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* Every car in ''Film/Captain America: The Winter Soldier'' is a Chevy. there's also a notable scene in an Apple store which has no bearing on the plot other than product placement

* Every car in {{Film/Captain America: The Winter Soldier}} is a Chevy. there's also a notable scene in an Apple store which has no bearing on the plot other than product placement

* Every car in {{Films/Captain America: The Winter Soldier}} is a Chevy. there's also a notable scene in an Apple store which has no bearing on the plot other than product placement

See DamageProofVehicle for another trope associated with ProductPlacement deals with car manufacturers. For a similar trope for computers, more often paid for in kind than in cash, we observe that EveryoneOwnsAMac.

** Granted, part of this is because Michael Bay cut a deal with GM Motors to use their vehicles in order to save on the budget.

** ElectronicArts managed to secure an exclusivity deal with Porsche for the ''NeedForSpeed'' series which left most other game developers with a problem. The other developers found a way to work around the deal by featuring cars from a Porsche tuner instead. Most games (including ''GranTurismo'' and ''TestDrive'') feature tuned Porsche cars from Ruf while ''MidnightClub 3'' and ''TokyoXtremeRacer 3'' use Gemballa tuned Porsches. (''ForzaMotorsport'' used Porsches until the fourth game when they switched to Rufs. Apparently, EA's deal caught up with them.)

* 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... guess who? [[spoiler:BMW]].

* ''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.

** 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 into the reboot, but not as noticably.

** It helped that James Bond has a long association with [[IconicItem Aston Martins]], leading to a MythologyGag in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' when Bond wins one in a poker game off of one of the villains. Of course, in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' he had switched to Range Rovers, though it would admittedly be weird to see him driving across the Bolivian desert [[AwesomeButImpractical in a British sports car.]]

* James Bond films usually heavily feature one brand of car.

** In TheManWithTheGoldenGun It's American Motors cars, Bond drives a Hornet, Scaramanga's driving (and flying) a Matador coupe and the police cars are Matador sedans.

* 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 into the reboot, but not as noticably.
** Note way back with ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', ''nearly'' everybody owns a Ford - Tilly Masterson drives a Mustang, the CIA guys drive a Thunderbird, the US government uses Continentals, Oddjob drives a Country Squire, a Continental, and a Ranchero to haul said Continental when it's been cubed.
** And in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', the entire film was sponsored by Chevrolet. Jarringly, with the exception of taxis (which were still almost exclusively Checkers, which used Chevy engines by then) and the two pimpmobiles, ''every'' vehicle in New York seems to be a Chevy.

** In the original it was Ford Motor Company. [=McGarrett=] drove a tricked-out Mercury, the rest of the cast drove full-sized Fords.

* The ''{{Thunderbirds}}'' movie went so far as to replace Lady Penelope's trademark pink Rolls Royce with a futuristic pink Ford. That the movie featured very blatant (and painful) Ford product placement throughout was bad enough...

** And in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', the entire film was sponsored by Chevrolet. Jarringly, with the exception of taxis (which were still almost exclusively Checkers, which used Chevy engines) and the two pimpmobiles, ''every'' vehicle in New York seems to be a Chevy.

** There are numerous Ford Falcons in the first two films, all but the one towing the camper being XA or XB models. In Fact, the Holden Monaro stolen by Nightrider is the only MFP chase vehicle that ISN'T one.

* ''Series/{{Kojak}}'' - Every living soul drove a Ford, and there'd be pileups filled with nothing but Fords.

See DamageProofVehicle for another trope associated with ProductPlacement deals with car manufacturers. For a similar trope not necessarily a result of paid for product placement of computers, we observe that EveryoneOwnsAMac.

* In ''SchoolOfRock'', all the parents' cars are Volvos. Probably done for laughs, not ProductPlacement, unless Volvo itself has a sense of humor about its stereotypical owners.
* '70s ''CharliesAngels'' all drove Fords, including the orange Pinto, which, ironically, was probably the only car on set not to explode.
* On ''{{Route 66}}'', both the lead characters and an inordinate number of guest stars drive Chevrolet Corvettes.

* ''Film/DemolitionMan'' takes this a bit further. The movie is set in the 2030's and all of the cars are General Motors concept cars. This included some cars from Pontiac and Oldsmobile, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment neither of which survived to the movie's setting.]]

** It helped that James Bond has a long association with [[IconicItem Aston Martins]], leading to a MythologyGag in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'' when Bond wins one in a poker game off of one of the villains. Of course, in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' he had switched to Range Rovers, though it would admittedly be weird to see him driving across the Bolivian desert [[AwesomeButImpractical in a British sports car.]]

* All vehicles (parked in the parking lot or being given away as casino prizes) in ''RainbowSix: Vegas'' are Dodge.

For a similar trope not necessarily a result of paid for product placement of computers, we observe that EveryoneOwnsAMac

** Of note, many car companies that pay for the ProductPlacement also seem to include a 'no damage' clause. If there's a racing game that features a specific manufacturer, there's a pretty good chance that those cars will never show damage. You can drive into a wall going 100 mph, and that car will still look brand new. Can't have your advertising goods looking sloppy now. Want to actually crash cars in your game? Then you have to pay. EA had to do so in order to have a damage model in the squad cars of ''NeedForSpeed: Most Wanted'' and ''Carbon'', where the medium and top tier police cars are the Pontiac GTO and the Chevrolet Corvette.
*** This is slowly changing, with games like Grid, GranTurismo, and ForzaMotorsport featuring and even advertising damage physics to licensed cars.