History Main / DamageProofVehicle

** ''Top Gear'' also performed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9fw9nou_G8 a test involving a Saab and a BMW]] sedan by turtling the two cars to see if their roofs would cave in. The pillars on the BMW were badly mangled, whilst the one on the Saab wasn't as badly damaged, to the point that their [[UsefulNotes/{{Rallying}} rally cars]] didn't even need a rollcage. They still had to comply to FISA regulations though.

* In many HumongousMecha series, bullets, beam sabers and laser cannons will rip through most mecha, but they seem surprisingly impervious to more mundane things like ''falling any distance''. Even the ones with delicate parts will get back up with all their wings and command antennae intact.

* As mentioned above, a lot of videogames with licensed cars have indestructible cars. One game actually had a full damage model shipped with the game only accessible by cheat codes. Games like Burnout use BrandX versions of real cars in order to get away with their insane crashes.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed Carbon'' opens with a race at the end of which your car is "[[TakeOurWordForIt totaled]]" in a crash. Since it's a licensed car, all damage to it occurs during a DiscretionShot, and you never see it afterward.
* Need For Speed Underground 2 plays it straight except for certain cases where the rarely-used stunt camera will show broken glass in the windows of your car, which is instantly fixed when you switch back to the regular camera.

* The ''Series/TopGear'' presenters once tried to destroy a Toyota Hilux Diesel. They failed - after crashing into a tree, drowning it in the ocean, dropping it from a crane, dropping a trailer on top of it with a crane, driving through a mobile home, striking it with a wrecking ball, setting it on fire, and putting it on top of a 23-story building that was then ''blown up'', it still started ''and drove''.[[note]]Specifically, it was restored to working order in less than 5 minutes, using only several common hand tools normally carried in the truck and no replacement parts of any kind. The only part that had to be replaced due to insurance issues was the ''windshield'', of all things.[[/note]] The beat-up Hilux in question now sits on a podium in the studio, and Toyota went on to release the Hilux Invincible, and use footage of the process in commercials for the US-model [[MarketBasedTitle Tacoma]].

* Incidentally, the supposed invincibility of the General Lee was averted in an early Season 1 episode of ''Series/KnightRider'', as part of an allusion to ''The Dukes'', which was midway through its fifth season[[note]] (and its ratings suffering due to the absence of series stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat)[[/note]]. In the episode "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death", a 1969 Dodge Charger, painted like the General Lee (a Confederate flag on the roof, but with the numbers 00 on the doors), and driven by two cousins -- one a blonde, the other with dark hair [[note]](only these cousins are obnoxious, drunken jerks playing up a Southern stereotype, and one of them makes a pass at the GirlOfTheWeek)[[/note]]; the car's engine is powered by moonshine, another clear allusion to ''The Dukes''. About halfway through the episode -- the plot itself centers on a race testing out alternative fuels -- the orange car is sabotaged, crashes and explodes into flames, killing both of the young men inside. The conclusion that ''Knight Rider's'' writers perhaps hoped viewers would pick up on was that ''The Dukes'' was an outdated show, yesterday's news and that it played on stereotypes... but here was a show that was [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter a better show with more exciting plots and a cooler, more up-to-date car]] than an older show that was "no longer cool."
* Justified in ''Series/KnightRider'', with the car being NighInvulnerable. Even more so in the recent TV movie, where the car isn't quite as invulnerable, but self-repairing. After a certain crash, the car still sparkled. (As per the TV movie, it also only worked when the system was on; turn off the computer, and you have a normal, smashable car. In the show, however, it was a high tech polymer, with the formula split between three different people. KITT did not become vulnerable until someone created an antidote, and then it was just so they could upgrade KITT into a convertible.)
* During an episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' there's a shoot out with one person hiding behind Hiro and Ando's rented Nissan Versa. In a fine example of the Nissan Versa's incredibly blatant ProductPlacement in that show, Hiro later comments that there's not a scratch on the [[RunningGag Nissan Versa]].
* The ''Series/TopGear'' presenters once tried to destroy a Toyota Hilux Diesel. They failed - after crashing into a tree, drowning it in the ocean, dropping it from a crane, dropping a trailer on top of it with a crane, driving through a mobile home, striking it with a wrecking ball, setting it on fire, and putting it on top of a 23-story building that was then ''blown up'', it still started ''and drove''.[[note]]Specifically, it was restored to working order in less than 5 minutes, using only several common hand tools normally carried in the truck and no replacement parts of any kind. The only part that had to be replaced due to insurance issues was the ''windshield'', of all things.[[/note]] The beat-up Hilux in question now sits on a podium in the studio, and Toyota went on to release the Hilux Invincible, and use footage of the process in commercials for the US-model [[MarketBasedTitle Tacoma]].

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W124 Mercedes-Benz E series W124 (1985-1996)]] had been designed to be as sturdy as possible. This turned thousands of them in the favorite brand of taxicab companies, and also made them almost impervious to traffic accidents. In a deconstruction of the actual trope, the outer bodywork panels may be shredded from nose to tail, but the safety cage around the cabin and the mechanical parts would still hold. In some cases, the Mercedes had been hit from the back by a lighter car and pushed forwards into another car, trunk pushed inwards by more than 1ft, front hood turned into an accordion, front fenders bent backwards, engine and radiator pushed back without breaking, and the car still drove under its own power to the workshop. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Both headlamps survived intact]].

* The Expedition Transport vehicle in ''Ride/SkullIslandReignOfKong'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] comes out completely okay despite receiving a heckuva lot of abuse during the climax when it gets rammed by several dinosaurs and climbed over by Kong himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' is an example of this trope applied inconsistently. The Sea Duck is virtually indestructible, except in the final episode of the ''Plunder and Lightning'' pilot arc where it is completely destroyed. Planes occasionally explode when shot down, but a ''crash'' usually involves the plane skidding to a stop (or a comic "pile-up" in midair).

* The Volvo company prides itself on the legendary toughness and resilience of its sedans and station wagons. They can take a truly absurd amount of damage and sill function. This is partly due to the fact that they were designed to cope with Sweden's the mountainous terrain, and partly due to a traditional emphasis on safety within the company because its founder's wife died in a car accident.

* Volvos. The damn things are nigh indestructible, it takes a lot of deliberate effort to kill one, like driving one off of a cliff, ''Twice''.

* Several specific vehicles in the ''Franchise/GrandTheftAuto'' games are invulnerable to various types of damage, being tailored to specific missions - it is possible to disregard the mission and save them in garages, preserving their effects.

* In the 1984 film of [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the story of the same name]], everything is run down, dirty and decaying except for a patrol helicopter that's seen outside Winston Smith's window at one point. Presumably because it would have been too much trouble to dirty down a helicopter and then clean it up again before returning it to the hire company. This is possibly FridgeBrilliance: a totalitarian government will make sure to keep patrol helicopters and other military vehicles in pristine condition because they focus more on the military than the rest of the country, akin to Soviet Russia or North Korea. The irony is that the FridgeBrilliance is likely due to a trope ''inversion'' -- in real-life, helicopters are ''extremely'' fault-intolerant. Any helicopter able to complete a patrol circuit without incident has to be undergoing regular maintenance[[note]]The average helicopter requires over 10 man-hours of preventative maintenance for every hour of flight time. Some high-performance military models have required ''far'' more than that.[[/note]], which will also mean its being kept at least halfway clean. A helicopter left neglected long enough to show deterioration visible to the naked eye at that distance has overwhelmingly likely odds of either crashing at the first opportunity or failing to get in the air at all.
* The vehicle driven by Creator/DennisQuaid in the film ''Film/VantagePoint''. He (playing a Secret Service agent) chases a vehicle being driven by his traitorous partner, and incurs three car crashes during the chase, none of which slow the vehicle down at all. It's only a full-on collision with a wall that stops the vehicle, and Dennis Quaid jumps out of the vehicle with nary a scratch.
* ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'', when police officer Popeye Doyle drives recklessly to catch a suspect travelling to a nearby station in Manhattan. The car narrowly misses dozens of vehicles and pedestrians, and makes it without a scratch.
* The remake of ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'': During when Buddy Love is leaving the nightclub to his Dodge Viper while reverting back to Sherman Klump with the assistant Jason approaching him, his over-sized foot slammed the accelerator maneuvering pass every car untouched until it eventually stopped. The fire department still have to use the jaws of life to get Sherman out.
* In ''Film/RachelGettingMarried'', Kym, angry after a fight with her mother, purposely drives her father's Mercedes off the road, over a road sign, into the woods and then crashes into a rock. Although the airbag deploys, when we see the car in the morning light, the front end isn't even dented.
* Subverted in ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''. So high on Quaaludes that he literally can't walk or talk comprehensibly, Jordan nevertheless manages to drive his Ferrari a short distance home from the country club without, it seems, a scratch. But after he's slept it off a bit and the police come, we see it as totaled as it really was.

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* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'', Ravenswood's American Rambler has gotten involved in a number of high-speed car chases, and has even been used to ''bump another car off the road,'' yet there's never any mention of any damage to it. (Considering how much he loves that car, Ravenswood would certainly [[WatchThePaintJob make a big deal of it if it ever was damaged.]])
* Literature/StephaniePlum inherited a '53 powder blue Buick from her uncle Sandor. [[EveryCarIsAPinto While every other car Stephanie has owned has been blown up, stolen, crushed, set on fire, or otherwise destroyed,]] "Big Blue" is MadeOfIndestructium. In fact, not only does a car bomb utterly fail to damage it, Stephanie has used it as a battering ram against other cars (which get wrecked hard). The Buick remains completely intact.
* Milo's 1970 Charger in ''Literature/{{Demon Road}}''. Firstly, it seems to always end up freshly clean in the morning light, though Milo is never seen to wash it. Has incredible fuel economy for a classic American muscle car. Milo says it is necessary for driving the Blackroads. Later subverted when it turns out the vehicle can be damaged, but is utterly pristine again by morning. It's clearly not normal, and when the protagonist finds out how abnormal it is, she only gets in again out of desperation and because ''she's a demon''.

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* If ''Series/MythBusters'' is anything to go by, the General Lee from ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' couldn't possibly survive all those insane stunts every episode. In fact, the General Lee ''didn't'' survive all those insane stunts: they went through 309 of them over the course of the series to maintain the "not a scratch on it" look. Of the 26 Dodge Chargers used in the film, many were wrecked so a few could finish without a scratch. One of the original General Lee's had to be returned to Warner studios after shooting, and two Chargers that were acquired for two bucks on the condition they be sold back to the prior owner for a dollar and a quarter each.
* Incidentally, the supposed invincibility of the General Lee was averted in an early Season 1 episode of ''Series/KnightRider'', as part of an allusion to ''The Dukes'', which was midway through its fifth season[[note]] (and its ratings suffering due to the absence of series stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat)[[/note]]. In the episode "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death", a 1969 Dodge Charger, painted like the General Lee (a Confederate flag on the roof, but with the numbers 00 on the doors), and driven by two cousins -- one a blonde, the other with dark hair [[note]](only these cousins are obnoxious, drunken jerks playing up a Southern stereotype, and one of them makes a pass at the GirlOfTheWeek)[[/note]]; the car's engine is powered by moonshine, another clear allusion to ''The Dukes''. About halfway through the episode -- the plot itself centers on a race testing out alternative fuels -- the orange car is sabotaged, crashes and explodes into flames, killing both of the young men inside. The conclusion that ''Knight Rider's'' writers perhaps hoped viewers would pick up on was that ''The Dukes'' was an outdated show, yesterday's news and that it played on stereotypes... but here was a show that was [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter a better show with more exciting plots and a cooler, more up-to-date car]] than an older show that was "no longer cool."
* Justified in ''Series/KnightRider'', with the car being NighInvulnerable. Even more so in the recent TV movie, where the car isn't quite as invulnerable, but self-repairing. After a certain crash, the car still sparkled. (As per the TV movie, it also only worked when the system was on; turn off the computer, and you have a normal, smashable car. In the show, however, it was a high tech polymer, with the formula split between three different people. KITT did not become vulnerable until someone created an antidote, and then it was just so they could upgrade KITT into a convertible.)
* During an episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' there's a shoot out with one person hiding behind Hiro and Ando's rented Nissan Versa. In a fine example of the Nissan Versa's incredibly blatant ProductPlacement in that show, Hiro later comments that there's not a scratch on the [[RunningGag Nissan Versa]].
* The ''Series/TopGear'' presenters once tried to destroy a Toyota Hilux Diesel. They failed - after crashing into a tree, drowning it in the ocean, dropping it from a crane, dropping a trailer on top of it with a crane, driving through a mobile home, striking it with a wrecking ball, setting it on fire, and putting it on top of a 23-story building that was then ''blown up'', it still started ''and drove''.[[note]]Specifically, it was restored to working order in less than 5 minutes, using only several common hand tools normally carried in the truck and no replacement parts of any kind. The only part that had to be replaced due to insurance issues was the ''windshield'', of all things.[[/note]] The beat-up Hilux in question now sits on a podium in the studio, and Toyota went on to release the Hilux Invincible, and use footage of the process in commercials for the US-model [[MarketBasedTitle Tacoma]].

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* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'''s "Golden Comeback" book has the Automobilus Indestructus schtick. It doesn't prevent damage to the car, merely ensures that no matter how much damage it takes, it keeps running... until the chase scene is over, at which point it [[Film/TheBluesBrothers spontaneously falls apart]].
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* The Expedition Transport vehicle in ''Ride/SkullIslandReignOfKong'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] comes out completely okay despite receiving a heckuva lot of abuse during the climax when it gets rammed by several dinosaurs and climbed over by Kong himself.
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Cars, trucks, planes and pretty much everything that moves in all forms of media often seem surprisingly resistant to damage and/or destruction. This is inconsistently applied: a vehicle's indestructibility is often purely a function of how important it is to the plot that a vehicle be MadeOfIron (or MadeOfPlasticine). This also counts when a vehicle that shows no damage whatsoever still suffers a CriticalExistenceFailure when appropriate (say, its HP value hits 0, or the BluesBrothers arrive at the courthouse).

* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'''s "Golden Comeback" book has the Automobilus Indestructus schtick. It doesn't prevent damage to the car, merely ensures that no matter how much damage it takes, it keeps running... until the chase scene is over, at which point it [[TheBluesBrothers spontaneously falls apart]].

* ''Series/TopGear(( demonstrated that the Toyota Hilux (called Tacoma in the US) CAN NOT BE STOPPED. By no means does it literally fit the trope name -- no bodywork ever made will survive spending a night in the ocean, being lit on fire, and being strapped to the roof of an imploding high-rise. After all that, though, it still moved easily under its own power with no parts replaced and only a few minutes repair with hand tools. To a lesser extent, most Toyotas from before 2000 can fall into this trope. Many of them are still on the roads where rival companies' equivalent models are not.

* The vehicle driven by Dennis Quaid in the film ''Film/VantagePoint''. He (playing a Secret Service agent) chases a vehicle being driven by his traitorous partner, and incurs three car crashes during the chase, none of which slow the vehicle down at all. It's only a full-on collision with a wall that stops the vehicle, and Dennis Quaid jumps out of the vehicle with nary a scratch.

* Human vehicles in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' are completely indestructible, regardless of ''what'' you hit them with. In ''VideoGame/Halo2'' and ''VideoGame/Halo3'', this trope is partly subverted in that vehicles ''do'' show damage, but they cannot actually be destroyed unless Master Chief (or the Arbiter)'s HP is depleted entirely.

This may be somewhat justified for police and military vehicles that are designed to survive hard use and kept in peak condition by a dedicated maintenance staff, but even these cases often push the {{willing suspension of disbelief}} boundaries. TruthInTelevision when it comes to {{Invincible Classic Car}}s - back before TheFifties, cars were a ''lot'' stronger, while being equally less safe to drive; modern cars shed the inertia of crashing by folding like accordions, while classics let the passengers violently decelerate against the interiors.

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* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': The Bluesmobile, is indestructible (except when it reaches the courthouse, at which point it [[ExactTimeToFailure spontaneously falls apart]]). A better indicator of this trope is the chase scene earlier in the film through a crowded mall. The mall was abandoned and had nothing inside. The Blues Brothers team filled the inside of the mall, then asked a few car dealers to fill the lot outside so the mall would look crowded. In interviews later on, the cast and crew were very afraid of doing any damage whatsoever to the parked cars, as they all had to go back to the dealers without a scratch. They were [[RunningGag on a mission from God]], you know.

* In the 1984 film of [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the story of the same name]], everything is run down, dirty and decaying except for a patrol helicopter that's seen outside Winston Smith's window at one point. Presumably because it would have been too much trouble to dirty down a helicopter and then clean it up again before returning it to the hire company.
** This is possibly FridgeBrilliance. A totalitarian government will make sure to keep patrol helicopters and other military vehicles in pristine condition because they focus more on the military than the rest of the country, akin to Soviet Russia or North Korea.
** The irony is that the FridgeBrilliance is likely due to a trope ''inversion'' -- in real-life, helicopters are ''extremely'' fault-intolerant. Any helicopter able to complete a patrol circuit without incident has to be undergoing regular maintenance[[note]]The average helicopter requires over 10 man-hours of preventative maintenance for every hour of flight time. Some high-performance military models have required ''far'' more than that.[[/note]], which will also mean its being kept at least halfway clean. A helicopter left neglected long enough to show deterioration visible to the naked eye at that distance has overwhelmingly likely odds of either crashing at the first opportunity or failing to get in the air at all.

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* If ''Series/MythBusters'' is anything to go by, the General Lee from ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' couldn't possibly survive all those insane stunts every episode. In fact, the General Lee ''didn't'' survive all those insane stunts: they went through 309 of them over the course of the series to maintain the "not a scratch on it" look.
** Of the 26 Dodge Chargers used in the film, many were wrecked so a few could finish without a scratch. One of the original General Lee's had to be returned to Warner studios after shooting, and two Chargers that were acquired for two bucks on the condition they be sold back to the prior owner for a dollar and a quarter each.
** Incidentally, the supposed invincibility of the General Lee was averted in an early Season 1 episode of ''Series/KnightRider'', as part of an allusion to ''The Dukes'', which was midway through its fifth season[[note]] (and its ratings suffering due to the absence of series stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat)[[/note]]. In the episode "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," a 1969 Dodge Charger, painted like the General Lee (a Confederate flag on the roof, but with the numbers 00 on the doors), and driven by two cousins -- one a blonde, the other with dark hair [[note]](only these cousins are obnoxious, drunken jerks playing up a Southern stereotype, and one of them makes a pass at the GirlOfTheWeek)[[/note]]; the car's engine is powered by moonshine, another clear allusion to ''The Dukes''. About halfway through the episode -- the plot itself centers on a race testing out alternative fuels -- the orange car is sabotaged, crashes and explodes into flames, killing both of the young men inside. The conclusion that ''Knight Rider's'' writers perhaps hoped viewers would pick up on was that ''The Dukes'' was an outdated show, yesterday's news and that it played on stereotypes ... but here was a show that was [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter a better show with more exciting plots and a cooler, more up-to-date car]] than an older show that was "no longer cool."
* Justified in ''Series/KnightRider'', with the car being NighInvulnerable. Even more so in the recent TV movie, where the car isn't quite as invulnerable, but self-repairing. After a certain crash, the car still sparkled. (As per the tv movie, it also only worked when the system was on; turn off the computer, and you have a normal, smashable car. In the show, however, it was a high tech polymer, with the formula split between three different people. KITT did not become vulnerable until someone created an antidote, and then it was just so they could upgrade KITT into a convertible.)

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* Human vehicles in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' are completely indestructible, regardless of ''what'' you hit them with. In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', this trope is partly subverted in that vehicles ''do'' show damage, but they cannot actually be destroyed unless Master Chief (or the Arbiter)'s HP is depleted entirely.

* A lot of games where vehicles can be destroyed have the vehicles appear without a scratch until they finally blow up.
** Averted (as much as the DOS-era graphics would allow) in ''VideoGame/FatalRacing'': Cars, both your and your opponents', will start smoking as they take more damage, and eventually small flames will start to erupt from the car. A car with three visible flames is a pinprick away from death and will rapidly find itself a target by other trigger-happy players within reach. At which point [[EveryCarIsAPinto it will explode]].

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* Series/TopGear demonstrated that the Toyota Hilux (called Tacoma in the US) CAN NOT BE STOPPED. By no means does it literally fit the trope name-- no bodywork ever made will survive spending a night in the ocean, being lit on fire, and being strapped to the roof of an imploding high-rise. After all that, though, it still moved easily under its own power with no parts replaced and only a few minutes repair with hand tools.
** To a lesser extent, most Toyotas from before 2000 can fall into this trope. Many of them are still on the roads where rival companies' equivalent models are not.

This may be somewhat justified for police and military vehicles that are designed to survive hard use and kept in peak condition by a dedicated maintenance staff, but even these cases often push the {{willing suspension of disbelief}} boundaries.

* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'', Ravenswood's NashRambler has gotten involved in a number of high-speed car chases, and has even been used to ''bump another car off the road,'' yet there's never any mention of any damage to it. (Considering how much he loves that car, Ravenswood would certainly [[WatchThePaintJob make a big deal of it if it ever was damaged.]])

* ''NeedForSpeed Carbon'' opens with a race at the end of which your car is "[[TakeOurWordForIt totaled]]" in a crash. Since it's a licensed car, all damage to it occurs during a DiscretionShot, and you never see it afterward.

* Arguably, the vehicle driven by Dennis Quaid in the film ''Film/VantagePoint''. He (playing a Secret Service agent) chases a vehicle being driven by his traitorous partner, and incurs three car crashes during the chase, none of which slow the vehicle down at all. It's only a full-on collision with a wall that stops the vehicle, and Dennis Quaid jumps out of the vehicle with nary a scratch.

* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'''s "Golden Comeback" book has the Automobilus Indestructus schtick. It doesn't prevent damage to the care, merely ensures that no matter how much damage it takes, it keeps running... until the chase scene is over, at which point it [[TheBluesBrothers spontaneously falls apart]].

** Incidentally, the supposed invincibility of the General Lee was averted in an early Season 1 episode of ''Series/KnightRider'', as part of an allusion to ''The Dukes'', which was midway through its fifth season[[note]] (and its ratings suffering due to the absence of series stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat)[[/note]]. In the episode "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," a 1969 Dodge Charger, painted like the General Lee (a Confederate flag on the roof, but with the numbers 00 on the doors), and driven by two cousins -- one a blonde, the other with dark hair [[note]](only these cousins are obnoxious, drunken jerks playing up a Southern stereotype, and one of them makes a pass at the GirlOfTheWeek)[[/note]]; the car's engine is powered by moonshine, another clear allusion to ''The Dukes''. About halfway through the episode -- the plot itself centers on a race testing out alternative fuels -- the orange car is sabotaged, crashes and explodes into flames, killing both of the young men inside. The conclusion that ''Knight Rider's'' writers perhaps hoped viewers would pick up on was that ''The Dukes'' was an outdated show, yesterday's news and that it played on stereotypes ... but here was a show that was [[AlwaysSomethingBetter a better show with more exciting plots and a cooler, more up-to-date car]] than an older show that was "no longer cool."