# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/61 "2003-10-07T00:40:05Z")
One of Keith Laumer’s **Bolo** tanks, the perfect commuter vehicle, especially for clearing out those crowded lanes. And as long as you’re talking about **Deathmobiles** then the much-modified 1964 slab-sided Lincoln from the **Animal House** finale has a certain coolth factor. ---
**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, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/62 "2003-10-07T00:52:02Z")
**Ranchoth** —_does_ Optimus Prime count as a vehicle? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/63 "2003-10-07T00:53:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > \*\*There was this yellow submarine in a movie that I once saw. What was the name of that movie again? > > And does that sub qualify as a spacecraft? \*\* And don’t forget that Stingray from that show I used to watch-What _was_ the name of that show again? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/64 "2003-10-07T01:50:21Z")
I’ll take Greased Lightning, but only if leather-clad Olivia comes with it. Or maybe the evil walking spider from _Johnny Quest_ for my commute. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/65 "2003-10-07T02:02:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by digs \* > **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.** That’s because Robert Zemeckis once said in an interview that the Hoverboards in the movie are actual Mattel prototypes. You can see the interview on the DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/66 "2003-10-07T02:46:02Z")
Ooh, I’ll second the evil walking spiders from Johhny Quest. Those things would be the safest commuter vehicle you could get: it took a battalion of tanks to destroy two of them! The morons who talk on their cellphones while driving down the freeway at 75 mph would be history 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/67 "2003-10-07T03:39:26Z")
Big deal. The Mach 5 could take out an entire battalion of tanks, even without a chimp in its trunk. ---
**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 7, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/68 "2003-10-07T04:02:29Z")
Czarcasm… are you talking about the black 1965 Stingray from that Nick Mancuso show in the mid-80’s? I thought I was the only person who ever watched that! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/69 "2003-10-07T05:01:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vlad Dracul \* > \*\*Czarcasm… are you talking about the black 1965 Stingray from that Nick Mancuso show in the mid-80’s? I thought I was the only person who ever watched that! \*\* Yeah, that’s the one… sort of a proto-_Pretender_. You couldn’t remember the name of the show either? ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/70 "2003-10-07T05:27:27Z")
A quick glance at Nick Mancuso’s IMDB page yields that the show was called…drumroll…[STINGRAY](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090077/) , for one season on NBC ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/71 "2003-10-07T05:32:55Z")
The color of whooshed is, well, blue, it seems. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/72 "2003-10-07T05:36:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > \*\*A quick glance at Nick Mancuso’s IMDB page yields that the show was called…drumroll…[STINGRAY](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090077/) , for one season on NBC \*\* Gee, thanks! Perhaps you could help us with the title of that movie about a yellow submarine? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/73 "2003-10-07T05:37:20Z")
No one has mentioned the ultra-cool [Black Beauty](http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Desert/7445/greenhornet.htm) yet? A 1966 Chrysler heavily modifed by Dean Jeffries and driven by Bruce Lee as _Kato_, and Van Williams as _The Green Hornet_. ---
**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 7, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/74 "2003-10-07T06:04:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Or the bike/battlesuits from Robotech Masters? \*\* Those are the Cyclones I mentioned in my post - and are from the New Generation, not Masters. (At least I don’t **remember** Cyclones or anything resembling them in the Masters saga, which concentrated mostly on a Hovertank squadron. They were certainly more important in the New Generation - And Sentinels.) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/75 "2003-10-07T06:12:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rico \* > \*\*No one has mentioned the ultra-cool [Black Beauty](http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Desert/7445/greenhornet.htm) yet? \*\* That’s because the Black Beauty would be beaten into black metallic pulp by the Adam West-mobile. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/76 "2003-10-07T06:22:36Z")
Ummm I want a Flintstones car. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/77 "2003-10-07T06:27:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JThunder \* > \*\*That’s because the Black Beauty would be beaten into black metallic pulp by the Adam West-mobile. \*\* Not if the _Black Beauty_ was well prepared… ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/78 "2003-10-07T15:00:29Z")
I’d go for a Jonny Quest jetpack myself, or the time-travelling DeLorean. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/79 "2003-10-07T15:33:21Z")
I haven’t picked out a make or model yet, but I am very interested in aquiring: -A transforming motorcycle/battle armor (or maybe just the battle armor) -A 50 foot fighting robot with multiple rockets, an oversized cannon and maybe even a sword -A speeder bike (but only for flying through the woods at 400 mph) Also: -The Ghostbuster’s Ecto 1 (WEEoooo WEEEoooo WEEEEoooo) -A “Spinner” (flying car) from Blade Runner Maybe a gyro-stabalized unicycle: [http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,489828,00.html](http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,489828,00.html) (guess it won’t be fictional much longer…at least it’s not all corney like those Segways) ---
**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, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664/80 "2003-10-07T15:51:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tengu \* > \*\*Those are the Cyclones I mentioned in my post - and are from the New Generation, not Masters. (At least I don’t **remember** Cyclones or anything resembling them in the Masters saga, which concentrated mostly on a Hovertank squadron. They were certainly more important in the New Generation - And Sentinels.) \*\* You’re right about the series. But the _Masters_ series did show people on vectored-thrust hoverbikes. Cool, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-vehicles-not-including-spacecraft/205664.md?page=5)