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** In the games from ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground Underground]]'' to ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedCarbon Carbon]]'', the closest thing to actual damage on licensed vehicles would be body scratches and broken windows. The police vehicles that appear in ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' and ''Carbon'' are much, much less durable, crumpling in a few hits, being they're generic Crown Vic-esque pandas. Oddly enough, this also applies to ''licensed'' police vehicles which show up at higher heat levels, like the unmarked Pontiac cop cars.

* Mentioned on the ''Film/Transformers2007'' commentary, where the CGI robots were given plenty of dings and scratches to help them blend into the environment, but the prop cars themselves were always buffed, sometimes giving them an almost CGI appearance.

* Mentioned on the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' DVD, where the CGI robots were given plenty of dings and scratches to help them blend into the environment, but the prop cars themselves were always buffed, sometimes giving them an almost CGI appearance.

Contrast with EveryCarIsAPinto. See also BeautyIsNeverTarnished.

* ''Series/TopGear'' demonstrated that the Toyota Hilux (called the Pickup in the US) CAN NOT BE STOPPED. By no means does it literally fit the trope name -- no bodywork ever made will survive spending a night in the ocean, being lit on fire, and being strapped to the roof of an imploding high-rise. After all that, though, it still moved easily under its own power with no parts replaced and only a few minutes repair with hand tools. To a lesser extent, most Toyotas from before 2000 can fall into this trope. Many of them are still on the roads where rival companies' equivalent models are not.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': Played for laughs. The B Plot of one episode has Kevin get fed up Ben accidentally destroying his car all the time, so he and Rook get to work improving his car's resistance to all sorts of things. In the climax of the episode, Kevin and Rook have finished their work and are going over the comically long list of things Kevin's car is now impervious too. But they forgot to make it magic-proof, in an episode featuring the DarkMagicalGirl Charmcaster. I think you can guess what happens next.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedCarbon'' opens with a race at the end of which your car is "[[TakeOurWordForIt totaled]]" in a crash. Since it's a licensed car, all damage to it occurs during a DiscretionShot, and you never see it afterward.
** Like in the earlier ''Most Wanted'', the closest thing to actual damage on licensed vehicles would be body scratches and broken windows. Police vehicles are much, much less durable, crumpling in a few hits, being they're generic Crown Vic-esque pandas. Oddly enough, this also applies to ''licensed'' police vehicles which show up at higher heat levels like the unmarked Pontiac cop cars.
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground 2'' plays it straight except for certain cases where the rarely-used stunt camera will show broken glass in the windows of your car, which is instantly fixed when you switch back to the regular camera.

* The Volvo company prides itself on the legendary toughness and resilience of its sedans and station wagons. They can take a truly absurd amount of damage and sill function. This is partly due to the fact that they were designed to cope with Sweden's mountainous terrain, and partly due to a traditional emphasis on safety within the company because its founder's wife died in a car accident.

* As mentioned above, a lot of video games with licensed cars have indestructible cars. One game actually had a full damage model shipped with the game only accessible by cheat codes. Games like Burnout use BrandX versions of real cars in order to get away with their insane crashes.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Carbon'' opens with a race at the end of which your car is "[[TakeOurWordForIt totaled]]" in a crash. Since it's a licensed car, all damage to it occurs during a DiscretionShot, and you never see it afterward.

* In the 1984 film of [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the story of the same name]], everything is run down, dirty and decaying except for a patrol helicopter that's seen outside Winston Smith's window at one point. Presumably because it would have been too much trouble to dirty down a helicopter and then clean it up again before returning it to the hire company. This is possibly FridgeBrilliance: a totalitarian government will make sure to keep patrol helicopters and other military vehicles in pristine conoting, and two Chargers that were acquired for two bucks on the condition they be sold back to the prior owner for a dollar and a quarter each.

* ''Series/TopGear'' demonstrated that the Toyota Hilux (called Tacoma in the US) CAN NOT BE STOPPED. By no means does it literally fit the trope name -- no bodywork ever made will survive spending a night in the ocean, being lit on fire, and being strapped to the roof of an imploding high-rise. After all that, though, it still moved easily under its own power with no parts replaced and only a few minutes repair with hand tools. To a lesser extent, most Toyotas from before 2000 can fall into this trope. Many of them are still on the roads where rival companies' equivalent models are not.