History Main / ImprobablyCoolCar

* In the ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'' games starting with 2008's ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUndercover Undercover]]'' and especially 2010's ''[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedHotPursuit Hot Pursuit]]'', the police force is loaded with all kinds of rare, expensive, high-class cars, such as Lamborghinis, Porsches, Pagani's, and even Bugattis. Ostensibly, this is because street racing has gotten so bad in the area that they pull out all the stops and crack down hard on the racers, but really, it's just a HandWave for [[CoolVersusAwesome extremely high-speed supercar police chases]].

** TruthInTelevision in Dubai where the local police force maintains [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Police_Force#Exotic_and_unusual_patrol_cars a fleet of high-end sports cars]] for patrolling tourist areas. It's not that you'd expect them to go on a ''Need for Speed''-style chase any time soon though.

** ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'': During the race that gets Sean Boswell expelled, the high school JerkJock who tries to take on Sean's secretly awesome Monte Carlo in a Dodge Viper is a Justfied case, as it's his rich dad's car. Sean's car plays it straight. While the exterior is crude and ugly, beneath its patchy paint, Sean's Monte Carlo has a full roll cage, racing slicks and a massive V8. It's more justified with Main/BigBad Takashi and his crew's custom [=350Z=]'s later in the movie, since Takashi's uncle is a member of the Yakuza.

* While his original form is a neglected Beetle in his [[Film/{{Bumblebee}} solo outing]], in ''Film/Transformers2007'', Bumblebee comes into Sam Witwicky's ownership as a crusty 1977 Camaro (with a suped up engine under the hood), which is still too cool for a high school outcast like Sam. It gets worse when he [[ProductPlacement turns into a Camaro that wasn't even out]] at the time of the film's release.
** Inverted in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', where Sam's replacement for Bumblebee is a [[Main/TheAllegedCar a comically miserable]] Datsun 510. It's more likely that Sam would find a mid-90s sedan, which could be had for peanuts in the 2010s (and would be easier to insure), but the writers really wanted to show that Sam's life went down the tubes between movies.

* While his original form is a neglected Beetle in his [[Film/{{Bumblebee}} solo outing]], in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', Bumblebee comes into Sam Witwicky's ownership as a crusty 1977 Camaro (with a suped up engine under the hood), which is still too cool for a high school outcast like Sam. It gets worse when he [[ProductPlacement turns into a Camaro that's not even out yet...]]

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''

[[caption-width-right:350:"What can I say? There's some big tippers on my paper route."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:What can I say? There's some big tippers on my paper route.]]

* Series/MrBean's lime green/yellow Mini Cooper is a weird sort of inversion; they're quite rare and sought after ''now'' thanks to BMW going the InNameOnly ContinuityReboot route with the brand, but in TheNineties when the show was being made it was a fairly reasonable choice of car for a lower-middle class bachelor who doesn't do much motorway driving. Creator/RowanAtkinson, who played Mr Bean, is actually a CoolOldGuy with Improbably Cool Cars, including a McLaren F1 which he crashed twice before he repaired twice and ''sold it''!

** This could be considered a JustifiedTrope because before the events of the game, he was working for a car dealer repossessing expensive cars that their owners couldn't pay for. His car was probably one of the cars repossessed and he made a deal on it from his employer.

* In ''Series/NashBridges'', [=LAPD=] Detective Nash Bridges uses a 1971 Hemi Barracuda convertible as his cop car. Despite only seven being made, and each worth more than a million dollars, Nash is perfectly fine with using it for high speed chases down the San Francisco streets. Unlike Don Johnson's previous role, the department didn’t buy it for him as part of his cover, it's just his personal car. Nash was given his 'Cuda by his brother who went MIA in the Vietnam War. But that just begs the question, how did his brother get ahold of it?

* In ''Series/MiamiVice'', Detective Sonny Crockett drives two Ferraris throughout the series, first a Ferrari Daytona Spyder, (actually a kit car based on a Corvette) and later, the iconic white Testarossa. This is Justified as the cars being siezed by the police and used by Crockett as part of his undercover identity as drug dealer Sonny Burnett. Despite his highly conspicuous cars, none of the criminals working with Burnett ever suspect him of being a cop.
* In ''Series/NashBridges'', Nash uses a 1971 Hemi Barracuda convertible as his cop car. Despite only seven being made, and each worth more than a million dollars, Nash is perfectly fine with using it for high speed chases down the San Francisco streets. Unlike Don Johnson's previous role, the department didn’t buy it for him as part of his cover, it's just his personal car. Nash was given his 'Cuda by his brother who went MIA in the Vietnam War. But that just begs the question, how did his brother get ahold of it?