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* Racing game ''[=CarX=] Drift Racing Online'' uses fictional names for the cars based on real life models. So instead a Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, you got a Horizon [=GT4=] in the game. The only real life cars appearing in the game are Flanker F (built by a Russian drift team Evil Empire) and Nissan Silvia [=S15=] and Sileighty owned by [=D1GP=] driver Sayaka Shimoda. There is a mod that changes the fictional names into the real life counterparts, however.
* Titus' racing game ''Roadsters'' is an interesting case. The game does have licensed cars but the rest of the cars are unlicensed and uses fictional names despite based on real life cars. So you have Toyota MR-S raced with Borato Millenium, a renamed Honda S2000, for example.

** Another common replacement for Porsche back then is Gemballa, a Leonberg-based car manufacturer and tuning company. Like RUF, Gemballa's cars use Porsche bodies but the machinery and interior is all made by Gemballa, which is why they are considered a separate manufaturer. An example is ''VideoGame/WanganMidnight'', following a similar principle as with RUF, made the Blackbird a Gemballa 3.8 RS instead of Vanilla 930/964 Porsche 911. An interesting note, the company once tuned Ferrari as evident in a Gemballa-tuned F355 which appeared in ''[['VideoGame/MidnightClub Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition]]''.

* Racing game ''[=CarX=] Drift Racing Online'' uses fictional names for the cars based on real life models. So instead a Skyline GT-R R34, you got Horizon [=GT4=] in the game. The only real life cars appearing in the game are Flanker F (built by a Russian drift team named Evil Empire) and Nissan Silvia [=S15=] and Sileighty owned by [=D1GP=] driver Sayaka Shimoda. There is a mod that changes the fictional names into the real life counterparts, however.
* An interesting case in Titus' racing game ''Roadsters''. The game do have licensed cars but the rest of the cars are unlicensed and uses fictional names despite based on real life cars. So you have Toyota MR-S raced with Borato Millenium, a renamed Honda S2000, for example.

* Racing game ''CarX Drift Racing Online'' uses fictional names for the cars based on real life models. So instead a Skyline GT-R R34, you got Horizon [=GT4=] in the game. The only real life cars appearing in the game are Flanker F (built by a Russian drift team named Evil Empire) and Nissan Silvia [=S15=] and Sileighty owned by D1GP driver Sayaka Shimoda. There is a mod that changes the fictional names into the real life counterparts, however.

* ''VideoGame/WanganMidnight'', following a similar principle as with RUF, made the Blackbird a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemballa Gemballa]]; like RUF, Gemballa's cars use Porsche bodies but the machinery and interior is all made by Gemballa, which is why they are considered a separate manufaturer.

** Starting from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', car makers besides Grotti, (a pastiche of Ferrari first seen on a dealership sign in ''San Andreas'') Maibatsu, (which often had radio advertisements for their cars), and Imponte (who had an ad for the Insurrection in ''Vice City Stories'') are introduced, introducing makers that correspond with real-life makers. For instance, Dewbauchee is Aston Martin, Vapid is Ford, [[PunBasedTitle Coil]] is Tesla, and Pfister is Porsche, among many others, though said companies aren't necessarily depicted to be direct parodies of real-world marques they were largely based on. Some GTA car brands represent multiple car brands, Karin stands in for Toyota, Subaru, ''and'' Mitsubishi (which is how you get a "Corolla", a "WRX", and a "Lancer Evo" made by the same fake brand), Annis is Nissan and Mazda, and Lampadati is Maserati and Alfa Romeo. Possibly justified due to AlternateUniverse.

* The UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame series ''VideoGame/{{Cruisn}}'' initially started off with lookalikes of brand-name vehicles coupled with nameplates that are either gaudy or playing on national stereotypes, like for example the "Kamikaze AWD" which riffed on the Toyota Supra Mark IV save for the split rear window. It wasn't until the original arcade version of ''Cruis'n Exotica'' and the [[DolledUpInstallment rebadged]] UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} port of the ''Fast and the Furious'' arcade game, simply titled ''Cruis'n'', that actual licenced cars were used as opposed to lookalikes.

* As a [[{{Retraux}} throwback]] to old-school [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]]-era racing games, ''VideoGame/HorizonChase'' features many cars based on real-life ones, with some even doubling as [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to other franchises such as ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''Manga/InitialD''.

* The ''VideoGame/OutRun'' franchise is another interesting case. The original arcade game and its various home console and computer releases has the player drive what appears to be a Ferrari Testarossa, complete with the iconic "prancing horse" emblem displayed prominently at the back. Creator/{{Sega}} didn't have the Ferrari license at the time, and as such the car was changed to a similar yet generic Ferrari expy in re-releases, notably on the [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast Dreamcast]] version which came as a minigame in ''VideoGame/ShenmueII'' and the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch ports released after Sega lost the Ferrari license. ''[=OutRun 2=]'' and its derivatives have fully licensed cars; the Xbox version even includes the original game as an unlockable, with the prancing horse intact. Unfortunately, ''[=OutRun=] Online Arcade'' (a digital UpdatedRerelease of ''[=OutRun 2=]'') was delisted in 2010 due to Sega not renewing its contract with Ferrari, which also means it's unlikely for any of the ''[=OutRun 2=]'' series to be re-released anytime soon.

* UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 racing game ''World Driver Championship'' had, among others: Ellipse Stallion = Ford Mustang Cobra R, Rage 512 EVO = Porsche 911 GT 1 EVO, Reeds R12 Manta = Chevy Corvette [=C5R=], Elan Swift TT = Lotus Esprit [=GT1=], Ram Venom GTR = Dodge Viper GTSR, EXR Mystic = TVR Speed 12.

* ''Thrash Rally'', a top-down UsefulNotes/NeoGeo rally racing game, had, among others, Toyot GT-Four/Land Crusher (Toyota Celica GT-Four), Parsche 911/OD 6000X (Porsche 911), or Mitsuboshi/Thunderjet (Mitsubishi Pajero).

* Early installments of the ''[[VideoGame/TokyoXtremeRacer]]'' series did not have licensed cars, instead using near-identical replicas that the game called "TYPE-____", with the blank space filled in the car's chassis code. There are small enough differences, in emblems, headlights and bodywork to make them legally distinct. Starting with the first ''Drift'' game, developers Creator/Genki would obtain proper licensing for all subsequent entries.

* Early installments of ''[[VideoGame/TokyoXtremeRacer Shutokou Battle]]'' lacked licensed cars, instead using replicas of them, each named "TYPE-_____." If you get up close to a car and look at its emblem, you'll notice that it looks almost like a real brand name, but altered slightly; for example, Isuzu-like trucks have the emblem spelling out "USUZU." During ''Shutokou Battle Online'' and ''Kaido Battle: Nikko, Haruna, Rokko, Hakone'', the developers got the licenses for their real-world counterparts, although due to Honda not wanting to have their vehicles associated with illegal street racing, their cars are absent from the mainline ''Shutokou Battle'' games from this point on, and are only seen in the ''Kaido Battle'' spin-off.

* Crossing over with RealLife, brands that either rebadge or manufacture designs based on Porsche platforms were this until recent years -- the most common stand-in for Porsche cars in non-Electronic Arts racing titles were [=RUFs=].[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruf_Automobile Ruf Automobile]] specialises in Porsche-derived sports cars, using unmarked Porsche body shells but assembled with Ruf-made parts and materials rather than badge-engineering or modifying existing Porsches, effectively classifying them as a manufacturer in their own right.[[/note]] This is because [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA]] signed a licence exclusivity deal with Porsche in 2000 when they made ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPorscheUnleashed''. This meant that Porsche vehicles could only appear in [=EA=]'s racing games, although some non-EA franchises, like ''VideoGame/{{Forza}}'' and the first ''VideoGame/{{GRiD}}'', were lucky enough to acquire Porsche sub-licences for their games. The contract ended in late 2016, which resulted in Porsches appearing in a wide variety of racing games... and ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''.

* The movie ''It Takes Two (1988)'' involves the road trip of a man to Denver in order to purchase a Lamborghini Countach copycat called a "Trovare". The situation goes FromBadToWorse for him when it turns out the brand is a HonestJohnsDealership and he was swindled into buying a nice-looking [[TheAllegedCar lemon (that falls apart after driving it a couple of miles)]].

* The 2007 racing movie ''Redline'' features this on most vehicles seen in the movie, and despite this, they are recognizable without badges, though there are exceptions for some others like the Mercedes-Benz SLR [=McLaren=] and the Ford GT.

** Starting from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', car makers besides Grotti, (a pastiche of Ferrari first seen on a dealership sign in ''San Andreas'') Maibatsu, (which often had radio advertisements for their cars), and Imponte (who had an ad for the Insurrection in ''Vice City Stories'') are introduced, introducing makers that correspond with real-life makers. For instance, Karin is Toyota, Dewbauchee is Aston Martin, Vapid is Ford, [[PunBasedTitle Coil]] is Tesla, and Pfister is Porsche, among many others, though said companies aren't necessarily depicted to be direct parodies of real-world marques they were largely based on -- Karin for one had the Kuruma, which is odd as it is based on Mitsubishi's Lancer Evolution X. Possibly justified due to AlternateUniverse.

* The movie ''It Takes Two (1988)'' involves the road trip of a man to Denver in order to purchase a Lamborghini Diablo copycat called a "Trovare". The situation goes FromBadToWorse for him when it turns out the brand is a HonestJohnsDealership and he was swindled into buying a nice-looking [[TheAllegedCar lemon (that falls apart after driving it a couple of miles)]].

* This became [[EnforcedTrope enforced]] in larger [=FiveM=] servers due to trademark complaints from automakers who did not take kindly to their marques being used without their permission.[[note]]Especially now that Take-Two Interactive has acquired the Citizen FX project which encompasses both [=FiveM=] and [=RedM=] for ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2''.[[/note]] As such, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcNOqrzzwj0 tutorials exist]] for those who want to have their vehicles genericised for legal use on a [=FiveM=] server.

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