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This is a listing of liberties taken with how cars are presented in fiction. Often Acceptable Breaks from Reality, since portraying how real cars work can sometimes be considered incredibly boring. Many of these are either impossible or incredibly difficult to do in Real Life. May overlap with Artistic License – Engineering or Artistic License – Physics. |
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In the Adventure Time episode "We Fixed A Truck", the Banana explains how a petrol engine (with spark plugs) works as he prepares to fix the truck's engine, but the truck is very soon afterwards stated to be diesel powered (and hence with a compression-ignition engine). | |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: In the "bat country" scene, the Shark is clearly in Park for all of the closeup shots of the interior. | |
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GoldenEye: Bond's Aston Martin DB5 would never be able to keep up with the Ferrari F355 as shown in the movie. | |
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In Eagle Eye, references of Driving Stick are made when Jerry yells at Rachel to "Use the clutch" when the latter is driving the Porsche Cayenne Turbo that they're in. The Cayenne Turbo is available exclusively with an automatic transmission (Initially a 6-speed, and then an 8-speed unit from Aisin for the first and second-gen respectively, and then the now-ubiquitous ZF 8HP 8-speed unit for the third-gen). Only certain non-Turbo models (Such as the base V6 model for the first and second-gen, and the V8 GTS trim) have been offered with a 6-speed manual transmission. | |
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In National Lampoon's Vacation, Clark takes his old car, a 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, to a dealership as a trade-in on his new car. The dealership, which, for some reason, has an on-site crusher, crushes his car when he has them evaluate its value, then, having ordered the wrong model, forces him to buy it. Clark should have called the police for destruction of private property, bait and switch, and coercion. They also do not transfer the license plates from the old car to the new one, and Clark never puts a License Applied For sticker on the window. Clark would have been ticketed as soon as he left the dealership. | |
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The Simpsons has Homer accidentally cut the rear brake line on Marge's station wagon while doing... something underneath (and supporting the car with a wicker basket), which causes the "Brakes Cut" light to illuminate while Marge was in the hill district of Springfield note This isn't too far off from reality. There is an actual light the alerts the driver of a loss in hydraulic pressure, but it lights up as soon as the pressure drop is detected. and somehow prevents the front brakes or emergency brake from being engaged. | |
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Ali G Indahouse has 2 such mistakes: Ali's Renault 5, a car made between 1982 and 1990, has an "RE58ECT" numberplate. This is impossible, as numberplates with "58" as the 3rd and 4th character only apply to cars first registered in late 2008 and early 2009, which, in fact, is over 4 years after the film's premiere. However, it could well be a personalized plate and the film was made in 2002, before the 58 number plate launched, so that could easily explain the 58 plate. The film shows car electrical systems in models like the Volvo 940 and Vauxhall Nova as able to cause an electric shock. Such devices actually use electricity under a voltage that poses absolutely no danger to a human. However, the film does rely on Rule of Funny, so that explains why this bit of Artistic License was taken. |
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The Castle episode "Ghosts" has a murder victim found in a bathtub full of motor oil, with emptied jugs everywhere. Only problem is, the oil is black. Fresh motor oil is yellow, and only turns black after it's been in an engine for a couple thousand miles (because it's picked up various kinds of gunk from circulating in the engine). Might cross over with Reality Is Unrealistic since an average person might not recognize unused motor oil as quickly as used. | |
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The final two episodes in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans's 1st season saw Tekkadan making a rush at Edmonton, Canada to escort the Prime Minister to the parliament. The vehicle they use to get there (in true Creator Provincialism fashion) has its steering wheel be located on the right side rather than on the left. Though this may be justified that the armored car they use originated from Mars and bought to Earth via the Isaribi's shuttles. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V Even though many of the cars in the game appear to use a manual transmission (with 3 pedals and an H-pattern shifter) they all operate as an automatic, you can't shift gears manually like in most racing games and there's no animations of any of the characters (including the online protagonist) operating the stick shift. There's barely any front wheel drive cars in the game and many cars that are FWD in Real Life are RWD in the game. Probably a Justified Trope in this case as Rockstar/Take-Two doesn't actually have permission to use any of the cars depicted and thus every car is a Fauxrrari, so a little artistic license is to be expected, and arguably necessary for legal reasons.note Recent online updates have seen Rockstar progressively fly closer to sun with this (likely thinking that if they do get sued they can just claim fair use, as at its core GTA is basically one giant Parody of the United States) and some of the newer cars look basically identical to their real world counterparts. |
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In Season 3 of House of Cards (US), set in 2015-2016, the Presidential State Car is shown to be a 2005 Cadillac DTS from the Bush era, rather than the unique 2009 Cadillac limousine introduced in the Barack Obama era. The use of such a vehicle is rather justified, as the current State Car is a unique, highly classified model not based on any existing Cadillac models (it is instead an amalgamation of various Cadillac parts built on a GMC TopKick heavy truck chassis) and the White House certainly would never loan it for filming. | |
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Community has a minor example. In "Spanish As A Second Language", both Jeff and Abed refer to Jeff's Lexus being a 2002. The Lexus in question is a second generation IS making it a 2005 at the earliest. | |
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CASUAL+Y had this as an Enforced Trope a few times, due to BBC rules on Product Placement: In supplementary material on the website during the 2010s, one of the nurses was described as owning a BMW 5-Series 2-door; but there was never such a version, the only coupes BMW made were the 3-Series, 6-Series and 8-Series. However, this was probably also Artistic License – History too. There was the occasional appearance in episodes produced during Turn of the Millennium of a 1990s model-year (with a K-reg license plate, so 1992 or 1993 model year) Ford Transit-based RV bearing the red lion badge (but not the name for copyright reasons) suggesting it was an Elddis, which did produce R Vs from 1986 onwards, but there was never an Elddis conversion of the Ford Transit on a coachbuilt chassis during the 1990s; that was mainly done by brands like Auto-Sleepers and Dethleffs during the 1990s. However, there was a version produced during the early 2000s, called the Elddis Autoquest, the same as a group of Fiat Ducato-based RVs. |
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Nash Bridges: In "Resurrection", a plotwise-dramatic collision involving main character's daughter has a set of details that don't add up. The truck runs a perpendicular course and hits the passenger door of a sedan to drag said sedan across and smash it against a big bulldozer that chilled at the other side of intersection. Sedan had to have enough momentum to not stay in place to be speared into the bulldozer. And the said bulldozer was blocking off that side of road intersection, so the truck had nowhere to travel to at such high speed. Truck driver wasn't unconcious either, per his testimony, which is milked for tears a bit later. | |
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In season two of Arrested Development, George Sr. is looking at a Ford Escape at a dealership and is told by a salesman that it's the replacement for the Bronco, which was dropped to distance Ford from the "fugitive from justice" image from the O J Simpson police chase. It isn't, and it wasn't. The Bronco was discontinued because of a combination of declining sales, safety concerns regarding the removable roof note In 1992, Ford began using Torx bolts instead of hex bolts and ceased publishing literature explaining removal (because safety equipment such as the seat belts and third brake light were attached to the roof, it was no longer legally removable), though it was still physically possible to remove it. Conversely, Dodge redesigned the Ramcharger in 1981 to have a non-removable steel roof and GM did the same with the K5 Blazer/Jimmy in 1992 for that exact reason. and the increasing redundancy compared to the two-door, fixed roof Explorer coupled with the lack of a competitive product for the GM Suburban. The Bronco's replacement was the full size, four door Ford Expedition. Naturally, this was done to make a pun about George Bluth Sr.'s escape from prison. | |
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Jurassic World and its sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom both depict the Jeeps and Ford Explorers from the original film as nostalgia bait in scenes revisiting sites from the first park. Somehow the vehicles still recognizable, and in the first case, drivable, despite last being maintained more than twenty years ago and sitting out in the tropical jungle climate since then. They should have all rusted into scrap in the humidity long before then. | |
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Speaking of gear box, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) is far worse when the fact many of the cars in the lineup magically grew an extra gear. Seriously? A Porsche 959 with 7 gears which in fact wouldn't be a thing in The New '10s? | |
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Although Harlequin is set in the United States, all the vehicles are right-hand drive due to the whole thing being filmed in Australia. In addition, several of these vehicles are models that are not sold in America, most notably several Chrysler Valiants. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, Lalafells are too short to reach the pedals of a car like the Regalia. So they stand on the seat instead. Somehow the car manages to drive itself and stop without issue. | |
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In Outsiders, Siobhan Pattinson and her mother are revealed to have driven a 1975 Triumph Lynx as their own personal car. The Triumph Lynx, however, never went beyond the prototype stage, with only a single unit built which was never made available for private ownership. The author stated in accompanying blogs that this was done to satisfy his own adoration of the Lynx concept, and hypothesised a world where it had in fact entered production. | |
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In Turning Red, the streetcars in the movie show the driver holding a steering wheel. Streetcars run on rails and cannot turn freely like a bus. | |
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Even Randall Munroe isn't immune. What If? #3: "Yoda" describing Yoda's power output compared it to a Smart Car. A cartoon depicts Yoda popping out of the front hood of the car, but Smarts have the engine in the rear. | |
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Lampshaded on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond ruin days' worth of filming on the remake of The Sweeney, due to Clarkson's inability to grasp the concept of Acceptable Breaks from Reality, and of course for comedy. Clarkson shows the director the stunts the car can do with and without the traction control engaged; the director states that he wants the traction control off but Clarkson insists that car nerds will watch and their immersion will be spoiled by the knowledge that the car in question won't do the cooler stunt work with the traction control on, and then sends said director right over the edge by adding over a minutes' worth of footage to the chase scene to show the protagonists going through the process of deactivating the traction control, which means holding down the button for ten seconds! | |
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In the first half of That Yellow Bastard, Hartigan, after dispatching Clump and Schlubb (Fat Man and Little Boy), tells himself to think like a cop and disable Junior's 1962 Jaguar XKE. He then leans over the engine, and the next panel has him holding two spark plugs... somehow, mentioning that Junior wouldn't be getting away, even though it's a six cylinder engine (it would misfire like crazy, but nothing else). A simple solution would to show Hartigan holding distributor cap instead. | |
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Black Lagoon: It is explicitly stated that Roanapur is in Thailand. However, every car shown in the series has the steering wheel on the left side and traffic in and around the city drives on the right (like in the USA and China). In reality, Thailand's road rule is the opposite: traffic there drives on the left and most cars have their steering wheels on the right (like in the UK and Japan). It would make a lot more sense if Roanapur was in neighbouring Cambodia. | |
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In the premiere episode of Gemini Man "Smithereens", Sam Casey's truck is sabotaged by the nefarious mechanic "Carl" cutting one of the brake lines, which leaves him unable to stop the truck or slow it down once he gets back on the highway. Tractor-trailers use a pneumatic brake system, which —unlike hydraulic systems on passenger vehicles— uses compressed air to force open brakes that are normally clamped tightly onto the wheels under powerful spring tension, and you apply the brake by letting off some of that air pressure so the spring-loaded shoes/calipers can compress the drum/disc again. In reality, cutting an air hose wouldn't keep Casey from stopping his rig; it would lock up the wheels to keep him from going. | |
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The Fast and the Furious (2001) has the wrong wheels powered quite a bit, accomplished by either disabling the front wheels (by removing the CV shafts) on an all wheel drive Nissan Skyline, to filming a front wheel drive car doing a powerslide in reverse, then played backwards. The CV shaft removal bit is actually justified, since many tuners convert Skylines and other AWD cars to RWD that way. | |
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Archer: Although the rendering is excellent, for some reason all the GM G-series vans have mid-'70s (F-series-based) Ford Econoline front ends, and the VW Type 2s have late-'60s (snubnosed) Econoline front end. The tricked out 1970 Dodge Challenger spy car Archer receives for his birthday has very BMW style gauges — in particular, a fuel consumption gauge — which a Dodge doesn't have. In "Coyote Lovely", Archer, Lana and Cyril use a 1973 Chevy Impala station wagon in a border patrol mission. With the hood open, it appears to have strut towers and an LT1 350 from a 1990s Caprice, with the home plate delete mod. It also has Impala trim all around, but a Caprice grille up front. |
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Seinfeld: In "The Bris", George's car is in Park during the drive to the hospital. Jerry's Saab 900 in "The Bottle Deposit". After Kramer and Newman pack groceries under the hood because they had bought so much they ran out of space elsewhere, Jerry mentions the AAA guy told him it was "this close to sucking a muffin down the carburetor." Saab 900s are fuel injected. When the police find a similar model chopped up in a a garage, he refers to the "angle of the V6" and says it was turbocharged, which a woman mentions is her 9000. Saab never offered either the 900 or 9000 with a turbocharged V6. Jerry then says his is a 900S, but the car Tony is driving when Kramer finds him is the higher up 900SE. In "The Money", Morty and Helen claim to never use the Northstar System in their Cadillac Fleetwood. The Northstar System is another name for the Northstar V8 engine, which was never available on any Fleetwood; the Fleetwood was only offered with a Chevy L05 350 in 1993 and the Chevy LT1 350 in 1994-96. Earlier in "The Cadillac", they are seen driving without a license plate or a temporary registration, required by Florida law. |
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Shaman King: X-Law shaman Chris Venstar's spirit, the archangel Metatron, inhabits a Hummer H1 that is said to be the same vehicle Venstar drove in The Gulf War. The H1 is not an actual US Armed Forces HMMWV ("Humvee"), but rather a derivative model built by the same manufacturer for civilian sale (by request of Arnold Schwarzenegger, no less), and thus was never used in combat. | |
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Kyrat in Far Cry 4 is a fictional Himalayan country based heavily upon Nepal and Bhutan and adjacent to India, all countries which use the English right-side steering wheel. Despite this, all of the vehicles have their steering wheels located on the left. | |
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The Magic School Bus: "Revving Up" deals with the Bus nearly going to the crusher after being condemned by an inspector. There are several errors made in this episode: The episode uses the bus to teach about the workings of gasoline engines, even though US school buses are almost uniformly diesels: there's a scene set in the cylinder where they have to clean peanut butter off one of the spark plugs, where a school bus would almost certainly have a glowplug instead (diesels ignite their fuel by compressing preheated fuel rather than active ignition). Speaking of the cylinder, the bus is depicted as having a one-cylinder engine, something unheard-of in anything bigger than a motorcycle. This one is likely intended as a simplification for the audience, but it bears mentioning that a misfire in one cylinder is more likely to just make the engine run rougher, not stop it running altogether. The culprit behind the bus's engine problems turns out to be the inspector being sloppy with his peanut butter sandwich. Leaving aside the questionable hygiene of eating while messing about with an engine, it's theoretically possible for him to have gotten peanut butter on a spark plug after removing it for inspection, but how exactly did he manage to get peanut butter inside the fuel line? Carburetors are generally not open-topped, but rather take in outside air through a scoop and pass it through an air filter and therefore would not be affected by the inspector leaving his sandwich on top of them. In addition, even at time of airing, carburetors had mostly been phased out in favor of fuel injection outside of motorcycle and yard engines. |
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In Carbon, you won't see a classic Chevrolet Camaro SS or the Dodge Charger R/T with a 5-speed gearbox at stock performance. | |
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In Mini Motorways, all cars drive on the right side of the road, even in cities where left-hand traffic is the lawnote Tokyo, Dar es Salaam, Wellington, Chiang Mai, Mumbai, and London. | |
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In The King of Queens, Arthur cashes in his IRA to buy Doug and Carrie a new car to replace Doug's aging '80s Toyota Tercel wagon. He buys a "Douchenburger", apparently made in Luxembourg and quite popular there. The actual car, however, is a 1970 Mini 850 Mk. III, and is even right hand drive. Luxembourg is left hand drive like the rest of Continental Europe and does not have any local automakers (their cars are from the rest of Europe). About the only thing done to disguise the fact it's a Mini is the emblem has been removed. | |
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M*A*S*H: A character tries to leave the camp to get back to his unit by hotwiring a Jeep, and in "Abyssinia Henry", Henry gives Radar the keys to a Jeep. Jeeps, like all military vehicles, were expected to be used by anyone at any time, so they had a pushbutton ignition switch instead of keys, which could easily be misplaced or lost in the field. In "Welcome to Korea", Hawkeye sarcastically asks if a Jeep is olive drab and made in Detroit. All Korean War-era Jeeps were made in Toledo, Ohio. Very few M38A1 Jeeps, with the distinctive rounded hood and wrapover fenders, saw service at the very end of the Korean War (production began in 1953). Around half the 4077's motor pool is made up of them, many stood-in by civilian CJ-5s, although they tried to keep the ones used by characters to the older "flat-fender" models. |
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Knight Rider: Most of KITT's implausibilities can be chalked up to Applied Phlebotinum, but his steering wheel is not street-legal: US regulations require steering wheels to be full circles, rather than the airplane yoke used in KITT's cabin. | |
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The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Actually a fiberglass replica built on an MGB, it has a back seat (the real Spyder Californias were only available as a two seater), and an odometer with anti-tamper mechanicals to stop it from being rolled back (such devices were first mandated in the 1970s), which would not be on a 1961 model year vehicle. | |
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3 Idiots: The Smug Snake Chatur brags of his 'new Lamborghini, 6496cc, very fast'. He's talking of the Murcielago, but on his phone, shows an image of a Diablo, a decade-old Lamborghini, at least 500cc less, and surely not so fast. | |
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An episode of Family Matters has Urkel and Myra go to a scenic lookout to make out when Urkel accidentally drives his BMW Isetta over the edge of a cliff. Since the car's only door opens over the cliff, they're forced to escape through the sunroof. After the escape, Urkel comments that he's glad he paid the extra four hundred dollars for the sunroof. In actuality, the sunroof was standard equipment on the Isetta to give an escape route in case the front door is not an option, the very reason depicted in this scene. Either somebody goofed or Urkel got swindled. | |
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Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) uses hotwiring almost exclusively to steal the cars. | |
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Wanted: A CGI Viper and Lada1200/VAZ 2101 leap into the air without ramps, do barrel rolls, and otherwise handle in impossible ways. This is the film that gave physics the finger, but still. Less excusable is that the (automatic) Corvette Fox drives at the end has a (manual) transmission taken from the aforementioned Viper in a rather obvious error. |
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Toy Story: Andy's mom drives with Molly in the passenger seat. It's illegal to have a baby in a car's front seat because the airbags can kill them in the event of a crash. | |
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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries episode "Silent Scream" has Joe Hardy calling the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for information on a license plate number, and the BMV tells him that the owners are staying in the same hotel as the Hardys. Aside from the fact that no BMV in the world could possibly know that, they also would not release information over the phone to regular civilians, and there are strict paperwork procedure that the cops would have to follow to get the information. | |
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Towards the climax of the British movie Doomsday, the main characters find a getaway vehicle that was stored inside an underground bunker... because the plot said so. The car was stored there for at least twenty-seven years. Even if it were fresh off the assembly line, most of the car parts wouldn't work from lack of use. The metal would become stiff and the rubber in the tires would start to rot, among other things. The gasoline in its tank would also have gone bad many years previously. | |
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The Blues Brothers has several. Word of God says that the Bluesmobile is "a magic car" and left it at that. The Bluesmobile 'throws a rod' halfway through the chase through Chicago and sprays oil on the windshield, which then disappears moments later. The rear window that is shot out early on also reappears throughout the film, finally disappearing in final chase. While being chased through Chicago, Elwood takes a wrong turn on the highway and ends up on an unfinished portion, slams on the brakes, and shifts to reverse. The rear end dips down, causing the Bluesmobile to flip end over end, and somehow face the opposite direction. No one's figured out how.note Clearly the car was on a mission from God The Nazis chasing them drive right off the end, and crash into a street, causing a hole to break open in the road, which the second car then drives into. A deleted scene had Elwood fill the tires of the police cars at the concert with an overcharged glue that would cause the tires to explode when heated up. |
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Near the end of Speed, the bus flies off an unfinished highway, without a ramp, and manages to land on the other side. MythBusters proved this completely impossible: it would have fallen no matter what, even with a ramp. The camera work at this part used a lot of rapidly changing camera angles to disguise what was really happening, but with high quality video and the ability to advance frame by frame, you can very easily see that for the filming sequence they very obviously used a ramp. The front end of the bus also appears to have been lifted by cables at the moment it leaves the ramp. | |
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In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Pilot episode: when Cromartie scans Cameron's truck outside the Dyson residence he identifies it as a 1988 Ford F 150, the truck is actually a 1996 Ford F 250. | |
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The Last Stand. Ahnold jumps a Corvette onto the guard rail of a highway, slides sideways like a skateboard, hops off and drives away. | |
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One episode of Person of Interest had a Marine vet who lost his right arm defusing an IED steal a motorcycle from a dealership and drive off with it at speed. Now granted, he had one of the fancy electronic prosthetics, but even so it's highly unlikely he would even have been able to get it moving, seeing as how 99% of stock bikes have the throttle on the right handlebar (the new prosthetics are a definite improvement over the plastic arm with a hook/claw at the end, but they're not that good). Overlaps with Artistic License – Medicine—the POI is also shown aiming a gun with the thing. | |
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The Driver series has several: In the opening cutscene of Driver 2, Jericho is driving a Pontiac Catalina (for some reason with a 1977 Chevy front), but the interior scenes show it's in Park and has no key in the ignition (or signs of hotwiring). In the cutscene before the final level, the front wheels of the 1964 Thunderbird Tanner pursues Pink Lenny's helicopter in spin when he peels out, despite the Thunderbird being rear wheel drive for almost its entire lifetime (moved to a FWD platform in 1999, then axed in 2004). Driv3r has a number of front wheel drive French and Italian compact cars perform as though they were rear wheel drive. |
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In Need for Speed (2015) one of the hints states "Donuts in a FWD car? Forget." Except that, both in real life and the game, you can do donuts in an FWD car - you just need to do it in reverse. They would later carry over in Payback, Heat and Unbound | |
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Forza: In Motorsport 4 and every subsequent game in the series it has appeared in, the rear-wheel-drive Bugatti EB110 SS is depicted as all-wheel-drive, which only the base variant had. The only game in which the car appeared with its correct rear-wheel-drive drivetrain has been in Motorsport 3. AWD SS models exist......as the Dauer EB110 (Dauer Sportwagen purchased the remaining parts and inventory of the EB110 SS from Bugatti, and the Dauer-produced EB110's were SS models but with AWD.) In Forza Motorsport 7, the 1990 Mazda Miata has a 1994+ dashboard, and rather than a stick shift, uses the indicator stalks as paddle shifters. In the driver's seat point of view, the steering wheel never rotates more than 90° in either direction, even if the player has a wheel peripheral with a 900° rotation range, which approximates most real-life road cars. |
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A good example of this is in the pilot of The Rockford Files, where James Garner is vigorously rocking the steering wheel back and forth, even though he's driving on a straight highway. This is especially funny because when they cut to the car he's chasing, the other actor has his hands in the 10 and 2 positions and keeps them there. | |
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War of the Worlds (2005) showcases a massive EMP attack disabling all the cars in the area, but local mechanic Manny is able to get a 1992 Plymouth Voyager quickly running again by following Ray's advice of replacing the "solenoid". Any fuel injected car with electronic engine controls that had just been bricked by the attack would need more extensive repairs to its electrical system to run again - at the very minimum the Voyager's engine and body computers would have had to have been replaced and reprogrammed. Given how even parked cars got their electrical systems fried even though they were powered down and had their rubber tires insulating their bodies from the ground, its highly unlikely that Manny would have been able to locate a good SMEC and BCM for the Plymouth Voyager, install them and get it running again in the short period of time before the tripods attacked. Also, Manny showcases that the Voyager's starter was fried to a crisp by the EMP attack, which honestly defies explanation. You could argue the whole "replace the solenoid" line was simply an Ass Pull from the writers. To that point, the film depicts Ray as owning a 1967 Ford Mustang, a car that has no advanced electronics in its powertrain and likely would have still functioned after the EMP attack, even if it required popping the clutch to get it started in case the EMP fried the starter in the same way it fried the Voyager's starter. Ray could have utilized the Mustang as a getaway vehicle without requiring such an Ass Pull in the script. |
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Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!: Larry is escorted from the Stallions set to La Costa Lotta in a taxi which Larry comments in awe how it's a "cherry '73 Pacer". The AMC Pacer was first introduced in 1975 and no Pacer with a 1973 model year exists. However, this could just be Larry not being very knowledgeable about cars. | |
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Transformers (2007) claims that cars were developed by reverse-engineering the discoveries from studying Megatron. Apparently Michael Bay has never heard of Karl Benz: the first internal combustion engine was patented in 1879, 18 years before Megatron was said to have been discovered in the Arctic. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The King of Hatay is given a 1935 Rolls Royce 20/25 h.p. by the Nazis (donated by an American traitor) to convince him to lend them equipment and the tank (which he had modified with a turret). He calls it a Phantom II, but describes the slightly newer 25/30 h.p., and even uses the taxation horsepower rating. The Phantom II had a 7.7 L straight six and a Rolls Royce-made twin jet downdraft carb, and never received a power rating. The 20/25 h.p. had a 3.7 L, an SU type carburetor, 25 HP rating (but actual output was closer to 70 or 80), and a 0-100 of about 14.5. The 25/30 h.p. had a 4.3 L engine (a bored out version of the 20/25's engine) and a Stromberg carb. The motorcycles used to chase Indy are 1977 Honda XL 500 trail bikes, with almost nothing done to resemble a BMW. There were no Kübelwagens in 1938. Ferdinand Porsche wouldn't develop them until 1940. Also, the two seen in the film are given to the Nazis by the Hatayan sultan along with the tank and trucks (they have the Hatayan symbol on them). This is likewise impossible, as Germany never exported the Kübelwagen. |
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In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the T-X hacks into, and remotely controls, two police Crown Victorias, an Econoline ambulance and a 1985 Chevy C-30 crew cab. None of those vehicles had the type of computers that would allow this. They all used cable-driven throttles, ignition cylinders that require a physical key to operate and mechanical steering with hydraulic boost. note In fact, the types of computer controls that might allow remote control (drive-by-wire throttles, computer-controlled ignition modules and remote start, self parallel-park) weren't commercially or, in the case of remote start, commonly available until a few years after the film's release. Even then, for obvious reasons, every car on the road is still designed with a purely mechanical or hydro-mechanical linkage between the gear shifter and the transmission — it's impossible for a parked car to get into gear without someone physically manipulating the gear shifter. | |
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In the MacGyver (2016) episode "Guts + Fuel + Hope", Mac and Riley are sent to Georgia (the country, not the state) to recover a truck of liquid oxygen for a children's hospital after a rebel attack caused the driver to abandon it. At one point, they are spotted by the rebels and get into a high speed chase that reaches 120 km/h. Except they're in a European-style cab-over semi, which has a speed limiter that prevents the accelerator from working if the truck is going over 90 km/h, and Mac didn't mention removing it when modifying the truck for going off-road. Also, during the chase, Mac has to fix a leak on the trailer, which reveals it's missing the placards stating that it contains a class 2.2*non-flammable gas, which oxygen is contrary to what Mac states hazardous material. | |
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Mission: Impossible, when the story is set in a Soviet Bloc nation, frequently used Checker A12 Marathons in place of Soviet cars, most likely meant to represent GAZ M-13 Chaikas and M-23 Volgas (M-21 with the V8 and automatic transmission of the M-13). Both vehicles were available only to KGB and Soviet officials and not common folk (though the Chaika could be rented for weddings and special occasions, and the four cylinder standard trans M-21 could be bought by anyone), and were therefore definitely not available to Hollywood filmmakers. The three cars look nothing alike. | |
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In Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune, all vehicles reach 600 horsepower after completing 20 stages of Story Mode, and can go up to somewhere between 800-830 (depending on the game) after completing the rest. Even vehicles that are really not designed for such engine power, like the Toyota Corolla. | |
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Need for Speed has a few cars that would sometimes defy reality: In Carbon, you won't see a classic Chevrolet Camaro SS or the Dodge Charger R/T with a 5-speed gearbox at stock performance. Speaking of gear box, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) is far worse when the fact many of the cars in the lineup magically grew an extra gear. Seriously? A Porsche 959 with 7 gears which in fact wouldn't be a thing in The New '10s? In Need for Speed (2015) one of the hints states "Donuts in a FWD car? Forget." Except that, both in real life and the game, you can do donuts in an FWD car - you just need to do it in reverse. They would later carry over in Payback, Heat and Unbound This is an interesting case, since it is using that trope to car behaviour in the game, which also is quite unrealistic - drifting is much, much easier than IRL, Artistic License Inception? |
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