History Main / HubcapHovercraft

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* [[Franchise/{{Cars}} Mater]] in ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts UFM: Unidentified Flying Mater]]''.
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* In ''Series/AgentCarter'' it seems that Howard Stark managed to produce at least one fully functional version of the prototype seen in ''[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America]]'', and in the climax of Season 2 it's used to tow a Gamma Cannon through a miniature black hole to seal it.

* Some of the ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' cars were this.
* The [[http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u22/FOTN/Teenage%20Mutant%20Ninja%20Turtles/FootCruiserWithBe-BopRocksteadyandShredder3.jpg Foot Cruiser]] from the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 original Ninja Turtles]] toy line had wheels that folded under to give off this look, since the car is from Dimension X in the backstory. The toy itself couldn't fly, obviously.

* Before ''Mario Kart 8'' did something very, very similar, ''VideoGame/CrashNitroKart'' featured zero gravity sections using the exact same thing.
** There's also the Probulot 2000 from ''VideoGame/CrashTagTeamRacing'' and ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'', which also has its wheels act as hover engines. Bonus points for also being a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.

* Called a Deluxo in ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoV''. It also comes with a minigun and a rocket launcher.
* Featured in ''VideoGame/LegoDromeRacers'' as a power-up for the street and off-road vehicles. When activated, the car would begin hovering above the track at top speed. The drawback of this however [[AwesomeButImpractical was that the car wasn't very stable in this state and hitting walls, smacking into obstacles and trying to fly over the tops of opponents would result in the car flipping onto its side, smacking into walls, spinning out or randomly crawling along the invisible walls around the track.]]
* The karts in ''VideoGame/MarioKart 8'' do this for the anti-gravity sections of tracks.

* One of the upgrades in ''Streets of VideoGame/SimCity''.

** The Time Train from the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' also has these, except it has its own thrust engines - the wheels are still, for some reason, rotated by the steam pistons in their flying position. Doc is a big fan of RuleOfCool, it seems.

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Mater]] in ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts UFM: Unidentified Flying Mater]]''.

* ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'' has Princess Asrial rebuilding a derelict 1962 Chevy Corvette with alien technology, including the capacity to fly through these means (and beating [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Lola]] by about a couple of decades!)

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* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy:
** The [=DeLorean=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' (and the final scene of Part I) is the TropeCodifier. Turns out that by 2015, all cars can undergo a "hover conversion" like this.
** The Time Train from the end of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' also has these, except it has its own thrust engines - the wheels are still, for some reason, rotated by the steam pistons in their flying position. Doc is a big fan of RuleOfCool, it seems.

* A rough-draft version of such a car appears in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' when Howard Stark is showing off a futuristic car at the World Expo. However, it only floats for a few seconds before suddenly crashing. It didn't have wheels, though, just props placed in front of it so the audience didn't know it was a hover car until TheReveal.

* Some of the ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' cars were this.

* Many of the ground-based Transformers from ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' and ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'' use hubcap hover wheels when moving around at normal speed (to enable strafing), but flip down into standard wheel mode when boosting.
* One of the upgrades in ''Streets of VideoGame/SimCity''.
* The versatile hoverpod powerup in ''VideoGame/{{Vigilante 8}} Second Offense'' that levitates sportscars, motorbikes, [=RVs=] and garbage trucks alike.
* Danica Patrick's F1 car in ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & All-stars Racing Transformed]]'' will rotate its rear wheels 90 degrees backwards, and either spin up to turn into jet turbines for flight mode, or extrude propellers from the center of the rims for water mode.
* The karts in ''VideoGame/MarioKart 8'' do this for the anti-gravity sections of tracks.

* Called a Deluxo in "Videogame/GrandTheftAutoV". It also comes with a minigun and a rocket launcher.
* Featured in ''Lego: Drome Racers'' as a power-up for the street and off-road vehicles. When activated, the car would begin hovering above the track at top speed. The drawback of this however [[AwesomeButImpractical was that the car wasn't very stable in this state and hitting walls, smacking into obstacles and trying to fly over the tops of opponents would result in the car flipping onto its side, smacking into walls, spinning out or randomly crawling along the invisible walls around the track.]]

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' briefly had a six-wheeled jeep-like vehicle that the ''White Base's'' crew used to move around on, that showed this ability during the memetic "Jumping onto White Base" scene.

This is a sci-fi trope in which a wheeled vehicle of some kind is capable of flying or hovering by simply rotating the wheels 90 degrees, usually up and into the vehicle in question. The hubcaps then become thrust-capable engines, propelling the vehicle upwards.

** The [=DeLorean=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' is the TropeCodifier. Turns out that by 2015, all cars can undergo a "hover conversion" like this.

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