet filled with Vokda, Whisky and Champagne that Overfinch will top up free off charge for the first year you own the car].

* [[wikipedia:Buick GNX#Grand National.2C T-Type and GNX|Buick GNX and it's siblings]]. Not only because it could out-accelerate the magnificent Ferrari 288GTO to 60 mph, but because [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing|it was a wolf in sheep's skin]], so ugly and dated that few people would believe what sort of punch could it pack back then.

** The supercharged "SJ" introduced in 1932 could do 0-60 in 8.5 seconds, hit 104 MPH in second gear, and top out at between 135-140. If that somehow does not impress you, keep in mind that a Duesenberg Model J typically weighed around 5,000 pounds and had the drag coefficient of a barn door—and that in 1932, most production cars couldn't do 60 MPH, period. As the saying went, the only car that could pass a Duesenberg was another Duesenberg—and only with the lead driver's consent!

* Any car that has the title of a famous racer or driver such as the Lamborghini Gallardo 550-2 Valvetino Balboni or the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss.