The following is a list of fictional vehicles, that are either the subjects of a notable work of fiction, or else that are important elements of a notable work of fiction.

Flying or moving castles

• Laputa
  Laputa
  Laputa is a fictional place from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.Laputa is a fictional flying island or rock, about 4.5 miles in diameter, with an adamantine base, which its inhabitants can maneuver in any direction using magnetic levitation...
  
   — Gulliver's Travels
  Gulliver's Travels
  Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels , is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of...
  
   and Castle in the Sky
  Castle in the Sky
  All compositions by Joe Hisaishi.#"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky" – 2:27#"Morning in Slag Ravine" – 3:04#"A Fun Brawl " – 4:27#"Memories of Gondoa" – 2:46#"Discouraged Pazu" – 1:46#"Robot Soldier " – 2:34...
  
  
• Howl's Moving Castle
  Howl's Moving Castle
  Howl's Moving Castle is a young adult fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986. It won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Book for both children and young adults. In 2004 it was adapted as an Academy Award-nominated animated film by Hayao...
  
  
• Steam Castle
  Steamboy
  is a 2004 Japanese animated steampunk film, produced by Sunrise, and directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira. The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2004. Steamboy is the most expensive full length Japanese animated movie made to date...
  
  
• Manhattan Island
  Cities in Flight
  Cities in Flight is an omnibus volume of four novels written by James Blish, originally published between 1955 and 1962, which became known over time collectively as the 'Okie' novels. The novels feature entire cities that are able to fly through space using an anti-gravity device, the spindizzy...
  
  
• Death City in Soul Eater (anime) (anime but not manga)

Flying cars

• Gay Deceiver, a Ford flying car and continua craft, in Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
  
  's 1980 science fiction novel The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
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• De Lorean time machine
  DeLorean time machine
  The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel device featured in the Back to the Future trilogy. In the feature film series, Dr...
  
   - flying and time travel - Back to the Future
  Back to the Future
  Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The film tells the story of...
  
  series
• Jet pack
  Jet pack
  Jet pack, rocket belt, rocket pack, and similar names are various types of devices, usually worn on the back, that are propelled by jets of escaping gases so as to allow a single user to fly....
  
  
• 2019 Spinner - self contained lift - Blade Runner
  Blade Runner
  Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...
  
  1982 design by Syd Mead
  Syd Mead
  Sydney Jay Mead, commonly Syd Mead, is a "visual futurist" and concept artist. He is best known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron...
  
  
• Supercar
  Supercar (TV series)
  Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis's AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. 39 episodes were produced between 1961 and 1962, and it was Anderson's first half-hour series. In the UK it was seen on ITV and in the US in syndication...
  
  

Hovercraft/Anti-gravity vehicles

• Snowspeeder
  Snowspeeder
  A snowspeeder is a Rebel Alliance vehicle featured in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and several books, comics, and video games in the Star Wars Expanded Universe...
  
   - Star Wars
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
  
• Speeder bike
  Speeder bike
  Speeder bikes and swoop bikes are small, fast transports that use repulsorlift engines in the fictional Star Wars universe. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi includes a prominent speeder bike chase; speeders and swoops also appear in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode...
  
   - Star Wars
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
  
• Hoverboard
  Hoverboard
  A Hoverboard is a fictional hovering board used for personal transportation in the films Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III. Hoverboards resemble a skateboard without wheels. Through special effects the filmmakers depicted the boards hovering above the ground...
  
  , from the Back to the Future trilogy

Mecha

• Big O
  Big O (mecha)
  is the premier mecha of The Big O anime TV series, a black megadeus piloted by series protagonist Roger Smith. The robot was designed by series creator Keiichi Sato, who also designed the Mazinger mechas featured on the Mazinkaiser OVA and the mutant creatures of The SoulTaker TV series.- Design...
  
   - The Big O
  The Big O
  is a Japanese animated television series created by director Kazuyoshi Katayama and designer Keiichi Sato for Sunrise Studios. The writing staff was assembled by the series' head writer, Chiaki J. Konaka....
  
  
• Tripod
  Tripod (The War of the Worlds)
  Tripods or fighting-machines are a type of fictional three-legged walker from the H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, used by Martians to invade Earth.-Novel:...
  
   - Three- legged Martian fighting machine, armed with a heat-ray
  Heat-Ray
  The Heat-Ray is the primary offensive weapon used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds and its offshoots.- In the novel :...
  
   - The War of the Worlds
  The War of the Worlds
  The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles...
  
  
• E-frame - Exosquad
  Exosquad
  Exosquad is an American animated television series created by Universal Cartoon Studios as a response to Japanese anime. The show is set in the beginning of the 22nd century and covers the interplanetary war between humanity and Neosapiens, a fictional race artificially created as workers/slaves...
  
  
• Voltron
  Voltron
  Voltron is the titular super robot of an anime series that features a team of young pilots, known as the Voltron Force. The team’s individual vehicles join together to form the giant super robot, with which they defend the galaxy from evil...
  
  
• Mobile weapons
  Mobile weapons
  In the Gundam terminology, the terms normal suit and astrosuit are used to refer to normal astronaut spacesuits, so as to avoid confusion with mobile suits....
  
   -Gundam
  Gundam
  The is a metaseries of anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots called "Mobile Suits" ; usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam....
  
  
• Evangelions
  Evangelion (mecha)
  In the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, , are the fictional mecha piloted by the Children chosen by the Marduk Institute . The Evas were created by Nerv. Their principal purpose is defending Tokyo-3 from the Angels...
  
   - Neon Genesis Evangelion

Railroads and trains

• Hooterville Cannonball
  Hooterville Cannonball
  The Hooterville Cannonball was a fictional railroad train featured in Petticoat Junction, an American situation comedy that was produced by Filmways, Inc., and originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 to 1970...
  
   from Petticoat Junction
  Petticoat Junction
  Petticoat Junction is an American situation comedy produced by Filmways which originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1970. The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning; the others are The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.The setting for the series...
  
  
• The Quadrail
  Quadrail
  The Quadrail is a fictional intra-galactic rail system conceived by science fiction author Timothy Zahn. It first appeared in the novel Night Train to Rigel in 2005.-Operation:...
  
   trains, fromn the Timothy Zahn
  Timothy Zahn
  Timothy Zahn is a writer of science fiction short stories and novels. His novella Cascade Point won the 1984 Hugo award. He is the author of nine Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, including seven novels featuring Grand Admiral Thrawn: the Thrawn Trilogy, the Hand of Thrawn duology, Outbound...
  
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• Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
  Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
  is a made for TV anime movie created for the Nippon Television Network's annual 24-hour charity program, "Ai wa Chikyu wo Suku", which roughly translates to "Love Saves the Earth". The movie contained a veritable "Who's Who" of Tezuka's notable characters. Each one had an important role, and many...
  
  
• The Wanderer from The Wild Wild West
  The Wild Wild West
  The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
  
  
• Wabash Cannonball
  Wabash Cannonball
  "The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "" and credited to J. A. Roff...
  
  
• Baby Train
  Baby Train
  The Baby Train is a popular urban legend, told in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. According to the rumor, a certain small town had an unusually high birth rate. It seems that a freight train would pass through the town at 5:00 am and blow its whistle, waking up all the residents...
  
  
• Supertrain
  Supertrain
  Supertrain is an American television drama/adventure series that ran on NBC from February 7 to May 5, 1979. Nine episodes were made, including a 2-hour pilot episode.-Overview:...
  
  
• Galaxy Express 999
  Galaxy Express 999
  is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality.The manga won the...
  
  
• Tachypomp
  Tachypomp
  "The Tachypomp" is a short story by Edward Page Mitchell originally published January 1874 anonymously in The Sun, a New York daily newspaper.-Publishing information:...
  
  
• Blaine the Mono
  Blaine the Mono
  Blaine the Mono is a fictional character appearing in the books The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands and The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass of Stephen King's Dark Tower series....
  
  
• The Polar Express
  The Polar Express
  The Polar Express is a 1985 children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, a former professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. It was adapted as an Oscar-nominated motion-capture film in 2004....
  
  
• The Hogwarts Express - Harry Potter
  Harry Potter
  Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
  
  

The Railway Series

There are a large number of railway and other 'vehicle' characters in The Railway Series

The Railway Series

The Railway Series is a set of story books about a railway system located on the fictional Island of Sodor. There are 42 books in the series, the first being published in 1945. Twenty-six were written by the Rev. W. Awdry, up to 1972. A further 16 were written by his son, Christopher Awdry; 14...

 children's books by Rev.W.Awdry. Rather than list them all here individually, they are collated in a set of related articles:

• Major Characters (The Railway Series)
  Major characters in The Railway Series
  Many characters have appeared in the books of The Railway Series by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry, and in the spin-off television series, Thomas and Friends.This article profiles the most significant characters of the series...
  
  
• Minor Characters (The Railway Series)
  Minor characters in The Railway Series
  The Railway Series by the Reverend W. V. Awdry and Christopher Awdry is populated with many and varied characters. Some of these had only a few stories or pages devoted to them and, as such, they cannot be regarded as 'major' characters....
  
  

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series

The Railway Series

The Railway Series is a set of story books about a railway system located on the fictional Island of Sodor. There are 42 books in the series, the first being published in 1945. Twenty-six were written by the Rev. W. Awdry, up to 1972. A further 16 were written by his son, Christopher Awdry; 14...

. As such, it shares a large number of characters with the original books, but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of related articles:

• Railway Engines
  Railway engines (Thomas and Friends)
  This article lists the standard gauge Railway Engine characters of the Television Series Thomas and Friends . These are the characters that run on the Fat Controller's railway....
  
  
• Rolling stock
• Non-rail vehicles
• Movie Characters
  Thomas the Tank Engine film characters
  -Thomas and the Magic Railroad:Thomas and the Magic Railroad was the first theatrical Thomas and Friends movie.-Diesel 10:Diesel 10 is a large diesel engine with a claw extending from his roof. He is the main antagonist in the movie. The engines say he is rated "ten out of ten for devious deeds...
  
  

Tanks

• Bolo (tank) - AI armored super-heavy tank
• Griffon tank from Warhammer 40,000
• RX-75 Guntank
  RX-75 Guntank
  The RX-75 Guntank is a fictional weapon from the mecha anime Mobile Suit Gundam. The real life Type 87 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun of the Japan Self-Defense Forces was unofficially nicknamed as Guntank after the fictional weapon by troopers....
  
   - Mobile Suit Gundam
  Mobile Suit Gundam
  is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes...
  
  
• M5A2 Schwarzkopf - The United States Joint Strike Force's main battle tank in EndWar
  Tom Clancy's EndWar
  Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions feature turn-based tactics instead of the real-time tactics of their console counterparts...
  
  
• Panther 1A3 - The European Federation Enforcer Corps main battle tank in EndWar
  Tom Clancy's EndWar
  Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions feature turn-based tactics instead of the real-time tactics of their console counterparts...
  
  
• T-100 Ogre - The Russian Spetsnaz Guard Brigade main battle tank in EndWar
  Tom Clancy's EndWar
  Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions feature turn-based tactics instead of the real-time tactics of their console counterparts...
  
  

Teleporters

• Telepods
• Farcaster
  Farcaster
  A farcaster is an instantaneous transportation device in the fictional Hyperion universe. Farcasters allow two points separated by a vast distance to be brought together at a Farcaster Portal. The Farcaster network connects hundreds of planets of the Hegemony of Man into their WorldWeb...
  
  
• Stargate
  Stargate SG-1
  Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
  
  
• Transporter (Star Trek)
  Transporter (Star Trek)
  A transporter is a fictional teleportation machine used in the Star Trek universe. Transporters convert a person or object into an energy pattern , then "beam" it to a target, where it is reconverted into matter...
  
  
• The Time Tunnel
  The Time Tunnel
  The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen, his third science fiction television series. The show's main theme was Time Travel Adventure. The Time Tunnel was released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran...
  
  

Temporal vehicles

• TARDIS
  TARDIS
  The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
  
   from the science fiction television series Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  
• The Time Machine
  The Time Machine
  The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction...
  
   from a novella by H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
  
  
• Gay Deceiver, a Ford flying car and continua craft, in Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
  
  's 1980 science fiction novel The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast (novel)
  The Number of the Beast is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1980. The first edition featured a cover and interior illustrations by Richard M. Powers...
  
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• DeLorean time machine
  DeLorean time machine
  The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel device featured in the Back to the Future trilogy. In the feature film series, Dr...
  
   from the Back to the Future trilogy

Magical vehicles

• Broomstick
• Catbus
  Catbus
  The is a character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large creature, depicted as a grinning male cat with a hollow body that serves as a bus, complete with windows and seats coated with fur, and a large bushy tail...
  
  
• Christine the possessed car from the Stephen King novel, made into a film
• The Chariot of Morgan Mwynfawr
• Herbie
  Herbie
  Herbie is an anthropomorphic Volkswagen Beetle, a character that is featured in several Disney motion pictures starting with the 1968 feature film The Love Bug. He has a mind of his own and is capable of driving himself, and is a serious contender in auto racing competitions...
  
  
• Killdozer
• Magic carpet
  Magic carpet
  A magic carpet, also called a flying carpet, is a legendary carpet that can be used to transport persons who are on it instantaneously or quickly to their destination.-In literature:...
  
  
• Seven-league boots
  Seven-league boots
  Seven-league boots are an element in European folklore. The boots allow the wearer to take great strides—seven leagues each step—resulting in great speed. The boots are often presented by a magical character to the protagonist to aid in the completion of a significant task...
  
  
• Ruby slippers
  Ruby slippers
  The ruby slippers are the shoes worn by Dorothy in the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz. Because of their iconic stature, they are now among the most treasured and valuable of film memorabilia. As was customary for important props, a number of pairs were made for the film, though no one knows...
  
  
• Cinderella's pumpkin coach
  Cinderella
  "Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
  
  
• Simoun (fictional aircraft)
• Santa's sleigh
  Santa Claus
  Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...
  
  
• The Magic School Bus
  The Magic School Bus
  The Magic School Bus is a series of children's books about science written by author Joanna Cole. They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar...
  
  
• The Yellow Submarine

See also

These are lists of mixed types of vehicles, not otherwise given by lists of ships, aircraft, spacecraft and so on.

Literature

• Known Space#Technology
• List of Dune ships
• List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion
• Intelligent car
  Intelligent car
  Vehicle Automation involves the use of mechatronics and in particular, artificial intelligence to assist in the control of the vehicle, thereby relieving responsibilities from the driver or making a responsibility more manageable. These features and the vehicles employing them may be labeled as...
  
  
• Various Femtotech vehicles from Nulapeiron, featured in Paradox by John Meaney
  John Meaney
  -Biography:Meaney grew up in London and Slough, England with his brother Colm . He has been studying martial arts since childhood and has a black belt in shotokan karate. Meaney originally studied at Birmingham University and holds a combined degree in Physics and Computer Science from the Open...
  
  

Film

• List of James Bond vehicles
• List of Star Wars air, aquatic, and ground vehicles

Television

• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
  Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
  Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired....
  
  
• Fireman Sam#Vehicles
• Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet#Vehicles and aircraft
• List of Doctor Who vehicles
• Terrahawks#Vehicles
• Thunderbirds machines
  Thunderbirds machines
  The Gerry Anderson Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds and the subsequent feature films Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6 featured a large variety of futuristic air, land and sea vehicles and machines, the majority of which were designed by special effects director Derek...
  
  
• Transformers
  Transformers
  A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling.Transformer may also refer to:* ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer manufacturer by Asus...
  
  
• Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan#Vehicles

Games

• Warhammer 40,000
  • Vehicles of the Imperium in Warhammer 40,000
    • Vehicles of the Imperial Guard in Warhammer 40,000
    • Vehicles of the Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000

Comics, graphic novels, animation

• List of technology in Judge Dredd#Vehicles
• List of vehicles in Marvel Comics
• List of Gurren Lagann mecha