# Favorite fictional vehicles? (NOT including spacecraft) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664 "2003-10-05T04:17:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/21 "2003-10-05T07:20:06Z")
The snowspeeders from _Empire Strikes Back_, and the motorcycle that turned into a helicopter from _M.A.S.K._ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/22 "2003-10-05T07:20:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > **There was this yellow submarine in a movie that I once saw. What was the name of that movie again?** Clearly you were in the proper state of mind to watch that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/23 "2003-10-05T07:21:06Z")
I think I could squeak in with the _Gay Deceiver_, the dimension-travelling intelligent flying car from the Heinlein stories. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/24 "2003-10-05T08:13:15Z")
Only if the TARDIS counts, **Sunspace** … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Robert\_Lehnert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Robert\_Lehnert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert_Lehnert)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/25 "2003-10-05T09:33:15Z")
John Drake’s/The Prisoner’s Rotus (Lotus) sportster–man, the opening sequence of _The Prisoner_ still gets to me over 30 years after it was first broadcast! ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/26 "2003-10-05T09:55:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trucido \* > \*\*Hiro Protagonist’s Deliverator car from _Snow Crash_. \*\* The motorcycle in that novel was even better. Some other vehicles I liked: [ul] [li]The _Nautilus_ (original Jules Verne version)[/li][li]The flying hotel/cruiseship in _The Fifth Element_[/li][li]Pretty much all flying machines in Miyazaki’s anime, but especially Nausicaa’s “Mehve” and the Tigermoth (pirate airship in _Casle in the Sky_)[/li][li]The Rocketeer’s jet pack[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/27 "2003-10-05T10:37:32Z")
Aww, **Sunspace** already named the first one I thought of: _Gay Deceiver_. Since you ruled out spacecraft, that takes away the _Heart of Gold_ from Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Okay, here’s some more: - Ornithopters from _Dune_ (the book). For that matter the giant sandworms too. Are they considered vehicles? - Giant spidermobile from _Wild Wild West_ (just once I’d like to drive it to work and blow away whomever parks in my favorite spot). - Speed Buggy - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ash’s Deathmobile from _Army of Darkness_ - Several of the Bolo tanks from various stories (by various authors) in the series ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/28 "2003-10-05T13:33:56Z")
_MAD-4 Marauder_ from _Battletech_. I’ll second _Thunderbird 2_ and the _Monkeemobile_. Captain Nemo’s _Nautilus_, in all or any of it’s incarnations. The various _Fantasticars_, especially the one that split into 4 parts. The _Martian Tripod War Machines_ from HG Wells’ _War Of The Worlds_ is my personal fave-rave, and I want one. Think about it: transportation and personal vengence all wrapped up in one package! The _Mobile Infantry Armor_ from the novel _Starship Troopers_ (I hated them for leaving it out of the film). Batman’s ultralight helicopter, the _Whirleybat_. Love that name! 😃 Question: Does Optimus Prime count as a vehicle, within the terms of the OP? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/29 "2003-10-05T13:39:32Z")
Blue Thunder was bad-ass. Airwolf was a little too overdone for my taste, and Street Hawk was just out there. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/30 "2003-10-05T13:45:27Z")
The Batmobile from the 90’s cartoon. The Time Machine. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/31 "2003-10-05T14:10:35Z")
The Batmobile, particularly the '60s TV version. SUCH a chick magnet… ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/32 "2003-10-05T15:15:19Z")
**Miss Agnes** , the Rolls Royce pickup truck from John D. MacDonald’s [Travis McGee series](http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mwarble/slipf18/home.htm). ---
**Author:** ![FairyDust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ccd318/32.png) [@FairyDust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyDust)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/33 "2003-10-05T15:20:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capacitor \* > \*\*KITT. \*\* Another vote for KITT. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/34 "2003-10-05T16:21:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darth Nader \* > Only if the TARDIS counts, **Sunspace** … > > 😉 Well, the _Gay Deceiver_ actually moves. Since the TARDIS technically doesn’t (IIRC), it might not be considered a vehicle at all. Since **Icerigger** has already claimed the _Slanderscree_, I will put forth the gagglezoomer cart from [“Snarfquest”](http://www.larryelmore.com/LarryElmore/ZGallery/SnarfQuest/Snarf.html) (an old Larry Elmore comic from _Dragon Magazine_). It was a simple wooden cart hitched to a lizard-like creature called a gagglezoomer, a beast with a habit of remaining perfectly still until something touches its rather sensitive back, then taking off like the proverbial bat. It was controlled with a stick and a little parasitic creature. When you wanted to move, you put the parasite on the stick, deposited him on the zoomer’s back, and held on for your life–the zoomer accelerates from 0-80 mph in about 2 seconds. There is no way to slow down (except by removing the parasite, which causes the zoomer to go from 80-0 mph in about 2 seconds) and you steer by banging on the side of the zoomer’s head with the stick until he turns. A zoomer cart has no seat belts or shock absorbers, and may be the most dangerous form of transportation ever conceived. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/35 "2003-10-05T16:37:08Z")
The Sunbeam Tiger that Maxwell Smart parks in front of CONTROL headquarters. I gotta get me one someday. Or, if you’re strict about fictionality, the Lotus that turns into a submarine in that Bond movie. But I’ll settle for the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers’ Megazord. It would make my daily commute so much easier. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/36 "2003-10-05T17:11:25Z")
-Arrakis’ sandworms are vehicles… Fremen ride them. -I’ll second ornithopters and the flycycles from Ringworld. -Silt Striders from Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. (game) -I liked the noises that issued from the Jetson’s car. -The rapidly evolving beast that ate Zaphod Beeblebrox and evolved into a nifty little escape pod. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/37 "2003-10-05T17:14:56Z")
Does a Green Lantern power ring count as a vehicle? He DOES use it to fly around… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/38 "2003-10-05T17:23:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > \*\*There was this yellow submarine in a movie that I once saw. What was the name of that movie again? \*\* It was called _The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down_. Anyone remember the [Supermobile?](http://nightwing.superman.ws/corgi.htm) Those big fists always cracked me up, though technically, it could be (and was) used as a spaceship. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/39 "2003-10-05T17:25:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > The _Martian Tripod War Machines_ from HG Wells’ _War Of The Worlds_ is my personal fave-rave, and I want one. Think about it: transportation and personal vengence all wrapped up in one package! Eh. You just want access to one of those 1890s style “Heat Rays.” sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/40 "2003-10-05T18:28:58Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by scr4 \*[ul]… [li]The flying hotel/cruiseship in _The Fifth Element_ …[/ul][/li][/QUOTE] BZZZZT! I’m sorry, that is a spacecraft. Please try again. I’d like to add, “The Solar Sailer” simulation from **Tron**. That was a cool little ride. I can’t believe I missed _The Nautilus_ and _The Time Machine_. Two of my faves (and I just recently saw “The Time Machine”). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664.md?page=3)