A Body Van
Yep- IMO, they ruined the franchize with III.
They removed the cars as "costars", although there was a progresion from mostly intact to cobbled together, to pretty much just a wagon. I suppose that's "realistic" given the state of society.
I believe that until Titanic, that one or the other of the first two, was the higest grossing to cost ration of any film in history.