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** To elaborate: most of the traffic in the GTA games goes really, ''really'' slow, not unlike in real life. You, on the other hand, have to drive ''really'' fast, and avoid everyone else while not even taking a tiny ping. This proves all but impossible - this troper remembers giving up and using the admin console's teleport option to get the cars where they needed to be.

* Whenever [[TheFallGuy Howie Munson]] manages to buy a car of his own, you can be sure that it will end first with Colt Seavers behind the wheel and then [[EveryCarIsAPinto in a big explosion]]. In one episode, Colt even manages to total his own car, Howie's, Jodie's, and Big Jack's, causing everybody else to be unwilling to lend him their vehicle.

* Similarly, the video game version of ''TheWarriors'' allows you to earn bonus points for smashing up any car you come across on the street (and stealing the radio, of course!) On some missions, you actually ''must'' destroy a car (such as in Mission 5, where you avenge yourself on a small-time gang leader by smashing up his car just outside the local body shop, or Mission 7, where you must trash a car in Spanish Harlem to goad the Hurricanes into attacking you and setting that particular subplot in motion).

* Gabe's Camaro in ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''

** This troper, even all these years later, still hopes for a sequel just to learn what Cameron's fallout was from that car being destroyed, especially when Ferris wants to take the heat for him. "No one wants this much heat."

** [[{{Igordebraga}} This troper]] and his father have two different scenes for "most cruel of ''CasinoRoyale''". Mine is "[[GroinAttack rope]] [[ToThePain torture]]". His is "getting an Aston Martin totaled, with it being rotated ''7 times''".

** Averted, however, in ''{{Goldeneye}}''; the BMW gets the usual rundown in Q's laboratory, but never once gets used in a chase scene (as the vehicle used in the film was the only prototype available, and BMW wasn't about to go trashing it before it went out to the market). Instead, we got [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome a tank]].

* ''Film/{{Iron Man}}'' - Garage full of gorgeous cars from a Porsche to a Classic Mustang. Tony miscalculates the weight of his suit and kills power on the roof of his villa. He ends up crashing through several floors and on top of the nicest car in the lot. This Troper ''cried''.

* ''MissionHill'': Andy's boss Ron is arrested for tax evasion, and chooses to sign the title of his sports car over to Kevin so the IRS can't seize it. Predictably, it gets destroyed at the end of the episode, nailed by a semi truck just as Kevin is giving an [[SedgwickSpeech ill-timed speech]] about responsibility.

* There is one scene which ''almost'' makes the ''{{Jackass}}'' movie worth watching: the boys rent a nearly-new car and enter it in a demolition derby. They return it on a flatbed truck with the explanation "we hit a dog." (They also forget to remove the blow-up sex dolls they had in the back seat.)

** "Using a key to gouge explatives onto another's vehicle is a sign of trust and friendship."

* Extra laughs if the car isn't actually that valuable, and is fairly average looking. A good example is the superintendants Honda in ''TheSimpsons'' (though it only had it's H stolen) or the Cresta in ''GreatTeacherOnizuka''.

Somebody has a car. Maybe he owns it. Maybe it was "borrowed" from his dad. Maybe it has been surreptitiously stolen and needs to be transported somewhere in one piece. In any case, there is one important rule to remember: the rarer the car is, the more [[CoolCar expensive and exotic and classic]] it is, and ''especially'' the more a character fawns over it as though it is one of the most important things in the world to him, the likelier it is that it will not make it through the movie or TV episode without being demolished or at least damaged in some way.

->'''Chumchum:'''You'd let us ride in ''Sandy?''
->'''Fanboy:'''Come on, Chumchum! We can finish our contest later!
->'''Lenny:'''What was your contest?
->'''Fanboy:'''Seeing who can step in the most gum!
->'''Boog:'''Uh...tell me you're not getting gum...[[TemptingFate on the carpet]]?
->'''Fanboy:'''Nope! It's all on the seats.

* ''Film/{{Iron Man}}'' - Garage full of gorgeous cars from a Porsche to a Classic Mustang. Tony is testing his suit here. He ends up crashing on top of the nicest car in the lot. This Troper ''cried''.

** In the ExpandedUniverse the ship qualifies more literally. The Falcon as we know it is not what it was at the start of its life, as it was rebuilt from the ground up with entirely new parts, effectively making it another ship. Why? Because the original owners, who cherished it very much and hoped to eventually make it theirs, got it shot to hell and eventually sideswiped a bulk cruiser.

** In DieAnotherDay Zhao's entire rare car collection ends up raining out of the sky and into the rice paddies of North Korea.

* In {{Entrapment}}, the characters played by Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones get in a car owned by the character played by Ving Rhames while trying to escape from other people. Later, they arrive at their destination, and the [[NoodleIncident car is wrecked]]. The wreck is explained in a deleted scene showing a CarChase, where we see what caused the damage. Without it, it just makes Connery's character look like a horrible driver.

* In ''DarkYagami'', Soichiro panics when his car's paint gets scratched...by a nuclear bomb going off in the street.

* There is one scene which ''almost'' makes the ''{{Jackass}}'' movie worth watching: the boys rent a nearly-new car and buy maximum insurance coverage, then enter it in a demolition derby. They return it on a flatbed truck with the explanation "we hit a dog." (They also forget to remove the blow-up sex dolls they had in the back seat.)