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"Who would want to buy a good car when you can buy an American car?"

—Bob Packwood

There's nothing like the classics.

As one of the largest and best-selling brands of America, Chevrolet has a history of its own, being one of the daily driven cars for characters, mostly ones depicted in American movies, cartoons or TV shows. Whether if its a heavy-duty pickup like the Silverado or C/K pickup driven by the rural inhabitants who love a thrilling adventure or a timeless beauty like the Camaro or Corvette for the slick and stylish, Chevrolet is the car the best represents the heartbeat of America. Loud, powerful, and it runs deep Chevrolet will find new roads in fiction.

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Chevrolet Bel Air

Jim: Now, uh, Ms. Vito, being an expert on general automotive knowledge, can you tell me... what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet, with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
Mona: 'Cause Chevy didn't make a 327 in '55, the 327 didn't come out till '62. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till '64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center.

—My Cousin Vinny

The Bel Air is Chevrolet's full-size automobile produced between 1941 to 1981, succeeding both the Fleetline and Biscayne. It was initially a two-door hardtop at first where the Bel Air name was designated from 1950 to 1952, until in 1953, changed from a designation for a unique body shape to a premium level of trim applied across a number of body styles.

The second-generation is perhaps considered to be the most popular model to many, as it was also advertised as the "Hot One" by General Motors. The Bel Air is notable for is various features such as stainless steel window moldings, full wheel covers, a Ferrari-inspired grille and its chrome spears on front fenders.

In 1958, the third-generation Bel Air became the halo vehicle for the Chevrolet Impala, available only in hardtop or convertible in its only introductory year and its later generations would use the Bel Air name used in the already existing Impala series, to the point it becomes its successor. Despite that the Bel Air continues its production up until 1981.

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Anime and Manga

• One of King Kai's personal hobbies he spends time in Dragon Ball is riding his red 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Hardtop.
• Julia Jinyu of FLCL Progressive & Alternative is the driver behind her Cool Car; a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible with a fictional license plate with a Goroawase Number serial.

Film — Live Action

• Harrison Ford's character Bob Falfa from American Graffiti drives a '55 Bel Air with his signature cowboy hat in the rear window. It's used for his climactic battle against John Milner in his '32 Deuce.
• The very first James Bond movie Dr. No has Mr. Jones fetch the titular hero at the airport in a black 1957 Bel Air convertible, where a car fight between the two ensued, before Bond himself takes the wheel. In fact, said Bel Air is a stolen one.
• Eddie's Jeep has a body of a '57 Chevy Bel Air (and a Hot Paint Job) in Eddie and the Cruisers.
• The Heavenly Kid has this nice set of wheels Bobby could own; a red Bel Air convertible that purely befits the heavenly cool status and takes this beauty for a lovely spin.
• Duke's '57 Chevy named "Project X" in The Hollywood Knights is no slouch of being an eye-candy icon amongst classy hot rods.
• In Losin' It, the Bel Air cabrio was used for by the four teenagers who are on their way to the South of the Border in Tijuana.
• Mischief gave that red Bel Air... some mischief: which the car was used for Auto Erotica purposes... and gets beaten and brutalized by a Studebaker.
• Although the car didn't physically showup, it was widely mentioned in My Cousin Vinny during a court hearing where Mona Lisa Vito explains the correct ignition timing and the details of the Bel Air, from top to bottom.
• This is Bob car in Sin City. The sequel has this a Marv's car used to follow the frat boys.
• Two-Lane Blacktop features James Taylor's character as the street racer behind a mean-looking primer-grey 1955 Chevy 150, an entry-level Bel Air.

Live-Action TV

• "The Zeppo" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer has Xander trying to make himself cool by borrowing his uncle's light blue 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible. It is, incontrovertably, an awesome car. It doesn't help Xander, though.
• The red 1955 Bell Air Nomad is seen in Home Improvement, where Tim Taylor took that classic to the job side for his filming of another Tool Time episode... and then Hilarity Ensues as Tim in the crane smashes the classic right down the center. Naturally, his portrayer Tim Allen owns one.
• Mike & Molly has Mike buying a 1957 Chevy Bel Air. It turns in a lemon through dialogue alone, and is sold back to the previous owner.
• The '57 Bel Air is the go-to Cool Car of A.J. in Simon & Simon.

Music

• If a Bel Air is qualified to be a lowrider of its own, then look no further on Cypress Hill's song "Lowrider".
• Perhaps another noteworthy example of this American classic would be the yellow Bel Air featured in "American Pie'' by Don McLean.

Video Games

• Asphalt Xtreme turns this American beauty into a monstrous monster truck.
• The El Diablo from Cruis'n World is based on the Bel Air, as it has a similar body to the car in question.
• The Bel Air is yours for free when you beat one of the Open Races in Driver: San Francisco. If a passenger appears to be with you, then...
  Passenger: My father's a wrestler, don't build a crash or he'll kill you!
• The Bel Air appears in Forza, usually as a Downloadable Content in the early games. In Horizon 4, one of the LaRacer @ Horizon chapters has put you in the Bel Air where you're tasked to "do a crazy jump along the way" at the danger sign, a-la Crazy Taxi.
• The Tornado in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is based on a '58 Bel Air, but its appearance in Grand Theft Auto V takes cues from its '57 model as well.
• The Hot Rod drag car in GRID Autosport is the Jupiter Condor, a classic car based on the Chevy Bel Air.
• The song "PIANO x FORTE x SCANDAL" in Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA shows the red Bel Air on stage.
• Horizon Chase gives you the Loveride, a Bel Air-based classic.
• The Shubert Beverly and the Berkley Altamont in Mafia II and Mafia III respectively are all based on the Bel Air. The latter game has this car driven by Nicki Burke, Thomas's daughter.
• It's indeed a '57, baby. Midnight Club 3 and Los Angeles feature this beautiful American classic. For the former, the car is won for free by beating the San Diego City Stage Race Tournament. Oscar denotes:
  Oscar: It's a '57, baby! An American classic Chevy Bel Air. It's beautiful.
• The Hot One had a long and winding road in the Need for Speed series:
  • The Bomber BFS, a hotrod that appears as a bonus car in the Special Edition of Need for Speed II, is a fictional car based on the Bel Air. It only comes with a red and yellow Hot Paint Job.
  • An off-road built Bel Air is Sean "Mac" McAlister's signature Cool Car, as seen in the game's cover of Need for Speed Payback. The playable Bel Air is one of the five derelict cars.
• The Hotshot in Wreckfest is based on the '57 Bel Air. There's even a fully-decked out Hotbomb, with a rocket blower and its body wrapped in aluminium.

Western Animation

• Glenn Quagmire from Family Guy has his giggity-Cool Car; a red '57 Bel Air cabrio, with a Vanity License Plate reading "BUSHMAN".

Chevrolet/GMC C/K series

Top: Chevrolet C-10 Stepside Pickup
Bottom: Chevrolet K-20 Silverado 4x4

"Now this is a 1994 C/K. [points at the blatant Silverado badge mounted on the side of the truck] Don't believe this! It's not a Silverado. Somebody just stuck that on there. People often glue things on cars."

—Scotty Kilmer, The Only Chevy I'd Buy

This truck has many names, and you know it.

The C/K are a series of pickup trucks marketed under both Chevrolet and GMC divisions, manufactured under General Motors from 1960 until 2002, intended to compete with its direct rivals like the Ford F-Series and the Dodge D Series (later, the Dodge Ram). The difference between the two internal model codes is that "C" denotes a two-wheel drive, while "K" denotes a four-wheel drive.

Breaking Old Trends from GM tradition, the C/K series were General Motors' first ever truck not to be a derivative from its GM A platform. Other than pickups, the C/K was also offered in chassis-cab trucks and medium/heavy duty commercial trucks. Some of the models were marketed differently depending on the type such as the C-10 (10 referring to the truck's payload capacity) being called the Chevrolet Apache or in most cases, being referred to the Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra.

Production ended in 2002, where it was succeeded by the Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra, effectively dropping the C/K moniker.

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Film — Live Action

• Big Fat Liar has The Masher's pimped-out GMC Sierra monster truck with his name on it. He uses it to wreck Marty Wolf's sports car for rear-ending him.
• With muscle cars emphasised in Dazed and Confused, this one has this '72 C-10 wheeled by Cole Hauser.
• The Driver has this Badass Driver behind the Chevy C-10 at first during a Car Chase before ditching it for the memorable Pontiac Trans Am.
• Jeff in Friday the 13th Part 2 drives a '77 Chevy K-10. The car got towed by Ted and Max as a prank.
  Jeff: Asshole! That's my truck!
• Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon 2 drives a heavy-duty GMC Sierra, where he tears down a house using that beastly piece of machinery.
• Gordon Smallwood's 1958 Chevrolet C-10 in The Mothman Prophecies certainly qualifies as a Cool Car that can hold on its own.
• A lifted '77 Chevrolet K-10 is driven by Jed Eckert in Red Dawn (1984), as he dodges tank fire from a road block that is then obliterated by an American helicopter on their frantic escape and uses it as a strike vehicle to Car Fu legions of Russian soldiers.
• The lifted, nitrous oxide-boosted, bulletproof 1988 K-2500 driven by Tango & Cash, featuring an on-board computer, mounted machine gun, and 120mm cannon.
  Tango: What is that?
  Cash: That is an RV from Hell. Care to join me?
• The '73 Chevy C-10 VS Kenworth K100 Car Chase Scene in Thunder Run.
• Bella Swan's truck in The Twilight Saga is an orange 1963 Chevy Stepside C-10 pickup, once bought by her father from Billy Black as a gift of appreciation for her moving in Forks. The car would "break down" during the events of Breaking Dawn.

Live-Action TV

• This is by no doubt Colt Seaver's Cool Car in The Fall Guy; a GMC Sierra 4×4 pick-up truck. Two-tone paint job, rollbar, and a 6" bodylift that cost it its ability to corner but made one high jump per episode more credible.
• Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights is the owner of the '86 Chevy K-20 Silverado.
• The Farm Truck in Street Outlaws looks like a beat-up 1970 Chevrolet C-10 that actually does look like a farm truck. However, it's actually a highly tuned drag racer capable of outaccelerating a supercar.

Music

• "Don't You Hold Me Down" by Alan Walker and Georgia Ku features an unnamed driver evading the danger around the quarry in his Chevy C-10.
• "First Kiss" by Kid Rock shows him cruising around town in his high-lift Chevy pickup truck.

Video Games

• C-10s and Sierras are common cars in Driver: San Francisco. The former has also in tow truck form.
• Sally Taylor's car in FlatOut is the Roamer, a K-10 Expy that is one of the toughest Derby cars.
• Based on the K5 Blazer, Forza Horizon 3 has this Norse-themed Hoonigan offroader called the "Loki" where you can get an achievement for earning 3 stars in one of the Danger Signs with this car.
• Grand Theft Auto:
  • The Ranchers in the series, with the exception of the Rancher XL in V, are based on various K5 Blazer models.
  • The Yosemite reintroduced in Grand Theft Auto Online's "Doomsday Heist" update is based on the second-generation C10.
  • The Brutus introduced in the Arena War update is based on Tangoand Cash's K-2500.
• The Dumont Stampede in Grid Legends is a pickup and a Rice Burner, based on the Chevrolet C/K.
• As one of the 5 Derelict cars in Need for Speed Payback, the Chevrolet C10 Sidestep is one of them, driven by The Leader of Hazard Company, Holtzman drives this piece of junk. Don't be fooled by its unassuming appearance as it is a venerable offroader capable to taking Mac down.

Chevrolet Camaro series

Where's Bumblebee?

"Since we can remember, American muscle car manufacturers have been in non-stop competition with one another about who could build the fastest or most powerful muscle car. Eventually, Ford became famous for building engines that'll last 500,000 miles; then again the Pontiac Firebird proved muscle cars can be stylish and ferocious at the same time, and Chevy shook the entire world with the old Camaro."

—"The Chevrolet Camaro's Evolution: A Visual History From Its Inception", HotCars

This is Chevrolet's line of American mid-sized two-door muscle car. Considered to be a pony car, it's intended to be Chevrolet's answer to the Ford Mustang. It also shared its platform with General Motors' Pontiac Firebird.

Introduced as a 1967 model year, the Camaro first debuted in September 29, 1966, offering various trims and engine types, ranging from the entry-level inline-6 to the high-end 396 cu in L89 V8. High-performing Camaros typically have various levels: RS, SS or Super Sport, and Z/28 referring to the performance package, designed for the SCCA Trans-Am Series. Later generations switched its body to a much more swooped fastback, and large complex rear windows, as well as an IROC-Z variant, referring to the International Race of Champions.

Production of the Camaro initially ended in 2002, before the nameplate was revived for its fifth-generation in 2009, which had the Camaro's body redesigned, based on its own first-generation model. With the sixth-generation, which had minor tweaks on the overall body, the Camaro ceased production at the end of 2023. Despite that, Chevrolet confirms, "This is not the end of Camaro's story."

The car is also known for the origins of it name "Camaro", which was not chosen for any reason other than it sounded cool, although GM researchers did allegedly base it on the pronounciation of "camarade", French for "comrade". They made much use of that definition in the press event during its unveiling — though they did also provide one of their own: When one of the journalists present asked "What is a Camaro?", a GM product manager replied, "A small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs."

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Anime and Manga

• Some cases in Detective Conan revolve around America's pony car:
  • The metallic blue 1997 Chevrolet Camaro RS acts as Kengo Rikiishi's stunt car, serving as the catalytic accident and the death of Rikiishi of the episode.
  • Iwao Takatori nearly attempted murder on Conan Edogawa in a stolen 1969 Daytona Yellow Chevrolet Camaro SS, as he intentionally pushed him out of the moving vehicle.
• In Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, Togusa ends up getting his hands in a suped-up sixth-gen Chevrolet Camaro for a rental car, upon arriving in Los Angeles.

Comic Books

• 1967 Chevy Camaro SS belonged to Special in The The Couriers.

Film — Animation

• This is the black muscle car Flash Sentry shows up to the dance in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. with lightning bolt decals, and his T-shire emblem/cutie mark embodied on his bonnet. For clarification, IMCBD clarifies it's NOT a Mustang, just for good measure◊.
• Since Chevrolet collaborated with DreamWorks Animation, the titular snail in Turbo gets his powers from a car, which is a heavily modified Chevy Camaro.

Film — Live-Action

• Resident wealthy Narcissist student and Prince Charming Wannabe Joey Donner in 10 Things I Hate About You sports a red 4th-gen Camaro Z28, used to pick up girls in the parking lot, befitting his hubristic status. The car appears to be fresh for a 1999 film.
• The classic 1975 road drama film Aloha, Bobby and Rose feature resident Hollywood Triple Shifter Bobby Eckert's red 1968 Chevrolet Camaro for a night drive.
• A black '67 Camaro is Lane Meyer's fodder Better Off Dead, till Wrench Wench Monique gets her hands on it, going from a rusty junk to a glorified Cool Car.
• The Tarantino-esque thriller film Catch 44 has Ronny's late-60's Camaro SS as the Improbably Cool Car.
• Connor Gibson's Weaponized Car in the Made-for-TV Movie Death Race: Beyond Anarchy is a souped-up 2010 Camaro.
• Beau's Cool Car he drives around town in Detonator (2003) is a classic Chevrolet Camaro muscle car.
• Besides Dominic Torretto's Dodge Charger, The Fast and the Furious also included this classic muscle pony car:
  • The Yenko Camaro belonged to Korpi of 2 Fast 2 Furious. Being Badass Driver himself, Brian and Roman do have to put some effort into beating them. As a result Brian wins Korpi's pink slip, making that Yenko now his own car.
  • One of Arturo Braga's Mooks drives this in Fast & Furious, In which Dom manages to steal one after his Charger was wrecked from the ambush.
  • This would be one of Tej Parker's cars in Fast & Furious 6 after he purchased right off at an auction in London. Dom is pleased with Tej's choice, despite the car not being used for the hunt against Owen Shaw.
    Dom: Four speed Camaro SS big block. You like it?
    Han: Nice color.
  • Perhaps you'd be laughing at this in Furious 7. Roman Pearce drives a 1967 Camaro, and is reluctant and terrified to be falling out of a jet in their cars and parachuting their way down. Roman chickens out at the last minute, and Tej activates his chute to pull him out of the jet, anyway. Pfft. Scaredy cat.
    Roman: Tej! What are you doing?!
    (Then, just as his Camaro gets finally dumped out of the aircraft and starts flailing about in mid-air...)
    Roman: TEEEEEEEJ! (still screaming while frantically kicking the brakes) I HATE YOU, TEJ!!!
• In Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Michael procured a nice, black 1969 Camaro from Tina's boyfriend, Michael. Sadly, he destroys it by crashing it into a tree.
• The Victory Red Camaro ZL1 in The Last Stand belonged to ex-LAPD officer Ray Owens. Being a tough muscle car, it can withstand hard impacts from Cortez's Corvette during the final chase.
• It's almost as if this '68 RS in Petulia provides an anchor of sorts in this non-linear art flick.
• If there is something worthy of this iconic Cool Car of the film series, then look no further... to the famous Autobot, Bumblebee from the Transformers Film Series. His alt-mode is none other than the iconic yellow Chevrolet Camaro with black stripes, befitting the motif of... ahem... a bumblebee.
  • Prior to that, in the end of Bumblebee, the titular hero parts ways with Charlie Watson. That sad note turned humorous when Bee scans a shiny new Camaro (he was a Volkswagen Beetle at first) for his new alt-mode before zooming off. Charlie's indignant reaction is priceless.
    Charlie: No way. Are you kidding me? You kidding me? Are you telling me you could've been a Camaro this whole time?! Oh, my God.
• The classic 1971 Vanishing Point has Kowalski's delivery car being a Dodge Challenger. Then the final scene for some odd reason somehow turn into a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro. Quite obviously odd that both are near-identical pony cars. Justified, this is because Chrysler required the cars returned after filming.
• Willy's Wonderland has the Janitor (Nicolas Cage) drive this impressive black 2020 Camaro 2SS.

Live-Action TV

• Guy Fieri loves vintage cars, and he's seen rolling around the United States in his Cool Car, a red 1967 Chevrolet Camaro cabrio, looking for great eateries in Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.
• This is Detective Danny "Danno" Williams's signature Cool Car in the rebooted Hawaii Five-0, where he jumps in numerous facelifted trims in later seasons.
• Eros del Rio has an affinity for Chevrolet Camaros in The Iron Heart, an Improbably Cool Car for a Filipino to own in Real Life.
• The Hero's Classic Car of Bo in Lost Girl: a Daytona Yellow 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS 350 convertible◊, known to Hale and Dyson as "The Succ-mobile".
• Some obnoxious student in My Name Is Earl owns this 1967 Improbably Cool Car. Well, in our only view of the local high-school, and yet in mint condition.
• A customized Chevrolet Camaro Z28, and then a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro RS convertible in a two-part episode, "Pirate Key" are the Cool Cars Rick and AJ has in Simon & Simon.

Music

• "Just Want You to Know" by the Backstreet Boys goes on a 1985-style hot ride in their '82 Camaro coupe throughout the music video.
• David Wilcox knows how to make a Chevrolet Camaro look like a bigger deal than it actually is. So how does he make Mundane Made Awesome? "You see, it actually takes! TWO PARKING SPACES! For Johnny's Camaro, Johnny's Camaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaroooooooooo..."
• The Car Song "Bitchin' Camaro" by The Dead Milkmen. The car? Guess.
• Madonna hotwires a yellow 1978 Chevrolet Camaro from the parking lot in "What It Feels Like for a Girl". Watch her as she Drives Like Crazy and go full-GTA mode as she breaks the law. Pfft. Women Drivers...
• T.I. and Justin Timberlake in "Dead and Gone" has the former driving up in a '67 Camaro SS and meets with the latter, as they continue the song together as the camera circles around them.
• Oh that poor poor loser here at the beginning of "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus, as his bicycle gets ran over by some Jerk Jock boyfriend (who is a dick anyway) rolling in his blue Camaro IROC. And said IROC was featured on the cover◊, with even the lyrics mentioned it!
  He lives on my block
  And he drives an IROC
• The sone "Me OK" has the classic Camaro SS driven around Atlanta by Young Jeezy.

Video Games

• Typing in the Cheat Code "bigdaddy" in Age of Empires I gives you "Winsett's Z", a black Camaro driven by someone weilding a rocket launcher. There's also the white Palette Swap "Winsett's Other Z", accessible through the cheat code "big momma". Both of them are available in Age of Empires II Definitive Edition with the Return of Rome expansion.
• The Carson GT Concept in Burnout Paradise is an obvious example of a Camaro Concept Expy. The default color? Hint. Bumblebee.
• The aptly-named Chevrolet Camaro: Wild Ride is The One With… Chevrolet Camaros aplenty.
• The Camaro is a very common car in The Crew series, being a muscle car capable in various scenarios of racing disciplines (dirt, raid, or circuit sped).
• Olivia, the Tier 2 boss of CSR Classics, drives her yellow first-gen Camaro SS.
• Lots of Camaros show up at Driver: San Francisco but what stood it out the most is the red 2010 Camaro SS used by John Tanner in his desperate attempt to takedown Charles Jericho during the game's final chapter.
• In Far Cry 5, the Camaro-based Kimberlite ZT is fully drivable. Badass Driver Clutch Nixon, an Evel Knievel Expy, owns a custom Uncle Sam-like decorated variant, befitting his Patriotic Fervor.
• FlatOut's Daytana is based on the IROC-Z Camaro.
• You're certain to see at least five different Camaros in every Forza game, with various Forza Editions aplenty.
• Like the Corvette, the Camaro is a car in Gran Turismo you can't afford to miss in every subsequent game. Fitting a racing modification for the first-gen Camaro Z28 allows it to turn to its Trans-Am counterpart.
• The Vigero introduced in Grand Theft Auto IV is based on a first-generation Camaro, while the Vigero ZX in Grand Theft Auto Online is a sixth-generation one.
• The Lassiter Leopard in Mafia III is a two-door passenger sedan, based on the first-generation Chevrolet Camaro.
• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition offers two different Camaro Z/28s in '69 or '81. In Los Angeles, there is the classic '69 RS/SS commonly driven by rival drivers, but you also get the Improbably Cool Car: The Camaro Concept, even with a separate pimped out DUB Edition.
• Camaros are one of the backbones of American muscle cars in the Need for Speed series.
  • The first time the Camaro ever appears is in Need for Speed: High Stakes, in its fourth-generation. Depending on the version it's a coupe in the PS1 release, where the PC has this in cabriolet form.
  • Only the Black Edition of Most Wanted (2005) allows you to get your hands in the classic Camaro SS. It returns in Carbon as a starting car if you pick a Muscle career, but also joining the roster is the bonus unlockable 5th-gen Camaro Concept (which also is a regular car in ProStreet).
  • Heat has two different scenarios of the Camaro;
    • The yellow Chevrolet Camaro with a blower is the car Lucas Rivera has been working on. It belonged to their late father Roberto Rivera, which became a Chekhovs Gun where his sister Ana sneakily takes it for a spin, wrecked it... Twice, and finally, at the end, Ana finally gets the right to drive the Camaro after she and Lucas reconciled.
    • Officer Danny Shaw's police car is an unmarked black 2014 Camaro Z/28. A similar Camaro appears in Unbound as Lakeshore's Undercover Unit.
• The first Advanced-level car in San Francisco Rush is a fourth-generation Camaro with flames on its hood and roof.
• The Tomahawk SS and Macaro are exotic and civilian cars respectively in Scarface: The World Is Yours. The latter's case is the car of Tony's hired assassin in on of the missions.
• Camaros are quite feasibly seen in the Test Drive series.
  • In TD Overdrive a black gen-1 Camaro Z/28 is owned by Reese Weston, complete with a Hot Paint Job, where you can get his pink slip when you beat him in Underground mode.
  • While Camaros are typically first or fourth-gen, Test Drive Unlimited 2 adds the 5th-gen 2SS as one of the modern American muscle cars you can best find.
• The fifth-gen Camaro RS SS was introduced in a later update of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4, joining alongside the ZR1 Corvette. Some aero kits can turn into a ZL1 or a Pontiac Firebird wannabee. A special matte-black version and a Taxi version can be aquired via 6RR's March's and April's Navi Scratch-off respectively.

Western Animation

• The Thunderhawk, which is Matt Trakker's signature Cool Car in M.A.S.K., is based on a Chevrolet Camaro. Unique to that car is it can deploy its gull-wing doors as a set of actual wings to enable flight.

Chevrolet Chevelle

"Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin' right here, all right. We got 4:11 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We're talkin' some fuckin' muscle."

—Dave Wooderson, Dazed and Confused

The Chevrolet Chevelle is a mid-sized automobile produced by Chevrolet from 1964 to 1977 in three generations. Part of the General Motors (GM) A-body platform, the Chevelle was one of Chevrolet's most successful nameplates. Body styles included coupes, sedans, convertibles, and station wagons.

"Super Sport" versions were produced through the 1973 model year, and the Chevelle Laguna variant from 1973 through 1976. Its platform would also be used for other Chevrolet models: Starting with its second generation in 1964, the El Camino was based on the Chevelle platform (after its limited 1969-60 first generation was radically different), and the G-body Monte Carlo introduced in 1970 also used a platform that was based heavily on the Chevelle platform (although it was lengthened ahead of the firewall). Furthermore, from 1964 through 1969, GM of Canada also sold the Beaumont, which was essentially a modified version of the Chevelle that included a Pontiac-style grille and a LeMans instrument panel.

The third-generation Chevelle also became known for being extensively used in NASCAR competition from 1973 through 1977, the Chevelle Laguna in particular was successful in allowing Cale Yarborough to win 34 races and earn the first two of three consecutive Grand National championships, before the Laguna was made ineligible for competition following the 1977 season.

The Malibu, the top-of-the-line model through 1972, would completely replace the Chevelle nameplate starting with the redesigned and downsized 1978 model year.

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Film — Live-Action

• The titular angels of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle try to chase down Madison in their beloved 1970 Chevelle SS Convertible, only for it to be blown up.
• A black Chevelle SS 454 with white stripes is a Cool Car belonged Matthew McConaughey's character in Dazed and Confused, which he dubs it the "Melba Toast". The quote above relays about the specs when he talks about his car to a friend.
• The first Death Race film ends with Katrina visiting Jensen and Manson in the workshop they set up after escaping from prison aboard a metallic light blue 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS with black stripes.
• Modern-day Don Juan character named Jon Martello, Jr., who drives a 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle SS in Don Jon certainly counts as his personal Cool Car.
• In Drive, Ryan Gosling's character drives a 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu, which is in a pretty bad condition.
• In Drive Angry, Milton (Nicolas Cage) drives a red 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle with two white stripes.
• In The Fast and the Furious and Fast & Furious, Dominic Toretto drives a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS. In the first one it is red with black stripes, and in the later one it is metallic gray (after the red paint was chipped away). The same car was also seen in The Fate of the Furious, as the Chevelle is sitting in the garage when Dom went rogue.
• Briefly discussed in Ford V Ferrari, as Ken Miles describes the "Chevy Chevelle" as the resident Butt-Monkey of cars.
  Ken Miles: But even then, I'd still choose a Chevy Chevelle. And that's a fucking terrible car.
• The most memorable Cool Car in a crime movie is none other than the red Chevelle SS 396, the signature Hero's Classic Car of Jack Reacher used when the titular character played by Tom Cruise uses this for a high-speed Hot Pursuit against the police.
• In both John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2, the titular character drives a green 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS with white stripes as a replacement for his Ford Mustang Boss (which is stolen in the first film, and is seriously damaged in a shootout in the second).
• Rusty's silver 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle is cemented as the classy Cool Car of Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead (which is promptly stolen by the main characters).
• It only took The Other Guys about 10 minutes to wreck not one but two Chevelles.
• Oh, the poor bronze Chevelle in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief can't really do much against raining cows.
• Car Meets House here in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as the titular protagonist tries to re-learn to drive in a Driving Test, while Blind Driving in a 1969 Chevelle. It didn't go well.
• War (2007) has Jason Statham's character jump into his badly-beaten up green/black-striped 1969 Chevelle SS to give chase to a bad guy who's driving a Spyker C8. Too bad he miscalculated his tactic as his Chevelle was wrecked while his suspect escapes.

Live-Action TV

• Darrin Stephen's Chevelle Malibu Convertible is a curbside culture classic Cool Car, in Bewitched, in which Everybody Owns a Chevrolet.
• In Rush Hour, Carter drives a light blue 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS 454 convertible throughout the show.
• Impala aside, there's at least one other classic Chevrolet featured in Supernatural, as there's a rusty-looking '71 Chevelle SS that belongs to Bobby Singer, with a devil's trap fitted inside the trunk. One flashback scene to a case Bobby ran this car with with Rufus Turner, as the latter utters;
  Rufus: Would it kill you to at least wash this damn thing? Smells like roadkill casserole in here.
• Cromartie of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles prefers muscle cars and pickups in The '70s; one of which is a Chevelle 454 SS Convertible.

Music

• Beffiting The '70s-style, Iggy Azalea channels her Farrah Fawcett-style fashion in the song "Trouble" as she smashed a red 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle into a fire hydrant, prompting Jennifer Hudson in a police uniform to "arrest" her... then it follows in to a dance battle.

Video Games

• The Year 1 Rewards Pass of The Crew Motorfest has the Chevelle SS 454 ready to be picked up at launch.
• Allegedly Free Game CSR Classics adds both the SS 396 and SS 454 at the same time as a Tier 4 and Tier 5 car respectively in a one of the post-launch updates. The latter car is awarded as a Multiplayer reward car.
• A Chevelle lookalike can be yours to drive in Driver upon completing Undercover mode,but only exclusively for the PC though.
  • It became fully licensed for John Tanner to drive in Driver: San Francisco by competing one of the race activities.
• The Speedshifter in FlatOut 2 and Ultimate Carnage bares a resemblance to the 1968-69 Chevelle, with some mixes from the Australian Ford Falcon XB. For the latter game, Curtis Wolfe drives this for Street Class events.
  • Also for both games, the Derby-class Switchblade is another example of a Chevelle Expy, used by Katie Jackson.
• Chevelles have been a longtime mainstay in Forza games, where you have both the '67 SS 396 and the '70 SS 454. For the latter thear are 3 Palette Swap editions, ranging from the Forza Edition, Horizon Edition and the Ace Custom Barrett-Jackson pre-tuned variant. Both are notorious for its SS badges removed and labeled as the "Chevelle Super Sport" instead.
• First introduced in Gran Turismo 4, where the Chevelle SS 454 is a prize car for one of the American events. Its fully-detailed counterpart returned in 7 via April 2024 update, and its aero kits can turn the Chevelle into a venerable drag racer.
• In Mafia III, the Lassiter Mamba resembles closely to the 1969 Chevelle, used commonly everywhere around New Bordeaux.
• The 1970 Chevelle 454 in L.A. Rush is best described by Ryan as "the work horse" when pimped out, a complete muscle car that was built to run standing still.
• The REMIX version of Midnight Club 3 has this as one of the C-Class muscle cars. While it appears to be Demoted to Extra as a traffic car in Los Angeles, its South Central Expansion Pack marks the return of the drivable Chevelle.
• The Chevelle SS 454 appears as a custom Downloadable Content car in Need for Speed: Carbon. As a Tier 1 muscle car, it's an Awesome, but Impractical car due to its quickly insane acceleration, but very prone to oversteering. It later returns in ProStreet and Undercover.
• The Chevelle SS 454 appears as one of the available cars in the 3D-era Test Drive games. In TD Overdrive Skeeter Grimshaw drives an Ace Custom variant of the Chevelle which you can obtain in the early game.
• Any car named "Vespid" in Watch_Dogs is guaranteed to be a Chevelle.
• The Roadcutter in Wreckfest is inspired by the 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396.

Western Animation

• Principle Brian Lewis of American Dad! drives a '66 Chevelle SS 396, usually takes it with Steve Smith for a spin.

Chevrolet Chevy II / Nova

"Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that "Nova" in Spanish translates to "no go." Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va."

—Tom Waits

The Chevrolet Chevy II/Nova is an automobile manufactured by Chevrolet, originally produced in four generations from 1962 to 1979.

The reason for its two names comes from the Nova variant being the top model in the Chevy II lineup until 1968, when the Chevy II nameplate was dropped and Nova became the nameplate for all of the 1969 to 1979 models. It was also one of the various Chevrolet models to come available with a Super Sport (SS) high-performance package.

The Nova was replaced by the 1980 Chevrolet Citation, introduced in the spring of 1979.

The Nova nameplate would return in 1985 for a S-car based (as opposed to the original's X-body platform) subcompact car manufactured by NUMMI (a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota of Japan) that was essentially a rebadged version of the front-wheel drive, fifth-generation Japanese Toyota Sprinter.

The Nova is also known for a popular urban legend that claims that the vehicle sold poorly in Spanish-speaking countries because no va translates to "doesn't go". However, it is considered false; in Spanish "nova" is a distinct word primarily used to refer to the astronomical event (much like in English), and doesn't have the same meaning as "no va". In fact, the car actually sold quite well in Mexico and many Central and South American countries.^note Where the car is essentially the car known in the Anglosphere as the Opel/Vauxhall Corsa (except Argentina, who got a pretty faithful version of the original American version). Nova was also the name of a successful brand of gasoline sold in Mexico at the time, further proving that the name confusion was not a problem. There's even an European version of the story, which says the same about the British Vauxhall Nova (a small car that was completely unrelated to the Chevrolet Nova aside from both being built by GM), according to which it had to be sold as an Opel Corsa in Spain due to the same alleged language confusion. This version of the story is also a myth, as the Spanish-market version of the car was known as a Corsa from the outset. In fact, the car was called the Corsa in all markets except the United Kingdom.

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Comic Strip

• Brad's perpetually worked-on Chevy Nova in Luann is no slouch to be classified as The Alleged Car.

Film — Live Action

• The Alleged Car of Ace Ventura is that poor poor Chevy Nova of his that fails to start up at the film's prologue. The car is so badly beaten up that Ace couldn't pay to fix his busted windshield because some angry dirtbag man battered his car with a baseball bat.
• The Hero's Classic Car in Beverly Hills Cop is that old dirty beaten-up blue Chevy Nova what was used by Axel Foley to drive from Detroit to Beverly Hills for his crime investigation, which is apparently a Running Gag between him and Jeanette.
• Letty Ortiz in F9 drives a silver/black-striped Chevy Nova for her climatic battle in Tbilisi. Her car is weaponized with a magnet that was obtained from Jakob Toretto's truck.
• Live and Let Die has the Chevrolet Nova police cars during a wild police car and boat chase.
• In Logan Lucky, Moody Chapman once owned a Chevy Nova and is willing to trade it for a brand new Ford Mustang.
• When Wilson first runs into Harry Washello in Miracle Mile, he is shown driving an iconic Chevrolet Chevy II "Nova" convertible.
• The Chevy Nova in The Other Guys was used to blow up the Trump Tower's lobby during the film's prologue. It's a Destructive Savior at its best.
• The Nova has been used in many films directed by Quentin Tarantino, who himself is a big fan to this car:
  • Though not clearly seen, the backseat of the car Mr. Orange is bleeding all over in Reservoir Dogs is likely this model car.
  • In Pulp Fiction, it's the car Vincent Vega splatters Marvin accidentally in the face while riding inside.
  • Ax-Crazy Stuntman Mike's Cool Car in Death Proof is his nicely spruced 1970 Chevy Nova, given that he deranged who Drives Like Crazy at best and uses it as his "murder weapon" to kill his victims.
• As an Actor Allusion in the aforementioned Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie Murphy's character Slide drives this car in Tower Heist. Josh jokes about why the Nova didn't sell in Spanish-speaking countries because, "nova" means "doesn't go". In fact, it's a myth.

Literature

• What you see in the front cover of Blue Valentine is a blue Chevrolet Nova, owned by the Bobby James, in which Nicki Valentine steals at the Bittersweet Ending of the novel.

Live-Action TV

• Mick Stanley, the Big Bad of the episode "Devil's Turf" in Walker, Texas Ranger drives a yellow 1975 Chevrolet Nova with a Vanity License Plate reading "BIGGER". Guess the plate explains why he's called "Big Mick Stanley".

Music

• Cash Cash with Bebe Rexha in "Take Me Home" shows a young couple go through an interstate love-hate road trip in their classic Yenko Deuce Nova.
• The protagonist of Slick Rick's "Chidren's Story" tries to escape from the cops in a stolen Nova.

Video Games

• Nova SSs beame noticeable in the Forza series, featuring both the '66 Nova SS and the '69 Nova SS 396 at the same time. Both models are notorious for its SS badges removed and labeled as the "Nova Super Sport" instead.
  • There is also a pre-tuned "Hoonigan" edition draped in full black dubbed the "Napalm Nova", where you can get an achievement for simply finishing a race with this Ace Custom.
• Added in Gran Turismo 6 is the "highly aggressive, highest-performance model" Nova SS. But what is very significant with this model is Chris Holstrom Concepts's SEMA-winning Ace Custom 1967 Chevy Nova, introduced in Sport.
• The Vamos in Grand Theft Auto Online is based on the third-generation Nova.

Western Animation

• Futurama in "Roswell That Ends Well" speaks The Alleged Car for its jewel;
  Fry: I've never seen a supernova blow up, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky!

Chevrolet Corvette series

America's Sports Car.^*The first seven generations of the Corvette: The C7 in the foreground, with the C6 to the C1 from left to right in the background.

"Since its debut, the 'Vette has charted an unbroken line of pure sports-car innovation. So no wonder it has long been called the representative sports car of the United States."

—Luca, Chevrolet Menu Book description, Gran Turismo 7

The Chevrolet Corvette is a line of American two-door, two-seater sports cars, manufactured by Chevrolet since 1953. Noted for its performance, distinctive styling, lightweight bodywork, and competitive pricing, following the cessation of its closest competitor, Chrysler's Dodge Viper in 2017, the Corvette is the only two-seat sports car produced by a major United States auto manufacturer, and is considered Chevrolet's halo car. Named after the corvette, a small maneuverable warship, its generations are indicated sequentially as C[number of generation].

Since its introduction in 1953, the two-seater has steadily moved upmarket. Originally a relatively modest, lightweight 6‑cylinder convertible, subsequent introductions such as V8 engines, competitive chassis innovations, and rear mid-engined layout have led to consideration that the Corvette moved into becoming a full-blown supercar: While the first three Corvette generations (1953-1983) employed body-on-frame construction, since the C4 generation Corvettes have used GM's unibody Y‑body platform, and while the Corvettes used front mid-engine configuration for its first seven generations, it transitioned to a rear mid-engined layout with the C8 generation.

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Advertising

• The General of The General Car Insurance has the red C6 Corvette as his Cool Car in his commercials.

Anime and Manga

• Case Closed has some examples of America's sports car slipped in this Japanese anime. One Shot Characters Misaki Takizawa and Otaro Minakitaya were sole owners of a red Corvette C7 Convertible and an Elkhart blue Corvette C7 Stingray respectively.
• The very first episode of Cat Planet Cuties has a woman named JACK ^note Her real name is: Janis Alectos Carotenas Karinato., a CIA agent who drives a blue Chevrolet Corvette C2 Stingray as her personal vehicle. The car's so fully detailed, from front to even the signature split rear windows.
• Cop Craft in one episode revolves around a yellow 1951 C1 'Vette.
• Bean Bandit in Gunsmith Cats and the protagonist of his own OVA, Riding Bean owns a Cool Garage full of classic American muscle cars. One of which he usually drives is his personal Cool Car: the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette C3 fitted with an ultra-rare LS-7 engine.
• In the Beach Episode of You're Under Arrest!, after a long days work capturing the wrongdoer and a purse robber at the beach, Aoi, Miyuki, Natsumi and Yoriko receive many gifts from the vacationists, one of them appearing in a blue 1978 C3 Stingray.

Film — Animation

• Jeff Gorvette, a professional race car and one of the World Grand Prix racers from Cars 2 is based on a Corvette C6.R.
• Mark Wylde, the younger brother of Grand Prix driver & Street Breed leader, Kurt Wylde, drives a modified Corvette Stingray in Hot Wheels: World Race as a member of the Wave Rippers team. The Corvette Stingray came with the usual modifications that all Wave Ripper cars have, including Jump Jets, and the ability to reach a top speed of 300mph (with the help of a bit of Nitrox 2).
  • Another Corvette (this time being a 1963 'Split Window' variation) also appears in World Race, being driven by Scorchers member, Jet Blaney. The Corvette was modified with the regular Schorchers equipment, such as a Lava Plow and Lava-Resisted tires.
• In The Incredibles, during the "Life's Incredible Again" montage, Bob Parr is seen parking a black C2 Corvette Expy inside the garage. This is also the same car he threw at Syndrome, knocking the latter off-balance on his manta ray jet, and causing his cape to get caught in one of its turbines, killing him.
• In Toy Story 3, a pink C5 Corvette cabrio is seen driven by the Aliens during the Fake Action Prologue. The same Corvette can be also seen a second time, but this time it's driven by Ken outside the dream house in Sunnyside Daycare.

Film — Live-Action

• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me shows the definition of Wearing a Flag on Your Head— er... sports car. As the Cool Car of Felicity Shagwell is a 1966 Corvette C2 Stingray fully draped with an American flag paint scheme.
• In Barbie (2023), the titular character drives a pink C1 Corvette.
• The Made-for-TV Movie Black Scorpion has the titular heroine drive the Scorpionmobile, essentally an Ace Custom, Weaponized Car of the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, which looks like a spoof to the Batmobile.
• Following his good life, Dirk Diggler fancies himself a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and a "competition orange" 1977 Chevrolet Corvette in Boogie Nights.
• In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the then-new Corvette Stingray was driven by Natasha Romanoff, to fetch Steve Rogers from his morning jog.
• Mark Hamill's 1978 film, Corvette Summer features the 1973 Corvette Stingray, which centralized its plot around.
• The Fast and the Furious has a handful of utilizing America's sports car.
  • In 2 Fast 2 Furious, one of the Mooks is seeing driving a C5 Corvette while battling Brian O'Connor and Roman Pierce on the highway who are both attempting to obtain Carter Verone's package.
  • A rare '66 Corvette Grand Sport in Fast Five is one of the cars Mia, Brian, Dominic and Vince were going to steal from the train.
  • Letty Ortiz drives a red modified C2 Stingray in The Fate of the Furious during the New York chase. Like the other cars, the Corvette is fitted with a Harpoon Gun to subdue a coerced Dominic Toretto.
• Bumbling high school teacher Richard Clark of High School High partakes in a Chickie run against his ruffian students who are sandwiching his C1 Corvette. When his car falls of the cliff, he uses the Corvette's detachable roof as a parachute.
• James Bond may be fond of British sports cars, but that doesn't stop them from adding America's sports car in some films.
  • Meet the "Corvorado" of Live and Let Die, a Pimped-Out Car of Kananga / Mr. Big that is a combination of a Corvette and a Cadillac El Dorado. Here, it's a custom made car built by Dunham coaches, who are known for doing "pimpmobiles".
  • KGB agent Pola Ivanova from A View to a Kill drives a white Corvette C4.
• One of the very first appeances of the Corvette in a major American film would be the 1955 Film Noir, Kiss Me Deadly.
• The "heavily modified" Corvette C6 ZR1 in The Last Stand, driven by cartel leader Gabriel Cortez. He zooms his car towards the Mexican border at over 200 mph, easily outrunning all the Crown Victoria police cars and holds Agent Ellen Richards hostage inside it.
  Special Agent Bannister: Great. A psychopath with a Batmobile.
• Hal in Mad Foxes drives a snazzy white Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, with orange and red racing stripes. Fancy enough to show up on the movie poster◊.
• Casanova's Limo in Mystery Men is an Absurdly-Long Limousine variant of the 1979 Chevrolet Corvette, which got beaten and damaged by the titular hero team.
• The Transformers Film Series has America's sports car seen in its alternate form:
  • Sideswipe, an Autobot transforms into a concept version of the Corvette Stingray in the second film, where as in the third one, he switches to a Centennial Corvette convertible.
  • A 2014 black and green rice burning Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray in Transformers: Age of Extinction is the transformed form of Crosshairs, an Autobot paratrooper and tactical elite sniper.
  • This one is not from a Transformer alone, but Charlie Watson from Film/Bumblebee is an avid car fan, whom she has difficulty in finishing the final touches of the C1 Corvette that her late father was restoring. Following Bumblebee's departure at the ending, she manages to finish it and takes the former glory out for a drive.
• The C1 'Vette belonged to Simon (Bill Paxton) of True Lies, whose rationale behind owning this car is;
  Simon: Let's face it, Harry. The 'Vette gets 'em wet.
• This is Packard Walsh's sports car in The Wraith, a modified 1976 silver and red two-toned C3 Corvette, used in a final race to challenge the mysterious Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor, where he was killed in an explosive head-on collision, much like how his gang members had met their fates.
• The car of Xander Cage used in XXX is a red C5 Corvette cabrio, used to jump off a bridge with his car as means to escaping from the police.

Live-Action TV

• Corvettes are kinda the real deal here in 21 Jump Street ^note As in the 1987-1991 TV series and not the 2012 movie with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum
• The A-Team has Templeton 'Faceman' Peck's cool-looking white/red-striped C4 Corvette, which is the significant other Cool Car than just the GMC Vandura.
• The final scene of the first episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has Agent Coulson quoting Doc Brown verbatim while flying away in his Cool Car, L.O.L.A., which is a cherry-red 1962 Chevrolet Corvette.
• Larry Tate, the boss of Darrin Stephens in Bewitched is regularly seen driving a yellow Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe. Given that Everybody Owns a Chevrolet in the series.
• Pamela "Pam" Ewing in Dallas was gifted by her husband Bobby a black brand-new 1977 Chevrolet Corvette, complete with a personalized Texas Vanity License Plate.
• Catherine Rollins in Hawaii Five-0 owns a blue C3 Corvette Stingray.
• In Lucifer (2016), a Tuxedo black Corvette C1 convertible is the titular character's personal car.
• Bill Bixby plays as The Magician, who drives a white Chevrolet Corvette with a Vanity License Plate ("SPIRIT") and, for its time, an exotic feature: a car phone.
• Corvette are quite a common classic sports car used in Perry Mason, especially in "The Case of the Runaway Corpse", Paul Drake alternates vehicles early on, zipping around in this enviable Vette for one…
• The protagonists of Route 66 moved around in a Corvette (first the C1 model, then the C2 "Sting Ray"). Automotive News actually credited the car being featured in the show for kickstarting its success, as with it "the Corvette became synonymous with freedom and adventure."
• Stingray (1985) fully centralizes about America's sports car as this "'65 black Stingray, for Barter Only To Right Party" is the Hero's Classic Car owned by a mysterious Vigilante Man only known as "Ray". And the series is named after it.
• "Eric's Corvette Caper" of That '70s Show has Red Forman's 1958 Corvette serving as the premise of the episode..., which Eric sneaks and uses to pick his girl up.
• It's no surprise America's sports car would end up in a Japanese Tokusatsu show, as SRED-02 Varias 7 of Tokusou Exceedraft is Redder's personal Cool Car, which is a modified Chevrolet Corvette C4, that is equipped with various modes and weapons.
• The "Coche Fresco" in the Spanish drama series Velvet has Alberto Márquez drive a sleek looking C1 Corvette in season two.

Music

• As with the tie-in song from the aforementioned Barbie (2023), "Speed Drive" by Charli XCX brandishes her pink C5 Corvette convertible and watch it drift and pull donuts around town like crazy.
• Eiffel 65's song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" mentions lyrics about everything regarding the blue Color Motif, including the car.
  "Blue like my Corvette its in and outside"
• A beautiful lady emerges from her black Corvette in George Michael's iconic Sexophone song "Careless Whisper"
• Lenny Kravitz's "American Women". Which is the aformentioned Corvette used in Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Heather Graham who played Felicity in the movie also appeared to drive this car in the music video.
• The Car Song itself called "Corvette" by Filipino rapper Michael Pacquiao (yes, the son of the famous boxer Manny Pacquiao), who takes the C8 Stingray with his personalized Vanity Licence Plate, alongside his girlfriend around the streets of Metro Manila.
  Driving in my corvette
  I'm on my way on my way
  See this girl tryna talk but
  I don't play I don't play
• Rob Zombie goes on a creepy night drive in his C3 Stingray in "Never Gonna Stop", while he does indeed Title Drop it while driving.
• Remember Casanova's Limo mentioned above? Now it has its spotlight in the music video "All Star" by Smash Mouth.
• TWICE leader Jihyo in "Killin' Me Good" has her going on a coastal road trip in her Cool Car; driving a red 1980 Chevrolet Corvette.
• The Weeknd has the drunken duo cruise around Las Vegas in their 1968 Stingray in "Heartless".

Toys

• A Defictionalization of Hot Wheels car model Bone Shaker is built on the Corvette chassis.

Video Games

• Corvettes are everywhere thoughout the Asphalt series. It's hard to imagine one game that misses one.
• Talon, one of the 10 bosses from Blur drives a C6 Corvette ZR1 fitted with Armor Plating mod, allowing it to withstand and mitigate damage sustained from heavy Power-ups.
  • Also joining in the car roster is the C3 Corvette. It also comes pimped and riced with Racecar and Drag variants.
• There is one Racing Game dedicated to nothing but only Corvettes. And it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as that game is aptly named Corvette.
• Corvette Evolution GT^note Or by its Market-Based Title Evolution GT is a racing game with an obvious Product Placement for the Corvette Z06 (C6) (and its racing variant the Corvette C6.R). Of course, despite the title, the game itself isn't just about the Corvette itself.
• Corvettes are extremely common in The Crew.
• Cruis'n:
  • Cruis'n Blast featured a C7 Corvette Z06 Convertible as one of the 8 cars in the line up. In its Nintendo Switch port, it was replaced by a C8 Stingray. The C1 and C2 Corvette are also included in the port as well.
  • Cruis'n Exotica featured a C5 Corvette in the arcade version, which was replaced with the fictional "Invader" in the home ports.
• Corvettes are usually the Tier 4 boss car in CSR, and in green too. The Leader of the War Pigs, Carlito in CSR Racing would use a ZR1 C6, while The Leader of the Lucky 7's, Kandy in CSR Classics uses her C3 Stingray.
• There are Corvettes aplenty in Driver: San Francisco; a C1 Corvette and 4 different C6 variants, including a ZR1 police car. The "Test Drive" mission puts Ordell!Tanner in an almighty Corvette ZR1 as part of a Race Against the Clock Driving Test.
• Corvettes are extremely common to see in Forza and Gran Turismo games. For the former's case, the hybrid C8 E-Ray is one of the two cover cars of Forza Motorsport (2023) alongside the Cadillac V-Series.R. And for the latter, the C6 Corvette ZR1 is the cover car and menu screen of Gran Turismo (PSP) and the Corvette Stingray (C7) '14 as the main cover of Gran Turismo 6, and besides the Corvette C4 being one of the only Western cars in Gran Turismo 1, a C2 Corvette is added as a Regional Bonus for Western versions of the game.
  • During the initial drive of Horizon 5, one scene puts you in a modified C8 Stingray where you race to the dust storm. In conclusion, you get to keep that almight Stingray as one of the starter cars of the game!
• Due to Dodge Vipers not existing in The '80s, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City turns the Banshee, which is usually the series' stand-in for the Viper, into one for the C4 Corvette. Grand Theft Auto IV onwards introduce a separate car to be the games' Corvette stand-in, the Invetero Coquette.
• Mafia II and Mafia III features the C1 Corvette as the "Shubert Frigate". In the former, Luca Gurino drives this on the way to Alberto Clemente's slaugheterhouse during one mission, as well as Jimmy in "The Betrayal of Jimmy" owning one with a personalized Vanity License Plate.
  • The Samson Duke also in III is based on the C3 Stingray, which Thomas Burke asks you to steal in one of his assignments.
• The Corvette is a long time staple American supercar in Need for Speed games, and it is mainly used as the police's high-speed interceptor units in many installments.
  • The C4 was one of the six cars in the lineup of The Need for Speed.
  • In Most Wanted (2005), Blacklist #5, Wes "Webster" Allen drives a brown C6 Corvette with a Skeleton Motif vinyl design. Sergeant Jonathan Cross on the other hand drives a personally modified Corvette Federal Cruiser. He still keeps the Corvette when he quit being a cop in Carbon. Alongside it is its racing variant, the C6.R Corvette which is an unlockable bonus car.
  • There are two Jobs that revolve around Corvettes in Undercover; one being a C2 Stingray that need to be delivered to Zack's chop shop, and the other the yellow Z06 as part of GMAC's "steal 4 cars in 48 hours" story arc missions.
  • While it's initially in Shift, its sequel has this as a Modern B Invitational Event reward car that cannot be found at the dealership. The GT3-spec Z06.R and the GT1 C6.R also joins in the Corvette roster, too.
  • Hot Pursuit (2010) has a Palette Swap for the C6 Corvette. There's two... or three. Which has the Z06, ZR1 and for racers only, the Grand Sport convertible.
  • While the brand new C7 Grand Sport shows up in Payback, Heat on the other hand has this Khyzyl Saleem Ace Custom, which at no doubt shows its Rule of Cool, but only if you have the Deluxe Edition.
  • In Unbound, Harlow's car is a custom white Corvette C8 Stingray. It's the coolest of the cool, and best of the best in a class of its own.
• While Corvettes are very common to find in Project Gotham Racing, there is a car in 3 and 4 called the Callaway Sledgehammer Twin Turbo, a Car to Run Away from Really Fast. And hoo-boy... this thing is essentially a tuned fourth-gen Corvette: it is really, really one dangerous machine due to its insane performance and touchy handling.
• Race Driver: GRID includes both GT1 cars, the C5-R and the C6.R in the same time.
  • In Grid Legends's Rise of Ravenwest storyline, Ryan McKane owns a classic gray 1967 Chevrolet Corvette with a black stripe, which Nathan stole and takes it for a joyride. Cue Nathan driving like crazy as he veers the car off the track.
• The Expert-level car added in San Francisco Rush The Rock is a C3 Corvette with triple stripes.
• The first Test Drive game has the C4 Corvette as one of the 5 cars in the lineup. That being said, in the later sequels, the Corvettes later become a frequent sports car to ever appear in the lineup.
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer: The C4 and C5 appear for the first and last time in 3, driven by a variety of opponents: chief amongst them, Unlimited's leader Killing Machine and DARTS' second-in-command "Nothingness" Manabe. The famous WEST Racing C4 also appears, driven by Tetsuya Inamura, and can be acquired as a unique car by the player upon defeating him.
• The Spectre in the first two Twisted Metal games is based on a white 1962 Chevy Corvette C2 Stingray.
• The game Vette! has you race a Chevrolet Corvette through the streets of San Francisco. The game allows you to pick numerous variants of the C4 Corvette, including the Callaway Sledgehammer.
• Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 included a C6 Corvette ZR1 in the lineup, making it the first ever American car in the franchise. This would be in the hands of Yoshiaki Ishida in story mode from 4 up to 5DX+, since in 6, he decides to replace it with a Lamborghini Aventador. Needless to say, it's despite having 600+ horses under the hood, it still can't catch up to Akio's Devil Z.
  Ishida: No way! That power! I'll never catch up!
  • Also in 4, one of the post-launch updates adds a C3 Corvette Stingray, and in 5, included a C2 Stingray. A special taxi version can be acquired fully tuned in Maximum Tune 6RR by playing February's Navi Scratch-off.

Western Animation

• The episode "She Swill Survive" in American Dad! has a drunken Hayley driving a red C4 cabrio. Then she Drives Like Crazy as she wrecks the car on her way to the rehabilitation center. Not to imply it's Roger's car.
  Hayley: Ooh, shiny.
  Roger: Hey, that's my badass Stingray!
• The Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episode "Moonstruck" tells a Whole Episode Flashback showing how Max met with Verdona and the Plumbers. A young Max here drives a classic Cool Car: a 1959 Corvette, where he helps Verdona escape from a Synthoid.
• This is Vic Reynolds's Cool Car in F is for Family. A yellow C3 Corvette Stingray convertible. He said it has 400 horses, while Chet said "69, no catalytic converter, because they're for hippies and commies."
• Rigby has a younger brother named Don in Regular Show, who drives a 1985 Corvette C4 with "SUGAR" as its Vanity License Plate.
• America's sports car is the common sports car you'd find in The Simpsons, whether if it's a background car or one that plays an important role.
• The 1989 C4 Corvette is Stan Marsh's Mid Life Crisis Car in South Park.

Chevrolet El Camino

The Chevelle's brother-in-law.

"I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife."

—B.B. King

One of the well-known American coupe utility pickups ever made, inspired by Australian utes.

Introduced in 1959, the El Camino adapts from the standard two-door Chevrolet station wagon platform and integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body, instead of the usual pickup body design. This was Chevrolet's answer to the Ford Ranchero following its first run.

While production was short-lived, lasting only 2 years of its run, the El Camino makes a comeback in 1964, basing the coupe utility on the Chevelle platform and in 1978, using GM's G-body platform.

The "El Camino" name literally means "The Path" in Spanish.

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Film — Animation

• A minor character in Hot Wheels: World Race by the name of Heralda, is the driver of a modified 1969 El Camino as part of the Dune Ratz team. The El Camino was modified with a plethera of goodies, including a parachute, extra water tanks that are stored under the hood for survival purposes, special sand tires, and the manditory 300mph top speed modification that all World Race cars share.

Film — Live Action

• The Breaking Bad movie El Camino fully centralizes the titular car as part of the story. The car belonged to meth cook Todd Alquist, where Jeese Pinkman steals as an escape car to flee Jack Welker's Compound after Walter has eliminated Jack and his gang.
• Jakob Toretto's El Camino in Fast X is fitted with cannon launchers, used to blow up Dante Reyes's pursuing Mooks in Portugal.
• The Mexican has this titular hero in his... ahem... Ellllllll Camiiiiiiinoooooooooooooo!
• This is Detective Sean Riley's car in Sinners and Saints, In which one of the Mooks fires at his car during one of the shootouts. Despite being shot up, the El Camino gets fixed up for some reason...

Live-Action TV

• Trevor's junky El Camino is The Alleged Car of the supposed "Wedding Episode" in Drake & Josh where the titular characters are suppose to deliver a cake to their auntie's wedding. It breaks down, has no repair tools, ...and then catches on fire.
• My Name Is Earl has the titular character's "perfectly good 1973 El Camino with a 1977 door and a 1987 Camaro transmission." What can possibly go wrong?
• Brian Cooper's 1959 Chevrolet El Camino in The Wonder Years, despite being The Alleged Car, qualifies to be cool enough, based on Kevin's opinion. Brian's car is "as kind of a reminder of who really ran things on our street."

Video Games

• Asphalt Xtreme: Being in a monster truck form, with a Hood Hornament fixated on the grille. The El Camino would be El Toro for that.
• The Hunter Mesquite, the car you win after 2 events in Burnout Paradise is based on this beloved American ute of Chevy.
• A completely fictionalized demolition derby car in The Crew 2, named the Fender Rattlesnake is based on the El Camino.
• Driver: San Francisco Shout-Out: Some of them get REALLY obscure. There's a reason they made the El Camino a '73 instead of the '70 El Camino fans are complaining it's not, and his name rhymes with "pearl." This would be the car Big Bad Charles Jericho drives during the "Collateral Damage" mission, where Tanner is takes to ram his car, but also realizes that he can also Shift.
• FlatOut has the race-class Lentus, heavily based off of a 1978-87 Chevy El Camino. The stunt-class Trailblazer ^note Not to be confused with the Trailblazer SUV, another car of Chevrolet is also the El Camino, decorated in the flag of the American confederacy.
• The 1967 Chevrolet El Camino SS makes its only appearance in Gran Turismo 6. You can roll like Lyndon Johnson, wasting priceless vintage European sports cars in the process for a small fraction of their price.
• The Picador in the Grand Theft Auto series is based on the El Camino.
• The Chevelle-like El Camino SS only appeared in Need for Speed: The Run. One of Jack's rivals Cesar DeLeon (and his carnel) drives one and despite its unassuming appearance, it manages to take Cesar up to third place in the final stages of the race.
• The El Camino-based Surfer Car is the car you use in Tony Hawk's Underground to smash pineapple stands.
• Preacher's car in Twisted Metal is the Brimstone, an El Camino truck.
• Appears in Watch_Dogs 2 as the Global Motors El Cadejo. A custom variant of the El Cadejo called the "Wrecker" with a Hot Paint Job can be obtained by finding in the port's shipments.
• El Matador in Wreckfest is an El Camino-inspired pickup.

Chevrolet Fleetline

Fernando: Listen, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but... my car is the slowest car on the island.
Dom: Was. Pull the seats, the doors, the battery. If it ain't the motor, take it off.

—The Fate of the Furious

The Chevrolet Special Deluxe Series AH Fleetline was an automobile produced by Chevrolet from 1941 to 1952. From 1946 to 1948 it was a sub-series of the Chevrolet Fleetmaster rather than a series of the Special Deluxe and, from 1949 to 1951, it was a sub-series of both the Chevrolet Special and the Chevrolet Deluxe, being offered in its final as only a sub-series of the latter.

The Fleetline was introduced late in 1941 as a four-door sedan only. In 1942, a fastback two-door "Aerosedan" was also offered, while the sedan was renamed "Sport Master". Production would be indefinitely delayed in 1942 due to World War II, after 110,000 had been made, though several thousand Chevrolet coupes and sedans were produced during the war years for military staff use. Production for civilians resumed in 1945.

In 1947, the Fleetline made up more than 70% of Chevrolet's sales. The original series was produced through 1948, and for the years' 1949 through 1952 models, the fastback was the only one offered. A redesigned Fleetline with reduced body contour and integrated rear fenders was offered also for the 1949 through 1952 model years. It was referred to as a "fastback" because of its distinct sloping roof which extends through to the trunk lid. The Fleetline during the 1949 to 1950 years also had a lower look than a sedan, with the windshield being one inch shorter in height than a standard contemporary sedan. The 1949 to 1951 models were made in both four-door and two-door models, with only the lower portion of the doors being interchangeable with a sedan door. Chevrolet dropped the Fleetline in 1953.

The Fleetline is currently highly collectable, with many being made into hot rods, with the common Chevrolet 350 small block V8 and the 350 or 400 turbo transmission being used.

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Film — Live Action

• The butler, Wadsworth of Clue drives a black 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline Sportmaster, handily referencing the identity of Dr. Black, an alternate name for the perpetual victim Mr. Boddy.
• Fernando owns this sleeper in The Fate of the Furious. He lends it to Dominic Toretto for a street race against Raldo, where he removes the doors and the hood as means of weight reduction. It catches fire during the race while activating a Nitro Boost. Though Dom won, the car was destroyed when the it flies off into the ocean, prompting him to give Fernando his Impala as compensation.
• Jack Spot's car in Once Upon a Time in London is a brand new Chevrolet Fleetline, used to pick up Billy when he is released from jail in 1945.
• That Radar Secret Service patrol car with a metallic sphere on top that is probably supposed to be a radome is based off the Fleetline De Luxe sedan.

Video Games

• For some ridiculous reason, it would be ideal for the devs to add Raldo's junky 1949 Chevy FF in Forza Motorsport 7, where there is basically no doors and no bonnet.
• A unique blue Chevrolet Fleetmaster 2DR is the Cool Car owned by Jack Kelso in L.A. Noire. Though the model itself is actually a Fleetline, not a Fleetmaster.
• The '49 Fleetline is one of the Detroit prize cars in Midnight Club 3. By default, this hot rod already comes with a Hot Paint Job.

Chevrolet Impala series

Fins, fleets, and everything in between.

"The Impala, of course, has all the things other cars have... and a few things they don't. But none of that stuff's important. This is the stuff that's important. The Army man that Sam crammed in the ashtray—it's still stuck there. The Legos that Dean shoved into the vents. to this day, heat comes on, and you can hear 'em rattle. These are the things that make the car theirs. Really theirs. Even when Dean rebuilt it from the ground up, he made sure all these little things stayed. 'Cause it's the blemishes that made her beautiful."

—Chuck Shurley, Supernatural

Perhaps every American would ever consider this as the most popular automobile that sold millions and millions throughout its lifespan, bestowing it to become the iconic flagship car of the brand. That is the Chevrolet Impala.

Named after the graceful African antelope, the Chevrolet Impala is a full-size automobile introduced in 1958 as part of General Motors' 50th Milestone Celebration. Its first model was distinguished from other cars by its notable symmetrical triple taillights, and offered in either a hardtop (Sport Coupe) or a convertible. Throughout its production lifespan, the Impala evolved in offering various body tipes, whether in sedan, hardtop or station wagon, and by 1961, a high-performing Super Sport (SS) was offered as an option.

The Impala remained popular among Americans up until the first hiatus in the mid-1980's. Between 1994 to 1996, the Impala was revived as a 5.7-liter V8–powered version of the Chevrolet Caprice Classic sedan. By exactly the Turn of the Millennium in 2000, the Impala was reintroduced again, this time as front-wheel drive car.

The classic 1964 Impala is widely famous as a staple lowrider car, commonly associated with West Coast culture which fans tend to call it the "Six-Four". Impalas are also a very common police car, extremely used by American Law Enforcement. Finally, the Impala would be Chevrolet's stock car for NASCAR, replacing the Monte Carlo in 2007 up until 2013 where it's replaced by the Holden Commodore-based Chevrolet SS.

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Film — Animation

• Ramone, The Fashionista and the husband of Flo from Cars is a stylish purple Pimped-Out Car with a custom Hot Paint Job and hydraulics. He is modeled after the 1959 Chevrolet Impala coupe.

Film — Live Action

• The '64 Impala Bobby gives to Papi in 2 Guns.
• The stylish '58 Impala Steve Bolander was loaning in American Graffiti at the beginning of the movie. Halfway through that night, Toad goes and gets the car stolen by leaving the keys in it. It's soon recovered, though, and Steve winds up taking it back before the night is over.
• The banged-up Chevy is The Alleged Car of the titular Bad Santa.
• The Alleged Car of Kate Bosworth in Blue Crush is that old rickety 1961 Chevrolet Impala.
• Bennie's red convertible in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is a 1962 Chevy Impala.
• Wilson's 2014 Chevrolet Impala in Captain America: The Winter Soldier gets destroyed during the highway chase. Ironically, every Metropolitan Police Department officer drives 2006 Impalas.
• The begining of Dead Heat features the duo driving a bright red 1960 convertible Impala, rendezvousing to the scene of the crime.
• This is Larry and Deke's Pimped-Out Car used at first in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry; a souped-up 1966 Chevrolet Impala, before ditching it for the iconic Dodge Charger R/T.
• Ryan Gosling's character (named The Driver) in Drive (2011) didn't fancy himself with fancy sports cars but instead uses a silver late model Chevrolet Impala, because it's a milquetoast family sedan nobody will notice.
  Mechanic: Here she is, plain-Jane as can be, the most popular car in the state of California, the [modern day] Chevy Impala.
• A red 1961 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe was once driven by Dominic Toretto in The Fate of the Furious, during his honeymoon in Havana. He then gives his car to Fernando as a token of apology for wrecking his Chevy Fleetline during a street race.
  Fernando: Your Impala? Are you serious?!
• Tommy DeVito's Cool Car in GoodFellas is 1961 Chevrolet Impala convertible, a perfect car the Italian Mafia like him. HotCars contributor Sam Gillon implies his valid reasons:
  Sam Gillon: For much of the movie, Tommy drives a beautiful white Impala. Despite the roster of Cadillacs, hot rods, and other iconic American cars, something about an old Impala screams ‘gangster’.
• The Car Chase at the beginning of Jeepers Creepers has Trish Jenner and her brother Darry in a 1960 Chevrolet Impala 4-Door Sedan, getting terrorized by an unidentified driver in an ol' Chevy truck.
• The Japanese film The Last War (1961) has the then-brand new 1961 Chevrolet Impala driven by Frankie Sakai's character. Quite rare for its time to have a huge American car featured in Japanese soil.
• The Impala plays a critical role in Lowriders. After all, the Impala has a long history of being a... lowrider.
• CJ's 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS is his personal Cool Car in The Mothman Prophecies. During the Silver Bridge collapse, the Impala is struck by a support cable, killing CJ instantly.
• Even if it's a Pimped-Out Car, the Raffertys' modified Impala is considered to be The Alleged Car in The North Avenue Irregulars.
• Lowriders have been a mainstay in Set It Off (1996), especially that ol' Chevy Impala of Queen Latifah.
• The 1972 Impala Sport Sedan in Slither plays an integral part of the plot throughout the movie.

Literature

• The titular character of Jill Kismet drives a '67 Chevy Impala she restored herself.

Live-Action TV

• Since the Salamancas in Better Call Saul really value their antique General Motors cars. Hector owns one of them: a 1960 Chevrolet Impala.
• Blue Bloods has this modern-day Impala sedan typically as the police car for the NYPD.
• Angel of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a luxury car collector, one of which is a 67 Chevy Impala. (though his iconic car is a '67 Plymouth GTX)
• In "Thirty Balloons" in season 1 of Chicago P.D., Atwater and Burgess get a brand-new Chevrolet Impala Interceptor that's fresh from the factory. It gets a flat tire, was repaired, then a cinder block at a nearby construction site falls on the hood, leaving a dent.
• Since Everybody Owns a Chevy in Hawaii Five-0, the end of the first season procures a lot of new Impalas to replace the Crown Vics for their new fleet of the HPD.
• Jr. restores his prized 1964 Impala in My Wife and Kids... and then tries to sell it.
• Other than Tod's Corvette, Impalas are quite everywhere in Route 66 since it was its trend of The '60s.
• Cosmo Kramer's Improbably Cool Car in Seinfeld is that experimental Chevy Impala, with a hilarious Vanity License Plate saying "ASSMAN".
• The trademark Cool Car, the Hero's Classic Car and even the Invincible Classic Car that everybody fondly remembers; the 1967 Chevy Impala nicknamed the "Baby", driven by the Winchester brothers from Supernatural, which, some have argued, has achieved co-protagonist status, along with Sam and Dean. The Impala itself, though, is so often treated like Dean's significant other.
  Dean: I'm just saying. Okay, just imagine she's a... a beautiful woman. A beautiful, beautiful woman.

Music

• The Beach Boys referenced the Impala in their Car Song called "409", which refers to Chevrolet's 409-cubic-inch-displacement "big block" V-8 engine.
• The classic cream white Impala cabrio can be seen in the music video full of pink in "Ice Cream" by Blackpink (feat. Selena Gomez).
• The very first second of the video for "Don’t Let Me Down" by The Chainsmokers shows the duo cruising, and then later dance battling with Daya's crew with their yellow 1963 Impala convertible.
• Impalas have been fully featured in the many music videos of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
• This would be popularly used in "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani, featuring her and the Harajuku Girls riding around in a custom bright yellow 1961 Impala convertible.
• Ice Cube immortalizes West Coast rapping with some West Coast lowriders to boot in his music videos:
  • "It Was A Good Day" is something he would make the lowrider culture proud of, as the star rapper is seen cruising the streets in a lime green 1964 Chevrolet Impala Convertible. Even Cube himself even states in his song:
    I gotta go cause I got me a drop top
  • This is his personal car in "Steady Mobbin' where he takes his blue Impala cabrio for a spin.
• "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" (which would be also the Trope Namer itself) by The Offspring has this dorky white middle class suburban wannabe gangster who thinks he’s cool, drives around in a red 1962 Chevrolet Impala Convertible. Not that he'd wanna be like Eminem, though.
• OMC in "How Bizarre" begins with the lead singer driving a red Impala cabrio. And the lyrics? Policeman taps his shades, "Is that a Chevy '69?" How bizarre, indeed.

Professional Wrestling

• The late Eddie Guerrero loves lowriders, where he usually pulls out his custom Chevy Impala as part of his signature entrance.

Video Games

• The titular protagonist Alan Wake drives this car in the opening scene of the game, dubbed the Tan Sedan. That car is based on the 1972 Impala.
• As a Shout-Out to the aforementioned Supernatural, Asphalt 8: Airborne includes the 1967 Chevrolet Impala as part of the mid-December 2016 update, originally as an A-Class car before relegating its stats to become a D-Class.
• Want some mid-60's flair? Well, look no further with the Impala-based Lowrider in Battlefield Hardline, available to Criminals ready to trash the uh... battlefield.
• The car B.D. Joe uses in Crazy Taxi is based on the classic Impala cabrio.
• One of the rare emotes of Fortnite is named "Lil' Bounce", showing your Player Character enjoying a fun bouncy hydraulic spin in a teeny-weeny Impala-esque sports car.
• There are two types of Impalas in Forza: the 1966 Super Sport 409 and the 1996 Super Sport sedan.
• The Impaler in Grand Theft Auto (Classic) and Grand Theft Auto Online is based on the '67 Impala. The latter also introduced the Impalers LX and SZ in the Chop Shop update, based on the car's sixth and seventh generations respectively, and Grand Theft Auto IV also had the Merit, based on the eighth generation model.
• L.A. Rush offers three different Impalas with three different tune ups: a '59 Impala with a chopped top, a '64 Impala SS with a Hot Paint Job and a 2000 Impala SS rigged with police bumper guards.
• Both Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and Los Angeles have 2 different Impalas: the '64 Impala and the '96 Impala SS. The latter is widely used as a police car.
• The car of Terrance & Phillip in South Park Rally is based off the '66 Impala. And yes, it ain't Terrance & Phillip without all the Toilet Humor, even the Vanity License Plate saying... "FART". Or, on the Nintendo 64 version, "GAS-MAN".
• That old rickety Impala-based Thrasher Car in Tony Hawk's Underground is the car you use to recklessly destroy the other vendors' carts in New York City.
• Twisted Metal has the Thumper, a weaponized pink Impala.

Chevrolet Monte Carlo

Take it to Monte Carlo for a spin... or perhaps in Talladega to go fast.

Hank: Is Jesse still driving the '89 Chevy Monte Carlo, as far as you know?
Diane: If he had spent half as much time as money on his education as he has on that ridiculous bouncing car...
Hank: Low rider, huh?

—Breaking Bad

Named after the city of Monaco, the Chevrolet Monte Carlo is a two door sports coupe produced from 1969 to 2007 (but it was Put on a Bus from 1989 to 1994). It was marketed as Chevrolet's first ever personal luxury car, introduced as a 1970 model that spanned through six generations and was closely related to the Pontiac Grand Prix, another car from General Motors, the same group as Chevrolet.

Its initial model in 1970 is distinguished by its chromed rectangular grille with is bonnet adorned by a Corinthian helmet. Its powertrain is powered by either a 350-400 cu Turbo-Fire or a 402-454 cu Turbo-Jet V8 engine, with two-barrel carburetor, though various optional packages were available as well, with the powerful Super Sport option called the Monte Carlo SS 454 is the sportiest ever offered with 360 rated hp and a four-barrel carburetor. The Monte Carlo is usually a 2-door hardtop and is usually a front-engine, rear-wheel drive.

In 1973, the Monte Carlo was redesigned, transitioning from a hardtop to a coupe. Prominent to this second-generation features an egg-crate grille, revised front bumper and its swooping double-shell roof, improving noice reduction. Like the previous generation, the Super Sport package is also an available option. Its third and fourth generation also offers V6 engines for entry-level Monte Carlos with its body bearing similarities to not just the Pontiac Grand Prix, but also the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and the Buick Regal. In 1988, the Monte Carlo seized production before it was replaced by the Chevrolet Lumina.

The Monte Carlo returned in 1995 as a coupe version to the Lumina. Breaking Old Trends from its previous iterations has the V6 as the standard, and is now a front-wheel drive car, though a V8 version Monte Carlo in 2006 makes a come back, with several bespoked trims. The Monte Carlo discontinued for good in 2007.

Chevrolet Monte Carlos have been long used in NASCAR, where the car saw lasting success, and winning titles from big names such as Dale Earndhart, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Jimmie Johnson in the Cup Series. The Monte Carlo would retire in 2007 and was replaced by the Impala.

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Film — Animation

• Darrell Cartrip, the Nice Guy ex-Piston Cup champion of Cars is a play on Darrell Waltrip, modeled after the 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

Film — Live Action

• Since Monte Carlos have been widely used as Chevrolet's car of choice in NASCAR as the time being, here are some of the notable examples that bejewel as one of the kings of the speedway:
  • The California Speedway climactic Epic Race of Herbie: Fully Loaded has Monte Carlo stock cars aplenty, driven by many NASCAR drivers, but most importantly, the #82 Cheetos car of Big Bad Trip Murphy plays the most critical role where he deliberately rams Herbie off-course or on barriers while defending his lead till he was Hoisted By His Own Petard.
    • Earlier, Maggie's brother Ray Payton, Jr. drives this Monte Carlo during qualifying, till he lost control and injured himself, prompting Maggie and Herbie to take his place.
  • You have this hilarious Las Vegas Car Chase scene throughout Looney Tunes: Back in Action where Yosemite Sam and his henchmen steal Jeff Gordon's iconic #24 Monte Carlo NASCAR, while being pursued by D.J. and Kate in their TVR.
  • The #62 Wonder Bread/Powerade-sponsored Chevrolet Monte Carlo stock car is used by the titular hero to soar to the top of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has the titular hero drive a beaten-up blue 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
• Amongst the lowrider themed movie where hydraulics are a tradition among the youth of the neighborhood, Boulevard Nights has this beautifully bejeweled Cool Car; a blue 1972 Monte Carlo Lowrider, befitting for a gangster on the dangerous streets.
• The Cannonball Run has Those Two Guys Mel and Terry, the "good ol' boys" taking part of the Epic Race in their '81 Monte Carlo.
• Monty's '87 Chevy Monte Carlo in Daddy's Little Girls (no Pun intended) is a sweet, Cool Car that is very cool enough, though it's brought to shame when he t-bones it into a Chrysler 300 at an intersection.
• The Fast and the Furious has some examples from Monte Carlo:
  • This is the classic car Roman Pearce uses in 2 Fast 2 Furious for his demolition derby race.
  • Sean Boswell in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift uses the beater '71 Monte Carlo for his race against Clay in his flashy Viper SRT-10. That said race was the catalyst that sent Sean to Tokyo in order to avoid arrest.
  • The opening for F9 shows a Flashback of the death of Dominic and Jakob Toretto's father, Jack where his Monte Carlo NASCAR gets destroyed ablaze by the hands of Kenny Linder. And this became the key scenario of how the two brothers became Cain and Abel.
• You'd probably not expect Annie and Laurie in Halloween (1978) to roll in a red '78 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, with Blue Öyster Cult playing before they meet their fate.
• The Made-for-TV Movie called In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders has Agent Ben Grogan telling the agents to be on the look out for the bad guys in a black '79 Monte Carlo. ^note Actually a '74 Monte Carlo by how it looks.
• The lowriding Cool Car of Alonzo in Training Day is a 1979 Chevy Monte Carlo, complete with hydraulics. Which in Real Life, the film's car was stolen from the set during production.
• Terry's Cool Car in War On Everyone is a 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo, with its all-steel body that's substantially more durable than newer vehicles.
  Terry: I love this car, man! It's fuckin' indestructible!

Live-Action TV

• Monte Carlos were some of the classic Chevies of Breaking Bad;
  • A red 1982 Chevrolet Monte Carlo is Jesse Pinkman's personal Cool Car, with a humorous Vanity License Plate, too.
  • One of the rival dealers use this as their transport car used to sell drugs and collect money from customers.
  • Lala Salamanca in Better Call Saul uses a grey 1970 version of this car when he drives it around Albuquerque. And as The Don implies on this "thing of beauty":
    Lalo: Wahoo! You hear that? I replaced the carburetor. She's running like a racehorse, man.
    Jimmy: It's a fine vehicle. That's a thing of beauty.
• Monte Carlos are usually seen chsing down the Firebird around town in The Rockford Files.
• Julian's Monte Carlo that he stole from Dennis and Terry in Trailer Park Boys... watch him burn some rubber and... BAAAAAAAAMMMM!!!
  Jacob: Oh my god, Julian! Is this your car?
  Julian: Yep.
  Jacob: Monte Carlo. What a Cool Car! It's an '86!
  Julian: '87.

Music

• "Down" by blink-182 shows a crook named Trouble driving a Chevy Monte Carlo whilst in a police Car Chase throughout South Central Los Angeles.
• As seen in the music video and the single cover of "This House Is Not For Sale" features Bon Jovi goes house hunting in their cherry red Monte Carlo.
• "Two Is Better Than One" by Boys Like Girls (feat. Taylor Swift) show a couple having a nice time in their cruising pleasure around with their Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
• In Eminem's "Stan'', the titular Loony Fan drives upset in the rain (because his fan letters didn't reach Eminem), with his Pregnant Hostage girlfriend (Dido) locked inside the trunk of his Chevy Monte Carlo, at least until Stan crashes it, and can be heard screaming, which causes Stan to yell at her to shut up. And the crash killed all of them.
• "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias has him play the outlaw, cruising with his love interest on desert roads, rolling in their 1972 Monte Carlo convertible.

Video Games

• Burnout has some examples of this Monte Carlo Expy:
  • The Oval Racers that appears in all the games are based off the NASCAR-spec Monte Carlo (with a few details lifted from the Ford Taurus).
  • An Itasha like Hunter Vegas in Burnout Paradise strikes a strong resemblance to The '80s Chevrolet Monte Carlo, with some few flares from the Buick Grand National.
• The Corvette isn't the only Chevrolet in Corvette Evolution GT, since you also have the 2005 Monte Carlo SS Supercharged, available one of the Grand Touring cars.
• The Easy level car in Daytona USA 2 is based on the Chevrolet Monte Carlo that competed in NASCAR in 1998.
• The 1988 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Super Sport in Forza. Its Forza Edition nets you bonuses if you drive in Watkins Glen, plue the early Motorsport games has this unmarked Monte Carlo stock car, possibly because they couldn't secure a NASCAR license at that time.
• L.A. Rush has the '73 Monte Carlo and when it became a Pimped-Out Car out of West Coast Customs, it gets juiced with a supercharged blower and a gilded paint job. Now that's a look of a classic muscle car.
• Oscar, the owner of Six-One-Nine Customs in Midnight Club 3 at one cutscene can be seen working on a pimped-out third-gen Chevrolet Monte Carlo. The car itself is one of the playeble starter cars, and by god it's awful, even if it's fully upgraded. May god have mercy on Carlos' soul.
• MotorStorm: Apocalypse has the Patriot Stomper, consisting of a NASCAR Monte Carlo body in a monster truck chassis.
• The 780-bhp Chevrolet Monte Carlo is used as its choice of stock car in ToCA Race Driver for the American All-Stars event. The second game instead uses the Brailing Championship Stockcar, acting as a stand-in for the NASCAR-spec Monte Carlo with lots of British aftermarket sponsors slapped on the car.
• There is the Gatecrasher, a 1974 Monte Carlo Expy in Wreckfest.

Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra

It sure is nice driving my 2020 Chevy Silverado. ^note Hi, Squidward~

"It's not a good ride for that, it's cool and it's fun every once in a while to take it out for a Sunday drive. But I wouldn't run errands in it."

—Quentin Tarantino, explaining why he stopped driving the Shag Wagon from Kill Bill because too many people would recognize him.

The Silverado is Chevrolet's wide range of trucks introduced in 1999, as a replacement to the long-running C/K series, where the Silverado name takes its name from one of the trim levels of the said C/K. The Silverado is usually offered in either a full-size pickup, a chassis-cab truck or a medium-duty truck.

Like the C/K series, the Silverado shares an mechanically identical pick as the GMC Sierra, while in Mexico it's marketed as the Chevrolet Cheyenne. The Silverado competes with its rivals, the Ford F-Series, Ram pickup, Toyota Tundra and Nissan Titan, but amongst those, the Silverado is one of the best selling pickup trucks in the United States, having sold over 12 million units since its introduction in 1998.

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Film — Animation

• As part of a Product Placement, a LEGO model of a Chevrolet Silverado in The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is briefly seen during one of Rex's backstory flashbacks. Better yet, that truck became an Ascended Extra, as part of its promotional ad.
  Lucy: You built a pickup truck?
  Emmet: It's not just any pickup truck, it's the all-new 2019 Chevy Silverado... in satin steel metallic.
  Lucy: Huh... that's very specific.

Film — Live Action

• In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Natasha and Steve pull up to an abandoned warehouse after going on a lengthy road-trip in a 2014 Silverado.
• Otto's private army in F9 are armed with matte-gray Chevy Silverados, in an attempt to take Dom's crew own during the climactic final battle in Tbilisi.
• This Shag Wagon whom Beatrix steals in Kill Bill is a customized Chevy Silverado with the words "Pussy Wagon" printed on the sides and the tailgate in funky pink lettering. She is visibly disgusted by it and insults its late owner when she sees it.

Live-Action TV

• The season 3 segment "Trucked Up" in 1000 Ways to Die features a guy named Leonard who had recently bought a Boring, but Practical car, and his obnoxious cousin Todd whose parents bought him a Silverado with bells and whistles like chrome rims, LEDs, a DVD player, and an 8-ball gear shift.
• Maximov's Chevrolet Silverado in Dog certainly qualifies as a Cool Car.
• Since Everybody owns a Chevy in Hawaii Five-0, The Leader of the Five-0 Task Force Steve McGarrett is the owner of the Chevrolet Silverado.
• GMC Sierra pickup trucks are a Product Placement thing in SEAL Team.

Music

• ...and that Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill as mentioned above would be featured in the music video "Telephone" by Lady Gaga, with Beyoncé, whom they used the car to go full-on Thelma & Louise around.
• One of the prominent cars and the first that Taylor Swift owned is a pink Chevrolet Silverado, given to her on her 18th birthday. It'd be featured at the beginning of "Beautiful Eyes".

Video Games

• Asphalt Xtreme has a shit-ton full of Chevy pickups... there are three different Chevrolet Silverados (one being in monster truck form) and a GMC Sierra.
• In The Crew series, the Silverado 1500 appears as one of the playable pickups. Its Circuit-Spec/TC variant turns it in to a NASCAR race truck.
• DIRT has this Chevy/GMC pickup as a quintessential offroad car:
  • It is one of the CORR Pro 4 trucks in the first DiRT game. It's powerful but heavier than its rival, the Toyota Tundra.
  • Colin McRae: Dirt 2 has the CK-1500 as one of the Trophy Trucks for Landrush and Raid events. Ken Block appears to be driving one.
  • The Downloadable Content of DiRT 5 features both the Chevy Silverado and the GMC Sierra as PreRunner cars.
• Forza Horizon 4 has this 1000+ hp DeBerti Design Drift Truck available as a Car Pass DLC car. It returns normally in Horizon 5, alongside the vanilla Silverado LT.
• The Landscape pickup in Ghost Recon Breakpoint is based off the Chevy Silverado.
• Like the aformentioned DiRT series above, Scott Parker of Gravel drives this 800-hp Silverado CK1500 trophy truck, since he is the Stadium Circuit Master.
• This 495-hp Silverado SST Concept in Gran Turismo 4 is probably an Improbably Cool Truck that can be only obtainable in the Sports Truck Race events.
• There was a promotional ad for Madden NFL 25 which included the then-all-new 2014 GMC Sierra pickup. It would often appear after a victory celebration in the Super Bowl.
• The cool-looking Chevrolet Silverado is one of the fast and sizable Class B trucks available in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition. Silverados would only become a traffic car in Los Angeles.

Chevrolet Suburban

The Chevrolet Suburban is a line of automobiles built by the Chevrolet division of General Motors. It is the longest-used automobile nameplate in the world; in production since the 1935 model year, it is currently in its twelfth generation. Beginning life as one of the first metal-bodied station wagons, the Suburban is the progenitor of modern full-size SUVs, combining a station wagon body with the chassis and powertrain of a pickup truck. Alongside its predecessors (the Advance Design, the Task Force, and the C/K), the Silverado pickup truck shares chassis and mechanical commonality with the Suburban.

Traditionally, the Suburban has been one of the most profitable vehicles sold by General Motors, and has been marketed by both Chevrolet and GMC for nearly its entire history; GMC has used several different nameplates for the model line, marketing the Suburban as the GMC Yukon XL since 2000 (as opposed to most GMC Yukon variants, which are based on the Chevrolet Tahoe). Cadillac also rebrands the Suburban as the Cadillac Escalade ESV. During the 1990s, the Holden brand marketed right-hand-drive versions of the model line.

The Suburban is sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, Chile, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Peru, Philippines, and the Middle East (except Israel), while the Yukon XL is sold only in North America (exclusive to the United States, Canada, and Mexico) and the Middle East territories (except Israel).

In December 2019, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce took the unusual step of unveil a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for the Suburban, noting that the Suburban had been in "1,750 films and TV shows since 1952."

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Film — Live Action

• A 2000 GMC Yukon XL would be the main form of transportation for Sheriff Edward Morales in the sci-fi horror movie Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.
• The Cool Car of Harry Dalton from Dante's Peak is a red '87 GMC Suburban.
• It's a perfect car for Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Jingle All the Way as he drives a teal 1995 Chevy Suburban around for his last-minute Christmas shopping.
• There are three sinister Decepticons heavily disguised as Suburbans before ambushing Bumblebee and friends in a heavy Car Chase in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Live-Action TV

• There are lots and lots of Suburbans and Yukon XLs were mainly used in plenty of Crime Drama and Police Procedural, like CSI, Criminal Minds, The Blacklist and Hawaii Five-0 just to name a few... typically seen in the hands of a secret agent, undercover cop or a secret spy.
• The SUV that ferries the Fab Five of Queer Eye is their stylish GMC Youkon XL Denali.
• A burgundy red 1999 Chevrolet Suburban belonged to The Don, Tony Soprano, a car used to help balance his life between organized crime and his family in The Sopranos. After five seasons, he stops using it in favor for a Cadillac Escalade.
• There are plenty of Suburbans throughout The Walking Dead, but one of them was formerly owned by Herschel Greene, typically used to drive around the farm or to the bar.

Video Games

• The Armored SUV belonged to one of the Private Military Contractors in ARMA 2. It's essentially a fictionalized black 2009 GMT 900 Suburban fitted with a Dillon Aero M134 Housing system. And believe us, it's a real massacre machine.
• One of the Kataris 26 cars of Ghost Recon Wildlands is a Decussine 2500, a full-size SUV modeled after a '97 Suburban. It's not your ordinary junk, though.

Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon

The Chevrolet Tahoe, and its badge-engineered GMC Yukon counterpart, are full-size SUVs and other types of trucks from General Motors, offered since 1994 and 1991, respectively.

Its origins trace back to 1982, when Chevrolet and GMC sold two different-sized SUVs under their "Blazer" and "Jimmy" nameplates, by introducing the smaller S-10 Blazer and GMC S-15 Jimmy for the 1983 model year, below the full-size Blazer and Jimmy models. This situation lasted into the early 1990s; GMC first rebadged the full-size Jimmy as the "Yukon" in 1991, but Chevrolet, however, waited until 1994, when they rebadged the redesigned mid-size S-10 Blazer the "new Blazer," while renaming the full-size Blazer as the "Tahoe." The name Tahoe refers to the rugged and scenic area surrounding Lake Tahoe in the western United States (and was originally used as a trim level on S-10 models), while the name Yukon refers to the Yukon territory of northern Canada.

For the 1995 model year, the Tahoe and Yukon gained a new, longer four-door model, slotting in size between the two-door models and the longer-wheelbase Chevrolet/GMC Suburbans.

The Tahoe is sold in North America, parts of Asia such as the Philippines, and the Middle East, plus other countries including Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Angola as a left-hand-drive vehicle. The Yukon is only sold in North America and the Middle East.

The Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon are part of General Motors' full-size SUV family and are differentiated from the similar Chevrolet Suburban (which is sometimes marketed as the GMC Yukon XL) primarily by the length of the passenger and cargo area behind the C-pillar. An upscale trim GMC Denali sub-model joined the Yukon lineup as the top-of-the-line trim for the 1999 model year; the Cadillac Escalade is a closely related upscale version sharing the same platform. The Denali is available on both standard and XL versions.

The Tahoe has regularly been the best-selling full-size SUV in the United States, frequently outselling its competition by two to one.

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Film — Live Action

• Suburbans are the ideal villain car of Barbie (2023) during a heated Car Chase scene.
• Nick Fury's SUV in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a full-on armored Tahoe that got ambushed by an orchestrated attack by HYDRA agents and was ultimately destroyed by the Winter Soldier.
• A red 1996 Tahoe was Kimberly Corman's SUV from Final Destination 2, her source of transportation before it was completely destroyed by the Truck from Hell at Route 23.
• Nothing to Lose has Nick Beam's GMC Yukon that sadly gets wrecked throughout the rest of the movie.
• Veronica and Bailey began Faking the Dead in Unpregnant when they steal Bob and Kate's GMC Yukon and drive it off a small cliff, after diving out at the last minute. The car being too far away to actually easily check for bodies, this fools Bob long enough for them to sneak off.

Live-Action TV

• Majority of Police Procedural and Crime Drama shows like CSI, NCIS, Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds have the Tahoe PPV/Yukon as a typical SUV used by law enforcement, whether patrol or undercover with their unmarked appearance.

Music

• NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart and Dale Earnheart, Jr. are shown racing in their customized Chevrolet Tahoes in "The Road I'm On" by 3 Doors Down. And both are sandwiching a beautiful lady driving a Jeep Wrangler.

Video Games

• The Asphalt Security police SUV in Asphalt 9: Legends uses the Tahoe PPV as the basis.
• One of the attack vehicles for the Law Enforcement faction in Battlefield Hardline is this Tahoe PPV-based Intervention SUV. By default, it's fitted with a M134 Minigun but you can exchange it for an M2 Browning or an M3M if you need More Dakka.
• You can dub out a GMC Yukon Denali in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix, and just like the Cadillac Escalade, this four-door SUV gets relegated as a traffic car in Los Angeles.
• One of the cars of Eric "Tyler" Case in MotorStorm: Apocalypse has this mug plugger called the Patriot Hoodcruze-R (pronounced Hoodcruiser), a swanky looking SUV with a Hot Paint Job by default, sharing elements from a Chevrolet Tahoe.