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* Technicals and the most famous examples of the [[Reds with Rockets|Katyusha]] resemble this trope, being a four-wheel drive with some form of heavy weapon mounted on the back.

* Another [[Truth in Television]]: Limousines for government officials and the excessively rich. These carry up to a couple tons of armor, ranging from simple Kevlar panels to hardened steel plates, the windows have several layers of armored glass, tires are filled with foam (they'll never go flat, even despite bullet holes). One Discovery Channel program showed how one vehicle was further fitted out with a caltrop dispenser (VERY easy to do) and no less than ''eight'' places to conceal guns so they would escape even a thorough search.

** Actually most people would be surprised to find out that at least four [[James Bond]] gadgets are very easy to DIY: caltrop dispensers (all that is needed is a tub-shaped box which rotates pushed by a stepper motor), oil slick dispensers (a metal can for the oil, an electric pump and 2-4 nozzles), smoke screen (it needs some used motor oil and an injector pump to spray it in the red-hot exhaust) and rotating license plate, which is easier to do in nowadays plastic-bumper cars than [[wikipedia:Goldfinger ~~chr~~(~~28)filmchr(29~~)|in the chromed steel bumper of an Aston Martin]]. However, [[Awesome but Impractical|they have disadvantages]] for someone whose life does not depend on them: stored caltrops are bulky, rattly and noisy, a properly running oil slick dispenser would need a barrel with at least 20 liters of oil, and rotating license plates with a fake number may have you imprisoned for forgery in some countries if caught. [[Cool Car|Cool?]] Yes. Useful? Hardly ever.

** Actually most people would be surprised to find out that at least four [[James Bond]] gadgets are very easy to DIY: caltrop dispensers (all that is needed is a tub-shaped box which rotates pushed by a stepper motor), oil slick dispensers (a metal can for the oil, an electric pump and 2-4 nozzles), smoke screen (it needs some used motor oil and an injector pump to spray it in the red-hot exhaust) and rotating license plate, which is easier to do in nowadays plastic-bumper cars than [[wikipedia:Goldfinger (film)|in the chromed steel bumper of an Aston Martin]]. However, [[Awesome but Impractical|they have disadvantages]] for someone whose life does not depend on them: stored caltrops are bulky, rattly and noisy, a properly running oil slick dispenser would need a barrel with at least 20 liters of oil, and rotating license plates with a fake number may have you imprisoned for forgery in some countries if caught. [[Cool Car|Cool?]] Yes. Useful? Hardly ever.

** A more "normal" example is the minigun-armed SUV in [[Barack Obama]]'s inauguration. A "Dillan Tactical Vehicle", for those who care. The minigun folds in for easy, low-profile travel.

*** Dillan likes to pretend their miniguns are used by heads of state. They aren't, generally, as that sort of collateral damage is hard for any elected official to stomach.