History DrivesLikeCrazy / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/StrikeWitches'': Shirley is a speed demon who tries to see how far she can jump the car on every hill and the other characters are afraid to ride with her. Later on she trains Yoshika and Gertrud how to drive and they end up just as bad. The latter even tries driving without a steering wheel at one point.

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* The manga of a light novel called ''Slow-life Farmer's Random Skills'' has a character named Maria weaponize this against a rival of the main character by [[MakesSenseInCOntext plowing into him with a truck.]]

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* Misaki in ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', as evidenced in episode 7.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Yukari Tanizaki is hands-down the queen of crazy driving. Some AMV-producer combined the trope-naming song and the insane driver into this nice AMV. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCw5b5s_byg Click to watch.]] She drives a [[TheAllegedCar badly beaten-up Toyota held together with two pieces of wire, white glue, and the will of the Almighty]]. Poor Chiyo-chan ends up [[ThousandYardStare mentally scarred for life]] after just one ride with her, and will get ColorFailure at even the ''[[TraumaButton mention]]'' of "the [[{{Thememobile}} Yukari-mobile]]". ("[[MadnessMantra Pleasestoppleasestoppleasestop...]]") According to Chiyo, Yukari varies between driving too fast and too slow, rarely checks her mirrors, and tends to not notice details such as surrounding traffic and pedestrians. Seconds into the third year trip to Chiyo's summer home, Yukari forgets the car is in reverse...in Chiyo's yard. She then blasts past Nyamo's car, laying on the horn and mocking Nyamo...who is stopped at a red light...
-->'''Osaka:''' ''[watching from Nyamo's car]'' They're flying...
** After her first ride with Yukari, Chiyo-chan takes measures to avoid becoming Yukari's passenger again, including placing herself in Nyamo's car the very instant she found out that Yukari was the other driver during the third-year trip. In the manga, it's implied that the ride scared the poor girl off riding in vehicles altogether. Hearing this, Kaorin goes into a panic and is reluctant to take the ride in Yukari's car but decides to do it anyway because Sakaki was willing to do it. Yukari's little slip-up in the front yard terrifies Kaorin to the point of ColorFailure. She ends up totally shell-shocked by the time they get there - to the point that Sakaki has to help her get out - and then Yukari takes note of ''yet another'' unacceptable, terrifying mistake in the poor girl's earshot...
-->'''Yukari''': The side mirror was in the whole time!\\
'''Kaorin''': '''GNNNH!''' ''[collapses, starts to slip out of Sakaki's hold]'' Oh...
** On the plus side, victims of the Yukarimobile tend to report conquering their fear of roller-coasters.
--> '''Kaorin''': The nice thing about roller coasters, they don't get into collisions...
** Tomo is the only one who actually seems to like Yukari's driving style, but then again, she's [[Main/GenkiGirl Tomo]].

* ''LightNovel/HumanityHasDeclined'': The first thing we see Y do is nearly run over "[[NoNameGiven Watashi]]" with her fancy [[SteamPunk steam-powered]] car.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':

* [[{{Meido}} Arianna]] of ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' drives at highway speed on narrow streets, twice that on highways, and seems completely unaware of how close she comes to killing everyone while driving. Despite this, she has never had an accident.

* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'': Mordred has the same approach to driving as her "father," Arturia (see below). She has the same B rank Riding skill that makes Arturia a BadassBiker in ''Fate/Zero'', but she drives so recklessly that Kairi commented that nothing short of a tank could survive her driving, and indeed the car in question is covered in dents and looks ready to fall apart by the time she finally gets out (by kicking out the driver door, no less). She nearly [[CarFu slams into Astolfo on the battlefield with it]] and he only barely gets out of the way in time.
* ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Irisviel is not as good a driver as she thinks she is. Since Saber can't really be harmed by physical means and is fast enough to save her if there's an accident, both of them get to enjoy going around 65-90 miles an hour through winding terrain at midnight without ever stopping for petty concerns like traffic lights or being on the correct side of the road. Even Saber has a better grasp of traffic laws and car operations than her, and she's a KnightInShiningArmor from the medieval era. Saber also qualifies in that she has the ability to pilot absolutely anything, including a jetliner, and likes taking potholes and coastal roads at upwards of 60 miles per hour. Unlike Iris, she's actually an inhumanly ''good'' driver, which is why she has absolutely no problem with breaking every traffic law in existence (it's not like a car accident can hurt her).

* Touko Aozaki from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' proves to be a mild example of this in the third movie, judging by [[OhCrap Mikiya's reaction]] to her careening around corners, and in the fifth it's revealed that she never went to driving school. It's also implied that this may be a trait of mages in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} in general since most of them are [[BunnyEarsLawyer rather odd]] and many of them abhor modern technology.

* [[BattleButler Arakawa]] in the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels, who also doubles as a taxi driver for The Agency. Played for laughs in the SelfParody ''Haruhi-chan''.

* Sei in ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' would be able to give the aforementioned Yukari a run for her money on how she drives. This is even referenced in ''[[VideoGame/{{Maribato}} Maribato!]]'', where Sei appears as a playable character: One of her supers has her driving a car, and attempts to run over her opponent.

* In the ''Manga/TrinityBlood'' anime, Sister Esther attempts to drive, and nearly gives Abel a heart attack.

* ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' has Old Geezer, who Becky is lead to believe is the owner of the shiny green ''[=MGB=]'' parked out on the school grounds. Old Geezer tricks her into taking her for a ride with the car, only for Miss Igarashi to come out and ask who just drove off with her car. The following scenes afterward show Old Geezer driving so fast over ''Antarctica'' and nearly hitting a frozen woolly mammoths. [[SpaceIsNoisy Becky's scream could be heard from space]], and she understandably develops a fear of cars.

%%* LightNovel/{{GATE}}'s Rory Mercury, despite being [[PhysicalGod awesome in so many ways it's difficult to remember them all]], just cannot drive worth a damn. [[NoodleIncident Attempts to teach her]] ended in [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure General Hazama]] forbidding her to even get close to anything resembling a steering wheel. Ironically, all other members of [[TheHero Itami's]] BattleHarem quickly become decent, if not ''enthusiastic'' drivers. Well, [[SmartGirl Lelei]] might've become a little ''too'' enthusiastic, approaching the trope from the other side.

* Vash the Stampede from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is shown to be a horrendous driver in the manga and movie.