List of fictional vehicles

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The following is a '''list of fictional vehicles'''.

==List of lists== * List of fictional aircraft * List of fictional cars * List of fictional ships * List of fictional spacecraft

==Buses== {{anchor|List of fictional buses}} Buses often appear as settings, or sometimes even characters, in works of fiction. This is a list of named buses which were important story elements in notable works of fiction, including books, films and television series. * The Battle Bus, from Fortnite * Bus 25/25, from the 1994 film ''Speed''<ref name="shaw">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CC48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT76 |title=Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road |editor-first=Gordon E. |editor-last=Slethaug |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2017 |isbn=9781501335273 |chapter=The Tour Bus and the Road |first=Anaia |last=Shaw |pages=72–}}</ref><ref name="romero"/><ref name="halverson"/><ref name="lindeke"/><ref name="marshall"/> * Catbus, a sentient bus from the 1988 film ''My Neighbor Totoro''<ref name="lindeke">{{cite web |url=https://streets.mn/2020/05/20/the-five-best-bus-films-of-all-time/ |title=The Five Best Bus Films of All Time |first=Bill |last=Lindeke |date=20 May 2020 |access-date=25 July 2020 |website=streets.mn}}</ref> * "Cyclops", a nuclear-powered bus from the 1976 film ''The Big Bus''<ref name="lindeke"/> * "Bertie the Bus" and "Bulgy the Double-Decker Bus", from The Railway Series and ''Thomas & Friends''. * "Doris", the fictional band's tour bus in the 2000 film ''Almost Famous''.<ref name="shaw"/> * The Knight Bus, which appears in several of the ''Harry Potter'' books and films<ref name="shaw"/> * The Magic School Bus<ref name="shaw"/><ref name="romero">{{cite news |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2088972_2088978_2089001,00.html |title=Top 10 Famous Buses |newspaper=Time |first=Frances |last=Romero |date=17 August 2011}}</ref> * "Priscilla", the eponymous bus in the 1994 film ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert''<ref name="shaw"/> * "Sweetheart", in John Steinbeck's ''The Wayward Bus''<ref name="halverson">{{cite journal|title=John Steinbeck's Sweetheart: The Cosmic American Bus |first=Cathryn |last=Halverson |journal=College Literature |volume=35 |number=1 |date=Winter 2008 |pages=82–99 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|doi = 10.1353/lit.2008.0004|jstor = 25115479|s2cid=143266987 }}</ref> * "Tayo", "Rogi", "Lani", and "Gani", bus characters from the Korean animated children's show, ''Tayo the Little Bus''.<ref name="marshall">{{cite web |url=https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/one-koreas-popular-cartoons-bus/ |title=One of Korea's Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus |work=The Korea Blog |publisher=The L.A. Review of Books |date=31 March 2016 |first=Colin |last=Marshall}}</ref>

== Hovercraft/anti-gravity vehicles == * Hoverboard * Snowspeeder * Speeder bike * Fast attack (Javelin, Land Speeder, etc.) and main battle platforms (Astraeus, Repulsor, etc.) - ''Warhammer 40000''

==Magical vehicles== * Broomstick * Catbus * The Chariot of Morgan Mwynfawr * Killdozer * Magic carpet * Mortar (bowl) * Seven-league boots * Ruby slippers * Cinderella's pumpkin coach * Santa's sleigh * The Yellow Submarine

== Mecha == {{main|Mecha}} * Big Darrell - ''OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' * Big O - ''The Big O'' * E-frame - ''Exosquad'' * EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit - Helldivers 2 * EXO-49 Emancipator Exosuit - Helldivers 2 * Evangelions - ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' * Mobile weapons - ''Gundam'' * Tripod - three-legged Martian fighting machine, armed with a heat-ray, ''The War of the Worlds'' * VF-1 Valkyrie - variable geometry space fighter from Robotech (TV series) * Voltron * Z-Mech - ''Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2'' * Metal Gear robotic war engines - ''Metal Gear'' * BattleMechs - bipedal walker battle robots from BattleTech game series. * Titans, smaller Imperial Knights and their counterparts of other races - ''Warhammer 40000'' * Heavy Gears - bipedal warsuits from a '''''Heavy Gear''''' science fiction game universe * Dreadnought - Warhammer 40k * BT-7274 and other Titans - Titanfall & Titanfall 2

== Railroads and trains == {{See also|Ghost train (folklore)|Starlight Express#Characters}} * Blaine the train - the Dark Tower by Steven King * Hooterville Cannonball - ''Petticoat Junction'' * The Quadrail trains - the Timothy Zahn series * Undersea Super Train: Marine Express * The Wanderer - ''The Wild Wild West'' * Wabash Cannonball * Baby Train * Snowpiercer * Supertrain * Galaxy Express 999 * Tachypomp * Blaine the Mono * The Polar Express * The Hogwarts Express - ''Harry Potter'' * The Atlantic Express - ''Avalanche Express'' * Central Pacific Railroad No. 131 - ''Back to the Future Part III'' * The Transcontinental Express - ''The Cassandra Crossing'' * The Indian Valley Railroad - ''Shining Time Station'' and ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad'' * Wilson, Brewster and Koko - ''Chuggington'' * Azul - ''Dora the Explorer'' * Casey Junior - ''Dumbo (1941)'' and ''Dumbo (2019)'' * Puffa and Little Owl - ''TUGS'' * Driver Dan's Story Train * The Greendale Rocket and The Pencaster Flyer - ''Postman Pat'' * Ivor the Engine * The Ninky Nonk - ''In the Night Garden'' * The Spirit Train - The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

=== ''The Railway Series'' === There are many railway and other 'vehicle' characters in ''The Railway Series'' children's books by Rev. W. Awdry. For a list, please see: * List of characters in The Railway Series

=== ''Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends'' === ''Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends'' is the TV spin-off from ''The Railway Series''. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists: * List of ''Thomas & Friends'' characters * List of ''Thomas & Friends'' film characters

==AFVs== === Tanks === * Bolo - AI armored super-heavy tank * Drill Dozer - Drilling tank from ''Drill Dozer'', piloted by child gentleman thief Jill. * Griffon tank - ''Warhammer 40000'' * RX-75 Guntank - ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' * TD-220 Bastion MK XVI - Helldivers 2 * Leman Russ - a main battle tank of Astra Militarum, backbone armed force of Imperium of Humankind from ''Warhammer 40000'' * Baneblade, Fellblade and their variants - super heavy tanks from ''Warhammer 40000'' *Type 2 Armored Personnel Carrier from patlabor 2

== Other == * Howl's Moving Castle * TARDIS * B-Ped - Teen Titans * Farcaster - Hyperion Cantos * Time Tunnel - ''The Time Tunnel'' * Transporter - ''Star Trek'' * Time machine - novella "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells * Laputa - ''Gulliver's Travels'' and ''Castle in the Sky'' * Steam Castle - ''Steamboy'' * Manhattan Island - ''Cities in Flight'' * Death City - ''Soul Eater'' (anime but not manga) * 2019 Spinner - self-contained lift, ''Blade Runner'' 1982 design by Syd Mead * Supercar - ''Supercar'' * Monocycle race in Venus war

== See also == The following are lists of mixed types of vehicles, not otherwise categorized above:

===Literature=== * Known Space#Technology * List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion * Intelligent car

===Film=== * List of ''James Bond'' vehicles * List of ''Star Wars'' air, aquatic, and ground vehicles * List of Star Wars spacecraft * List of Star Wars starfighters

===Television=== * ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' * ''Fireman Sam'' - vehicles * ''New Captain Scarlet'' - vehicles and aircraft * ''Terrahawks'' - vehicles * ''Thunderbirds'' machines * Transformers * ''Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan'' - vehicles

===Games=== * Warhammer 40,000

==References== {{Reflist}}

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