# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/41 "2003-10-05T19:58:33Z")
I always like Ghost Rider’s bike. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/42 "2003-10-05T23:16:20Z")
**Snowskimmer** …Jonny Quest **Dustcruiser** …A.C. Clarke’s “A Fall of Moondust” ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/43 "2003-10-05T23:19:04Z")
Max Max’s V-8 interceptor. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/44 "2003-10-05T23:27:59Z")
The _Black Pearl_. ---
**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 6, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/45 "2003-10-06T03:40:52Z")
:smack: **Miller** wins. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/46 "2003-10-06T03:44:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > **_Little Nell_, Bond’s gyrocopter in, "You Only Live Twice."** It’s not entirely fictional. It was a [Wallis WA-116](http://www.mindbody.demon.co.uk/autogyro/) autogyro. Its performance and portability was of course exaggerated. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/47 "2003-10-06T03:48:56Z")
I have two: The badass car that rebuilds itself that Charlie Sheen’s character drives in _Wraith_ The time travelling train from _Back to the Future III_. ---
**Author:** ![Sonyadora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sonyadora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonyadora)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/48 "2003-10-06T03:56:35Z")
The pirates’ dragonfly ships from _Laputa_, KITT, the motorcycle from _Kino no Tabi_, hell, any motor vehical that talks is cool. I also liked the mobile Chinese restaurant from _The Fifth Element_. And folks, the Batmobile is the coolest car _ever_. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/49 "2003-10-06T04:27:01Z")
A Madcat from Mechwarrior has always been my dream commuting vehicle. 75 tons of walking death and destruction that can travel over uneven terrain at 40 kph, over smooth terrain at 80kph. A set of heavy machine guns firing depleted uranium slugs for the small stuff, an autocannon and a couple of heavy lasers for the big stuff, and a set of heat-seeking missiles for everything else. For all others, the right of way will be transformed into the right to get out of my way. ---
**Author:** ![saintnobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@saintnobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saintnobody)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/50 "2003-10-06T04:35:12Z")
Konida’s motorcycle in Akira Jet Moto Bikes from the game ---
**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 6, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/51 "2003-10-06T04:52:03Z")
The haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury from “Christine”… looks cool, goes fast, repairs its own damage… …and when people mess with you, your car goes out and KILLS them for you!! Who wouldn’t love that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/52 "2003-10-06T05:56:29Z")
I was always rather fond of the poor abused hemi-cuda in the **Phantasm** flicks. (Not really a fictional vehicle, unless you accept that it was the _same car_ in all four movies, which someone kept rebuilding/repairing inbetween battles with the Tall Man.) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/53 "2003-10-06T06:11:24Z")
Another vote for the time-travellin’ DeLorean. Not only is it a fuel-efficient time machine, it’s a _DeLorean!_😃 Runner-up vote: The motorcycle that turns into a jet plane from **M.A.S.K.** ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/54 "2003-10-06T08:06:45Z")
I would also vote for any of the Veritech/Valkyrie fighters from Macross, but for the fact that they are definitely spaceworthy…but then, so are my next choice, the Dragons of Pern. I always liked the design of the tanks in TRON. I’d also enjoy traveling on a “Banpei-kun RX” from Oh My Goddess!, but I’d have to scale him up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/55 "2003-10-06T11:12:05Z")
The TARDIS probably counts as a spacecraft … but Bessie doesn’t. And never mind _Thunderbirds_, what about _Captain Scarlet_? I’d go for an SPV any day … the Angel interceptors could match Sky One for performance and looked much more graceful … come to think of it, Spectrum’s Cloudbase could move, when the plot required it; now _there’s_ something to take the kids to school in … ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/56 "2003-10-06T16:24:16Z")
I’d have to go with the SW speeder bikes, the TRON light-cycle, the Akira cycle, and the motorcycle from the FF7 video game. Oh, and those nifty sky sleds from He-man. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/57 "2003-10-06T17:47:55Z")
i just want the hoverboard from Back to the Future, vehicle or no… ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/58 "2003-10-06T20:39:43Z")
A lot of people “just want[ed] the hoverboard from Back to the Future”… I’ve read a number of places that after B to the F opened, Mattel was swamped with phone calls. Yep, rubes wanting to buy a hoverboard. “Those don’t exist, ma’m.” “They do too! Saw it in a movie. And it even had a big ol’ Mattel logo on it! So why won’t you sell me one?” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/59 "2003-10-06T22:09:26Z")
That was almost 20 years ago. Surely they have the hoverboards by now. ---
**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 7, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/60 "2003-10-07T00:21:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sock Munkey \* > \*\*I’d have to go with the SW speeder bikes, the TRON light-cycle, the Akira cycle, and the motorcycle from the FF7 video game. > Oh, and those nifty sky sleds from He-man. \*\* Ever seen the Motoslave transforming bikes/battledrones/power suit enhancers from _Bubblegum Crisis_ ? Or the bike/battlesuits from Robotech Masters? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664.md?page=4)