History Main / WeaponizedCar

* The unique ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Freeway Fighter'' is set in TwentyMinutesInTheFuture of a Plague-ridden post-apocalypse. The protagonist is on a mission for the local gov't, so he's given a tricked out car that's armor-plated and carrying machine guns, missiles, oil sprays and spike canisters to deal with his enemies.

* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'': Bean Bandit's car, named "The Buff", is a custom built muscle car with spikes in the wheels, bullet-proof glass, and wheels that can turn 90 degrees on a whim.

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* VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron, VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron and VideoGame/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon All have ''every'' vehicle able to switch to battle mode, equipped with guns and 360 mobility. DOTM uses it to represent Stealth Force (see Western animation)
* VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight's Batmobile has anti-car missiles and can switch to a Tank like battle mode, where it can go toe to toe with the Arkham Knight's drones.
* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'':
** ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' had 8 dune buggies, 7 of which were equipped with weapons. These ranged from standard straight shooting machine guns to auto-targetting turret to grenade launchers.
** ''VideoGame/JakX'', being VehicularCombat game, has them of course as well. There are two weapon pickups, yellow for weapons used on vehicles in front of you such as machineguns, LightningGun and ''nuke'', and red that create som kind of hazard behind you such as floating drone or turret shooting anyone going near. For some gameplay modes there is a weak base machinegun with infinite ammo, and all weapons get more powerful if you collect enough of Dark Eco.
* ''VideoGame/{{Vangers}}'' is a game similar to [[TabletopGame/CarWars Origin's Autoduel]] set in an alien universe, where your caterpillar-like protagonist drives "mechos": various ancient relic cars (well..there is one helicopter) that can be armed with various weapons and have bizarre names like Oxidize Monk and Last Moggy.
* ''Creator/{{Capcom}}'' had ''Speed Rumbler'' aka ''Rush and Crash'' where [[VideoGame/{{Commando}} Super Joe]] has his family kidnapped by terrorists who have taken over the town and he gets them back with his souped-up car that has machine guns built-in.
* ''VideoGame/AutoAssault'' has cars and motorbikes that you can upgrade and deck out with weapons that range from stuff TwentyMinutesInTheFuture to weapons that'd come from far-future sci-fi.

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* Most of the cars in ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces''.
* C.A.R. from ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' (who is visually based on the Mach 5 from ''Anime/SpeedRacer''). The buzzsaw is mostly used for threatening Dick.
* Lady Penelope's Rolls Royce in ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''. In numerous episodes it fires a retractable machine gun from its front. Another episode has it being able to produce an OilSlick, and it is mentioned that it has retractable studs to prevent the wheels from slipping.
** Though the weapon is clearly an autoloader it is not necessarily a machine gun, nor always used as such - multiple individual, clearly-spaced shots suffice to bring down the strafing helicopter in ''Thunderbirds are Go''.
*** Tie in media calls it a machine cannon. Think a small tank cannon but rapid fire.
** The surface rover component of the ''Zero-X'' Mars exploration vehicle also fits this trope, albeit loosely because it is not intended as a combat vehicle. Its gun is used to blast off chunks of rock from high and inaccessible places for geological analysis, but fortuitously comes in handy when [[spoiler:the chunks of rock start ''uncoiling themselves and firing back'']].
* [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR Does it count if your car is mounted on top of a Giant Robot?]]
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{MASK}} M.A.S.K.]]'': cars, trucks, and other vehicles, even the logo for the series itself, contain a TropeCodifier.

* Numerous Transformers with car modes have vehicular attack modes, which involve deploying hidden weaponry or mounting a gun piece on it. For example: one of Hot Rod's handguns can be plugged into his engine block. Some just plain have cannons out all the time. Example: ''[[Anime/TransformersCybertron Cybertron]]'' Optimus Prime's ladders/{{BFG}}s.

* In one of the "Road to Taz-Mania..." episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'', enemy agents turn the family mini-van into a weaponized spy car after Hugh, Drew and Taz are mistaken for fellow spies.
* In the opening of one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', Dilbert and Dogbert are stuck in a bad traffic jam. Fortunately, Dilbert upgraded his car with a missile launcher to deal with such situations.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', a man fed up with traffic weaponized his car. The next day was a holiday and he couldn't put it to use.
* The Mystery Machine is rebuilt as an armoured battle van after it is destroyed towards the end of season two of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' mostly features the weaponized motorcycles (hi-tech bikes with high-powered laser weapons, advanced artificial intelligence that make them need to be ''tamed like wild horses'' before being ridden, and various gadgets) used by the title characters and the rest of the Freedom Fighters, but there also are the technicals used by the Motor Rats (enemies of the Freedom Fighters) and the human mercenaries of the Plutarkians.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': Buttsquat's Beach Blitzer in "Slimeball Run". Its weapons include missiles, a dart gun, and a giant magnifying glass.
* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': In one episode, Grinder added explosive weapons to Team Xtreme's convertible, including missile launchers under the hood and explosives in the passenger's seat to act as a self-destruct. Did we mention the car was being remote-controlled on top of all this?
* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': The Cat-Car can fire furball projectiles, and a sonic wave called the Cat Roar.

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* ''Series/TopGearUS'' had a challenge to design a Humvee replacement, in which secondhand cars were fitted with paintball guns. There was also a post-apocalyptic challenge episode, where Adam was tasked with fitting a car with weapons. He ended up affixing circular saw blades, a cowcatcher, and a ''catapult'' to it.
* ''Series/MythBusters'' also dedicated segments to building ''Film/JamesBond''-style cars. The [=MythBusters=]'' have tested nearly everything in the above "standard loadout" list, except for the missiles, and had some success with all of them. When testing the bog-standard fixed-mount car machineguns - which Adam in particular thought would be a total bust - the results were spectacularly effective.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' had Gunn's tricked out Ford F250 known as "The War Wagon". It had a mounted stake cannon among other weapons.
* The Battletram in ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow''
* ''Series/{{Wiseguy}}''. ProfessionalKiller Roger Loccoco has a car with automatic shotguns facing forward and a Gatling in the trunk, which he only uses in his introductory episode.

* ''Series/{{SonsOfGuns}}'' had an episode featuring a conversion on a black SUV for this purpose, with grenade launchers, machine-guns concealed in a roof pod, and armour behind the back window glass (the glass actually broke when the launchers were fired, but the armoured window inside held). We never find out who the vehicle is for...
* The Jeeps packing Ma Deuces used by ''Series/TheRatPatrol''.
* ''Crystal Balls'' showed a Finnish invention involving a police car equipped with a large spike, which rams into the car it's pursuing and fills it with tear gas. Griff Rhys Jones noted that such an invention would be bad news for the [[PunkInTheTrunk kidnapped industrialist who'd be right in the path of the spike]].

* As with the video game, ''Pinball/SpyHunter'' has the player collect weapons for his [[CoolCar white sports car.]]

* Games Workshop: ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecars Battlecars]]'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Future Dark Future]]''.
** Ork Vehicles in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. Every one of them mounts at least a [[MoreDakka Big Shoota]] and most can mount more. They've even got a [[CarFu giant metal roller]] that's [[RuleOfCool somehow]] their most potent anti-vehicle weapon. They're also notorious for stealing other army's stuff and mounting large artillery on it. They usually remember how the controls work.

* ''TabletopGame/Highway2000'' by Threshold Games (and later Gamescience).
* Most vehicles in ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'' are tanks, hovercrafts and the like, though the standout is the [[LostTechnology Star League-era]] [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Rotunda Rotunda]], a combat vehicle wearing the shell of a normal sports car which carries a concealed heavy laser cannon and a short-ranged missile system, as well as a decent skin of armor and full accommodations for its driver. One operative, stranded during the [[EvilChancellor Aramis Coup]], used his to wage a one-man guerrilla campaign for ''seven years'' before SLDF arrived to take the planet back. [[FridgeLogic It does raise the question of how a twenty-five ton combat vehicle is able to pass for a sports car, though]].
* Many games in recent years have appeared on this subject, using diecast cars as miniatures. Often released for free, these include ''[[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116626/axle-tribes Axle Tribes]]'', ''[[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27762/axles-and-alloys Axles and Alloys]]'' and ''[[http://autocombat.50webs.com/RoadRageV8GTi.pdf Road Rage V8]]''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Vehicles'' allows you to create these, the example shown having a sports car with VTOL flight capability and energy weapons, and quite respectable armour too.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Crimestrikers}}'', [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]] Outrage has the Mob Mobile, which looks like an ordinary sedan until its hidden weapons are deployed.
* Osprey Publishing's skirmish game ''Gaslands'' involves a crappy future in which Mars was colonized, Earth has become a ''Mad Max''-style apocalyptic wasteland shortly after and the titular game is an InUniverse ImmoralRealityShow in which people use weaponized cars in various forms, be it for WackyRacing or free-for-alls, with the objective of making it to the top of the winners' circle and earn a ticket to Mars (then again, the GraffitiOfTheResistance reads "[[TheCakeIsALie Mars Is A Lie]]"...) Notable in that the company only provides the rules and you supply your own vehicles (any toy car roughly the size of a "Hot Wheels" works), which has led to an extensive model modification community.

* ''VideoGame/NightStriker'' has the Inter Gray, which is a FlyingCar armed with machine guns (plus, it can [[TransformingMecha transform into a mech]]). Many of the Mooks are also these.
* Both your car and certain enemy cars, called Switchblades, in ''VideoGame/SpyHunter''. They get SpikedWheels; you do not.
* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfSimCity'' runs on this trope.
** ''Streets of Sim City'' doesn't just run on this trope; this trope is ''the entire game''.
** So is ''Gear Grinder''.
* The ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' series is based entirely around this.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwind Darkwind: War on Wheels]]'' had vehicles that could be outfitted with everything from rams and flamethrowers to rocket launchers and mortars.
* ''VideoGame/{{Interstate 76}}'' games have weaponized muscle cars. The first game, being a simulator of sorts, realistically deals with the difficulty of aiming a fixed machine gun from a bouncy car moving at 100mph.
* The two ''Videogame/Vigilante8'', a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Interstate '''76'', has pretty much every vehicle weaponized; even garbage trucks and motorcycles.
* Spanish racing video game ''Smashing Drive'' from Gaelco which was published by Creator/{{Namco}}, had psychotic taxi drivers duking it out with armoured cabs that could pick up various weapon powerups like sonic blasters and missile launchers.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2'' rewards players who find hidden boxes of parts access to some customized death mobiles, including Vulcan-cannon [=SUV=]s and something called the Panzercycle. And yes, it is as cool as it sounds.
* ''VideoGame/ZoneRaiders'' was a first-person driving game where you had hover cars that could be armed with various weapons and powerups.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'' includes the infamous Technical pickup trucks. They initially comes with a machine gun, but with battlefield salvage they can upgrade to recoiless rifles and finally to missile launchers. There are also Battle Bus vehicles in Zero Hour.
* ''VideoGame/DeathRally'' and its remake ''VideoGame/DeathRally2011'' had various vehicles that could pick up weapons such as the Sniper and Striker.

* From ''Creator/OriginSystems'' there was ''Autoduel'', a 1980s adventure based on basic TabletopGame/CarWars rules.
* [=TalonSoft=]'s ''Tribal Rage'' has everything you could ask for in a car: turrets, mounted machine guns, AP machine guns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers tank slugs...
* The [[https://metalslug.fandom.com/wiki/Slug_Mobile Slug Mobile]] in [[VideoGame/MetalSlug Metal Slug 5]]. Its a regular FIAT taxi with machine guns and rocket launchers attached to it, as well as a booster engine which can make it jump to higher platforms.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', the Bear (six wheeled tank) and Bulldog (Hummer) both carry top-mounted, [[MoreDakka unlimited-ammo machine guns]]. In addition, almost every vehicle can be modified to have wheel spikes, although the game prefers to call them [[{{Squick}} 'kneecappers']]
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' continues the tradition with the N-Forcer, a futuristic SUV with a [[EnergyWeapon laser turret]], and the Gatmobile, a van with Johnny Gat's likeness on the front that has a cigarette-shaped flamethrower coming out of its "mouth."

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' has a DLC that has one as a reward. It has both concealed machine guns and an EMP blast.
* ''VideoGame/XCOMApocalypse'' has the retro-futuristic battlecars, Stormdogs and the [[FlyingCar Phoenix Hovercars]]. While the former is nigh useless due to being stuck on the highly destructible roads, the latter is excellent for supporting [[CoolBike Hover]] [[ZergRush Swarms]] in taking down {{Flying Saucer}}s.
* Neurostone's ''Auto Destruct'' is a shining example of this. You are driving a car which can have 2 kinds of machineguns, 4 kinds of lazers, a dozen kinds of dumb-fire and homing missiles, cannons, mines, oil slicks, smoke screens... well, you get the pic--no, wait. ''[[HyperspaceArsenal All at the same time.]]''
* The Slicecycle in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' is a motorcycle with a pair of {{chainsaw|Good}}s {{duct tape|ForEverything}}d to the handlebars for slicing up zombies.

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* ''VideoGame/ZombieDriver'' has you either buy new cars or upgrade them with spikes, armor, and weapons.

* ''VideoGame/{{Quarantine}}'' has a unique take on this: you drive a hover-capable [[BigApplesauce '52 Checker Cab]] armed with various upgradable tools of destruction and [[TheTaxi gain fares]] in a fictional futuristic [[PenalColony prison city]] based on Detroit while trying to escape the city in one piece.

* In Bit Monster's [=iOs=] game ''Gunner Z'', you are a member of a mercenary outfit fighting off zombies, enemy vehicles and drones by driving armoured trucks carrying crane-mounted bleeding-edge guns and sensors. Your intial vehicles are the jeep-like AC-HMV but they can be replaced by miniature monster trucks called the [=VR1 Bandit=]. All of these can be upgraded to pack enough armour and firepower to rival a tank.
* In the first VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires, you could use Cheat codes to summon cars with rocket launchers mounted on them. Use BIGDADDY to get Winsett's Z and BIG MOMMA for Winsett's Other Z
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed'':
** ''Hot Pursuit'' 2010 allows Cops and Racers alike to shoot EMP blasts and drop spike strips at each other. Cops can even order helicopters to do the latter for them and call in roadblock units; Racers have Jammers that can interfere with police department equipment, preventing them from attacking, as well as Turbo boosts for extreme bursts of speed.
** ''Rivals'' takes the concept further with its Pursuit Tech system. All six weapons from 2010 make a return, alongside electrostatic fields (allowing both sides to block EMP lock), omnidirectional pulses, stun mines, and an alternate version of EMP that instantly hits when the front bumper rams another car.
* ''Videogame/MegaManX'': the Ride Chasers are basically [[CoolBike hover bikes]] armed with energy cannon in front of it.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'':
** In the main game, Franklin has to steal a prop car from the set of a spy movie. It turns out the onboard weapons are completely functional when he has to defend the truck transporting it and a few other stolen cars.
** In Online, cars both armed and armored are introduced in the Heists update. Specifically, we see an armored sport sedan (Karin Kuruma), an off-roader with a machine gun mounted on it (HVY Insurgent Pickup), and a pickup truck with a gun mounted in the bed (Karin Technical).
** More are introduced in the Executives and Other Criminals Update, including luxury sedans with the option to add armor and a limo with a gun turret.
** More still are introduced in the Import/Export Update. Highlights include a delivery van with armor and a machine gun, a pair of off-road vehicles that carry guns and [[AmphibiousAutomobile float]], and a muscle car resembling [[Series/KnightRider a certain black Trans-Am]].
** The Gunrunning Update goes even further, including a muscle car with machine guns on the roof, a motorcycle with missiles and some flight capability, and an armed sports car.

* The Mach 5 from ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' is armed to the teeth. The saws were almost always used to cut down obstacles, though, except in the "car wrestling" two-parter, where Speed used the saws to rip through ''other cars.'' (And the automatic jacks to smash other cars from above.)
** Pretty much every car in the series had a ridiculous amount of gadgets, and weapons. These included Car Acrobats, Ninja Assassin cars, Giant Trucks, and remote controlled ghost cars. Even the regular cars had the ability to jump.

* [[Manga/GunsmithCats Bean Bandit's]] car, named "The Buff", is a custom built muscle car with spikes in the wheels, bullet-proof glass, and wheels that can turn 90 degrees on a whim.
* Done in ''Anime/SupercarGattiger'', both with the five individual vehicles and the combined supercar.

* Gilbert's tricked out roadster in ''Anime/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'', complete with plasma cutters, machine guns, missiles & a cannon.

* Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Batmobile
* Franchise/{{Superman}}: Superman's [[http://comicsalliance.com/files/2011/04/actioncomics481.jpg Supermobile]] can simulate Superman's powers and protect him from power-sapping radiation. It's equipped with twin {{Rocket Punch}}es.
* The unfortunately named [[ComicBook/NewGods Whiz Wagon]]
* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Fantasticar]]
* ComicBook/ThePunisher's battle van.
* [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'s Redbird. A transforming armored sports car designed to blend in with civilian cars at the push of a button and armed with many of, but not all, the same gadgets as the Batmobile.
* ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'s [[CoolCar Jaguars E-Type]]. The weapons vary depending on the particular one he picked and what modifications he did this time, and have included smoke bombs, DeadlyGas, {{Caltrops}}, [[StuffBlowingUp mine launchers]], [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], ''[[EnergyWeapon lasers]]'', and many other things ([[ImprovisedWeapon some not actually meant to act as weapons]]) in various combinations, but [[DoesntLikeGuns no firearms]].
* ''ComicBook/WackyRaceland'', DC's post-apocalyptic reboot of the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'', has the racers' cars issued with AIs that are as surly and sour as their crews: all hard, grizzled veterans of the wasteland, and all packing various weapons. The Army Surplus Special isn't quite the best example, but the others have various weapons stuck on, including power tools and energy weapons (the Compact Pussycat has a gatling sticking out one side of the nose!). In one issue they are parked outside a bush pub talking smack and dealing with wasteland critters. A mutant lizard jumps up and urinates on the Mean Machine, which fries it alive.

* The [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice Team America]] Hummer has various hidden weaponry like missiles and machine guns appear when it's "Valmorphanized".

* Many ''Film/JamesBond'' cars since ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' - arguably the TropeCodifier for films - are outfitted this way to some extent; most have at least the missiles and machine guns. In the Brosnan movies, Q will barely mention the weapons, focusing more on the car's less obvious functions, because at this point neither Bond nor the viewers are going to be particularly impressed by the car's ability to shoot missiles.
** Culminating in the shootout between two weaponized cars in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
* The recent movie ''Film/DeathRace'' and [[Film/DeathRace2000 the 1978 film]] it was adapted from both run on this trope.

* {{Lampshaded}} and parodied in ''Film/XXx'', while the R&D guy is able (as per the titular character's request) to fix up a car with an armory of weapons, the thing needs an instruction manual the size of a giant phone book and has an extremely unhelpful array of unlabeled buttons. There's a chase sequence which involves TheHero and LoveInterest trying to look up the right equipment in the manual. It also turned out to be extremely impractical, as the car was designed to attack other cars, not a submarine.
* The 1973 Oldsmobile in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' is, with the power of [[GivingRadioToTheRomans modern science]], transformed into a steam-powered tank with a helicopter rotor.

* The Australian cult classic ''Film/TheCarsThatAteParis''.
* The film version of ''Film/TangoAndCash'' has the pair borrow one of these from a friend to assault the BigBad's stronghold.
* EM-50 "Urban Assault Vehicle" (disguised as a late 70s GMC motorhome) in ''Film/{{Stripes}}''.
* In the movie version of ''Film/SpeedRacer'', '''all''' racing cars were equipped with jump-jacks. The Mach 5 only got extra gadgets added when it was racing in a dirty desert rally.
* The Angels' battle van after Terry has finished modifying it in ''Film/AngelsRevenge''.
* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' includes a Jewish momma's boy who thinks he is Creator/RogerMoore (played ''by'' Roger Moore) driving the tricked Aston-Martin DBV from the early ''Film/JamesBond'' films. No machine guns, but the smokescreen, oil slick and EjectionSeat are all used. Ironically, Moore never actually drove this car during his tenure as Bond.
** The Japanese car (co-piloted by Creator/JackieChan) could also count.
* Although none of its vehicles are actually ''weaponized'', this trope is played with a bit in ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'', in that some RealLife perks now incorporated into high-end cars are used to add novelty to the chase scenes. Most notably, one chase starts out with the heroes' car going ''backwards'', with driver Ben ducked down out of the line of gunfire, and steering via the rear-view camera's video screen.
* Again not technically weaponized, but the car in the Australian heist comedy ''Film/{{Malcolm}}'', designed by the savant of the same name, had very cool features built into it such as the ability to split in half. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlaA_TPMXqY See about 1:30 into this trailer]].
* The ''Film/MadMax'' franchise (and ''Mad Max II'' aka ''The Road Warrior'' especially) has a lot of vehicles that may or may not qualify for this trope depending on your point of view. The post apocalyptic setting means that there isn't anything high tech, but that doesn't stop them wreaking havoc using vehicles.
** Max's car is very fast and pretty awesome (and has a bomb on the gas tank) but is not directly weaponised as such.
** The armored tanker from the final chase is heavily reinforced and protected, but doesn't include weapons systems directly, preferring guys with weapons.
** There is a wide array of custom builds and dune buggies that have mounted weapons systems, battering rams and similar, but as they aren't really 'cars' in the traditional sense its arguable if they qualify. They are pretty sweet rides and have weapons attached.
* A deleted scene in ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn'' has English testing the gadgets on his Rolls Royce, accidentally blowing up a carload of mooks who (unknown to English due to the cars' bullet/soundproofed exterior) are shooting at him.

* In ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Bumblebee is shown to have a midway transformation that turns him into one of these. The Wreckers leave subtlety at the door and have alternate modes just outright covered in weapons.

* Nick Fury's SUV in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Unusual for this trope, it features a defensive pop-out machine gun/grenade launcher turret that's mounted ''inside'' the car, and he needs to wait until the (bulletproof)window is breached before deploying it against his attackers.
* The CoolBike that Chuck Norris rides in ''Film/TheDeltaForce'' has dual rocket launchers, machine guns, and even rear-facing grenade launchers.

* ''Why Johnny Can't Speed'', a tongue-in-cheek revenge tale by Creator/AlanDeanFoster. In this short story, road rage is legal, so all vehicles are armed to the teeth. A father sets out to avenge his son who was killed disputing a lane change. [[spoiler: Since the father used to be a professional combatant at this, he gets his revenge.]]

* The David Robbins ''Literature/{{Endworld}}'' series has the SEAL, an amphibious armoured van (made of nearly indestructible plastic) that carries twin .50 caliber machine guns, a rocket launcher, a FLAMETHROWER, and stinger missiles.

* In ''Literature/{{Demon Road}}'', Milo uses a 1970 Charger which drops hints of being sentient throughout the course of the book, one clue being way too obvious - when the undead serial killer stuffed in the boot is stated to be bound for digestion by the car, the reader could take him literally when we've already seen demons. Milo is, in fact, the urban legend known as the Highway Ghost. When someone tries to take the car, it is said to have him, not vice versa. Rather more subtle than many other examples, apart from Car Fu from which the car quickly recovers, but he does deliberately put the serial killer in the boot to get rid of him permanently.
* ''Literature/AlexRider'': In ''Eagle Strike'', Smithers provides Alex with a weaponized ''bicycle'' that includes missiles, an OilSlick, a SmokeScreen, a [[BlindedByTheLight blinding magnesium flare]], and an EjectionSeat.
* In ''Literature/{{AnnoDracula}}: Johnny Alucard'', Genevieve drives a [[ShoutOut cherry red]] [[Literature/{{Christine}} '57 Plymouth]], which she parks in a bad neighbourhood in Baltimore in order to give detectives her opinion on the crime scene. When she returns, there isn't a mark on it, no missing hubcaps, no broken windows, but a fresh pool of blood spreading underneath the front end. This is stated to be an effect of the car's security system, but we are not told exactly what it is.
* The unique ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Freeway Fighter'' is set in TwentyMinutesInTheFuture of a Plague-ridden post-apocalypse. The protagonist is on a mission for the local gov't, so he's given a tricked out car that's armor-plated and carrying machine guns, missiles, oil sprays and spike canisters to deal with his enemies.
* Creator/PipBallantine series ''The Ministry of Peculiar Occurences'' has Wellington Books's car. This vehicle would make James Bond envious! It has lots of engine power, machine guns, missiles and is also capable of flight - all that in Victorian England!!
* Hell Tanner, the last Hell's Angel has to take plague vaccine across a post-apocalypse America in Literature/DamnationAlley. Luckily his employers give him a "car" that's heavily armoured and boasts 8 .50 calibre machine guns, 4 grenade launchers, 30 armor-piercing rockets for extra-hard targets and 4 flamethrowers in 4 directions that are great at roasting mutated bats. It also has razor-sharp steel "wings" for dealing with enemies that are in melee range.

* The car from the (awesome) ''Series/{{Viper}}'' TV show fits in here as well.
* One episode of ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'' featured the 'stunt car bandits' who drove a movie stunt car equipped with an OilSlick, smoke screen and other gadgets.

* On ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', Casey's beloved Crown Vic [[spoiler: launches a missile in the Season 3 finale]].

** The special programme Top Gear Apocalypse featured an arena battle to the death between radiation - mutated cars for the coveted MOT certificate. The mutations included radio - guidance and sprouting ridiculous weapons. Lookout for the hearse with a huge morningstar!
** Top Gear At The Movies had a string of attempts to make a Range Rover into a Bond car, including steel-and-concrete armour on one side (causing a heavy list to one side) while the laminated glass window armour didn't go brilliantly under .50 cal rifle fire; cloaking technology based on a cluster of [=TVs=] obscuring the car and showing a picture of the view from the other side of the car (neccessitating a large generator trailer, which was plainly visible); and weapons including oil and flame jets so pathetic the mooks' cars visibly crash on purpose just because the script says so, teamed with a ramp to launch a toy car with a firework attached for an improvised smart bomb. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hammond makes the mistake of using oil and flames at once...]]
* The Suicide Squad van in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. It features state of the art electronics, a radar based tracker, reinforced steel siding, and a missile launcher.

Subtrope of CoolCar. Not to be confused with CarFu, which is where the ''car itself'' is turned into a weapon. See VehicularCombat for the game genre based around a bunch of these blasting the crap out of each other. WackyRacing may also involve these.

Subtrope of CoolCar. Not to be confused with CarFu. See VehicularCombat for the game genre based around a bunch of these blasting the crap out of each other. WackyRacing may also involve these.

* The Australian cult classic ''TheCarsThatAteParis''.

** The Batmobile from the Creator/TimBurton movies definitely qualifies as this. The first ''[[Film/Batman1989 Batman]]'' movie had a heavy-duty armored shield that could be activated when it was parked, machine guns that were mainly used to invoke the BulletholeDoor effect, and a special bomb that Batman used to wipe out the Axis Chemical factory in one scene. The Batmobile in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' used side-blades that could cut through stilts, high-speed discs that he used to unseat Skull Riders from their motorcycles, and a switch that turned the rocket-powered exhaust into a weapon, putting the torch on anyone unfortunate enough to be directly behind it. In desperate situations, it could convert into a smaller escape vehicle known as the Batmissile by jettisoning its sides and moving its wheels into a ‘rollerblade’ configuration in order to traverse narrow spaces cars and trucks could not.

Reinforced armor, bulletproof glass, and a turbocharged engine are also pretty standard, for obvious reasons. Weapons like machine guns and missiles can almost always retract into the car in order to keep a low profile in settings where this is necessary. Vehicles with pintle-mounted weapons, such as military HMMWV's, do not count; a Weaponized Car only needs one driver for complete functionality (This does not stop some cars from having them, however).

* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' includes a Jewish momma's boy who thinks he is Roger Moore (played by Roger Moore) driving the tricked Aston-Martin DBV from the early ''Film/JamesBond'' films. No machine guns, but the smokescreen, oil slick and EjectionSeat are all used. Ironically, Moore never actually drove this car during his tenure as Bond.

* Nick Fury's SUV in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Unusual for this trope, it features a pop-out machine gun that's mounted ''inside'' the car, and he needs to wait until the window is breached before deploying it against his attackers.

** The Batmobile from the Creator/TimBurton movies definitely qualifies as this. The first ''[[Film/Batman1989 Batman]]'' movie had a heavy-duty armored shield that could be activated when it was parked, machine guns that were mainly used to invoke the BulletholeDoor effect, and a special bomb that Batman used to wipe out the Axis Chemical factory in one scene. The Batmobile in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' used side-blades that could cut through stilts, high-speed discs that he used to unseat Skull Riders from their motorcycles, and a switch that turned the rocket-powered exhaust into a weapon, putting the torch on anyone unfortunate enough to be directly behind it.

* For a few years, cigarette smugglers in southern Italy, more specifically in Puglia, used weaponized Nissan Patrols outfitted with silicone-filled tires, caltrops, powerful blinding headlights, armor, bulletproof glass and battering rams. The law-enforcement vehicles used to counter them had just reinforced frames, bulletproof glass and a forward-mounted armored plate ([[http://www.mesagnenews.com/public/news/mezzi-gdf_1_.jpg see here]]) while the smuggler cars come [[http://www.inilossum.it/images/milita408.jpg straight out of Mad Max]].

* The vehicles from the Police Car Challenge on ''Series/Top Gear'' ; each presenter fitted a spectacularly low-budget device for stopping baddies onto their vehicle. Richard Hammond had a "stinger" (a doormat with some nails in it), James May built a spray paint screen for his car (that failed when confronted with [[CriticalResearchFailure windscreen wipers]]), and Jeremy Clarkson fitted his rear tires with spiked wheels (which caused him to lose a ''wheel'' when he tried to use them).

** ''Dark of the Moon'' has the Autobots partially transform to deploy their primary weaponry while still in car mode, something they'd never done before. Surely, the [[MerchandiseDriven Stealth Force toys, non-transforming but weapon-laden car-mode figures]], that came out that year had [[BlatantLies nothing to do with it]]. But that's just further proof that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad - Bumblebee popping out his cannons during a highway chase-battle was ''awesome.''
** A group of Autobot commandos called The Wreckers transform into NASCAR stock cars covered in machine guns and rocket launchers.

* The vehicles from ''Series/Top Gear''s Police Car Challenge; each presenter fitted a spectacularly low-budget device for stopping baddies onto their vehicle. Richard Hammond had a "stinger" (a doormat with some nails in it), James May built a spray paint screen for his car (that failed when confronted with [[CriticalResearchFailure windscreen wipers]]), and Jeremy Clarkson fitted his rear tires with spiked wheels (which caused him to lose a ''wheel'' when he tried to use them).

* The vehicles from ''Series/TopGear'''s Police Car Challenge; each presenter fitted a spectacularly low-budget device for stopping baddies onto their vehicle. Richard Hammond had a stinger (a doormat with some nails in it), James May built a spray paint screen for his car (that failed when confronted with windscreen wipers), and Jeremy Clarkson fitted his rear tires with spiked wheels (which caused him to lose a ''wheel'' when he tried to use them).

* ''Series/TopGear'' and ''Series/MythBusters'' have both dedicated segments to building ''Film/JamesBond''-style cars. The [=MythBusters=]'' have tested nearly everything in the above "standard loadout" list, except for the missiles, and had some success with all of them. When testing the bog-standard fixed-mount car machineguns - which Adam in particular thought would be a total bust - the results were spectacularly effective.
* The special programme ''Series/TopGearApocalypse'' featured an arena battle to the death between radiation - mutated cars for the coveted MOT certificate. The mutations included radio - guidance and sprouting ridiculous weapons. Lookout for the hearse with a huge morningstar!
* ''Series/TopGearAtTheMovies'' had a string of attempts to make a Range Rover into a Bond car, including steel-and-concrete armour on one side (causing a heavy list to one side) while the laminated glass window armour didn't go brilliantly under .50 cal rifle fire; cloaking technology based on a cluster of [=TVs=] obscuring the car and showing a picture of the view from the other side of the car (neccessitating a large generator trailer, which was plainly visible); and weapons including oil and flame jets so pathetic the mooks' cars visibly crash on purpose just because the script says so, teamed with a ramp to launch a toy car with a firework attached for a missile. [[StuffBlowingUp Hammond makes the mistake of using oil and flames at once...]]
* The Suicide Squad van in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. It features state of the art electronics, a radar based tracker, reinforced steel siding, and a missile launcher.

* VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron, VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron and VideoGame/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon All have ''every'' vehicle able to switch to battle mode, equipped with guns and 360 mobility. DOTM uses it to represent Stealth force (see Western animation)

** ''Dark of the Moon'' has the car-bots deploy lots of weaponry while still in car mode, something they'd never done before. Surely, the [[MerchandiseDriven Stealth Force toys, non-transforming but weapon-laden car-mode figures]], that came out that year had [[BlatantLies nothing to do with it]]. But that's just further proof that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad - Bumblebee popping his cannons during a highway chase-battle was ''awesome.''

* ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'s [[CoolCar Jaguars E-Type]]. The weapons vary depending on the particular one he picked and what modifications he did this time, and have included smoke bombs, DeadlyGas, {{Caltrops}}, [[StuffBlowingUp mine launchers]], [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], ''[[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]]'', and many other things ([[ImprovisedWeapon some not actually meant to act as weapons]]) in various combinations, but [[DoesntLikeGuns no firearms]].

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' continues the tradition with the N-Forcer, a futuristic SUV with a [[FrickinLaserBeams laser turret]], and the Gatmobile, a van with Johnny Gat's likeness on the front that has a cigarette-shaped flamethrower coming out of its "mouth."

* Many games in recent years have appeared on this subject, using diecast cars as miniatures. Often released for free, these include ''[[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116626/axle-tribes Axle Tribes]]'', ''[[http://axlesalloys2.blogspot.com.au/ Axles and Alloys]]'' and ''[[http://autocombat.50webs.com/RoadRageV8GTi.pdf Road Rage V8]]''.

** Actually most people would be surprised to find out that at least four ''Film/JamesBond'' gadgets are very easy to DIY: caltrop dispensers (all that is needed is a tub-shaped box which rotates pushed by a stepper motor), OilSlick dispensers (a metal can for the oil, an electric pump and 2-4 nozzles), smoke screen (it needs some used motor oil and an injector pump to spray it in the red-hot exhaust) and rotating license plate, which is easier to do in nowadays plastic-bumper cars than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_%28film%29 in the chromed steel bumper of an Aston Martin]]. However, [[AwesomeButImpractical they have disadvantages]] for someone whose life does not depend on them: stored caltrops are bulky, rattly and noisy, a properly running OilSlick dispenser would need a barrel with at least 20 liters of oil, and rotating license plates with a fake number may have you imprisoned for forgery in some countries if caught. [[CoolCar Cool?]] Yes. Useful? Hardly ever.

* ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}'' has powerups that you give weapon abilities such as the napalm launcher.

* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwind Darkwind: War on Wheels]]''

* TalonSoft's ''Tribal Rage'' has everything you could ask for in a car: turrets, mounted machine guns, AP machine guns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers tank slugs...

* ''VideoGame/AutoDestruct'' is a shining example of this. You are driving a car which can have 2 kinds of machineguns, 4 kinds of lazers, a dozen kinds of dumb-fire and homing missiles, cannons, mines, oil slicks, smoke screens... well, you get the pic--no, wait. ''[[HyperspaceArsenal All at the same time.]]''

* So is ''VideoGame/SmashingDrive''.

%%* ''VideoGame/ZoneRaiders''

* ''VideoGame/DeathRally''

* ''Tribal Rage'' has everything you could ask for in a car: turrets, mounted machine guns, AP machine guns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers tank slugs...

* ''VideoGame/HighwayHunter''

* In the Apple/Android game ''Gunner Z'', you are a member of a mercenary outfit fighting off zombies, enemy vehicles and drones by driving armoured trucks carrying crane-mounted bleeding-edge guns and sensors. Your intial vehicles are the jeep-like AC-HMV but they can be replaced by miniature monster trucks called the [=VR1 Bandit=]. All of these can be upgraded to pack enough armour and firepower to rival a tank.

* ''Creator/{{Capcom}}'' had ''Speed Rumbler'' aka ''Rush and Crash'' where [[VideoGame/BionicCommando Super Joe]] has his family kidnapped by terrorists who have taken over the town and he gets them back with his souped-up car that has machine guns built-in.

* ''VideoGame/{{Autoduel}}'', the Car Wars video game.
* ''VideoGame/TribalRage'' has everything you could ask for in a car: turrets, mounted machine guns, AP machine guns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers tank slugs...

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}''

* In the first AgeOfEmpires, you could use Cheat codes to summon cars with rocket launchers mounted on them. Use BIGDADDY to get Winsett's Z and BIG MOMMA for Winsett's Other Z

* ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'': Wile E. builds one in "Sugar and Spies". It includes machine guns, a cannon and an EjectorSeat. With the inevitable predictable results.

* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'' discusses these in their [[https://howtohero.tumblr.com/post/160479314382/vehicles entry on superhero vehicles]].