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-->'''Beekeeper 1''': ''[[ToTheBatNoun To the Beemobile!]]''\\
'''Beekeeper 2:''' ''You mean your Chevy?''\\
'''Beekeeper 1:''' ''... Yes.'' \\
--''TheSimpsons'', ''Lisa's Rival''

-->''It's the car, right? Chicks dig the car''\\
--''BatmanForever''

It looks cool and goes fast. It may even be bulletproof and contain an assortment of weapons and gadgets. What is it? It's a CoolCar.

If you're lucky, it comes with a CoolGarage.

Sometimes, the car is cool enough that it actually can become a protagonist in the series -- ''e.g.'' ''KnightRider''. The General Lee is arguably the ''main'' protagonist of ''TheDukesOfHazzard''.

Most Cool Cars, even ones that have no inherent super abilities, will be curiously immune to breakdown or physical damage. No matter what manner in which the hero drives, as long as he's determined to stay on the straight and narrow and fight for the forces of good, his car shows an EmpathicWeapon's ability to never get scratched, dented or even dirty. For instance, the General Lee is used for innumerable jumps, but there is never any mention or evidence of the car's structural integrity being damaged on landing, which was addressed in ''{{Mythbusters}}''. In reality, they went through a lot of General Lees and police cruisers on that show.

Driving a CoolCar is a good way to ensure yourself RockStarParking. When a car ''literally'' becomes a character, see SapientSteed. Sometimes it's a PimpedOutCar.

Contrast TheAllegedCar. TankGoodness [[LukeIAmYourFather may be its father]]. If your CoolCar isn't actually a car but performs like one, it's MultiTrackDrifting. See WeaponizedCar for the versions with weapons bolted to them.

A ''really'' CoolCar can ''[[FlyingCar Fly]]''.

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The Batmobile from ''{{Comicbook/Batman}}'', in its various incarnations, has come to define this trope to the point where any character's cool car may be dubbed the [[TropeMobile (Character'sName)-mobile]]. (Real-world example: the famous "Popemobile"). Just to let you know, the Batmobile in ''Batman Begins'' is ''a Lamborghini Gallardo-Hummer H2 crossover''. When Lt. Gordon gets a view of the Batmobile, he says:
-->'''Lt. Gordon:''' I ''gotta'' get me one of those.
** The Batmobile from ''Batman Begins''/''The Dark Knight'' is closer to a [[CoolTank Cool]] ''[[CoolTank Tank]]''.
** In ''BatmanBeyond'', it's a ''[[FlyingCar flying]]'' [[FlyingCar car]].
** And in ''[[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold The Brave and The Bold]]'', it can transform into a ''HumongousMecha''.
* Especially in the Golden Age, a lot of super-heroes had Cool Cars. Star-Spangled Kid had [[FlyingCar one]] in spite of ''not actually being old enough to drive''.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* The General Lee from the ''TheDukesOfHazzard''
* [=KITT=] and KARR in ''KnightRider''
** Danté, Domino, Attack Beast, Kat and Plato from ''{{Team Knight Rider}}''.
* Emma Peel's Lotus Elan from ''TheAvengers''
* Ray's GTO from ''DueSouth''
* Duncan [=MacLeod's=] black 1964 "Flair Bird" convertible Ford Thunderbird from ''HighlanderTheSeries''
* A different Ray's Corvette in ''Stingray''
* The Dodge Viper in ''Viper''
* ''TheATeam'' had a cool black GMC van
* FAB-1, Lady Penelope's six-wheeled Rolls-Royce from ''{{Thunderbirds}}''. While the original was only a model, it was [[http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-Ford-FAB-Film-Thunderbirds.htm actually built]] for the 2004 LiveActionAdaptation. (Though in an [[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame egregious]] example of ProductPlacement, it was no longer a Rolls Royce but a custom Ford Thunderbird.)
* ''MiamiVice'' had many cool cars. Sonny Crockett first drove a black Daytona Spyder, then a white Testarossa, then a red [=F430=] in TheMovie.
* In another Don Johnson reference, the title character in ''Nash Bridges'' drove a bright yellow Barracuda convertible. Of course, all of the main characters in the show had a vehicle that was, if not cool, than at least not mundane.
** Even cooler, it's a 1971 'Cuda Hemi ragtop. There were only 7 of them made, one in each color offered on the Barracuda, of which 6 survive to this day. It's worth a couple million dollars at auction.
* Speaking of Ferraris, there was of course the red 308 borrowed by [[MagnumPI Magnum, P.I.]]
* The Gran Torino from ''{{Starsky and Hutch}}''
* Gene Hunt's Ford Cortina GXL from ''LifeOnMars''
** One of the first things to go into the script, which had the working title of "Ford Cortina".
** Later, in ''AshesToAshes'', Gene Hunt has a bright red Audi. "Fire up the Quattro!"
*** The actual car is a 1983 Quattro (in 1981, the Quattro wasn't available in a native British format). Phillip Glenister admitted in an interview that the producers knew it, but TheyJustDidntCare, because...well, it was a CoolCar.
** Sam Tyler's [[{{Americanitis}} Chevelle SS]] in [[Series/LifeOnMars the American version]].
* Steve Urkel's BMW Isetta, from ''FamilyMatters'', ''isn't'' cool. In fact, it's so [[TheAllegedCar terrible and antiquated]] that it may punch through the bottom, wrap around to the top and become cool. Or maybe not. ''He'' thinks it's cool, anyway, but he's TheUrkel.
**''May'' be so uncool it's cool? You've never seen the action around one at a car show!
* Gladys Crabtree (aka "Mother") from ''MyMotherTheCar'' is likewise ''not'' a Cool Car.
* Accidental subversion: as part of a ProductPlacement deal, Hiro and Ando treat the Nissan Versa as though it were a cool car in ''[[Series.{{Heroes}} Heroes]]'' -- when unfortunately, it's just a mundane family compact. And being from Japan, they wouldn't even know it as a "Versa" -- in Japan and Latin America, they call it "Tiida". (That last bit can be explained away by the fact that they read it in the ad for an American comic book. And it's a rental car bought in America.)
* Used somewhat inexplicably in ''{{Torchwood}}'', given that the titular organisation is meant to be a secret, making the decision to drive around in a very distinctive and eye-catching vehicle with the name stenciled onto it a rather strange idea.
* The 1967 Chevy Impala, [[FanNickname known by fans as the "Metallicar,"]] driven by the Winchesters on ''{{Supernatural}}''. This editor would argue that it has achieved co-protagonist status, along with Sam and Dean.
** Some fans believe it to be sentient, as seen in [[http://community.livejournal.com/the_dean_show/18319.html this webcomic]], which is quite popular in the fandom.
* The old Krofft series ''Wonderbug'' combined the titular CoolCar with a SecretIdentity as an old junker of a dune buggy called "Schlep Car". The buggy's secret identity was so junky that even the letters on its license plate were crooked, while its superpowered form was sentient, had an actual face (made by its headlights and bumper), and could ''fly''.
** Why Wonderbug would ever switch back to that old wreck was beyond me, even as a child of the '70s/'80s. There was an episode I vaguely remember, where Schlepcar got stuck on railroad tracks because ''he didn't have the power to drive over them.'' Um, how about hitting the magic horn, Barry?
* In ''DoctorWho'' the Third Doctor spent much of his time on Earth driving around in 'Bessie', an antiquated canary-yellow roadster which on first glance would look the furthest thing from 'cool' you could think of. It's quickly revealed, however, that the Doctor's constant tinkering and playing around have made it a super-powered car that anyone would kill to drive.
** He later traded up for a weirdly incongruous TheJetsons-style [[FlyingCar flight-capable]] bubble car, which rapidly acquired the FanNickname of 'The Whomobile'.
** Plus, an antique car fit rather well with his...let's say "classic" opera cape stylings.
* The Coyote in ''Hardcastle and [=McCormick=]''.
* The Middlemobile [and other vehicles] from ''TheMiddleMan'' and to a lesser degree, both of Dub-Dub's mundane cars.
* The ''{{Mythbusters}}'' treat their cars as cool cars, when most are junkers they got because they knew they would be ruined. Various cars have been fitted with RC rigs, prompting Adam to point out that he and Jamie should cruise for chicks in them, while remaining in the backseat. Their very first myth involved a rocket car, and when speed is a factor in the myths, they tend to call on expert drivers and very cool cars to help.
* ''{{Angel}}'''s sleek black convertible.
** Which has nothing on Gunn's vampire-hunting truck.
** Giles in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' initially drove a [[TheAllegedCar potentially cool but very run-down Citroen DS]] but after Spike wrote it off in a car chase he acquired a shiny red BMW convertible, which was seen as a sign of his mid-life crisis and ridiculed by everyone. And Oz had a van which occasionally got close to being the Mystery Machine.
* The Core Striker from ''TomicaHeroRescueForce'', which, due to its AI, also doubles as a RobotBuddy.
* Hurley's Volkswagen Bus, which he found in the jungle during the third season of ''{{Lost}}''.
* TheEqualizer drove a black 1984 Jaguar [=XJ6=] Series III, much to the dismay of potential clients who naturally assumed his services were highly expensive.
* Stephen Colbert parodies this with his build-a-bear parody build-a-car workshop. It's a tank on monter truck wheels, has a sail and a sidecar attached to it,an American flag on the back and "You steer it with your balls."
** There actually is a shop like Build-A-Bear, only with model cars. It's called Ridebuilderz.
* In several third and fourth season episodes of ''TheManFromUNCLE'', Solo and Kuryakin got to drive an "U.N.C.L.E. car", which was a concept car developed from the Bertone Pirana.
* The 1962/4 Volvo P1800 from TheSaint, driven by Roger Moore. When they decided to make the movie in 1996, the Volvo coupe had been so well connected to the character of The Saint that Val Kilmer drove the definitely less cool Volvo C70 because it was a Volvo coupe. HowDidWeMissThisOne
* The Gerry and Sylvia Anderson live-action series ''{{UFO}}'' had Commander Straker's gas-turbine car (in reality an impossible-to-drive prop whose gull-wing doors had to be opened by an off-screen stagehand), the SHADO Mobiles (tracked armoured personnel carriers with radar sets on top) and the missile-bearing Lunar Interceptor. All of them just crying out to be made into Dinky toys.
* The Spectrum Pursuit Vehicles in ''CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'' (called the Rhino in ''GerryAnderson's New CaptainScarlet'' are similar to the SHADO Mobiles. There was also the Spectrum Patrol Car (the Cheetah in TheRemake) Gerry Anderson really likes his vehicles.
** In fact, the first Supermarionation show was ''Supercar'', which was all about a Cool FlyingCar.
* The Black Beauty from ''TheGreenHornet''. In the TV show, a customized 1966 Chrysler Crown Imperial with green headlamps. Generally stored upside down in Britt Reid's garage.
* The car from the show Automan. In the show it's a hologram so it apparently doesn't have to follow the laws of physics. Possibly the only car that could really use inertial dampeners.
* Semir's 3-Series BMW in ''AlarmFurCobra11''.
* Alex Tully's Dodge Challenger from ''{{Drive}}''.
* ''InspectorMorse'' drove a Type 2 Jaguar, but for a while every policeman in a British show seemed to drive a classic car.
* ''ThePrisoner'' - Patrick Mc Goohan's Lotus Seven, which, apart from the opening title sequence, only appears in one episode in the series.
* ''GetSmart'' - the Opel GT was nice and the Shelby Mustang very impressive, but Max's Sunbeam Tiger was the trademark car with lots of style.
* Say what you will about ''TheMonkees'', that wild custom GTO was pretty cool.
* George from DeadLikeMe drives a Mustang that was owned by one of her reaps.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Just about every single race car in the ''FutureGPXCyberFormula'' anime in its many iterations. The main car, the Asurada series of racers, was able to shapeshift, especially in its much later versions, had 6WD, rocket boosters, and needed an AI supercomputer to be driven properly. Its rivals over the years were just as colorful, including but not limited to:
## A family of electric-powered super-racers that leaned like motorcycles into curves.
## The Missionel series of cars, the final version of which looked like Unit 01 turned into an automobile.
## A windowless racer that had the driver lie in it like a closed-cockpit luge sled.
## The Ogre AN-21, which is the ''SuperPrototype'' to the final version of Asurada thus far.
* The Mach 5 from ''SpeedRacer'' is so goddamn cool it's even listed as a SuperRobot.
* Rally Vincent's Shelby Cobra from ''GunsmithCats''.
**[[ShoutOut The liscence plate number?]] [[TheBluesBrothers BRD 529]]
* Misato's Renault Alpine A310 in ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' certainly qualifies, even when it's so badly driven.
* In ''RidingBean'', Bean Bandit has a stylish car, called the Roadbuster, that not only has a high performance engine that can match most race cars, but it can orient its wheels to move sideways or extend brake blades for extremely rapid stops.
* The Sprinter Trueno from ''InitialD'' is a nice subversion: Takumi, arguably the fastest racer in the series, owns the second-most uncool car in the series, the [=AE86=], while beating an armada of [=EVOs=], RX-7s, and R32s Granted, it was heavily modified halfway into the series, resulting it larger horsepower and lightened weight. It proved so popular it pushed the [=AE86=] Corolla coupes from "old used car" to "sought-after classic" almost singlehandedly - in Japan, it did this before the newest examples were even 10 years old! As a matter of fact, you can also see the original Hachi-Roku in ''Gran Turismo 4'' (the Sprinter Trueno Shuichi Shigeno Edition), as well as in ''NeedForSpeed: Underground 2'' and ''Carbon'' (the Toyota Corolla).
** It's really not a bad car, just considered outdated by the majority of racers in the series. Takumi's character model, the original Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya, started out with this car, and still considers it his favorite.
** The award for most uncool car of the series goes to Itsuki's [=AE85=]. Itsuki attempts to buy the same car as Takumi and gets ripped off with an authentic POS.
*** Not necessarily TruthInTelevision. these now being 20-plus-year old cars and engine swaps being easier than extensive rust repair, condition is more important than original spec.
* In the ''{{Kirby}}'' anime, King Dedede starts with Escargon driving him around in a military ATV (complete with {{BFG}}), but eventually orders a huge old fashioned limousine loaded with gadgets and weapons (described as a '[[ShoutOut Demon Beast On Wheels]]') for an episode of WackyRacing. (in the same episode, Meta Knight races in an old-fashioned Formula 1 car, and Kirby in his ''spaceship'') [[spoiler:They crash spectacularly by the end of the episode, but]] they are seen driving around in the car for the rest of the series.
* In ''WanganMidnight'', Akio Asakura drives a heavily-tuned vintage Nissan Fairlady Z (known as the Datsun Z on this side of the Pacific Rim), known widely as the "Devil Z" for [[BlessedWithSuck a very good reason]].
** ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2'' and its sequels let you drive a Toyota [=HiAce=]. Which is a ''van''. That, like any other car, can be tuned to upwards of ''800'' horsepower.
* LupinIII's Fiat 500. Turbocharger, practically indestructible(It suffers a grenade hit and the only thing destroyed is the glass)...
* Roger Smith's Griffon in BigO definitely qualifies. It has survelance equipment, machine guns, a big beefy engine, and IT CAN CHANGE COLOR.
* Iina from ''KokoroLibrary'' drives around in what looks like a Volkswagen Schwimmwagen, an amphibuous car used in the second world war by the German army. It has been adapted for civilian use, with its white color and the cute cat print on the seat covers. The huge rear propeller isn't only for show though, since it functions perfectly fine as a boat.
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[[folder:Film]]
* The Ford LTD from ''MenInBlack'' '''appears''' to be uncool at first.
** J even notes that the MIB have "unlimited technology from around the galaxy, and [they] have to drive around in a Ford POS". He eats his words when it comes time to push the little red button on the stick shift...
** J's Mercedes in the sequel is a nice [[FlyingCar upgrade]].
* The old police cruiser used by ''TheBluesBrothers'' was emblematic of the brothers' style and situation. It survived the film's stunts, held together by the [[MissionFromGod very will of The Almighty]], until its mission was over. Then it fell apart on the sidewalk.
* ''TheFastAndTheFurious'' is a series ''runneth over'' with Cool Cars so hard, they're pretty much about this trope. Just pick a car, any car. Except for the Chevelle and the Ferraris, being the former apparently uncool and the latter portrayed as "already awesome", all these cars are rigged with the most powerful, badass engine upgrades in the world, enough to make them run like Formula 1 cars, and on top of that, all of them are equipped with bangin' sound systems, neon lights, all sorts of sophisticated control computers (except for the muscle cars, of course, which rely on good ol' [[BiggerIsBetter humongous block]]), LCD monitors, and, of course, a lot of NitroBoost. The list includes:
## Two sleek Ferraris (TFATF, [=2F2F=]).
## Four Mitsubishis with an awesome paint job (all movies: two were Evolutions (VII and VIII) and two were Eclipses).
## Three RX-7s (all movies).
## A Dodge Charger (TFATF).
## A Chevrolet Camaro ([=2F2F=]).
## A 1970 Dodge Challenger ([=2F2F=]).
## An apparently old and rusty Chevrolet Chevelle (Tokyo Drift).
## A Dodge Viper (Tokyo Drift).
## Two Nissan Skylines ([=2F2F=], Tokyo Drift).
## A Nissan Fairlady [=350Z=] and Silvia (Tokyo Drift).
## A green Volkswagen Touran (Tokyo Drift).
## A 1967 Ford Mustang with a Nissan Skyline engine (Tokyo Drift).
## And the list keeps going on and on and on...
** Not TruthInTelevision. A racer would have stripped his car of everything but the bare essentials to lose weight. Not even rear seats are spared. Not to mention turning off the radio and AC for that little bit of extra power. A giant ICE system? Unnecessary weight and power drain.
*** Unless You're a "ricer" (from "rice burner", derogatory slang for such a car, given that they are typically japanese).
**** Except that the term "rice burner" typically denotes a car that has been made to look AWESOME: Big stereo, lots of Neon, custom paint, etc. While at the same time having very little or no engine or performance modifications.
* Herbie the Volkswagen Beetle from ''TheLoveBug'' and its sequels. Even though the Última Edición version, with its marginal 50-70 hp, is ''the most powerful version ever made'' (a stock 1963 model- Herbie's {{Canon}} age- had 40 hp), it still manages to be as powerful as a stock car.
** Notice, however, that thanks to the Beetle's extremely light weight (~750 kg / 1650 lb) it ''is'' possible to turn an ordinary Beetle into something as fast as a stock car without having to use a huge engine.
* Pick a [[JamesBond Bond]] film, any [[JamesBond Bond]] film. The Aston-Martin [=DB5=] from ''{{Goldfinger}}'' and the Lotus Esprit submarine from ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' are particularly memorable examples.
** This troper would include the 1967 ''CasinoRoyale'' where David Niven drives a suitably old-school Bentley roadster.
* The [=DeLorean=] in the ''BackToTheFuture'' film trilogy. The version in ''BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeries'' had even more gadgets attached.
** The real-life [=DeLorean=] is probably the coolest car ever made, at least in terms of aesthetics. Its gull-wing doors required far less room to open than regular ones, for example. Beyond that, however, it was a perfect example of TheAllegedCar. It was horribly unreliable -- the "stainless" steel body suffered from staining, the windows would occasionally fall out when the gull-wing doors were opened, and despite the perception that it's fast, ''Road & Track'' clocked its 0-60 mph speed at ''10.5 seconds'' -- slow even back then. These problems were obviously exaggerated in the movie, especially in that it always fails at the most inconvenient moments, but they are mostly TruthInTelevision.
*** And the Lamborghini Countach? A [=DeLorean=] on steroids.
* The Ecto-1 from ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' and its [[RealGhostbusters related material]]. It may be a bit of a subversion, as the model of car used was shown to be old and junky, yet it is still considered a cool car due to its visually striking appearance.
** On the other hand, the Ghostbuggy--preferred mode of transport for ''the other guys''--is an uncool, beat-up old jalopy. At least until it decides to transform into an airplane, speedboat, snowmobile... [[DoctorWho "Did I mention it ''also'' travels in time?"]]
* "The Last of the V-8s" in the first two ''MadMax'' films.
* The titular vehicle in the horror movie ''The Car''. Just because the thing is a driverless Satanic serial killer doesn't mean it can't be cool.
** Ahem... the Plymouth Fury in ''{{Christine}}''.
* Every car driven by Will Smith in ''IAmLegend''.
* ''{{Bullitt}}'''s incredibly badass 1968 Ford Mustang 390 CID Fastback, although it sports no gadgets or gimmicks, is one of the oldest ones in the book.
** Steve [=McQueen=] could only out-cool the Mustang by using a real racing car - hence the ''Le Mans'' movie in 1970. His timing was fortunate since the Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512, two of the coolest cars ever and frankly the main reason for watching the film at all, were outlawed by new rules in 1972 and Le Mans cars were much less cool for many years.
* Eleanor from ''GoneInSixtySeconds''. That is all.
* The ''[[{{ptitle36fwwzhk}} LooneyTunes: Back in Action]]'' movie had a double subversion of this trope. The first car Brendan Fraser and Daffy find in Timothy Dalton's garage is a beat-up old Gremlin which barely makes it out of the driveway. About a minute after they leave, however, the floor of the garage flips over and a stereotypical spy car is revealed, complete with Bond-esque musical sting.
* Michael Korben's car in ''If Looks Could Kill.''
** Lotus Esprit.
* FerrisBuellersDayOff:
-->'''Cameron:''' The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his ''love''. It is his ''passion''...\\
'''Ferris:''' It is his ''fault'' he didn't lock the garage.\\
'''Cameron:''' Ferris, what're you talking about?\\
'''Ferris:''' Whoo!\\
'''Cameron:''' Ferris, my father loves this car more than life itself.\\
'''Ferris:''' A man with his priorities so out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile.
* The pedal cars from ''{{Bugsy Malone}}''. What kid wouldn't want one of those?
* The green Gran Torino from well... {{Gran Torino}} is an awesome car that kicks off the plot for being too damn cool (aka Theft Bait)
* Billy's Chevelle in ''{{Carrie}}'' is a very Cool Car. [[spoiler:Shame that Carrie blows it up.]]
* Say what you will about ''SonOfTheMask'', but you must admit... that car Tim (as the Mask) drives at the end, when he's trying to catch up with Loki to get his son back, is made of 100% insta-win awesome.
* The titular hero of Disney's ''{{Condorman}}'' persuades the CIA to build him a Bond-esque racecar that: starts out disguised inside a rickety truck; boasts rockets, mines, a flamethrower, and a blast shield, among other toys; and converts into a hydrofoil for ocean travel. He gets a CoolBoat later in the film, too.
* Tony Stark in the ''IronMan'' movie had plenty of these.
** [[MemeticMutation And he built them IN A CAVE! With a BOX OF SCRAPS!]]
* Subverted in 2008's ''GetSmart''. The Tiger Sunbeam he drove in the first few seasons was part of a ColdWar museum display, and after his PrisonBreak Smart takes it to try to catch the bad guys. Unfortunately, though, it runs out of gas shortly thereafter, leaving him needing to find other transportation. (Other cars from the series, an Opel GT and Volkswagon Kharmann Ghia, also appear in the movie.)
* Frank Martin of ''TheTransporter'' has used a few these, including a one-off manual BMW E38 750i (the first film), an Audi A8 L, a Lamborghini Murcielago (both in the second) and a W12-powered Audi A8 (the third movie).
* Xander Cage's car in ''{{xXx}}'' is cool squared. Not only is it a '67 Pontiac GTO, it's also stuffed with enough weaponry and gadgetry for more than half a dozen JamesBond movies.
* [[GoneInSixtySeconds Eleanor]].
* [[TheWraith The Wraith.]] An unnaturally cool car.
* Malloy's car in ConAir.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The Bone Wagon from {{Grim Fandango}}. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXcS0S6KnLo#t=5m02s Take this for example]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxKLz1VKNbs&feature=related#t=0m15s And this]].
--->'''Manny:''' What a relief. I was getting concerned that our transportation wasn't ostentatious enough.
* The entire point of the ''NeedForSpeed'' games after ''Underground'' is about building and racing in ''Fast And Furious''-style tuned cars. ''Underground'' only featured import tuner cars, but ''Underground 2'' also featured a couple of European and American sports cars. ''Most Wanted'' and ''Carbon'' finally upped the ante by letting you tune exotic cars. ''Just imagine driving a Lamborghini Gallardo with vinyls, custom paint job and whatnot!''
** Previously, it focused on exotic cars only...which isn't half bad either.
*** "Isn't half bad?" Um, what's wrong with Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Porsches? [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Let's not go there...]]
** The colloquial CoolCar from ''Most Wanted'' and ''Carbon'' is an FIA GT2-spec BMW M3 GTR. In ''Most Wanted'', half the reason for the story is to get the car (the other half is revenge) but it's unmodifiable. In ''Carbon'', it's your starting car, but shortly gets trashed. However, completing an arbitrary set of objectives allows you to buy the street version of the M3 GTR, and then modify it to your liking.
* The Mako from MassEffect. Technically it's a tank, but even without the guns it would be one heck of a ride.
* Videogame (and eventually movie) example: ''SpyHunter'' had the G-6155 Interceptor, that can transform into a boat.
* Every single car in the ''TwistedMetal'' games.
* ''SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' drive around in a (quite literally) invincible '60 [=DeSoto=] Adventurer. It's recently been demoted to [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed No Manufacturers Were Harmed]] status, though.
-->'''Sam:''' Remember our old car, Max?\\
'''Max:''' I ''said'' I was sorry.
* Gordon Freeman acquires a [[ScavengerWorld post-apocalypsized]] 1969 Dodge Charger as his main method of transport throughout the second half of ''HalfLife 2: Episode Two''. Interestingly, the developer's commentary states that they were actually considering ''subverting'' this Trope by making Gordon drive a total junker and even having a character comment on its crappiness, but they ultimately decided that it's better if the player has a positive impression of the vehicle.
* The Warthog from the ''{{Halo}}: Combat Evolved'' series. Sure it handles like a blind man on roller skates and will flip over if you so much as lean casually against it, but damn it looks awesome. They're so iconic they even serve a vital role in the climax of the first and third games.
* The cars in the ''GranTurismo'' series range from [[JokeCharacter Joke Cars]] (the ''one HP'' 1895 Benz Motorwagen!), to mundane sedans, to nice muscle cars, to great supercars, to ''awesome'' JGTC touring cars, to ''frikkin awesome'' Le Mans prototypes, to a ''MIND-BOGGINGLY AWESOME'' Formula 1 racer.
* The cars from ''{{Burnout}}'', which range from classic gangster cars to slick fifty's cars to modern sports cars.
** And recently featuring cameos from the likes of [[BackToTheFuture the DeLorean]], [[KnightRider the KITT]], and [[{{Ghostbusters}} the Ecto-1]].
* ''{{Fallout}} 2'' lets the player acquire a car if they manage to find the fuel cell controller needed to power it.
* S.O.P.H.I.A. from the ''BlasterMaster'' series. It's practically the only way Jason (and later his son Roddy, in ''Blaster Master: Blasting Again'') is able to survive underground against a horde of mutants. Comes equipped with a mounted cannon, homing and dumbfire missiles, and it can be upgraded to [[FlyingCar hover]], among other things.
* [[http://www.igcd.net/movie.php?id=338221&width=1680 The coolest old cars]] (oldest Cool Cars?) in a video game [[{{Mafia}} ever.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''{{Megas XLR}}'' features a 1970 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda, that also functions as the head and cockpit of a ''[[HumongousMecha giant robot]]''.
* On ''{{Transformers}}'', a disproportionate number of the original Autobots transform into cool cars, even those for whom it is not thematically appropriate, like TechnoWizard Wheeljack. Jazz, for example, transforms into a Pontiac Solstice, while Barricade transforms into a Ford Mustang squad car. A Hummer H2 was first considered for Optimus's vehicle form, but the creators decided to keep him a Peterbilt trailer truck.
** In the 2007 movie, Bumblebee actually alters his vehicle mode (from beatdown vintage Camaro to a custom concept car version) mid-movie just to impress his human companions. This might apply to many of the Cool Car Autobots — just because you're a heroic living machine on a mission to save the planet doesn't mean you can't want to look good doing it.
** Jazz even acknowledges it in ''[[TransformersAnimated Animated]]''... His first taste of Earth's culture is his new vehicle mode, and he [[JiveTurkey digs it.]]
* Subversion: ''{{Ben 10}}'' has the main characters traveling across America in the Rust Bucket, which comes with all the special gadgets but blows the Cool Car vibe by being a rusty-looking old RV.
** Played straight in the TimeSkip ''{{Ben 10 Alien Force}}'', where the team rides around in Kevin's muscle car, which resembles a Dodge Challenger (either the old or the new one) more than anything else. And then in the Season 2 Finale, the car turns out to be [[spoiler:stuffed with just about ''every piece of alien tech the team has come across''.]] And it is ''awesome''. And then subverted again when Gwen's brother owns a car dubbed "the Awesomemobile" that is decidedly unawesome.
* ''DarkwingDuck'' had a variation on this, in the Ratcatcher, a "cool motorcycle" designed to match and expand Darkwing's superhero aesthetic. It rarely evinced CoolCar gizmos and options, and due to the slapstick nature of the cartoon, it often crashed or suffered damage, but DW's sidekick Launchpad [=McQuack=] could be counted on to tirelessly fix it up each time in the show's CoolGarage, Darkwing Tower.
* ''DangerMouse'' had a sleek yellow matchbox-sized FlyingCar, with jetplane-style wings.
* Madame Foster's car from ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', aside from being a Pontiac Firebird, also was once picked up and thrown back onto the road without sustaining damage. It also survived Bloo driving it, a miracle in itself.
* ''{{Cars}}'', in which ''every single character IS a CoolCar.'' Lightning [=McQueen=] is a NASCAR stock car, Sally is a Porsche 911 Carrera, and even the senile Model T Lizzie is cool.
** Tell that to Mater, the old, beat-up, rusted tow truck.
* Cheerfully subverted in ''WackyRaces'', where most of the cars are goofy and incredibly uncool. Ironically the coolest car belongs to Dick Dastardly, [[spoiler:who never wins.]]
** Is that really a spoiler?
*** [[spoiler: yes]]
* C.A.R. in ''TheReplacements'', who is more intelligent than several of the human characters.
* The Gadgetmobile from ''InspectorGadget'', which has transforming gadget-powers like its owner.
** TheMovie subverts this at the beginning, when Gadget goes to jump into his car. It looks like he's going for the red sportscar, and pulls away in the '70s jalopy.
* ''DannyPhantom'' has the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle AKA the RV.
* Brock Samson of ''TheVentureBros'' drives around in a '69 ''Charger'', and while it doesn't have all of the technological gimmickry of the typical CoolCar (aside from built-in parachutes), he has dropped it out of planes, jumped incredible gaps, and slaughtered an entire battalion of [[{{Mook}} mooks]] with it. Clearly his is the BadassNormal of [[CoolCar cool cars]].
** However, the customised Jensen Interceptor that he briefly drove after losing the Charger ''did'' have all kinds of technological gadgetry, which it showcased during his encounter with Herr Trigger. Looked pretty cool, too.
* Spoofed in ''JusticeLeague'' when the Flash decided to buy an incredibly gaudy van that he dubs the "Flashmobile." As quoted above, the uselessness of a car to the fastest man alive is not ignored.
* The AVs from ''Beetleborgs'' and many of the rangers cars from ''Power Rangers Turbo''.
* Speed Buggy. (ScoobyDoo [[RecycledInSpace as a talking car]]).
** Speaking of ''ScoobyDoo'', the Mystery Machine definitely counts as a CoolCar.
* ''KimPossible'' drives a car that can travel in HyperSpeed and drive under water. And it looks really cool. By the end of the series, it can fly.
* [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles The Turtle Van.]]
** Strangely however, this was only on the show. The toys and video games referred to it as the "Party Wagon" (a pun on "paddywagon")
* Benny the Cab in ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
* Most of the cars from ''{{MASK}}''.
* Gear from {{Catscratch}}
* In one episode, Wile E. Coyote has a "spy car" with many features modeled after James Bond's Aston Martin DB5.
* Possibly copying the aforementioned Wonderbug, Hanna-Barbera's ''Wonder Wheels'' had a similar junky ''motorcycle'' transforming into the titular sentient super-vehicle, though its driver also got a change of outfit during the transformation.
* Another Hanna-Barbera example is Wheelie from WheelieAndTheChopperBunch
* The Ruby-Spears series TurboTeen deals with a human who ''turns into'' a cool car.
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* Crowley's Bentley in ''GoodOmens''. His infernal powers literally protect it from damage, [[spoiler: at least until he drives it through a wall of fire formed by a highway shaped like a diabolical sigil. He continues to drive it all the way to his destination, holding it together through sheer force of will, until it no longer resembles a classic Bentley, or a car for that matter.]]
* The Great Red Shark and The Great White Whale from ''FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''. The Great Red Shark is arguably the fourth biggest character (behind Raoul Duke, Dr. Gonzo, and Drugs.)
* StephenKing has written not one but '''two''' novels about haunted Cool Cars - ''Christine'' and ''From a Buick 8''.
* The Deliverator from ''SnowCrash''. Probably the only CoolCar with its own pizza warmer.
** Ng, a weapons dealer who plays a central role in the book's plot, also has a "wheelchair" which he converted from a German airport firetruck and outfitted with all sorts of goodies, such as a spy helicopter, guided missiles, and cybernetic attack dogs.
-->'''Ng:''' I tried prostheses for a while--some of them are very good. But nothing is as good as a motorized wheel chair. And then I got to thinking, why do motorized wheelchairs always have to be tiny pathetic things that strain to go up a little teeny ramp?
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]'s Blue Beetle is a subversion of the trope, but Thomas' Hummer is cool.
* Played straight and subverted in SkulduggeryPleasant: the title character starts off driving a classic Bentley, but when it gets wrecked is forced to temporarily replace it with a much less impressive ride (a green Yugo, if this troper remembers correctly).
** The third book reveals that Skulduggery has uncool cars stocked at locations all over Dublin. This suggests that he is eother very fond of his car (and doesn't want to drive it into situations he knows will be dangerous) or it gets damaged alot.
* VigilanteMan MackBolan uses a decidedly uncool GMC motorhome, which does however have the advantage of being the last thing anyone would expect a OneManArmy to be driving. It has advanced electronic surveillance capabilities, an onboard computer system with phone link (in the 1970's!) and a retractable 4-shot guided missile launcher, but no armour except for some steel plates around the driver's seat, as Bolan only uses it for long-range combat.
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* ''{{Misfile}}'' is chock full of cool cars, virtually every single character has one. The fact that almost every character is a drag racer probably has something to do with it.
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* Rush's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_NsiQVQiPs "Red Barchetta"]], itself inspired by Richard S. Foster's short story [[http://www.fiatbarchetta.com/links/nice.html "A Nice Morning Drive"]].
** Ironically, a car built as solidly as the one described in the short story would be a greater, not a lesser, hazard to its driver since a vehicle with a fully stiffened body will collapse around the largest void space - that being the passenger cabin. Oops. Crumple zones exist for a reason.
* Prominent in Rap. According to Xzibit, his first album introduced him on the scene, his second album established his place, and his third album paid for his car.
* ZZ Top's Eliminator hot rod.
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* In the ''HomestarRunner'' Halloween Episode "Homestarloween Party", everybody (except Coach Z, The Cheat and the Poopsmith) takes turns telling a story about a goblin. According to [[HonestJohnsDealership Bubs]], the goblin has a Gremlin car that's so tricked out, it has a ''[[BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]]''. According to Pom Pom, the Gremlin was so cool, the goblin attracted several bikini girls... [[spoiler: and then [[JerkAss Strong Bad]] and [[TheEeyore Strong Sad]] [[DownerEnding ruin the story by having a robot kill everyone (and then die itself in tragic circumstances).]]]]
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* Jay Leno owns an ''awesome'' collection of these. He also owns a lot of cool motorcycles too. In fact....Jay has a rather CoolGarage in general. ''Jay Leno's Garage'' shows this to the extreme. In case of doubt, fire up ''GranTurismo 4'' and look at his Tank Car.
* Liberace was fond of these, and often had them decorated in his signature gaudy style (including, yes, a rhinestone-covered car).
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle Tornado Intercept Vehicle]], built by IMAX filmmaker Sean Casey so that he could drive '''''into''''' a tornado, film it, and survive while doing so.
* StephenFry drives around in a London black cab (don't ask how he doesn't get people hailing him all the time). Perhaps realizing just how cool the idea of Stephen Fry as a cabbie is he even took one on his recent American travelogue.
** There's something about British actors- [[HarryPotter Rupert Grint's]] daily driver is an ''ice cream truck''.
* TopGear has the Cool Wall, where new cars 'coolness' is rated by Clarkson and Hammond. One of the rules is that any car actually owned by the presenters must be uncool. Hence the Fiat Panda 1.4 being halfway across the studio at the 'Uncool' end - James May has one.
** They also featured at least two whole episodes where they tried to destroy a red Toyota Hilux pickup truck, but in the end the car kept going every time they restarted the engine. Eventually, they decided with an unanimous decision that the car needed more than a cool wall for its legacy, so they set it on a plinth where it's still on display today.
* Alex Roy's [[http://www.gumball144.com/tek/ Team Polizei BMW M5]]. Very possibly the coolest car on the planet - it did go non-stop from NYC to LA in 31 hours without being busted after all.
* Not only is President Obama's official car really tough, but his Secret Service escort vehicle is even more badass with ''popout gatling gun turret!'' [[http://jalopnik.com/5134488/presidential-gatling-gun+equipped-suburban-badder-than-new-cadillac-limo Just check this baby out!]]
* [[http://www.spainvia.com/Merlincar.htm This custom car]] was built around a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. That's right, it's a car ''powered by the same engine as a Spitfire''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxMxFE37Sxw&feature=channel_page Here it is]] on Classic Top Gear.
* As was this '55 Chevy, with the ol' Merlin running 3 ''thousand'' Horsepower! Here's a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj2GVfua84 video]] of it.
*The crown for aircraft-powered cars probably goes to Quad-Al, a dragster with FOUR Allison V-12 engines, totaling 12,000 horsepower. Unfortunately, the car was never completely finished, and never raced. Instead, it was sold off to a guy named Tex, who was promptly shot to death before he could finish it himself.
* [[{{Whitewings}} This Troper]] has heard that a particular model of Porsche uses an air-cooled engine which, by pure fluke, is the exact right size and shape, with exactly the right mountings, that it can be used as a replacement engine in the original Volkswagen Beetle if the rear shock were strengthened slightly, resulting in a Beetle that can out-accelerate many sports cars.
**The Porsche family (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and his son Dr. Ferry Porsche) founded both companies and are responsible for Beetle and the 911. In addition, they both use air-cooled flat engines and have shared technology for years, and will soon merge. It would be surprising only if the VW couldn't fit a Porsche engine.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_Nucleon.jpg Ford Nucleon]] AwesomeButImpractical turned UpToEleven, and dosed with a lovely [[ILoveNuclearPower green glow.]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroen_DS Citroen DS]], a car so cool it revolutionised the way cars were built, with an outer body design so slinky and smooth that it would invoke PerverseSexualLust out of almost ''anyone'', also famous for its unbelievably smooth ride thanks to its hydropneumatic self leveling suspension (which incidentally is what saved Charles Du-Gaulles' life from an assassination attempt in 1962, the car had suffered two flat tires from bullets but was still able to escape at high speed thanks to this unique suspension system), and it contained a plethora of features that didn't show up in other cars until a few decades later (power steering, cornering headlamps, crumple zones, collapsable steering column, Disk brakes, etc), is still in some aspects a car way ahead of its time.
* The Moon Buggy. Makes one kinda miss NASA's old ScavengerWorld aesthetic.
* Two words: Bugatti Veyron
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