"Hey, I'm the friendly stranger in the black sedan
Oh won't you hop inside my car...
I'm your vehicle, baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go..."
Oh won't you hop inside my car...
I'm your vehicle, baby
I'll take you anywhere you wanna go..."
— The Ides of March, "Vehicle"
All about vehicles and transportation.
See also Chase Scene, Flying Tropes, and Travel Cool.
Tropes:
Sub-categories:
- Ace Pilot
- Armored Coffins
- Artistic License – Cars
- Asian Drivers
- Backseat Driver
- Badass Driver
- Bad Humor Truck
- Balloonacy
- Belly-Scraping Flight
- Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts
- Blindfolded Trip
- Burning Rubber
- Cable-Car Action Sequence
- Captain Crash
- Car Cushion
- Carload of Cool Kids
- Casual Car Giveaway
- Circular Drive
- Coming In Hot
- Cool Garage
- Crew of One
- Damage-Proof Vehicle
- Dead Foot Leadfoot
- Defenseless Transports
- Derelict Graveyard
- Description Porn
- Dinky Drivers
- Directionless Driver
- Dodge by Braking
- Does Not Drive
- Don't Come A-Knockin'
- The Driver
- Driver Faces Passenger
- Drives Like Crazy
- Driving a Desk
- Drunk Driver
- Dude, Where's Our Car?
- Eject...Eject...Eject...
- Ejection Seat
- Enormous Engine
- Epic Tank-on-Tank Action
- External Combustion
- Faking Engine Trouble
- Falling into the Cockpit
- Fantastic Ship Prefix
- Fantasy Helmet Enforcement
- Fighter-Launching Sequence
- Flashed-Badge Hijack
- Flying Dutchman
- Follow That Car
- Free Wheel
- Game of Chicken
- Gangland Drive-By
- Getaway Driver
- Ghost Ship
- Global Airship
- The Great Repair
- Hack the Traffic Lights
- Handcar Pursuit
- Hero Stole My Bike
- High-Speed Hijack
- Hollywood Police Driving Academy
- Horseback Heroism
- Hostile Hitchhiker
- Hover Bike
- Hover Skates
- If It Swims, It Flies
- Implausible Boarding Skills
- Instant Convertible
- Itasha
- It's Going Down
- Jammed Seatbelts
- The Jaywalking Dead
- Just Keep Driving
- Living Ship
- Look Both Ways
- Ludicrous Speed
- Machine Empathy
- Mega-Maw Maneuver
- Midair Collision
- Missed the Bus
- Molotov Truck
- Mounted Combat
- Mr. Starship
- Murder by Remote Control Vehicle
- My Horse Is a Motorbike
- No Bikes in the Apocalypse
- Nose Art
- Not My Driver
- One-Wheeled Wonder
- Only I Can Make It Go
- Outside Ride
- Over Drive
- Pardo Push
- Ramp Jump
- Ramprovisation
- Rare Vehicles
- Real Vehicle Reveal
- Removable Steering Wheel
- Rental Car Abuse
- Roadside Wave
- Road Trip Across the Street
- Rock Star Parking
- Sapient Steed
- Sentient Vehicle
- Sexist Used Car Salesman
- Shoot the Fuel Tank
- Shopping Cart Antics
- Skeleton Crew
- Sky Surfing
- Sniping the Cockpit
- Spiked Wheels
- Standard Sci-Fi Army
- Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
- Surprise Vehicle
- Take the Wheel
- Tandem Parasite
- Thememobile
- The Cars That Eat People: Evil variant of the Sentient Vehicle trope. See also Attack of the Killer Whatever.
- Underside Ride
- Universal Driver's License
- Unnecessarily Large Vessel
- Unusual Weapon Mounting
- Vanity License Plate
- Vapor Trail
- Vehicle Title
- Vehicle Vanish
- Vehicular Assault
- Vehicular Sabotage
- Vehicular Turnabout
- Wacky Racing
- Watch the Paint Job
- We Don't Need Roads
- Who Is Driving?
- Wiper Start
- Women Drivers
Genres:
- Driving Game
- Gearhead Show
- Mecha Show
- Real Robot Genre
- Simulation Game (various subgenres)
- Sub Story
- Super Robot Genre
- Vehicular Combat
- Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Vehicles:
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier
- Airships
- Automated Automobiles
- Awesome Personnel Carrier
- Big Badass Rig
- Black Helicopter
- Cool Airship
- Cool Bike
- Cool Boat
- Cool Car
- Cool Horse
- Cool Plane
- Cool Ship
- Cool Starship
- Cool Train
- Drill Tank
- Drop Pod
- Drop Ship
- Flying Broomstick
- Flying Car
- Hippie Van
- Hopping Machine
- Hoverboard
- Hover Tank
- Loudspeaker Truck
- Magic Bus
- Magic Carpet
- Mecha
- Mercurial Base
- Mid-Life Crisis Car
- Military Mashup Machine
- Mobile Kiosk
- Monowheel Mayhem
- Mook Mobile
- Official Presidential Transport
- Orient Express
- Pimped-Out Car
- Prison Ship
- Rocket Ride
- Rollerblade Good
- Signature Team Transport
- Space Plane
- Spy Ship
- Super Wheelchair
- Tank Goodness
- Tanks, but No Tanks
- The Taxi
- Technically a Transport
- Transforming Vehicle
- Tree Vessel
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines
- Van in Black
- Vehicle Roof Body Disposal
- Vulnerable Convoy
- Weaponized Car
- What a Piece of Junk
- The Workhorse
