So I was thinking about this and that it makes more sense to to rank videogame vehicles always because you can actually drive those. That gives them a huge leg up over vehicles from movies and TV. Because if you can't drive it then what is the point. The reason for each item on the list being there ends up being "it looks cool."

But from there I noticed another problem which is that it is often the case that every vehicle in a videogame is the same as any other car from that game. Mario Kart, Ridge Racer, and Sonic Racing Transformed serve as perfect examples of this. Hell, by unlocking mods in Transformed you can make one character's vehicle perform more like a different character's and vice versa. And in Ridge Racer for Vita, each car is essentially just a skin and it's a tire grip slider you can adjust that actually affects performance, which in primciple was what every car in the franchise was all along. They're all the same vehicle using the same drift physics, albeig locked to a particular point on the slider.

So in many such cases one might as well rate the entire game as the vehicle or simply pick the most iconic example to headline it. (E.g. ranking all Sonic Racing Transformed vehicles as a single choice but simply having it show Sonic's car)

Going down this rabbit hole raises uncomfortable questions. 1) are not *all* video games debatably this? 2) If a game can be said to be guilty of this, and it certainly can, then why not include licensed vehicles provided they appear in such a game? Hell, taking it further, 3) why not allow licensed vehicles altogether so long as it's obviously that they don't drive like that in real life. (i.e. arcade racers) and lastly, 4) I forgot what I was going to write here. I though I had a 4th lined up but immediately forgot as soon as I began typing it.

Oh, I think I was simply going to ask if mecha count as land vehicles. If they can fly then it obvioisly no longer counts as land vehicles, but there are many cases such as Armored Core where they cannot perpetually fly, but have a lot of airborne maneeuverability in the form of jumping and midair propulsion. These kind of blur the line.

Definitely allowed - "walkers", RTS mecha ground units. Front Mission, Ring of Red, Metal Gear, etc
Definitely not allowed - many Gundam series and anime mech series, as they're essentially full on planes with human limbs
Ambiguous - Armored Core series, Gundam mecha with no flight capabilities and in particular any Gundam that coexists in the same timeline as Gundam that *can* fly. (Even more so if the non flying Gundam itself acquires flight at some point) Ah yai yai...