History Main / HoodOrnamentHottie

* ''Series/LostGirl''. Lauren and Dyson get DistractedByTheSexy on seeing [[MsFanservice Bo]] washing her car. She realizes what's happening and starts playing up this trope for all it's worth.

* In the 2005 Australian documentary ''Peking to Paris'', one of the vintage cars being used to recreate the 1907 race is used for a lurid photoshoot by a pretty Mongolian girl.

* In a 2005 Australian documentary ''Peking to Paris'', one of the vintage cars being used to recreate the 1907 race is used for a lurid photoshoot by a pretty Mongolian girl.

** There is a shout out to this scene in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', with Rusty Venture washing his walking eye. Quite definitively not a hottie, though.

** Parodied by ''WebVideo/TargetWomen'' with a more realistic version of someone trying to eat a burger and wash a car at the same time. Sarah slid down the slippery windshield and fell off.

** Parodied by ''TargetWomen'' with a more realistic version of someone trying to eat a burger and wash a car at the same time. Sarah slid down the slippery windshield and fell off.

* High school women's athletic teams quite often attempt to raise money with a bikini car wash. It works. It doesn't even have to be a bikini car wash. Tank tops and short-shorts work just as well, considering that the probability of ''wet'' tank tops and short-shorts approaches 1.

Common outfits include swimsuits (even a FlagBikini]], are [[HellBentForLeather leather]], [[PrettyInMink fur coats or wraps]] (real or [[ItsFakeFurItsFine fake]]), GoingFurASwim.

Sometimes the models are just in a swimsuit like a FlagBikini, are HellBentForLeather, PrettyInMink (real or [[ItsFakeFurItsFine fake]]), GoingFurASwim.

->'''Homer:''' Do you come with the car?
->'''Model:''' Oh, you! *giggle*
->'''Random other man:''' Do you come with the car?
->'''Model:''' [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore Oh, you!]] *giggle*

* The covers of ''{{Chassis}}'' would often depict the eponymous heroine draped over the bonnet of an aero-car.

[[folder:Film]]

* The original ''Bring it On'' movie had the Bikini Car Wash variation, with the cheerleaders raising money by washing cars. Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku in Bikinis FTW.
%%* Happened on {{Dodgeball}}.
* In ''TheBobo'', a seldom-seen Peter Sellers movie, Creator/{{Britt Ekland}}'s character lounges seductively on the hood of a Maserati in a showroom. The car's new owner admires how she looks on it, unaware she had blackmailed the dealer out of it for herself.
* ''Film/BikerBoyz'' had one of the motorcycle 'clubs' having an annual bikini bike wash to benefit local schools; and while a few of the sister bikers had shown up as well, much head-shaking commenced until the organizer for the hosting club revealed [[MrFanservice Turbo]], just about as scantily clad as the ladies.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* The quintessential example would have to be Tawny Kitaen on the MusicVideo for Music/{{Whitesnake}}'s ''Here I Go Again''.
** Relatedly, in Music/BowlingForSoup's song "1985" one of the main character's former hopes and dreams is to "shake her ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car."
* The cover art for the Album Candy-O by Music/TheCars.

[[folder:Pinball]]

* Reiko Nagase, the mascot of Namco's ''RidgeRacer'' series, can be best described as this.
* The female sidekicks in the ''NeedForSpeed'' series after ''Underground'' also double as Hood Adornment Hotties. Especially Rachel from ''Underground 2'', played and voiced by Brooke Burke.

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In [[http://www.supermegatopia.com/tmbgr/gallery/carshow.htm this]] ''[[Webcomic/{{Supermegatopia}} They Might Be Giant Robots]]'' comic, two female transformers take turns being the cool car and the hottie.
* Inverted strangely in [[http://www.somethinghappens.net/d/20071031.html this]] ''SomethingHappens'' strip.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Francine became one, briefly, when Stan went into underground street racing in an attempt to spice up their love life.

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Hilariously]] parodied on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. A mock commercial shows a nerd driving through the desert. He stops at a deserted gas station and three Hood Ornament Hotties come out and start washing his car to the sounds of 80's hair metal. Then the camera zooms on the cleavage of one of the girls to reveal...a crucifix.
--> "The Catholic Church. We've made a few...changes."

* "Lucille", the girl washing her car in front of the chain gang in ''CoolHandLuke''.

* The Cheerios in an episode of {{Glee}} do the bikini car wash fundraiser variety.

* In the Frank Cottrel Boyce book ''Framed'', the protagonist's sister followed in her father's footsteps and became a mechanic because the fact his car magazines subscribed to this led her to believe pretty women fix cars.

* The cover art for the Album Candy-O by The Cars.

* Music/{{Rihanna}}'s Shut Up & Drive

* Papa Roach and Buckcherry's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm2R2KFPFpo Turn Me On]]

* In [[http://www.supermegatopia.com/tmbgr/gallery/carshow.htm this]] ''[[{{Supermegatopia}} They Might Be Giant Robots]]'' comic, two female transformers take turns being the cool car and the hottie.

* One episode of ''{{Chowder}}'' features [[ItMakesSenseInContext the voice actors washing cars to raise in-show money for animation.]] TaraStrong [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOLigSw1jM gets her moment at 1:16.]]
* Spoofed in an episode of ''FamilyGuy'' where Peter tells the story of his caveman ancestor InventingTheWheel. When he has trouble marketing it, Cave-Brian has Cave-Lois' stand next to it in a FurBikini, which instantly makes all the other cavemen want one on the assumption that attractive women will like them if they own one.
* Motor Ed tricks Shego into being his hood ornament hottie in an episode of ''KimPossible''. Shego was... [[HandBlast not happy]] to learn this.

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[[caption-width-right:350:So do you want to own the car they're sitting on, or do you want to [[CargoEnvy be the car]]?[[note]][[DistractedByTheSexy Wait]], [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain what car?]][[/note]]]]

-->-- ''TheSimpsons''

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[[caption-width-right:339:So do you want to own the car she's sitting on, or do you want to [[CargoEnvy be the car]]?[[note]][[DistractedByTheSexy Wait]], [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain what car?]][[/note]]]]

[[quoteright:350:[[FluffyFashionFeathers http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/featherdressgirls_car_5273.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:So do you want to own the car they're sitting on, or do you want to [[CargoEnvy be the car]]?[[note]][[DistractedByTheSexy Wait]], [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain what car?]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:So do you want to own the car they're sitting on, or do you want to [[CargoEnvy be the car]]?[[note]][[DistractedByTheSexy Wait]]. [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain what car?]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:So do you want to own the car they're sitting on, or do you want to [[CargoEnvy be the car]]?[[note]][[DistractedByTheSexy Wait, what car?]][[/note]]]]

* Happened on {{Dodgeball}}.

* BikerBoyz had one of the motorcycle 'clubs' having an annual bikini bike wash to benefit local schools; and while a few of the sister bikers had shown up as well, much head-shaking commenced until the organizer for the hosting club revealed [[MrFanservice Turbo]], just about as scantily clad as the ladies.
* Played for laughs in ''IronMan2'' when Tony Stark finds a sharply-dressed, good-looking woman accompanying the car he was about to drive. In truth, [[FairCop she was an US Marshal tasked by a Senate subcommittee]] to serve him a subpoena.

* Motor Ed tricks Shego into being his hood ornament hottie in an episode of ''KimPossible''. Shego was... [[OhCrap not happy]] to learn this.

* In ''TheBobo'', a seldom-seen Peter Sellers movie, Britt Ekland's character lounges seductively on the hood of a Maserati in a showroom. The car's new owner admires how she looks on it, unaware she had blackmailed the dealer out of it for herself.