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Immortal Iconic Car
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A sub-trope of Anachronism Stew. Ever since the 20th century the automobile has become an important part of daily life, so of course you're gonna see plenty of them in any urban landscape. Combined with the fact that there are many automobile manufacturers and makes around the world, plenty of car models have become a visual shorthand for various locations, much like landmarks or musical pieces. And in a Theme Park Version of a certain setting, they may be so iconic that you're going to continue seeing them in media even well past their prime, in a period where these cars have become classics and you're unlikely to find them in everyday situations on a city street. This is common in drawn or animated media, however, live-action filmmakers are aware of this effect and may deliberately go out of their way to find vintage car models for filming in order to establish a location. Indeed, it may be invoked deliberately for a Retro Universe aesthetic. This trope may also apply to individual characters with signature cars in Long Runner series that are subject to either Comic-Book Time or multiple reboots where the vehicle is just far too iconic to update for contemporary times. Compare Steam Never Dies, Improbably Cool Car, Metallicar Syndrome. |
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2012 has a brief portion in Paris where the director of the Louvre is assassinated in a car accident. Of course the car has to be a vintage Citroen DS. | |
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The family cars in The Simpsons appear to be 60s-70s designs intended to be slightly out of date but common for everyday use by the average lower middle class American family at the time of the show's debut. Like many things throughout the show's run, they do not change and would be considered classics by the 2010s. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V seems to fall Two Decades Behind in its portrayal of the ghetto, where everyone who doesn't drive luxury Maseratis seems to drive mint condition 1960s muscle cars or even 1950s Bel Airs in 2013. Compare this to the previous installment, Grand Theft Auto IV, which had more realistic traffic to be found in poorer areas (cars mostly from the late 80s and the 90s in 2008) and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which also had an LA-based city which similarly had 1960s classics driven around in ghettos, but much more plausible with its 1992 setting. | |
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Grand Theft Auto III, set in then-present 2001 in partially New York-inspired Liberty City has the Checker Marathon-based Cabbie as one of the two available taxis in traffic despite the real life counterpart being obsolete at that point. Subsequent games carry the vehicle over and fare much better due to being set in The '80s and The '90s respectively. | |
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Mamma Mia! is set in the present day, but the Greek island of Kalokairi exclusively features cars that are at least 30 years old in order to evoke an image of quaintness. | |
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The Expendables falls into this on the island of Vilena. Though it's a fictional country, it's intended to emulate a stereotypical Banana Republic, and all the cars there are very old and dilapidated, even though many of such countries that are not Cuba would have people drive far newer cars - indeed, during various overhead shots that are not carefully crafted for this effect (filmed in Brazil), one can spot much newer cars more realistically likely to be found in such a country. | |
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The anime adaptation of the fifth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has Italian city streets full of classic Fiat 500s in 2001. This was less the case in the original manga. | |
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The Mystery Machine used by the Scooby-Doo gang appears to be a 1960s van resembling various designs at the time such as the Ford Econoline no matter the amount of different incarnations and reboots. Averted in the 1998-2001 direct to video movies. | |
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In some American series such as The Wire, the related 1973-1979 Dodge Colt will appear. Due to the car's reliability (for its era), this car often appears in movies set in The '80s and even The '90s. | |
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Ratatouille is set in ostensibly present day in Paris and features many Citroen DSes and 2CVs alongside more modern cars on the street - one of the many deliberately anachronistic stylistic choices in this film. | |
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Lupin III is most often shown driving a yellow Fiat 500. However, the most recent series in the franchise do depict the more modern versions of the car so it is slightly averted. | |
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