History Main / WeaponizedCar

* During the Africa campaign of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the British Special Air Services utilized Jeeps packing machine guns and loaded for bear with all the equipment needed for long-range patrol as one of their main weapons to conduct commando raids on German patrols and supply lines. The British weren't amused when Series/RatPatrol portrayed such operations as [[AmericaWonWorldWatII American.]]

* During the Africa campaign of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the British Special Air Services utilized Jeeps packing machine guns and loaded for bear with all the equipment needed for long-range patrol as one of their main weapons to conduct commando raids on German patrols and supply lines.

* ''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.

* The ''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 apocolyptic setting means that there isn't anything high tech, but that doesn't stop them wreaking havoc using vehicles.

* The two ''Videogame/Vigilante8'', a SpirtualSuccessor to ''Interstate '''76'', has pretty much every vehicle weaponized; even garbage trucks and motorcycles.

* The David Robbins ''{{Endworld}}'' series has the SEAL, an armoured van that carries twin .50 caliber machine guns, a rocket launcher, a FLAMETHROWER, and stinger missiles.

** Unless that official is UsefulNotes/JosephStalin. His motorcades included automobiles armed with machine guns and even cannons.

* '''Go-karts and other racing vehicles:''' nothing says speed like racing vehicles. That said, what can be put on the may be limited, and they tend to be more fragile, resulting in {{Fragile Speedsters}}, especially when compared to...

* During and immediately after WorldWarOne, several concepts for one man tanks were proposed. One example was the [[http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/BritishTankettes.html Morris-Martel One Man Tankette]].

** Its predecessor was the AC-47, modified from the WW2-era C-47 Skytrain transport and cargo plane.
** Similarly, many German bombers leading into WorldWarII were converted airliners (albeit airliners designed specifically to be easily converted into bombers), such as the Focke-Wulf FW-200 Condor. Other countries enacted similar programs during the war to reduce development time, leading to designs such as the Short Sunderland. In fact, such design methods are still used today, leading to aircraft like the P-8 Poseiden, a Boeing 737 with various upgrades to include a bomb bay.

* Both the [[TMNT1987 1987]] and [[TMNT2003 2003]] ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' 'toons featured these. The original toon featured the Party Wagon, while the second series featured two different Battle Shells, the Turtle Hauler, and several less-frequently-used vehicles. The [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012]] series continues this tradition with the Shellraiser, Casey Jone's [[Hot Rod]], and the new Party Wagon.

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.

* ''VideoGame/XCOMApocalypse'' has the 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 Hoverbike]] [[ZergRush Swarms]] in taking down {{Flying Saucer}}s.

* In the WhereAreTheyNow epilogue of ''Videogame/CrashTeamRacing'', [[TheEngineer Dr. N. Gin]] attempted to patent such a system, but, as shown in the page quote, it was hastily withdrawn.

* ''VideoGame/{{Interstate 76}}'' games have weaponized muscle cars. The first game, being a simulator of sorts, realistically deals with the difficultly of aiming a fixed machine gun from a bouncy car moving at 100mph.

* ''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. In one issue they are parked outside a bush pub where their crews are drinking, and... indulging in less healthy chemical stimulations (willingly or not), while talking smack and dealing with wasteland critters. A six-legged mutant lizard jumps up and urinates on the Mean Machine, which fries it alive.

* 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 combinbations, but [[DoesntLikeGuns no firearms]].

* Although none of its vehicles are actually ''weaponized'', this trope is played with a bit in ''NationalTreasure 2'', 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.

* 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.

* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Batmobile]]

** The Japanese car (co-piloted by JackieChan) could also count.

* Both [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Major Bludd's]] car and the stolen Cobra truck in ''GIJoeRenegades''.

* ''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...]]

* [[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.

** Unless that official is JosephStalin. His motorcades included automobiles armed with machine guns and even cannons.

* The Mach 5 from ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' is armed to the teeth. The saws were 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.)

* In ''{{Monsterpocalypse}}'', one of the Terrasaur units introduced in the ''All Your Base'' expansion is the Green Fury Van, a heavily-armed van full of heavily-armed eco-terrorists.
* ''{{Rifts}}'', being Post-Post apocalypse and all, all but encourages Adventurers to do this. Not just guns, but [[{{Magitek}} magic]] as well.
* ''Highway2000'' by Threshold Games (and later Gamescience).

* ''{{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.