History Main / WeaponizedCar

* '''[[ImprovisedArmor Hillbilly Armor]]:''' Makeshift armour like steel plates, sand bags, railroad track or caterpillar track idlers strapped, bolted or welded to protect the engine and crew.

* OlderThanRadio: Actually dates as far back as 1890 in the form of "Tachanka", a machine-gun-enabled horse carriage, which saw most prominent use during post-Revolution Civil War in Russia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachanka. Should be mentioned, hovewer, that Tachanka's were essentially the fast machinegun transport, and were supposed to unload the weapon before openong fire. On actual battlefield, of course...

* The AC-130 gunship is a weaponised cargo plane, which is created by taking a normal C-130 cargo plane and adding guns on one side.

** Also used by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco_tank Mexican drug cartels]]. These vary in quality, as some end up so heavy they end up rim-riding after all their tyres blow.

** ''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 TropesAreNotBad - Bumblebee popping his cannons during a highway chase-battle was ''awesome.''

* Most vehicles in ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'' are tanks, hovercrafts and the like, though the standout is the [[LostTechnology Star League-era]] 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]].

* ''Crystal Balls'' showed a Finnish invention involving a police car equipped with a large spike, which rams into the car its pursuing and fills it with tear gas. The presenter pointed out that such an invention could well be bad news for the [[PunkInTheTrunk kidnapped industrialist in the trunk]].

* 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.

* 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 look [[http://www.inilossum.it/images/milita408.jpg straight out of Mad Max]].

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Marvin Heemeyer]] mounted several guns and concrete armor to a bulldozer, which he then used to destroy several buildings around town.

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* ''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 professional combatant at this, he gets his revenge.]]

* The Batmobile from the Tim Burton ''Film/{{Batman}}'' movies definitely qualifies as this. The first 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.

* The Black Beauty from ''Franchise/TheGreenHornet''.

** The Swedish sleigh cannons of CarolusRex (Karl XII) could as well count.

* Many ''Film/JamesBond'' cars since ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' 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.

[[caption-width-right:300:Cut me off and ''die''.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan'': 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?

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

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

* OlderThanRadio: Actually dates as far back as 1890 in the form of "Tachanka", a machine-gun-enabled horse carriage, which saw most prominent use during post-Revolution Civil War in Russia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachanka.

* Both the [[TMNT1987 1987]] and [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 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.