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Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth is a recurring vehicle featured in the Twisted Metalseries. Driven by the clown-themed serial killer, Needles Kane, Sweet Tooth has appeared in every game in the series to date. Due to its strong association with Needles, Sweet Tooth is occasionally mistaken to be the name of the driver as well as the vehicle itself.
Sweet Tooth is almost invariably depicted as an old-fashioned ice cream truck with pink polka dots patterning its white-painted chassis. Its exact shape varies between games, but it is usually extremely boxy and cumbersome-looking. Finally, its in-game stats favorite armor and power over speed and handling.
One of the vehicle's most memorable features is the decoration atop its roof: a macabre clown head seemingly in the likeness of Needles himself. It mimics its driver's flaming scalp with firey orange hair or actual flames, depending on the incarnation, and some versions also show that it is the source of Needles' signature Napalm Cone weapon; massive, burning projectiles that can home in on enemy vehicles.

Trivia

• In Twisted Metal and Twisted Metal 3, Needles does not have his trademark "flaming head." However, a flaming clown head is adorned atop his truck.
• Twisted Metal: Black is the first game in the series to feature an extended-hood version of Sweet Tooth.
• Sweet Tooth is the only vehicle in the series to have the same driver in every game.
• Confirmed by a few - In Twisted Metal 2, Sweet Tooth's special can have an alternative. Instead of up and down it goes in a spiral similar to Dark Tooth's - a player did it on the PS1 - Jumping into the water from the far right peer, free mode - Hong Kong Level (Confirmed) The cones also seem to veer to the right and are less likely to hit their target.
• At the paint shop in Twisted Metal (2012), Sweet Tooth can be customized to look like Dark Tooth.
• Also in the paint shop in Twisted Metal (2012), Sweet Tooth can also be customized to look like Gold Tooth, after installing patch 1.05. However, unlike Twisted Metal: Lost, there is no difference in armor strength.
• In Twisted Metal (2012), Sweet Bot's original design included a machine gun on its right arm. However, for the final version of the game, this machine gun was removed. It may have been removed due to the fact that it could have possibly made Sweet Tooth overpowered even more, as it already had the ability of flight, Sweet Slam, the charge attack, Laughing Death, and machine guns already built in. It's possible, however, that the machine gun would have replaced the normal mounted guns sidearm and wouldn't have been another weapon on its own.
1. However, Sweet Bot does get a machine gun on its right arm in Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale.
• In Twisted Metal 4's introduction, Sweet Tooth, oddly, does not have a flaming clown head adorned on top of it. However, ironically, it does have the pole for which the head rests on.
• Sweet Bot is likely a homage to the popular toy series, Transformers.