History Main / UnconventionalVehicleChase

See also: ChaseScene, HotPursuit, ImprobableWeaponUser, WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer, HeroStoleMyBike.

Compare: WackyRacing, which is when a race is intentionally organized with unconventional vehicle choices as a gimmick.

* In "Literature/ClockpunkAndTheVitalizer", the vehicle is a perfectly normal public bus, but 1. it's ripped apart and 2. The Vitalizer is riding on top, propelled by his powers instead of driving.

** ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}: Bond briefly chases terrorist Mollaka in a bulldozer.

*** Bond also uses a rocket-propelled sledge (one of the BigBad's hobbies) to run away from the blast of a KillSat.

The heroes need to get away from danger, or [[HotPursuit pursue an escaping villain]]. Sounds like it's time for a [[ChaseScene high-speed car chase]]. The ideal form of transport would be a {{Badass}} looking car, [[RuleOfCool with insanely high top speeds, and capable of impossible maneuvers]]. Though chances are the dream vehicle isn't conveniently lying around, so the hero will have to make do with whatever's available.

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', [[PlayerCharacter the Boss]] ([[AndZoidberg and]] [[NoRespectGuy Pierce]]) rescues Zimos from [[MadeASlave sex slavery in an S&M dungeon]] and the two (well, three) of them escape in a rickshaw pulled by Zimos in full bondage gear, chased by enforcers ''also'' driving rickshaws pulled by bondage-clad submissives, styled to look like a Roman ChariotRace. As if this all weren't weird enough, the rickshaws also ''[[MadeOfExplodium explode]]'' when they crash.[[note]]According to WordOfGod, when the sequence was first created, the programmers simply designed a rickshaw skin to overlay on the physics used by the game's [[EveryCarIsAPinto cars]] and didn't bother to disable the "explodes on crash" flag during testing. When they later disabled the flag, a very vocal faction [[ThrowItIn missed the explosions and wanted them restored]] [[RuleOfCool and damn the logic]], and finally got their way mere days before the code was finalized.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', [[PlayerCharacter the Boss]] rescues Zimos from [[MadeASlave sex slavery in an S&M dungeon]] and the two of them escape in a rickshaw pulled by Zimos in full bondage gear, chased by enforcers ''also'' driving rickshaws pulled by bondage-clad submissives, styled to look like a Roman ChariotRace. As if this all weren't weird enough, the rickshaws also ''[[MadeOfExplodium explode]]'' when they crash.[[note]]According to WordOfGod, when the sequence was first created, the programmers simply designed a rickshaw skin to overlay on the physics used by the game's [[EveryCarIsAPinto cars]] and didn't bother to disable the "explodes on crash" flag during testing. When they later disabled the flag, a very vocal faction [[ThrowItIn missed the explosions and wanted them restored]] [[RuleOfCool and damn the logic]], and finally got their way mere days before the code was finalized.[[/note]]

The heroes need to getaway from danger, or [[HotPursuit pursue an escaping villain]]. Sounds like it's time for a [[ChaseScene high-speed car chase]]. The ideal form of transport would be a {{Badass}} looking car, [[RuleOfCool with insanely high top speeds, and being capable of impossible maneuvers]]. Though chances are the dream vehicle isn't conveniently lying around, so the hero will have to make do with whatever's available.

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See also: ChaseScene, HotPursuit, ImprobableWeaponUser, HeroStoleMyBike.

* The villainous Ratigan in Disney's ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' flees with {{moe}} Olivia as his hostage in an airship powered by a bicycle-like assembly at its tail. Ratigan is pursued by TheHero Basil of Baker Street in a makeshift helium balloon powered by jetting the gas from the balloon's bottom. The chase runs a merry distance over London; Ratigan's Fidgit-powered craft jettisons Fidgit, and Ratigan himself propels the craft, while Basil's balloon stays close behind despite bleeding off copious amounts of helium.
* An example of the villain using an unconventional vehicle occurs in ''Disney/TheAristocats'': Edgar winds up trying to escape from Napoleon and Lafeyette on a "one-wheel haystack."

* Fagan rides a scooter ''cum'' shopping cart in Disney's ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' while trying to flee from the malicious Sykes in a large sedan. Both vehicles enter a subway station and leap onto the tracks. Fagan's hybrid judders badly on the ties between the rails, while Sykes sedan neatly rides the rails on its wheels' rims.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In a parody of O.J. Simpson's infamous SlowSpeedChase in a Ford Bronco, Cartman has Kenny attempt to drive him to freedom in a toy Bronco with the cops in hot pursuit.

* ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'': Johnny and Bough attempt to catch Sauvage's {{Mooks}} after discovering them attempting to make off with the stolen Crown Jewels. Johnny's car ends up being picked up by a tow truck, so he and Bough use the truck to give chase. Though eventually, Johnny feels the truck is too slow and gets back into the car on the back of the truck.

** The continuation has English being chased by MI6 all over London... with English's getaway vehicle being a SuperWheelchair.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': George is faking being handicapped and going around in a mobility scooter. Some actual elderly/handicapped people discover this and chase after him in their own scooters, in a LowSpeedChase. Eventually George hops out of his, picks it up, and runs away, quickly losing his pursuers.

** In "Amy's Choice", the Doctor drives a minibus to escape a mob of [[MakesSenseInContext killer, old people possessed by aliens]], and picks up several survivors along the way.

*** Bond also uses a rocket-propelled sledge (one of the BigBad's hobbies) to run away from the black of a KillSat.

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* The German comedy film ''Film/DerWixxer'' (a parody of black & white Edgar Wallace films, especially "The Wizard") features a stairlift chase. The sequel has a multi-party chase with old, creaky bicycles.