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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': In-Universe. One of Calvin's MrImagination adventures features a man driving to work "80, 90, 100 miles an hour! [[BeatPanel ...]] [[EscalatingPunchline ALONG THE EDGE OF THE GRAND CANYON!"]]
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In Creator/DonRosa's ''The Last Lord of Eldorado'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck drives a big truck on a winding clifftop road that's just ''barely'' wide enough for it. This is when [[BigBad Flintheart Glomgold]] drops a large boulder behind the truck. This forces Donald to drive down the already extremely dangerous road in ''full speed''. Eventually the truck passes a turn where the boulder rolls off the road, but by the time Donald has managed to stop the vehicle, the truck itself is ''already off the cliff''. Fortunately for him, the trailer is still on the cliff and its weight is keeping the truck, now [[LiteralCliffHanger hanging from the trailer coupler and pointing straight down]], from falling.

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': In-Universe. One of Calvin's MrImagination adventures features a man driving to work "80, 90, 100 miles an hour! [[BeatPanel ...]] [[EscalatingPunchline ALONG THE EDGE OF THE GRAND CANYON!"]]
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In Creator/DonRosa's ''The Last Lord of Eldorado'', ''ComicBook/TheLastLordOfElDorado'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck drives a big truck on a winding clifftop road that's just ''barely'' wide enough for it. This is when [[BigBad Flintheart Glomgold]] drops a large boulder behind the truck. This forces Donald to drive down the already extremely dangerous road in ''full speed''. Eventually the truck passes a turn where the boulder rolls off the road, but by the time Donald has managed to stop the vehicle, the truck itself is ''already off the cliff''. Fortunately for him, the trailer is still on the cliff and its weight is keeping the truck, now [[LiteralCliffHanger hanging from the trailer coupler and pointing straight down]], from falling.



* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/Superboy1980'' issue #12, Clark Kent stops a car which is skidding off a cliff after slipping on a mud puddle.



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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': In-Universe. One of Calvin's imaginary adventures features a man driving to work "80, 90, 100 miles an hour!"..."ALONG THE EDGE OF THE GRAND CANYON!"
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* In ''Film/DrNo'' a SPECTRE mook pursues Bond up a mountaintop road. Bond escapes by driving his convertible [[UnderTheTruck under a crane]] whose arm is across the road. The mook isn't brave enough, swerves to try and miss the crane, and goes over the side of the embankment [[EveryCarIsAPinto and explodes]].

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In ''Film/DrNo'' a SPECTRE mook pursues Bond up a mountaintop road. Bond escapes by driving his convertible [[UnderTheTruck under a crane]] whose arm is across the road. The mook isn't brave enough, swerves to try and miss the crane, and goes over the side of the embankment [[EveryCarIsAPinto and explodes]].explodes]].
** In the ActionPrologue of ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', Bond finds himself struggling with an assassin for the steering wheel of a British Army Land Rover full of burning ammunition crates while driving at speed along a cliff road in the Rock of Gibraltar. The end up going over the side, but fortunately Bond uses the reserve parachute he's wearing to survive; the assassin blows up with the rover before he even hits the water.
** The ChaseFight at the beginning of ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' finds itself on a sort of cliff in an open cut quarry (it's a steep but not truly vertical drop, and a road zig-zaggs down it). Both Bond and his pursuers are skilled enough to navigate the terrain, but the police car following both of them isn't quite as lucky. Bond's pursuers open fire at the cops, and though the officers aren't hit, they duck down for cover. That includes the driver. As a result of this, possibly coupled with damage to the vehicle, the car smashes through the corner of an old building. Cop cars are built to be sturdy (they're probably the only vehicles most people see that are bulletproof), and so the car looks to be in good shape after demolishing part of a building. Unfortunately, still out of control, they go off the cliff. By the time the car tumbles to the road below, it's a wreck.



* The ChaseFight at the beginning of the James Bond film ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' finds itself on a sort of cliff (it's a steep but not truly vertical drop, and a road zig-zaggs down it). Both Bond and his pursuers are skilled enough to navigate the terrain, but the police car following both of them isn't quite as lucky. Bond's pursuers open fire at the cops, and though the officers aren't hit, they duck down for cover. That includes the driver. As a result of this, possibly coupled with damage to the vehicle, the car smashes through the corner of an old building. Cop cars are built to be sturdy (they're probably the only vehicles most people see that are bulletproof), and so the car looks to be in good shape after demolishing part of a building. Unfortunately, still out of control, they go off the cliff. By the time the car tumbles to the road below, it's a wreck.

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