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** Jerry's Saab 900 in "The Bottle Deposit". After Kramer and Newman pack groceries unde the hood because they had bought so much they ran out of space elsewhere, Jerry mentions the AAA guy told him it was "this close to sucking a muffin down the carburetor." Saab 900s are fuel injected. When the police find a similar model chopped up in a a garage, he refers to the "angle of the V6" and says it was turbocharged, which a woman mentions is her 9000. Saab never offered either the 900 or 9000 with a turbocharged V6. Jerry then says his is a 900S, but the car Tony is driving when Kramer finds him is the higher up 900SE.

* ''Film/{{Torque}}'' is basically ''The Fast and the Furious'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace on two wheels]], with added CGI and even less regard for keeping the stunts within the bounds of the physically possible.

* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' has a CGI Viper and Lada1200/VAZ 2101 leap into the air without ramps, do barrel rolls, and otherwise handle in impossible ways. This is the film that [[ArtisticLicensePhysics gave physics the finger]], but still. Less excusable is that the (automatic) Corvette Fox drives at the end has a ([[DrivingStick manual]]) transmission taken from the aforementioned Viper in a rather obvious error.

* Near the end of ''Film/{{Speed}}'', the bus flies off an unfinished highway, without a ramp, and manages to land on the other side. ''Series/MythBusters'' [[JustForFun/TropesExaminedByTheMythBusters proved this completely impossible]]: it would have fallen no matter what.
** The camera work at this part used a lot of rapidly changing camera angles to disguise what was really happening, but with high quality video and the ability to advance frame by frame, you can very easily see that for the filming sequence they very obviously used a ramp. The front end of the bus also appears to have been lifted by cables at the moment it leaves the ramp.

* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' has several:

** WordOfGod says that the Bluesmobile is [[AWizardDidIt "a magic car"]] and left it at that.

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' has the wrong wheels powered quite a bit, accomplished by either disabling the front wheels (by removing the CV shafts) on an all wheel drive Nissan Skyline, to filming a front wheel drive car doing a powerslide in reverse, then played backwards.
** The CV shaft removal bit is actually justified, since many tuners convert Skylines and other AWD cars to RWD that way.

* ''Film/{{Torque}}'' is basically ''The Fast and the Furious'' [[RecycledInSpace on two wheels]], with added CGI and even less regard for keeping the stunts within the bounds of the physically possible.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'' has a minor example. In "Spanish As A Second Language", both Jeff and Abed refer to Jeff's Lexus being a 2002. The Lexus in question is a second generation IS making it a 2005 at the earliest.
* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Ghosts" has a murder victim found in a bathtub full of motor oil, with emptied jugs everywhere. Only problem is, the oil is black. Fresh motor oil is yellow, and only turns black after it's been in an engine for a couple thousand miles (because it's picked up various kinds of gunk from circulating in the engine). Might cross over with RealityIsUnrealistic since an average person might not recognize unused motor oil as quickly as used.

* In season two of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', George Sr. is looking at a Ford Escape at a dealership and is told by a salesman that it's the replacement for the Bronco, which was dropped to distance Ford from the "fugitive from justice" image from the O J Simpson police chase. It isn't, and it wasn't. The Bronco was discontinued because of a combination of declining sales, safety concerns regarding the removable roof [[note]]In 1992, Ford began using Torx bolts instead of hex bolts and ceased publishing literature explaining removal (because safety equipment such as the seat belts and third brake light were attached to the roof, it was no longer legally removable), though it was still physically possible to remove it. Conversely, Dodge redesigned the Ramcharger in 1981 to have a non-removable steel roof and GM did the same with the [=K5=] Blazer[=/=]Jimmy in 1992 for that exact reason.[[/note]] and the increasing redundancy compared to the two-door, fixed roof Explorer coupled with the lack of a competitive product for the GM Suburban. The Bronco's replacement was the full size, four door Ford Expedition. Naturally, this was done to make a {{pun}} about George Bluth Sr.'s escape from prison.

* ''Series/KnightRider'': Most of KITT's implausibilities can be chalked up to AppliedPhlebotinum, but his steering wheel is not street-legal: US regulations require steering wheels to be full circles, rather than the airplane yoke used in KITT's cabin.

* VehicularSabotage: Usually seen as cutting a brake line. Every vehicle made since the 1967 Model Year has been required to have a dual split master cylinder, which splits the braking power between the front and rear wheels (and, in newer front wheel drive cars, the left front and right rear, and the right front and left rear), for the express reason to keep half the brake power in the event one of the lines is ruptured. A light turns on when a loss of pressure is detected. Interestingly, victims hardly ever seem to try using the handbrake or changing to a lower gear as ways of slowing down (though TruthInTelevision, as the general public can be untrained in how to handle such situations).

* Lampshaded on ''Series/TopGear'', when Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond ruin days' worth of filming on the remake of ''Film/TheSweeney'', due to Clarkson's inability to grasp the concept of AcceptableBreaksFromReality, and of course for comedy. Clarkson shows the director the stunts the car can do with and without the traction control engaged; the director states that he wants the traction control off but Clarkson insists that [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief car nerds will watch and their immersion will be spoiled by the knowledge that the car in question won't do the cooler stunt work with the traction control on]], and then sends said director right over the edge by adding over a minutes' worth of footage to the chase scene to show the protagonists going through the process of deactivating the traction control, which means holding down the button for ten seconds!

** Q did it

* AlcoholIsGasoline: If it can be drunk, it can also power an engine.

* In ''Film/EagleEye'', references of DrivingStick are made when Jerry yells at Rachel to "Use the clutch" when the latter is driving the Porsche Cayenne Turbo that they're in. The Cayenne Turbo has only ever been offered with an automatic transmission (Initially a 6-speed, and later an 8-speed). Only the non-Turbo models (Such as the base V6 model for the first-generation, and the V8 GTS trim) have been offered with a 6-speed manual transmission.

* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' has a CGI Viper and Lada1200/VAZ 2101 leap into the air without ramps, do barrel rolls, and otherwise handle in impossible ways. This is the film that [[ArtisticLicensePhysics gave physics the finger]], but still.
** Less excusable- The (automatic) Corvette Fox drives at the end has a ([[DrivingStick manual]]) transmission taken from the aforementioned Viper in a rather obvious error.

* An ad for the Castrol Magnatec engine oil aired in 2005 in Poland proudly exclaimed that the product reduces engine wear by sticking to the upper surfaces of the pistons. Actually, if your car has oil in the combustion chamber, you should see a mechanic, because it indicates that the engine is broken. usually due to broken piston rings-and heaven help you if it's a cracked block.

** Ali's Renault 5, a car made between 1982 and 1990, has an [="RE58ECT"=] numberplate. This is impossible, as numberplates with "58" as the 3rd and 4th character only apply to cars first registered in late 2008 and early 2009, which, in fact, is over 4 years after the film's premiere.
** The film shows car electrical systems in models like the Volvo 940 and Vauxhall Nova as able to cause an electric shock. Such devices actually use electricity under a voltage that poses absolutely no danger to a human.

* In a Bollywood film, ''Bollywood/RaOne'', we see several Volkswagens, all right-hand drive, driving along the right lane of every road in an American city. Surely, product placement gone wrong.

* Towards the climax of the British movie ''{{Film/Doomsday}}'', the main characters find a getaway vehicle that was [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece stored inside an underground bunker...]] [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality because the plot said so.]] The car was stored there for at least [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture twenty-seven years]]. Even if it were fresh off the assembly line, most of the car parts wouldn't work from lack of use. The metal would become stiff and the rubber in the tires would start to rot, among other things. The gasoline in its tank would also have gone bad many years previously.

* Film/{{Goldfinger}}: Bond's Aston Martin [=DB5=] would never be able to keep up with the Ferrari F355 as shown in the movie

* Bollywood again: this time, in ''Bollywood/ThreeIdiots'', the SmugSnake Chatur brags of his 'new Lamborghini, 6496cc, very fast'. He's talking of the Murcielago, but on his phone, shows an image of a Diablo, a decade-old Lamborghini, at least 500cc less, and surely not so fast.

* AlcoholIsGasoline