The Trope Namer is the now-infamous Ford Pinto, a low-cost car launched by the Ford Motor Company in 1970. Expect it to intersect frequently with Dangerous Clifftop Road (as in the page image).
Some pretty egregious instances might even have them mushroom. Sometimes vehicles tumbling off cliffs will burst into flames spontaneously, in midair, before they've even hit the ground. Aircraft, locomotives, ships: pretty much anything gas-powered and motorized is a fireball waiting to happen. While cars are the most common vehicle to go kaboom, it seems that any form of transport has a good chance of exploding in a huge ball of flames and debris if it's shot at or wrecked. Needless to say, Rule of Cool is in full effect here. At worst your "exploding" car would actually be a car with a small fire. This trope comes from the public knowledge that vehicles are full of flammable substances like gasoline minus the less-public knowledge that liquid gasoline has to be vaporized and mixed with air at the proper ratio before a spark will ignite it.
Evidently fictional cars run on nitroglycerine. WatchMojo, "Top 10 Worst Action Movie Clichés"Īny significant impact to a vehicle, particularly when falling off a cliff, will result in the vehicle exploding and/or immediately catching fire.
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