List of fictional cars

This list of fictional cars contains either cars that are the subject of a notable work of fiction, or else cars that are important elements of a work of fiction. For the purpose of this list, a car is a self-propelled artificial vehicle that runs in contact with the ground and that can be steered. This would include passenger cars, trucks and buses. This list includes vehicles that the characters of the story would regard as being the products of technological development, as opposed to supernatural or magical forces.

Cars in fiction may closely resemble real-life counterparts with only minor or unintentional deviations from a real-life namesake; such vehicles may still play an important role in a story. Or, the limitations of real cars may be completely ignored for story purposes; in extreme cases, describing the car is the main point of the story.

Literature

Film

Cars in animated films do not belong in this section.

Television and radio

Graphic novels, comics, animation and cartoons

  • Batcycle - Several vehicles in Batman (also in TV and film)
  • Batmobile - The primary transportation of the DC Comics superhero Batman. Note: The Batmobile has taken on many different forms from the 1930s to today and has evolved along with the character in TV, films, and comics.
  • Vaillante - A car marque founded and developed as an eponymous, successful racing team by the family of the French comic book hero, racing driver Michel Vaillant. Its production includes a great number of both racing cars across all categories and prestige coupe and saloon sports cars. Vaillante is likely the most famous car manufacturer in fiction, by which many youngsters in real life were inspired to become racing drivers, car designers or engineers. Films were later made about Vaillante, die-cast and resin miniatures of the paper models were produced and real cars were built bearing its name, by way of hommage. The saga of the Vaillant family began to be chronicled in the 1950s, but the story of the company starts in 1939. In 2016, the Vaillant Group was merged with another fictional company, Leader, its arch-nemesis in Michel Vaillant’s adventures, and ceased to exist as both were absorbed by the fictional automotive group, Slate (which, incidentally, bears no relation to Slate Auto). Vaillante was later resurrected by a Vaillant heir, following revelations that the merger and acquisition was fraught with irregularities.
  • Turbotraction - Another famous fictional car marque, which appeared in the Franco-Belgian comic strip, Spirou & Fantasio. Its flagship blue, turbine-engined Turbo Rhino was often a key accessory in the stories and was later replicated in real life by Franco Sbarro.
  • Benny the Cab - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • Lightning McQueen and multiple other characters - Cars
  • The Mystery Machine - Scooby-Doo
  • Arrowcar - Green Arrow's vehicle
  • Mach Five - Speed Racer
  • Spider-Mobile - vehicle briefly used by Spider-Man
  • Susie - from the Disney animated short film Susie the Little Blue Coupe
  • The Testarosetta - Sally Forth
  • Thunder Machine
  • Gadgetmobile - Inspector Gadget
  • Jokermobile - Joker's vehicle
  • Larrymobile - Larryboy's vehicle (debuted in VeggieTales in 1997)
  • La Torpille - A home-built torpedo with a motorcycle engine belonging to a youth gang, Les 4 As.
  • La Busarde - A car with tunnelling capabilities that belongs to the comic book pirate, La Buse, a friend of the Barneidor family, whose adventures were published in the 1970s in the French bi-monthly magazine for pre-teens and young teens, Okapi.
  • The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé include a great number of real car models, as well as fictional models. Early adventures show cars and trucks that seem inspired by real-life models. The Calculus Affair also features several cars whose front grilles and bumpers are inspired by the moustache of the Bordurian dictator, Kurvi-Tasch.

Games

Music

See also

References

  1. ^ Note: in the photoplay adaptation of that novel, a hardtop coupe was used because in the 1958 model-year, a four-door sedan version of the Plymouth Fury did not yet exist (and would not until 1959); this was an error in the novel.
  2. ^ PLATT, THELMA (1984). "MRS Merdle and Other Motor Cars". Sidelights on Sayers. 9: 22–30. ISSN 0969-188X. JSTOR 45305431.
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