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{{quote|''"N. Gin opened a custom auto parts store in Toledo, Ohio. The store closed after a massive recall when his patented "Clear-the-Road" missile system sparked havoc on the nation's freeways."''|'''N. Gin's [[Where Are They Now]] epilogue,''' ''[[Crash Team Racing]]''}}

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** Both the Tumbler and the Batpod from ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' are also good examples, though the Batmobile seems to see more use as a battering ram than anything else. It probably helps that the Tumbler was an aborted military prototype.

*** The Tumbler isn't really a good example since it's a military vehicle with no unarmed, civilian counterpart. A Weaponized Car is a car with weapons added; the Tumbler is more like a small tank with built-in weaponry.

* [[Lampshaded]] and parodied in ''[[X Xx]]'', while the R&D guy is able (as per the titular character's request) to fix up a car with an entire armory of weapons, the thing needs an instruction manual the size of a giant phone book. There's a chase sequence which involves [[The Hero]] and [[Love Interest]] trying to look up the right equipment in the manual.

* [[Lampshaded]] and parodied in ''[[XXX (Film)|xXx]]'', while the R&D guy is able (as per the titular character's request) to fix up a car with an entire armory of weapons, the thing needs an instruction manual the size of a giant phone book. There's a chase sequence which involves [[The Hero]] and [[Love Interest]] trying to look up the right equipment in the manual.

* The 1973 Oldsmobile in ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' is, with the power of [[Giving Radio to The Romans|modern science]], transformed into a steam-powered tank with a helicopter rotor.

* The Baroness's Hummer in ''[[G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra (Film)|G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra]]''.