Car Curse

The Car Curse refers to the incident where a Survivor contestant obtains a car after winning a Reward Challenge, but went on losing the game, either getting voted out or ending up as runner-up.

Victims of the Car Curse include:
 * Colby Donaldson - Survivor: The Australian Outback
 * Lex van den Berghe - Survivor: Africa
 * Sean Rector - Survivor: Marquesas
 * Ted Rogers, Jr. - Survivor: Thailand
 * Matthew von Ertfelda - Survivor: The Amazon
 * Burton Roberts - Survivor: Pearl Islands
 * Rob Mariano - Survivor: All-Stars
 * Eliza Orlins - Survivor: Vanuatu
 * Ian Rosenberger - Survivor: Palau
 * Cindy Hall - Survivor: Guatemala
 * Terry Deitz - Survivor: Panama
 * Yau-Man Chan - Survivor: Fiji
 * Dreamz Herd - Survivor: Fiji (Yau-Man had given up his 2008 Ford Super Duty that he won in a Reward Challenge to Dreamz as part of a deal that Dreamz would give him a future Individual Immunity. Because of this, the car curse affected both men).

Trivia

 * During the first season of the Philippine version of Survivor, the eventual Sole Survivor won a "Reward-or-Immunity" challenge, where he can give up immunity, in exchange for a car. He chose to surrender his Immunity Necklace to one of his tribemates, who eventually became the runner-up.
 * Some assume that cars are no longer offered as rewards because of the deal made between Yau-Man and Dreamz, due to the use of the car as a bargaining chip.
 * Amber Mariano, the winner of Survivor: All-Stars, was rewarded with a Chevrolet Malibu after being picked on the reward by Rob Mariano. However, she did not win the car herself, and the one she received was not the same one shown at the reward challenge.