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* '''Invoked''': A PostModernMagick wizard DoingResearch to create a ritual that temporarily enhances a firearm to be able to detonate fuel tanks.

* '''Exploited''': An explosive car is used as a MolotovTruck.

* '''Invoked''': When a beast that can only be killed with fire leaps onto the back of his car, our quick-thinking hero lets it career over a cliff, jumping out JustInTime to watch it plummet to the bottom and roast the monster to death.

* '''Exaggerated''': A car explodes in a Hiroshima-like fashion when its bumper is lightly touched.

** The car is a Morris Marina, and it's on ''TopGear''.

* '''Downplayed''': A car explodes after taking some unusual punishment (Rocket launcher, [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]]...)

* '''Subverted''': Alternatively a detective points out a hole in a claim of accidental death by pointing out "cars don't just explode like that."
** A car explodes when shot. Turns out it was used as a MolotovTruck and packed full of dynamite which was set off prematurely by one of the bullets.

* '''Discussed''': "What are you looking at?" "I'm waiting for it to blow up. They always blow up."

* '''Defied''': The car is an actual Ford Pinto and is either destroyed without an explosion (''TheBluesBrothers'') or a scene looks like the Pinto's destruction is imminent, but it's either avoided or cut away from (''[[SuperEight Super 8]]'').

** '''UpToEleven''': A pinto ''horse'' crashes and explodes.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Cars are no longer used as transport -- everyone takes the subway because they're afraid of blowing up. Car races still exist, but they're a DeadlyGame played by {{Condemned Contestant}}s, because every minor collision results in a fireball. Veteran players are almost all covered in horrific burn scars from the past wrecks they miraculously survived.
* '''Reconstructed''': Even though cars have been banned by a government worried about the death toll, illicit gangs of petrolheads still drive at top speed along clifftops, driving convertibles and wearing parachutes.

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** Its a dystopian future where people race, and the overseer of the races [[ExternalCombustion rig the cars to explode]] if they're rendered non-operational.

* '''Parodied''': A RunningGag has all sorts of vehicles exploding when they crash -- a bicycle, a baby stroller, a horse...

* '''Enforced''': "Directed by MichaelBay".

* '''Justified''': The car is...well...a Pinto.

* '''Inverted''': The car doesn't explode, but whatever it hits ''does''.

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** Its a dystopian future where people race, and the overseer of the races [[ExternalCOmbustion rig the cars to explode]] if they're rendered non-operational.

* '''Deconstructed''': Cars are no longer used as transport -- everyone takes the subway because they're afraid of blowing up. Car races still exist, but they're a DeadlyGame played by CondemnedContestants, because every minor collision results in a fireball. Veteran players are almost all covered in horrific burn scars from the past wrecks they miraculously survived.

* '''Defied''': The car is an actual Ford Pinto and is either destroyed without an explosion (''TheBluesBrothers'') or a scene looks like the Pinto's destruction is imminent, but it's either avoided or cut away from (''SuperEight Super 8'').

* '''Straight''': A car crashes and bursts into flames.

'''Basic Trope''': Cars in movie land explode with regularity.

** Its a dystopian future where people race, and the overseer of the races rig the cars to explode if they're rendered non-operational.

* '''Subverted''': The car takes an incredible beating, well beyond what would even realistically be a totalling, but no explosion.
** Alternatively a detective points out a hole in a claim of accidental death by pointing out "cars don't just explode like that."
* '''Double Subverted''': As above, only to finally blow up at the end of the film.
** But it turns out that the car really did just explode on its own.
* '''Parodied''': Same as exaggerated, with a little "ding" sound when the tap is made.
** Alternately, the exploding object is not a car (e.g. a stroller, a horse...)
* '''Deconstructed''': Absolutely everyone takes the subway because they're afraid of their car blowing up.
** Alternately; cars are made dangerously unsafe because the nation's horribly corrupt and powerful auto industry wants to cut costs.
* '''Reconstructed''': And then the subway hits a snag, and then explodes.
** Or, with the advent of TeleportersAndTransporters, car-sploding becomes a legitimate national pastime.

* '''Averted''': The car never blows up and only takes moderate damage from a crash.

* '''Invoked''': "Thank you for your business! I know this Pinto's gonna last you a real long time!"

* '''Discussed''': [While looking at the wreckage of an exploded car:] "Cars don't just explode like this. They can catch on fire, but this car clearly exploded. So, either this car had explosives in it, or it was hit with a High Explosive round. Both are worrying thoughts."
* '''Conversed''': "Hey, remember the action movie where the car went kaboom? That was a good one, wasn't it?"

* '''Defied''': The car is an actual Ford Pinto and is either destroyed without an explosion (''TheBluesBrothers'') or a scene looks like the Pinto's destruction is imminent, but it's either avoided or cut away from (''Super8'').

* '''Defied''': See "Deconstructed".

*'''Lampshaded''': "I shoulda known driving a Ford was a bad idea."