History Main / WeaponizedCar

* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''

* In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue of ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'', [[TheEngineer Dr. N. Gin]] attempted to patent such a system, but, as shown in the page quote, it was hastily withdrawn. In the game itself, the characters' karts can pack such things like homing missiles, rolling bombs, TNT/Nitro boxes, DeflectorShields, and other goodness.

* ''Creator/{{Capcom}}'' had ''VideoGame/SpeedRumbler'' aka ''Rush and Crash'' where [[VideoGame/{{Commando}} Super Joe]] has his family kidnapped by terrorists who have taken over the town and he gets them back with his souped-up car that has machine guns built-in.

* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' includes a Jewish momma's boy who thinks he is Creator/RogerMoore ([[AdamWesting played ''by'' Roger Moore]]) driving the tricked Aston-Martin DB5 from the early ''Film/JamesBond'' films. No machine guns, but the smokescreen, oil slick and EjectionSeat are all used. Ironically, Moore never actually drove this car during his tenure as Bond. The Japanese car (co-piloted by Creator/JackieChan) counts as well.

* '''Go-karts and other racing vehicles:''' nothing says speed like racing vehicles. That said, what can be put on the may be limited, and they tend to be more fragile, resulting in {{Fragile Speedster}}s, especially when compared to...

* ''VideoGame/{{Quarantine}}'' has a unique take on this: you drive a hover-capable [[BigApplesauce '52 Checker Cab]] armed with various upgradable tools of destruction and [[TheTaxi gain fares]] in a fictional futuristic [[PenalColony prison city]] based on Detroit while trying to escape the city in one piece.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{MASK}} M.A.S.K.]]'': cars, trucks, and other vehicles, even the logo for the series itself, contain a TropeCodifier.

* The Ukrainians have improvised in 2022 various pick-up truks - varying from Moskvich Elite 1500 to Toyota Hilux - into technicals by bolting on a [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece Maxim model 1910]] machine guns, which have ''water cooling''. They can shoot literally ''thousands'' of rounds in perpetuation without overheating.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has a DLC that has one as a reward. It has both concealed machine guns and an EMP blast.

* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' includes a Jewish momma's boy who thinks he is Creator/RogerMoore ([[AdamWesting played ''by'' Roger Moore]]) driving the tricked Aston-Martin DBV from the early ''Film/JamesBond'' films. No machine guns, but the smokescreen, oil slick and EjectionSeat are all used. Ironically, Moore never actually drove this car during his tenure as Bond. The Japanese car (co-piloted by Creator/JackieChan) counts as well.

* '''Technical:'''[[labelnote:*]]The term 'Technical' comes from US military use in Somalia during the early 1990's. Non-governmental organizations were not allowed to hire security contractors, but still needed to protect their property in the lawless country, so they used "technical assistance grants" to pay local armed thugs to guard them. These thugs usually rode around in pickup trucks with machine guns on the back.[[/labelnote]] A small pickup, utility vehicle or a truck converted into a fighting vehicle, usually with a heavy weapon bolted on the cargo bed. Usually this weapon is a machine gun, but can just as well be a anti-aircraft cannon or heavy anti-tank rocket launcher.

** The Batmobile from the Creator/TimBurton movies definitely qualifies as this. In the first ''[[Film/Batman1989 Batman]]'' movie it had a heavy-duty armored shield that could be activated when it was parked, machine guns that were used to invoke the BulletholeDoor effect, and special bombs that Batman used to wipe out the Axis Chemical factory in one scene. In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' it used side-blades that could cut through stilts, high-speed discs that he used to unseat Skull Riders from their motorcycles, and a switch that turned the rocket-powered exhaust into a weapon, putting the torch on anyone unfortunate enough to be directly behind it.
** Both the Tumbler and the Batpod from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' are also good examples, though the Batmobile seems to see more use as a battering ram than anything else. It probably helps that the Tumbler was an aborted military prototype.

*** The Tumbler isn't really a good example since it's a military vehicle with no unarmed, civilian counterpart. A Weaponized Car is a car with weapons added; the Tumbler is more like a small tank with built-in weaponry.

* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' includes a Jewish momma's boy who thinks he is Creator/RogerMoore ([[AdamWesting played ''by'' Roger Moore]]) driving the tricked Aston-Martin DBV from the early ''Film/JamesBond'' films. No machine guns, but the smokescreen, oil slick and EjectionSeat are all used. Ironically, Moore never actually drove this car during his tenure as Bond.
** The Japanese car (co-piloted by Creator/JackieChan) could also count.

->''"N. Gin opened a custom auto parts store in Toledo, Ohio. The store closed after a massive recall when his patented "Clear-the-Road" missile system sparked havoc on the nation's freeways."''
-->-- '''N. Gin's''' WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing''

** Actually most people would be surprised to find out that at least part of the ''Film/JamesBond'' gadgets are very easy to [=DIY=]: caltrop dispensers (all that is needed is a tub-shaped box which rotates pushed by a stepper motor), OilSlick dispensers (a metal can for the oil, an electric pump and 2-4 nozzles), water cannon, smoke screen (it needs some used motor oil and an injector pump to spray it in the red-hot exhaust), rotating license plate, which is easier to do in nowadays plastic-bumper cars than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_%28film%29 in the chromed steel bumper of an Aston Martin]] and even [[{{Film/TheLivingDaylights}} the friggin' rocket motor]] [[https://bangshift.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/captain-jack.jpg had been tried by civilians]] (and sometimes made the car airborne, [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs albeit a bit unintentionally]]). However, [[AwesomeButImpractical they have disadvantages]] for someone whose life does not depend on them: stored caltrops are bulky, rattly and noisy, a properly running OilSlick dispenser would need a barrel with at least 20 liters of oil, and rotating license plates with a fake number may have you imprisoned for forgery in some countries if caught. [[CoolCar Cool?]] Yes. Useful? Hardly ever.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': It’s not uncommon for wilderness vehicles to have mounted machineguns. Elena and Sara’s car, and Akira’s APC each have machineguns mounted for the driver, for instance. But what’s especially notable, is Akira’s second and third CoolBike. They each have special mounts he can put any two of his weapons on, allowing his VirtualSidekick Alpha to fire directly at enemies, and even without her, he eventually gets it set up to link to his guns sights to fire four weapons at the same spot. For a while he put a mini-missile launcher on there tied to a LaserSight on his rife.

->''"N. Gin opened a custom auto parts store in UsefulNotes/ToledoOhio. The store closed after a massive recall when his patented "Clear-the-Road" missile system sparked havoc on the nation's freeways."''

** In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', Craig's Bond gets his first (and last) modern weaponized car with the Aston Martin [=DB10=], which he "borrows" to Q without permision to go to Rome. It has rear machine guns (which sadly weren't loaded by Q before Bond took the car), a rear {{f|ire Breathing Weapon}}lamethrower and an EjectionSeat, and ends up at the bottom of the Tiber river. The [=DB5=] gets fully rebuilt by Q at the end, however.

** The Swedish sleigh cannons of UsefulNotes/CarolusRex (Karl XII) could as well count.
* OlderThanSteam: The Medieval European war wagons - armoured horse-drawn carts manned with shooters and crossbowmen, favoured especially by Hussites and Germans.

* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwind Darkwind: War on Wheels]]'' had vehicles that could be outfitted with everything from rams and flamethrowers to rocket launchers and mortars.

* The vehicles from the Police Car Challenge on ''Series/TopGear'' ; each presenter fitted a spectacularly low-budget device for stopping baddies onto their vehicle. Richard Hammond had a "stinger" (a doormat with some nails in it), James May built a spray paint screen for his car (that failed when confronted with [[CriticalResearchFailure windscreen wipers]]), and Jeremy Clarkson fitted his rear tires with spiked wheels (which caused him to lose a ''wheel'' when he tried to use them).

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': The [=UnSub=]'s WeaponOfChoice is in "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E23Roadkill Roadkill]]" a mild version (only a pick-up truck with a reinforced bumper), but his [[NightmareFuelColoringBook sketchbook]] is full of more deranged examples, mostly involving lots of spikes and even chainsaws. The car is necessary because the man is paraplegic.

* ''VideoGame/Interstate76'' games have weaponized muscle cars. The first game, being a simulator of sorts, realistically deals with the difficulty of aiming a fixed machine gun from a bouncy car moving at 100mph.

* ''Why Johnny Can't Speed'', a tongue-in-cheek revenge tale by Creator/AlanDeanFoster. In this short story road rage is legal because the government has cut back on the cost of patrolling the freeways, so you can either commute via the Mass Trans or drive in a vehicle armed to the teeth because drivers are expected to sort out their own road disputes. A father who used to be a professional combatant at this, sets out to avenge his son who was killed disputing a lane change.