History Main / EverybodyOwnsAFord

* Being produced by Creator/AppleTVPlus, nobody in ''Series/TedLasso'' is seen texting on anything other than an [=iPhone=], with many a shot throughout the show of characters' phones' screens, typically of text messages. Additionally, one shot of [[Recap/TedLassoS3E12SoLongFarewell the last episode]] sees Ted pay for magazines in an airport with Apple Pay.

* Being produced by Creator/AppleTVPlus, nobody in ''Series/TedLasso'' is seen texting on anything other than an [=iPhone=], with many a shot throughout the show of characters' phones' screens, typically of text messages. Additionally, one shot of [[Recap/TedLassoS3E12SoLongFarewell the last episode]], sees Ted pay for magazines in an airport with Apple Pay.

* Being produced by Creator/AppleTVPlus, nobody in ''Series/TedLasso'' is seen texting on anything other than an [=iPhone=], and in [[Recap/TedLassoS3E12SoLongFarewell the last episode]], one shot sees Ted pay for magazines in an airport with Apple Pay. There's also many a shot throughout the show of characters' phones' screens, typically of text messages.

* In ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', the heroic characters all drove Fords while the villains had various other brands. This was so JustForFun/{{egregious}} that it actually spoiled a plot point: In Season 2, the young, somewhat mysterious Arab man drives a Ford Thunderbird while his blonde, all-American wife drives an import. Take a guess who was revealed as the mole?

* On ''Series/{{Route 66}}'', both the lead characters and an inordinate number of guest stars drive Chevrolet Corvettes.

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[[caption-width-right:1000:At least they're honest about it]]

->'''''Law of Movie Brand Loyalty:'''''
->''Thanks to ProductPlacement, all characters in a movie, no matter how heterogeneous or geographically dispersed, drink one brand of beer, use one brand of sporting equipment, drive cars produced by one company, etc.''

This can also apply to other reasonably-expensive household items; personal computers, for instance.

* In Creator/DataEast's ''Pinball/{{Checkpoint}}'', everybody has a Porsche.

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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:''
** ''Film/IronMan'' is chock full of Audis. Indeed, Tony Stark will exclusively drive Audis whenever he appears in the setting.
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' features numerous Acuras, leading to Tony's previously featured Audi R8s being replaced with an Acura NSX.
** Every car in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' is a Chevy. There's also a notable scene in an Apple store which has no bearing on the plot other than product placement
** Captain America must really love Harley Davidsons.

** Starting with ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', the Film/JamesBond producers signed Ford up as their primary vehicular sponsor and as a result, pretty much everything on screen is a Ford brand. James Bond in his Aston Martin Vanquish fights Zao in his Jaguar XKR. Meanwhile, Jinx rolls up to the big gala event in her Ford Thunderbird as Gustav Graves gets chauffeured around in a Range Rover. It was kept in [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 the reboot]] when Bond briefly drives a Ford Mondeo in the Bahamas.

* UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film Ra.One is partly an advertisement for the new Volkswagen cars, though high-end cars are more prominent- notably, the Touareg and the new Beetle. Unusually, all the cars are right-hand drive, for the Indian market, but all drive on the right lane on American roads, opposed to the left lane in India.

* The ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'' movie went so far as to replace Lady Penelope's trademark pink six-wheeled Rolls Royce with a futuristic pink Ford, built from a current model Thunderbird. That the movie featured very blatant (and painful) Ford product placement throughout was bad enough, though reportedly the production first offered the placement to Rolls, who (or rather, their owner, BMW) declined as they were busy designing the new Phantom.

** We see this again in ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'', where the family pickup truck is a Dodge and Murph is seen driving a Jeep Wrangler as an adult. Amusingly, the truck appears to be old and worse for the wear at the beginning before running for decades longer, Earth time.
* Most Clive Owen films made this century feature him driving [=BMWs=]. This can be traced back to his role as the mysterious Driver in ''The Hire'', a series of shorts made by BMW.
* Creator/JackieChan was for many years sponsored by Mitsubishi, and always drove a Mitsubishi in his movies.
** He drives a Subaru in ''Film/CannonballRun'' which mocks Japanese cars. The super-high-tech ride he and Richard Kiel have in the sequel, however, is a Mitsubishi Starion Turbo.
** In Thunderbolt, it's almost exclusively filled with Mitsubishis in some scenes, including the duel in the middle of the movie.
** The trope is in full effect in Mr. Nice Guy: Jackie and Diane manage to get away in a Mustang early in the movie.
* The ''Film/SpyKids'' series used Isuzu vehicles almost exclusively in the first two movies.

* On ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'', almost every car seen throughout the series is a Subaru Outback (or sometimes a Legacy). Several scenes have multiple Subarus visible. If any other make of car is shown, the brand is obscured.
* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'': Fords, Fords and more Fords lined the streets of Mayberry. Everything from the police cruisers (which were Custom 500s) to Andy's truck (a 1947 pickup) and convertible (a 1956 Fairlane Sunliner convertible) were Fords. The rich one-time characters usually drove Lincolns or Mercurys.[[note]]For readers living outside the USA, Lincoln and Mercury are marques owned by Ford.[[/note]] Indeed, Ford is listed in the credits as providing the vehicles for the show.
* ''Series/{{Kojak}}'': Every living soul drove a Ford, (except Kojak who drove a Buick Century for some reason) and there'd be pileups filled with nothing but Fords.

* ''Series/MyThreeSons'': In some seasons, the closing credits run over stock footage of then-new Chevys on the open road.
* All the computerized cars (except that crazy twin motorcycle thing) in ''Series/TeamKnightRider'' were Fords, thanks to a generous deal made with the producers. This alienated a number of original fans, who were also Pontiac fans. Ford made them another deal for the 2008 PilotMovie. There was a five part ad for their new in-car computer system running throughout, the new KITT is an excuse to show off the new Shelby Mustang, and every car used by good guys and bad is a shiny Ford product.

* In ''Series/AmericanDreams'', the older brother returns from Vietnam and the dad gives him a new Mustang. That's very period, since this is supposed to be take place in the year the Mustang came out, and it was a must have for young men right from the beginning. But this one looked weird. And as the lighting came up, it was revealed as a brand new current model, not the original, an anachronistic example of product placement. This was echoed by the next commercial, which showed a young man returning from Iraq getting the same model from ''his'' father. The message seemed to be that once again, a generation of brave boys deserves our product.
* ''Series/{{Alias}}'':
** There was an episode in which Sydney yells "quick -- to [[StuckOnBandAidBrand the F-150]]!"
** A fifth season episode features Jack commenting on the quietness of a new Ford.
* In the ''Series/{{Defiance}}''-[[VideoGame/{{Defiance}} verse]], the only pre-[[AlienInvasion Pale Wars]] cars that were apparently tough enough to survive it were Dodge-brand (a Charger in the TV series, Challengers in the videogame).
* ''Series/Jericho2006'': Chevy seemed to be the only brand working AfterTheEnd with possible exception of Jake's deliberately vague muscle car. It was a Plymouth Satellite, but all the badging was stripped off. It was probably just the cheapest 'muscle car' looking vehicle they could find -- it was crashed barely fifteen minutes into the show. Background cars tended to be a fairly random grab-bag, but the heroes did drive a lot of GM.
* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' Everybody Owns a Nissan -- most prominently the Nissan Versa that Hiro and Ando rented, which they refer to conspicuously and which appears as a front-page advertisement in the downloadable comic series. The season 2 premiere has a 5 minute sequence where the cute cheerleader Claire is given a brand-new Nissan Rogue for her birthday. Way to keep inconspicuous, Mr. Bennet; yes, you could certainly afford that on a copy jockey's salary. The show had some fun with this by having the Rogue stolen the very next episode. A few more episodes later and the Rogue is seen smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico to America.
* The team on ''Series/DogTheBountyHunter'' are always seen driving Chevy, [=GMC=], or Cadillac [=SUV=]'s while hunting bail jumpers, and Leland bought an H2 Hummer in one episode.

* '70s ''Series/CharliesAngels'' all drove Fords, including the orange Pinto, which, ironically, was probably the only car on set not to explode.

* In ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', the heroic characters all drove Fords while the villains had various other brands. This was so JustForFun/{{egregious}} that it actually spoiled a plot point: In Season 2, the young, somewhat mysterious Arab man drives a Ford Thunderbird while his blonde, all-American wife drives an import. Take a guess who was revealed as the mole?
* The main characters in the ''Series/{{Bones}}'' universe own Toyotas, from the FBI provided Sequoia, to Dr. Brennan's Prius and Angela's Sienna and Matrix. They often [[ProductPlacement take a moment to highlight whichever vehicle they happen to be featuring that week]], mentioning the Prius's self parking capabilities and the Sienna's spacious interior. Runs into ArtisticLicenseCars with Booth's Sequoia, since US government agencies are required by law to prefer US manufacturers (he drove a Chevy Suburban before the ProductPlacement deal changed).
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'' is chock-full of Fords whose high-tech features such as self-parking or vibrating seats must be demonstrated to the audience in great detail.
* Nissan cars are prominent in the second season of ''Series/DesperateHousewives''. One episode led in from a commercial break with a gratuitous close-up of the Nissan logo.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals'' and their Ford Granada. A rare unintentional example, as the producers had trouble using their other preferred vehicle -a Triumph Spitfire if memory serves- because the supplier had an unfortunate habit of sending them a replacement vehicle of the wrong colour or year of manufacture if the first got damaged or had a breakdown. This made continuity too big a headache and an unspoken RetCon stated that CI-5 had bought a large batch of Granadas for the motor pool.
* Amusingly, due to the length of its run, ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' changed brands of truck several times as sponsorship changed. Almost never with any explanation.
* Beginning in Season 3, the agents of ''{{Series/Warehouse 13}}'' all drive a Toyota Prius or Highlander (Artie's [[ThePreciousPreciousCar Jaguar XK150]] being a lone exception) as part of a ProductPlacement deal. The makes and models of the bad guys' cars -- and Artie's Jaguar, for that matter -- are conspicuously never mentioned, which becomes especially glaring when Claudia says the satellite navigation system in an adversary's SUV is crap compared to the Highlander's.

* ''Series/MovinOn'': Chevrolets in Season 1, and Fords in Season 2 (although Datsun was credited as the automobile supplier for Season 2).
* ''Series/TheFBI'': Proudly sponsored by Ford (who trumpeted it in the TitleSequence for the first five seasons), the series could easily pass for an hour-long Ford commercial, as EVERY CAR featured on the show was a Ford. The closing credits featured Creator/EfremZimbalistJr driving the latest Ford car around D.C....except he wasn't driving the actual car, but just the shell of the car! Zimbalist mentioned in an interview that he had to be very careful closing the door, lest the car fall apart. Every Creator/QuinnMartin-produced series after this used Ford vehicles, but this is the most extreme example.

* Being produced by Creator/AppleTVPlus, nobody in ''Series/TedLasso'' is seen texting on anything other than an [=iPhone=], and in [[Recap/TedLassoS3E12SoLongFarewell the last episode]], one shot sees Ted pay for magazines in an airport with Apple Pay.

** It seems manufacturers exert pressure on game developers to adjust the ranking of the cars to their wishes. The Audi R8 is considered a "class A" supercar in both ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedCarbon'' (where it is the end boss car, despite you driving a Porsche Carrera GT at this point) and ''Undercover''. Needless to say, it fails to live up to expectations. The same applies to the Nissan GTR, which is mysteriously considered a competitor to a Veyron in ''Undercover'' ''and'' is used by the city's 'elite' police force despite being pretty much an evolution of the Skyline.

* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'': Fords, Fords and more Fords lined the streets of Mayberry. Everything from the police cruisers (which were Custom 500s) to Andy's truck (a 1947 pickup) and convertible (a 1956 Fairlane Sunliner convertible) were Fords. The rich one-time characters usually drove Lincolns or Mercurys.[[note]]For readers living outside the USA, Lincoln and Mercury are marques owned by Ford.[[/note]]

* Being produced by Creator/AppleTVPlus, nobody in ''Series/TedLasso'' is seen texting on anything other than an [=iPhone=].

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Note that owning a Ford is not a bad thing ''per se'', [[EveryCarIsAPinto unless it's a Pinto]]... or a [[TheAllegedCar Cortina]]

Note that owning a Ford is not a bad thing ''per se'', [[EveryCarIsAPinto unless it's a Pinto]]...