The Precious, Precious Car: Difference between revisions

 

== Film ==

{{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. <br />

'''Ferris Bueller''': It is his fault he didn't lock the garage. }}

* Flounder's brother's car in ''[[Animal House]]''.

* 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]]''.

'''Duncan Malloy''': I was bored with that car anyway. <br />

'''Vince Larkin''': It worked out nicely, then. }}

* 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 weilded by a [[Badass Grandpa]]' then sure.

{{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]].

{{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! <br />

'''Spicoli''': Well, make up your mind, dude, is he gonna shit, or is he gonna kill us? }}

* 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.}}

* All of James Bond's cars are this to Q. It especially applies to ''[[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|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, {{spoiler|Sharon still gets destroyed, at the hands of the pregnant dumped girlfriend, in a explosion that would make Michael Bay smile.}}

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Shutter Island]]'', Teddy blows up Dr. Crawley's beloved car in order to create a diversion.

* Phyllis Reynolds Naylor uses this trope cleverly in one of the Alice books. The teen-age Alice is a passenger in a jerk's flashy new car, and he is driving recklessly at eighty-plus miles an hour. He ignores her pleas to slow down and drive sanely, so she pretends that she's going to puke. The jerk says, "Not in my car!" and stops to let her out to puke. Once out, she wisely refuses to get back in.

* Here's a handy guide: if Kelso makes even a passing reference to his car in an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'', bad things are going to happen to it.

* In ''[[Power Rangers RPM]],'' when Col. Truman refers to the Project Go-Onger van as his prized possession, you ''knew'' it was [[It's Going Down|going down]]. And it did: the [[Monster of the Week]] planted a bomb on it, causing it to go out of control and right off a cliff. The Rangers bailed out just in time to see it die.

* The [[Villain of the Week]] in one ''[[Burn Notice]]'' episode is allowed to drive Jesse's Porsche Cayman under the belief that it was now his. {{spoiler|To keep Michael's client from blowing his head off, Fiona rassures Jesse that she will only shoot the windhield. The guy backs up in a hurry, rips off the back bumper, and drives off. Jesse says, annoyedly, "Just the windshield."}}

* In ''[[Chuck]]'', Casey is shown lovingly washing his Ford Crown Victoria. Chuck must later divert an incoming missile by reprogramming it to home in on said Crown Vic. Casey is inconsolable.

* Donna of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' is crazy about her Mercedes.

* This happens in [[Only Fools and Horses]], and even ties into an earlier plot point too. Del borrows Boycie's Jaguar E-Type (for various reasons), and just when he decides to stop in the road at the end of the episode, the car gets crashed into by a dodgy car with no brakes Del had sold to an Australian guy earlier in the episode.

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

 

== Video Games ==

{{quote| "What? You crazy, man? Nobody touches the Adversary's automobile and lives, nobody." }}

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]''. Underground racing circuit plus bazooka = win for the player.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Mr. Wolffe gets a car like this in an episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''.

* Happens to Bummer's golf cart in the ''[[Stoked]]!'' episode "Reef, Broseph's and Emma's Totally Stupid Adventure".

* Knockout in ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' is his ''own'' [[Precious Precious Car]], being the unusual [[Transforming Mecha|car-mode]] Decepticon. He's incredibly vain and takes cosmetic damage very seriously.

{{quote| "No! Not the paint job!"}}

{{quote| '''Cyborg:''' He'll get ketchup '''ON THE''' '''SEATS!!!'''}}

** Sadly, his ride gets torn apart as he tries to wrench it back from him, and then utterly ruined when it crashes into a police transport. Worse, the recently-captured Overload was sitting inside the truck, and promptly assimilates himself with the wreckage, morphing it into an evil version of the original, egging Cyborg on by boasting that he'll have to waste the car to beat him. Cyborg says it's not his car anymore, then blasts it into oblivion. Afterward, he builds an identical replacement. However, the car gets nothing but abuse in later seasons.