History Main / Fauxrrari

* An episode of ''Series/NineOneOne'' has one of Maddie's coworkers get run down by a criminal when she spots him doing something suspicious. The car can be identified as a Saturn Ion, but is called a Vero Galaxy on the show. The reasons for this are unknown.

* Crossing over with RealLife, brands that either rebadge or manufacture designs based on Porsche platforms were this until recent years - The most common stand-in for Porsche cars in non-Electronic Arts racing titles were [=RUF=]s.[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruf_Automobile Ruf Automobile]] specialises in Porsche-derived sports cars, using unmarked Porsche body shells but assembled with Ruf-made parts and materials rather than badge-engineering or modifying existing Porsches, effectively classifying them as a manufacturer in their own right.[[/note]] This is because [=EA=] signed a licence exclusivity deal with Porsche in 2000 when they made ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Porsche Unleashed''. This meant that Porsche vehicles could only appear in [=EA=]'s racing games, although some non-[=EA=] franchises, like ''{{VideoGame/Forza}}'' and the first ''{{VideoGame/GRiD}}'', were lucky enough to acquire Porsche sub-licences for their games. The contract ended in late 2016, which resulted in Porsches appearing in a wide variety of racing games... and ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}''.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Hot Pursuit'' and ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: High Stakes'' are interesting cases: All vehicles with real-life counterparts are licensed, but in the cases of the two Ferraris only under the condition that they can only be used in races, not in police chases. Thus, in Hot Pursuit mode, the Ferraris are unavailable. The same applies to the Porsches in ''High Stakes''. In comparison, Lamborghini had no problems with their cars being used in chases, but keep in mind that there are also police Lamborghini Diablos.

-->-- [[LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany Vanoss and Wildcat]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiDt7hkAmGk talking about the Progen T20]] in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV .

-> '''Vanoss:''' It's a [=McLaren=].
-> '''Wildcat:''' It's not a [=McLaren=], they can't say its that for copyright reasons...[=it's a McLarry!=]

* An interesting case would be ''Manga/InitialD'' where real-world cars are used, but the badges are obfuscated presumably for trademark reasons. The models are clearly shown and mentioned, yet any logos would be mangled up in some way. For example, the trademark Sprinter Trueno AE-86 had "Toreno" badges in many scenes of the first season.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Tim's second Redbird is quite blatantly based on a Porsche even if some of the styling prevents it from being distinctly labeled as a specific model.
* Robbie Reyes, Marvel's latest iteration of the ComicBook/GhostRider, is referenced in an in-universe newspaper article as driving a "Dotch Charter."

* While the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' averts it, the toyline had two cases. ''[[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen Revenge of the Fallen]]'''s toyline had Sideways transform into a mere approximation of the Audi [=R8=] from the movie due to Hasbro not having the license to outright copy the car. And ''[[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Dark of the Moon]]'' has the Autobot Dino, who transforms into a Ferrari 458 Italia and was even named after Enzo Ferrari's first son. Despite this, [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dino#Toys every one of his toys]] uses a genericized approximation of his onscreen vehicle mode (a couple of them are even redecos of the aforementioned Sideways!), since Mattel (and later Maisto) held the exclusive license to produce Ferrari toys.

* The 2007 racing movie ''Redline'' features this on most vehicles seen in the movie, except for some others like the Mercedes-Benz SLR [=McLaren=] and the Ford GT.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', for the same reason as ''Burnout.'' Most especially given the (controversially) violent and hedonistic nature of ''GTA'', the likes of Ferrari would be in for a shock if they see their cars being treated as [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential expendable]] props than luxury sports cars.
** Rockstar Games wasn't beyond combining this with the occasional PrecisionFStrike such as the Crapi, the Ford Capri look-alike from ''London 1969''.

** Starting from ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', car makers besides Grotti (a pastiche of Ferrari first seen on a neon sign in GTA San Andreas) and Maibatsu (which often radio advertises their car) are introduced, introducing makers that correspond with real life makers. For instance, Karin is Toyota, Dewbauchee is Aston Martin, Vapid is Ford, [[PunBasedTitle Coil]] is Tesla and Pfister is Porsche, among many others, though said companies aren't necessarily depicted to be direct parodies of real-world marques they were largely based on--Karin for one had the Kuruma, which is odd as it is based on Mitsubishi's Lancer Evolution X. With that in mind, fans wondered why R* simply didn't use the Maibatsu brand on it considering that the Penumbra is heavily based on the 2012 Mitsubishi Eclipse.
* Averted with ''VideoGame/TheGetaway'' as all of the cars are actual licenced vehicles, largely to add to the verisimilitude already present with the inclusion of a GPS-street accurate map of London.
** British Telecommunications however took umbrage to a mission involving a van bearing their livery, where a driver has to be killed and the van used to assassinate a police officer; as the company was worried that the use of their vehicles in an organised crime game "might incite attacks on [its] engineers," this was later amended on subsequent pressings, though the initial release wasn't recalled (considering how console games at the time had no facilities for game and fimware patches and any glaring bugs or issues would cause the game to be recalled).

* ''VideoGame/{{Interstate76}}'', also featuring fictional makes that correspond with real life ones. For example, Courcheval is Chevrolet, Dover is Dodge, and Phaedra is Ford. More specific examples include the ABX Leprechaun (AMC Gremlin), Dover Lightning (Dodge Challenger), and Jefferson Sovereign (Lincoln Continental).
* Averted with ''VideoGame/LANoire'', produced by the same Brendan [=McNamara=] who headed development of ''The Getaway''. Which is excusable as the player assumes the role of a police detective, and the vehicles in question are already over seventy years old at the very least (and some of the marques featured are either defunct or merged with other manufacturers), though they are still subject to the same rigors a typical WideOpenSandbox car is subjected to - you can pretty much wreck or disable almost any vehicle in the game, but since you play as a police officer you'd end up getting penalised for causing collateral damage.

* ''VideoGame/{{Motorstorm}}'' is another franchise that makes heavy use of this, being an off-road racing game with a heavy emphasis on destruction, though they tend to group all vehicles of a certain category into one manufacturer, with examples including "Patriot" representing American cars and trucks, the big three in particular, "Italia" having a lot of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Italian sports cars]], "Wulff", "Monarch" and "Mirage" doing the same for German, British and French cars, "Castro" being older heavy American vehicles, "Atlas" being a counterpart to makers of diesel trucks, as well as Hummer, and finally "Lunar-Tec" (almost) exclusively building custom vehicles.

** There are countless fan-made cars for both games, but they were all modified from in-game cars even if they got entirely new bodies, textures, specs etc. These cars inherited the Hot Pursuit limits from their base vehicles. Some car builders were smart enough not to base their Ferraris on in-game Ferraris, thereby creating Ferraris that are available in the Hot Pursuit mode.

* ''Videogame/RidgeRacer'' uses fictional makes and models presumably so that Namco would avoid having to pay royalties to car manufacturers, with further games in the series being set in a ConstructedWorld (the fourth game did mention real life countries and features ads for other Namco games, however everything else is all fictional). The fifth game is implied to be on [[VideoGame/AceCombat Strangereal]], with Neucom and General Resources's logos figuring on the in-game scenery alongside [[FictionalCounterpart Fictional Counterparts]] of real life cars that may or may not being tied to ''Ace Combat'' in terms of universe (although ''Ace Combat'' primarily features real life airplanes except for the third game, and most fictional planes outside of the third game are [[SuperPrototype Super Prototypes]]).

* ''VideoGame/SanFranciscoRush'': Most of the cars in the series are knockoffs of real ones, although a few are completely made up. Compact=Acura Integra R, Muscle Car=Corvette Sting Ray, Bruiser=Plymouth Hemi Cuda, Exotic & Super GT=Vector M12, Mobster=Chevy Fleetline, Sportster=Dodge Viper (RT-10 roof, but with GTS competition stripes), 4x4=Ford Explorer, Protoype=Ford [=GT90=] concept car, Euro LX=BMW Z9, Venom=Lamborghini Diablo, Concept=BMW Nazca C2?, Panther=Mc Laren F1. The gas stations are also generic imitations of Shell, with the word "Fuel" and a smiley face in place of the shell logo.
* ''VideoGame/SplitSecond2010'': The car manufacturers are pastiches of real companies named after eighties ActionGenreHeroGuy except for one. [[Film/UnderSiege Ryback]] cars look like modern versions of classic American muscle cars such as the Camaro, Mustang, and Dodge Challenger. [[Film/{{Cobra}} Cobretti]] look like Italian speedsters and the name sounds like Ferrari or Lamborghini. [[UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo Hanzo]] has cars that resemble the Impreza and Lancer, and the name sounds like Mazda or Honda.
* ''Thrash Rally'', a top-down Neo Geo rally racing game, had -among others- Toyot GT-Four/Land Crusher (Toyota Celica GT-Four), Parsche 911/OD 6000X (Porsche 911), or Mitsuboshi/Thunderjet (Mitsubishi Pajero).

* All of the cars in ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' and [[VideoGame/GhostReconBreakpoint ''Breakpoint'']] are given fictional marque and model names.

* The ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series is weird about this, in terms of planes. Like, ''really'' weird. Apart from creator-designed SuperPrototype aircraft, ''all'' the planes used are real-life aircraft, but the companies that manufacture them do not exist in Strangereal. Instead, the aircraft are created by ''fictional'' companies (Such as "North Osea Grunder Industries), but are still referred to by their real-life classification. This leads to some strange moments where you have American F-14's being apparently manufactured alongside Russian MiG-29's under the same company, and still being referred to by their official classification, ''despite neither country nor their respective manufacturing companies'' existing in the ''Ace Combat'' universe. It's easier to just HandWave this rather weird aspect of the franchise's lore.

* ''VideoGame/BeamNG''.drive is built around crashing incredibly familiar-looking vehicles with minor design differences from their real counterparts. As an example, the German brand "ETK" produces cars with a very distinctive grill.

* The arcade game ''VideoGame/DriftOut'' minced the names of its car models: Masda Familio (Mazda Familia), Lancha Deleta (Lancia Delta), Toyata Celca (Toyota Celica), Fard Siara (Ford Sierra), Mitsuboshi Galent (Mitsubishi Galant), BWM [=AW3=] (BMW AWD) and Subaro Legagy (Subaru Legacy). These and other ill-disguised brand names such as Michlin and Shall can also be glimpsed on in-game billboards. The sequels avert this.

So you wanted an exotic supercar in that WideOpenSandbox MurderSimulator you're developing, but there's this negative reaction from car manufacturers if you decide to acquire a licence for said vehicle. Ferrari is particularly notorious for that, disallowing companies or even owners themselves from putting their cars in a potentially negative or unflattering right, case in point Music/Deadmau5 whom Ferrari sent a cease-and-desist letter for violating their trademarks with the "Purrari" badges. What are you going to do then? Simple, make a car that's similar to the real life vehicle in some way, but is still distinct from the car in question. In theory this can save developers the trouble of having to pay for either royalties or lawsuits over the use of a licenced vehicle, though it is understandable that some may be put off with the lack of vehicles from actual manufacturers.

-->--[[LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany Vanoss and Wildcat]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiDt7hkAmGk talking about the Progen T20]] in VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV .

* The ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series is weird about this, in terms of planes. Like, ''really'' weird. Apart from creator-designed SuperPrototype aircraft, ''all'' the planes used are real-life aircraft...but the companies that manufacture them do not exist in Strangereal. Instead, the aircraft are created by ''fictional'' companies (Such as "North Osea Grunder Industries), but are still referred to by their real-life classification. This leads to some strange moments where you have American F-14's being apparently manufactured alongside Russian MiG-29's under the same company, and still being referred to by their official classification, ''despite neither country nor their respective manufacturing companies'' existing in the ''Ace Combat'' universe.

So you wanted an exotic supercar in that WideOpenSandbox MurderSimulator you're developing, but there's this negative reaction from car manufacturers if you decide to acquire a licence for said vehicle. Ferrari is particularly notorious for that, disallowing companies or even owners themselves from putting their cars in a potentially negative or unflattering right, case in point Music/Deadmau5 whom Ferrrari sent a cease-and-desist letter for violating their trademarks with the "Purrari" badges. What are you going to do then? Simple, make a car that's similar to the real life vehicle in some way, but is still distinct from the car in question. In theory this can save developers the trouble of having to pay for either royalties or lawsuits over the use of a licenced vehicle, though it is understandable that some may be put off with the lack of vehicles from actual manufacturers.

* While the Film/TransformerFilmSeries averts it, the toyline had two cases. ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' had Sideways being merely an approximation of the Audi [=R8=] from movie due to Hasbro not having the license to outright copy the car. And ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' had the Autobot Dino, who is named after one of Ferrari's founders because that's his alternate mode, [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dino#Toys and yet all of his toys are different cars]] (including repainted versions of Sideways!) because Mattel holds the license for Ferrari toys.

* The movie ''Film/ItTakesTwo'' involves the road trip of a man to Denver in order to purchase a Lamborghini Diablo copycat called a "Trovare". The situation goes FromBadToWorse for him when it turns out the brand is a HonestJohnsDealership and he was swindled into buying a nice-looking [[TheAllegedCar lemon (that falls apart after driving it a couple of miles)]].

* The movie ''It Takes Two'' involves the road trip of a man to Denver in order to purchase a Lamborghini Diablo copycat called a "Trovare". The situation goes FromBadToWorse for him when it turns out the brand is a HonestJohnsDealership and he was swindled into buying a nice-looking [[TheAllegedCar lemon (that falls apart after driving it a couple of miles)]].

* ''VideoGame/SplitSecond'': The car manufacturers are pastiches of real companies named after eighties ActionGenreHeroGuy except for one. [[Film/UnderSiege Ryback]] cars look like modern versions of classic American muscle cars such as the Camaro, Mustang, and Dodge Challenger. [[Film/{{Cobra}} Cobretti]] look like Italian speedsters and the name sounds like Ferrari or Lamborghini. [[UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo Hanzo]] has cars that resemble the Impreza and Lancer, and the name sounds like Mazda or Honda.

* The ''VideoGame/OutRun'' franchise is another interesting case. The original arcade game and its various home console and computer releases has the player drive what appears to be a Ferrari Testarossa, complete with the iconic "prancing horse" emblem displayed prominently at the back. Sega didn't have the Ferrari licence at the time, and as such the car was changed to a similar yet generic Ferrari expy in re-releases, notably on the Dreamcast version which came as a minigame in ''VideoGame/ShenmueII'' and the ''UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS'' port released after SEGA lost the Ferrari license. Afterwards, the games in the series are Ferrari licenced products as in ''VideoGame/OutRun2'' and its derivatives.
** Unfortunately, ''Outrun Online Arcade'' (the remake port of ''Outrun 2'') was removed in 2010 due to SEGA not renewing its contract with Ferrari, and also not making ''Outrun 2'' and ''2006'' available for re-release.

* LightNovel/{{Durarara}}: The second episode has a billboard for "Yahaha" motorcycles.

This practice of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debadging debadging]] tends to be applied in works of fiction in general, especially if paying royalties to car companies for the vehicles to be used is a concern. Commercials or films may elect to debadge a car either to dodge royalties, to avoid implying that the producers are endorsing a particular automobile brand [[ProductPlacement unless they are paid to do so]], or to keep the car manufacturer from being portrayed in a negative light. This is largely avoided however, due to the ''de minimis'' rule in that depictions of trademarked objects like cars are considered to be incidental unless the particular car model is the subject of the work, e.g. it would be frivulous for Toyota to sue a production company merely for its use of a Corolla as an incidental object used by the characters in a show, but that would be a different story if the Corolla nameplate itself is the subject, e.g. a ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' character in the form of a Corolla sedan or something along those lines.

* The {{retraux}} racer '''80s Overdrive'' has a lineup of 80 sports cars lookalikes including the Penetrator GT (Lamborghini Countach QV), Testosterando (Lotus Esprit, though the name is a pun on Testarossa), Intruder Turbo (Ferrari 288 GTO), Aggressor (Porsche 959), De Loan([=DeLorean=] DMC 12), and Tensor V12 (Vector W8). The traffic vehicles include Fiat 500, Dodge Omni, and Jeep Wrangler stand-ins.

* The {{retraux}} racer '''80s Overdrive'' has a lineup of 80 sports cars lookalikes including the Penetrator GT (Lamborghini Countach QV), Testosterando (Lotus Esprit, though the name is a pun on Testarossa), Intruder Turbo (Ferrari 288 GTO), Aggressor (Porsche 959), De Loan([=DeLorean=] DMC 12), and Tensor V12 (Vector W8). The traffic vehicles include Fiat 500 and Jeep Wrangler stand-ins.

* The {{retraux}} racer '''80s Overdrive'' has a lineup of 80 sports cars lookalikes including the Penetrator GT (Lamborghini Countach QV), Testosterando (Lotus Esprit, though the name is a pun on Testarossa), Intruder Turbo (Ferrari 288 GTO), Aggressor (Porsche 959), De Loan([=DeLorean=] DMC 12), and Tensor V12 (Vector W8).

* The {{retraux}} racer '''80s Overdrive'' has a lineup of 80 sports cars lookalikes including the Penetrator GT (Lamborghini Countach QV), Testosterando (Ferrari 288 GTO), Intruder Turbo (Lotus Turbo Esprit), Aggressor (Porsche 959), De Loan([=DeLorean=] DMC 12), and Tensor V12 (Vector W8).