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{{quote|"''She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.''"|'''Han Solo''', ''[[Star Wars]]'', on the ''Millennium Falcon''.}}
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What A Piece Of Junk is what happens when the alleged [[The Alleged Car|Alleged Car]] performs like a [[Cool Car]]. This is a vehicle that looks like it will fall apart if you go faster than twenty miles an hour. Your friends won't ride in it for fear of it spontaneously combusting. Well, your eyes are deceiving you: get into it and watch it blast past the competition. It is much, much better than it looks.
It is not limited to cars, or even
Of course, as many of the examples will demonstrate, the vehicle will probably still be prone to [[Plot-Driven Breakdown|breakdowns at inopportune moments]].
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* The Crown Victoria LTD, a/k/a the "Ford POS," from ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]''. Just don't press the [[Big Red Button|little red button]].
* Herbie, [[The Love Bug]]! A VW Beetle with an ugly paint job and the saddest horn you've ever heard, but fitted with a sports car engine for the racing scenes.
** In ''Herbie: Fully Loaded'', someone notes that the speedometer goes past 200
** In ''Herbie Goes Bananas'', he spends most of the movie very rusty and covered in child-made graffiti. He doesn't get restored until the epilogue.
* ''The World's Fastest Indian''. Equally applied to the rebuilt motorcycle and it's elderly, unathletic rider. Both perform (almost) flawlessly on race day.
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== Real Life ==
* The original (pre-BMW) Mini might have qualified. It looked and felt
* Secondhand reports indicate that no less a vehicle than ''the'' [[Alleged Car]], the infamous Trabant, could be upgraded to take a modern lightweight engine. Because the Trabbi's [[Made of Plasticine|duraplast]] bodywork is so lightweight, its cornering and power-to-weight ratios would thus be good enough to take on some modern sports cars--''and win''. From [[The Other Wiki]]:
{{quote|"Some say that the perplexing effect caused by a postmodern Trabi that can overtake modern cars as described above 150 km/h (93 mph) is worth all the effort." }}
* This trope, as applied to gaming PCs circa 2011: Imagine a quad-core processor, many gigs of ram, solid-state hard drive, powerful graphics card, power supply, and cooling system...housed inside a mid-90s boxy beige Compaq Presario case with "Pentium II" and "Designed for Windows 95" case badges.
* There are stories circulating in the automotive industry about some Volkswagen engineers in Germany who took a [[wikipedia:Volkswagen Type 2 (T1)#T2|Volkswagen Bus]] (a minivan with an anemic
* The [[wikipedia:Toyota FJ40|Toyota FJ40]], also sold as [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Bandeirante Toyota Bandeirante] in Brazil, manufactured until 2001. Rather plain on the outside, but still beats [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfbFJ__UkIQ many newer pick-up trucks].
* The M35A2 [[wikipedia:M35 2
** I'll still take one over a Hummer any day. More cargo capacity by weight ''and'' cubic footage, better view (higher seating position and larger windows) fewer reliability issues despite being of circa 1965 to 1975 build dates. Though they've been almost if not entirely phased out of active military service.
* [http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers This] $500 BMW held its own against state-of-the-art cars at a World Rally Championship race.
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