In India and Pakistan trucks get decorated until they are gaudy pieces of art on wheels:
 

In Japan the same is done, but there, hardly surprising, the dekotora [decorated trucks] follow the neon æsthetics:
 

In Sudan trucks are completely deconstructed and then reconstructed—the results are visually not as spectacular as their Asian kin, but are masterpieces of a comparatively young engineering culture (↓Beck 2009):
 

In Mexico, and within a totally different context, the not so conspicuous Sudanese trucks seem to have cousins: ‘Rhino trucks, narco tanks, Mad Mex-inismos? No one can agree on what to call the armored monster vehicles that Mexican criminal groups have been welding together in recent months, but this much is clear—they are building more of them.’ Thus ↑writes Damien Cave in The New York Times. Here are four specimen: