History Main / SentientVehicle

* Matchbox has had a few toylines about anthro vehicles, namely ''Hero City'' in 2004 and ''Big Rig Buddies'' in the 2010s, both of which also had tie-in cartoons.
* ''Tomoncar'' from South Korea mixes this with LivingToys.

* Transformers in general. This is with the exception of those that don’t have a vehicle-mode as their Alt-modes.

* Kino rides a talking motorcycle named Hermes in ''LightNovel/KinosJourney''.

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* The cars in Creator/{{Disney}}[=/=]Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', the TropeCodifier

* Stephenson the high-speed spytrain in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'':

* Several anthropomorphic boats can be seen in the ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Cars Toons]]'' "Tokyo Mater", "Moon Mater" and "Mater, Private Eye", and ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2'' has Crabby the fishing boat and Tony Trihull the combat ship.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', there are tractors that act like cows and a combine that acts like a bull.

* ''Literature/TaroAndJiroTheSiblingLocomotives'': This book and [[Literature/DrTomatoAndTheBeetle its sequel]] feature a pair of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNR_Class_C11 [=JNR=] Class C11]] tank engines named Taro (the older one) and Jiro (the younger one) who worked on the Nichu branchline in the Fukushimu area.

** The episode "You Drive". After a man kills a boy in a hit and run accident, his car develops a mind of its own and forces him to confess to the crime.
** Episode "A Thing About Machines", where a man is tormented by the machines in his home, among them a car which ends up chasing him into a swimming pool where he drowns.

* Moya from ''Series/{{Farscape}}''
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gomtuu Gomtuu]]

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Transformers in general with the exception of those that don’t have a vehicle mode as their Alt-modes. They also just happen to Aldo be giant sentient robots as well.

* TayoTheLittleBus, a popular South Korean kids' show available in English on Hulu, is based entirely on talking vehicles and aircraft and their interactions with humans.

** The [[Recap/DigimonTamersM2TheRunawayDigimonExpress second]] ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' movie features Locomon, an intelligent locomotive whose desire to run was amplified by [[PuppeteerParasite Parasimon]] until it became all-consuming. Parasimon compelled Locomon to run faster and faster until he tore a portal between worlds for Parasimon's buddies to invade through. Locomon evolves to [=GrandLocomon=], a larger train with a much faster engine and a spiked wheel in front, in the process.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduce the Pokemon Varoom and its evolution Revaroom, which are sentient engines. They’re noticeably used by Team Star to power the Starmobiles, which are treated as Revaroom with SecretAIMoves in gameplay.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces Varoom and its evolution Revavroom, both of which are sentient engines. They also appear as the engines for Team Star's Starmobiles.

* When ''Franchise/ChoroQ'' series steps into the RPG WideOpenSandbox genre, every car in it is this.

* C.A.R.R. from ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop''. Obvious parody of K.I.T.T. from ''Series/KnightRider'', even though K.I.T.T. is an AI installed into a car.[[note]]And even though [[NamesTheSame "K.A.R.R."]] was the name of an evil clone of K.I.T.T. from the actual series.[[/note]]

* The Wiki/SCPfoundation has some in custody or appearing in secured areas; [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2434 one item]] is part of some dead-end streets where various vehicles appear, scream around in impossible directions, and disappear. Some cars are damaged in accidents and end up in Foundation custody; they can talk through their sound systems, and give every impression that they know they're cars, and hints of coming from a world where cars live without people.

* RC from the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' films, a [[LivingToys living remote-controlled toy car]].