Basic Trope: Expensive and/or exotic cars will get damaged; or destroyed.
- Straight: Bob and Charlie are chasing down the Monster of the Week; during the chase, they accidentally cause Alice to lose control of her Cool Car and crash it.
- Exaggerated:
- A one-of-a-kind car gets destroyed.
- Expensive cars getting destroyed is a Running Gag.
- Alice's car is a Chronically Crashed Car.
- Every single expensive car gets destroyed regardless of the situation.
- Downplayed: Bob and Charlie accidentally cause Alice to dent her car.
- Justified:
- The Monster of the Week is a Gold Digger, so they are naturally attracted to expensive objects.
- Hey, you go to the Wrong Side of the Tracks on a car so rare a single hubcap could feed a family for a year and you see what happens.
- The cast's enemies are Jerkasses who would smash anything they use as transportation. It's just bad luck that it's Alice's car.
- The car is cool and expensive and unsafe at high speeds. A crash was just a matter of time. Getting in a chase with the idiot backseat drivers just worsened the odds.
- The car is cursed and it attracts any and every possible danger, almost as if it seems like some kind of non-sapient Death Seeker.
- Inverted:
- All Alleged Cars get destroyed, but not the rich ones.
- The entire city except Alice's car is destroyed, somehow.
- Subverted: Alice is about to crash her car, but manages to stop in time.
- Double Subverted: Only for a billboard to fall on it.
- Parodied: Alice eventually gives up on paying for repairs every time, and buys a new car separate from her old one, which continues to get even more wrecked as the series goes on.
- Defied: Alice refuses to use her Cool Car for something so dangerous, choosing to use a blander-looking, but sturdier and easier to drive car instead.
- Exploited: Alice's mechanic catches on to how her car tends to get dinged up while dealing with monsters, and ratchets up his prices so he can wring more money out of her.
Try to not crash the expensive unabridged version here.
