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== Film ==
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{{quote|'''Cameron Frye''': Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love. It is his passion.
'''Ferris Bueller''': It is his fault he didn't lock the garage.
* Flounder's brother's car in ''[[Animal House]]''.
* Kirk's stepfather's car in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Star Trek (film)|movie]].
* Kerr's car from ''[[Terminal Velocity]]'' gets driven ''out of a plane''. And Kerr ''leaps out after it''. It does not go well for him.
* Agent Malloy's car from ''[[Con Air]]''.
** Possibly subverted. He actually shrugged off its destruction.
{{quote|'''Vince Larkin''': I know a good body shop in Fresno if it's insured.
'''Duncan Malloy''': I was bored with that car anyway.
'''Vince Larkin''': It worked out nicely, then.
* Starsky's Gran Torino in the ''[[Starsky and Hutch (film)|Starsky & Hutch]]'' movie. Very unusual in that Starsky is a protagonist, and (after being talked into attempting an ill-judged jump) he destroys the car himself.
* Walt Kowalski's titular car in the Clint Eastwood movie ''[[Gran Torino]]''. True to the trope, the car does get 'borrowed' without his consent.
** If by 'borrowed' you mean 'run away from in mortal terror after a would-be thief stares into the wrong end of a fully loaded high caliber rifle
* Variation in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'': Lando, about to borrow the ''Millennium Falcon'' to go with Wedge and Rogue Squadron after the second Death Star, tells Han he'll bring his ship back without a scratch on it. Han has a feeling that he'll never see his beloved ''Falcon'' again. Lando ''does'' bring her back, and her radar dish is missing.
** It should be noted that an earlier version of the script had the ''Falcon'' getting destroyed in the Death Star's explosion.
** Also, the shiny yellow speeder Anakin commandeered early on in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''? [http://www.holonetnews.com/56/news/13516_5.html Was the extremely prized possession of the Republic's most corrupt senator.]
* Doug's father-in-law's Mercedes, ''[[The Hangover]]''.
* Main character's brother's 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge in ''[[Sex Drive]]''.
* Winston Wolfe's Acura in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'':
{{quote|'''Winston:''' I get my car back any different than I gave it, Monster Joe's gonna be disposin' of ''two'' bodies.}}
** Fortunately, he's giving it to Vincent, who's [[Watch the Paint Job|similarly attached to his Malibu]].
* Happens to the yuppie's Jaguar that Jack takes with a [[Flashed Badge Hijack]] in order to catch the bus in ''[[Speed]]''.
* We don't really learn about the car's preciousness until after the accident, but I say ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]'' totally counts:
{{quote|'''Jefferson's Brother''': My brother's gonna kill us! He's gonna kill you and he's gonna kill me! ...My brother's gonna shit!
'''Spicoli''': Well, make up your mind, dude, is he gonna shit, or is he gonna kill us?
* Archie's dad's Pontiac Firebird that ends up wrapped around a tree in ''[[High School USA]]''. The kids then concoct a scheme to persuade Archie's dad that he wrecked the car himself.
* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'' features Teddy's red Ferrari, complete with personalized license plates reading "CUL8R".
* Sgt. Murtaugh, driving his wife's station wagon, chasing the South Africans in the opening sequence of ''[[Lethal Weapon 2]].'' At the police station, a cop bets money that Riggs & Murtaugh will catch their target first, but once he's told that they're in Murtaugh's wife's station wagon, he wants to back out of the bet. (Naturally, since Riggs is involved, the car becomes [[The Alleged Car]] in very short order).
* In ''[[Tower Heist]]'', Shaw's most precious possession is his valuable sports car in his penthouse once owned by Steve McQueen, which, in a fit of anger, Josh Kovacs smashes to hell, declaring "Steve McQueen is my little bitch." Also, it {{spoiler|happens to not only be made of solid gold as a hidden emergency treasure trove, but its glove compartment is where he hides his secret ledger of all his fraudulent accounts.}}
* At the beginning of ''[[Project X]]'', Thomas' dad tells him not to touch his Mercedes or let anybody else use it. Predictably, it winds up at the bottom of the pool.
* All of James Bond's cars are this to Q. It especially applies to ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]'', in which it gets sawed in half by a helicopter-mounted buzzsaw.
* The titular SUV Sharon from the Venezuelan Movie ''Mi vida por Sharon'' is treated this way. The plot of the movie is all the lengths its owner goes to rescue it from express kidnapers, almost at the expense of his family and the romantic relationships with his ex-wife and actual girlfriend (the man was two-timing with each other, and still both felt more betrayed with his love for his SUV). Although he manages to reconcile with his family and got his car back,
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